Join us for a one day Virtual Tech:Fest on all things disability technology. This one day live online event is being organized by the Ohio Clearwater Council on Government, powered by OSDA, and MC’d by Disability Cocoon.

This event is designed for everyone: provider agencies, service coordinator, self-advocates, families, and anyone else involved in supporting people with disabilities.

New to tech? This is designed specifically for you.  Leave your mask off (assuming you are attending from home) and join us for the entire day, or come and go as needed based upon your schedule.

A Fast Moving Agenda Featuring:

1 | some of the newest tech and tech enabled support models

2 | why we must all start incorporating tech in everyday services and supports for people with disabilities

3 | possibilities that are enabled with the appropriate application of technologies

4 | twelve sessions featuring some cutting edge surprises

Full Agenda:

Oct. 18, 2019

REGISTRATION CLOSED

Tech:Fest Colorado is being held in conjunction with the Coleman Institute Annual Conference on Cognitive Disabilities and Technology. Join 350+ attendees at both of these back-to-back events.

The Coleman Institute Annual Conference is being held on Oct 17th followed by Disability Cocoon’s Tech:Fest on Oct. 18th. Both events are held at the Westin Hotel in Westminster, CO (located between Denver and Boulder).

We are still working on the agenda and Tech:Fest content, but these events are sure to become “the superbowl” of disability technology solutions and ideas in 2019.

Details on The Coleman Institute Annual Conference on Cognitive Disability and Technology can be found here.

*registration for both Tech:Fest and Coleman Institute Conference is available on the Coleman Institute event page linked above

REGISTRATION CLOSED

October 14th, 2019

Join us at Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, WI the day before the Wisconsin Self-Determination Conference. Bring the family to this one at one of the best indoor waterparks in the country.

9:00am - 4:00pm CDT | 10:00am - 5:00pm EDT

Enabling technologies have the potential to transform how disability supports are defined, reduce the reliance on scarce DSP human resources, and mostly importantly fulfill everyone’s mission of improving autonomy and quality of life for people with various levels of ability. 

Join us for a one day online crash course on all things disability technology. This one day live online webinar is designed to give provider agencies, Case Managers, self-advocates, and families a fast moving glimpse at:

+ why we must all start incorporating tech in everyday services and supports for people with disabilities
+ 20 cutting-edge disability tech solutions you can implement today
+ possibilities that are enabled with the appropriate application of technologies

This one-day online Tech:Solutions event is an opening educational opportunity for providers in Sedgwick County, KS as a part of Disability Cocoon's year long Enabling Technologies Pilot project. This online event is open to everyone involved with, or interested in, disability services and supports (people outside of Sedgwick County KS are welcome).

New to tech? This is designed specifically for you. 

Join us for the entire day, or come and go as needed based upon your schedule.

The TEC Lab, National Association of QIDPs, and Disability Cocoon are proud to bring you the 3rd annual TEC Conference.  This event will be held on June 5, 2019 at the NIU Conference Center located in Naperville, IL.  

Since the National Association of QIDPs (NAQ) is a sponsor of this event, members are eligible for a discounted conference registration rate.  If you are not a member of NAQ, please consider joining today - you'll receive a $50.00 discount on each registration as well as NAQ member benefits for the entire year.

Co-hosted by Easterseals Crossroads!

Not a conference...a festivals for provider agencies, Case Managers, other professionals, guardians, self-advocates, and anyone interested in innovation in disability services. This one day festival is co-hosted by the Easterseals Crossroads team.

Cutting edge disability technology sessions and demos in a laid back environment.  Food trucks and/or a Food Network celebrity chef, games, massage, food trucks (had to repeat this one), and more.  

In person and virtual attendee options! Learn and discover in a new way…..having fun.

Co-hosted by OPRA!

Not a conference...a festival preview event for provider agencies, Case Managers, other professionals, guardians, self-advocates, and anyone interested in innovation in disability services.  This is a mini Tech:Fest giving you a glimpse of a full Tech:Fest scheduled for June 2019.

Cutting edge disability technology sessions and demos in a laid back environment.  Food trucks, massage, games, and more.  In person and virtual attendee options!

Excited to work with OPRA on this one!

Missouri AAIDD and Disability Cocoon are teaming up to bring you a new way of learning the latest and greatest in disability technology. Our inaugural, one-day disability technology festival will be held on March 14, 2019 in Saint Louis at Innovation Hall!

This event will be organized into learning pods we are calling “learning cocoons” - pun intended. Attendees will spend the day moving from cocoon to cocoon learning new tech solutions in specific areas of a person’s life: LIVE, WORK, LEARN, and PLAY. In each cocoon attendees will learn new tech solutions tied to that specific aspect of a person’s life.

Come join us for a day of fun, learning, collaboration, and inspiration in the most unique laid back environment...this is not a typical conference.

This event is designed specifically for:
-Provider agency employees
-Case managers
-Family members/Guardians
-Other disability professionals
-Self-Advocates
-Anyone interested in disability services