Please note that the language of the SightCity Forum is exclusively German and the recordings only contain the audio track, even if the links go to YouTube.
10:00 – 10:30 Opening of SightCity
by: Ingrid Merkl, Managing Director of SightCity GmbH, Stuttgart; Sabine Kampmann, Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Norbert Schrage, ACTO e. V. Aachen
10:30-11:00 a.m. Usabilitypool – Usability checks with blind and visually impaired people
Speaker: Rose Jokic, DBSV, project management for implementation support for digital accessibility
11:00-12:30 Netzwerk berufliche Teilhabe – close to the labour market and innovative
Organisation of vocational support and training centres (BFW and BBW)
Organiser: Jörg Stemmler, BFW Halle; keynote speeches of 20 minutes each followed by a discussion
Career prospects for blind and visually impaired people in the healthcare sector
Speaker: Wolfgang Oster, Managing Director BFW Mainz
Language courses for blind and visually impaired migrants – from flight to professional participation
Speaker: Thomas Schmitt, Head of Operational Business Areas BFW Würzburg
Management of occupational rehabilitation for systemic diseases and visual impairment
Speaker: Frank Kießling, BFW Halle policy officer
Strongly prepared – stabilising measures at BFW Düren
Speaker: René Bergs, BFW Düren
12:30-13:00 Artificial intelligence (AI) in apps – spectre or digital philosopher’s stone? Possibilities and limits using the Apple iPhone as an example
Speaker: Jürgen Fleger, Apple Professional Learning Specialist (APLS), Marburg
13:00-13:30 On new paths – blista establishes the “Hessian Counselling Centre for People with Deafblindness & Hearing Impairment”
Speaker: Ute Mölter, blista Marburg
13:30-14:00 Sichtweisen-online – New website of the DBSV
Speaker: Lisa Mümmler, DBSV; Editor Sichtweisen
14:00-14:30 Optimal digital – Bringing digitalisation to life for each other
Speakers: Dario Madani, Christian Andres, Cornelia Witt-Kilian, PRO RETINA Deutschland e. V.
14:30-15:15 Current developments in reporting for the blind
Speaker: Maxim Brehme, project employee T_OHR Centre for Blind Reportage in Society and Sport (a project of AWO Südwest gGmbH) with the kind support of DFL GmbH
15:15-15:45 Seeing in old age: Creating understanding and practising mindfulness – experiences in the training of nursing home staff in Hesse
Speaker: Bernd Wilhelm, state-certified specialist in the rehabilitation of the blind and visually impaired, Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt e. V. (blista)
15:45-16:15 When the internal clock gets out of sync: Why so many blind people sleep badly
Speaker: Dipl.-Psych. Werner Cassel, Clinic for Internal Medicine with a focus on Pneumology, Sleep Medicine Centre, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Marburg site
16:15-17:00 Tetris and other games on the Braille display
Speaker: Reiner Delgado, DBSV, Social Affairs Officer
17:00-17:30 MindTags, the innovative tool for information and orientation in every building
Speaker: Stefan Wilke, Managing Director MindTags Group GmbH
17:30-18:00 Understanding findings – support for retinal diseases yesterday and tomorrow
Speaker: Dr Frank Brunsmann, PRO RETINA, online lecture
10:00-10:45 a.m. Patient symposium: Glaucoma
Speaker: Dr Daniel Kampik, Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Würzburg
10:45-11:30 a.m. Refined perceptual mobility
Speaker: Juan Ruiz, Clicksonar trainer
11:30-12:45 Block on deafblindness/ hearing impairment
including the subject areas
People with deafblindness/hearing impairment in working life – needs and opportunities. Findings from the EMPLOY and Wege in den Beruf projects
Speakers: Bastian Hardt and Carolin Gravel, EMPLOY project (University of Cologne)
