6th Annual Virginia Ability Forum

Join us for our 2023 Virginia Ability Forum, an investment in the future for people with disabilities. We will gather with business and community leaders to recognize the vital role people with disabilities play in redefining the work environment. Celebrate 20 years of VIrginia Ability's service to the community and hear from dynamic business leaders including, 2023 Keynote Speaker, Tiffany Yu, CEO & Founder of Diversability.

Tiffany is the Founder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, a monthly micro-grant that has awarded $52.5k to 53 disability projects in 8 countries and the host of TIFFANY & YU, the podcast. She serves on the San Francisco Mayor’s Disability Council and was a 2020 Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Impact Summit. At the age of 9, Tiffany became disabled as a result of a car accident that also took the life of her father. She started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and has also worked at Bloomberg and Sean Diddy Combs’ REVOLT Media & TV. She is a 3x TEDx speaker and spoke on 5 sessions at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. She has been featured in Marie Claire, the Guardian, and Forbes.

The Forum Agenda:

8:30 AM Registration & Exhibitor Networking Breakfast  

9:00 - 10:30 Forum Program in Auditorium

10:30 - 11:30 Exhibitor Networking Breakfast

Speakers:

HOST: Shawn Smith, State Director, Virginia SMP Program, VA Association of the Area Agencies on Aging, representing Virginia Ability

KEYONOTE: Tiffany Yu, CEO & Founder, Diversability 

CLOSING SPEAKER: The Honorable Katherine McCary, CEO, Disability:IN DC Metro

Exhibitors:

Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired

Northstar

SOAR 365

Disability:IN DC Metro 

C5 Consulting (Katherine McCary)

Virginia Relay

Sportable Adaptive Sports and Recreation 

ABLEnow 

Autism Society of Central Virginia

DARS

Thanks to the support of generous sponsors, your admission to this year's forum is FREE.