It was a day that saw like-minded people from all walks of life come together towards common goals and a common direction. IncludAbility20 – a national level inclusive summit that marked 20 years of Ability Foundation heralded a time when all people – with and without disabilities – came together, stressing on looking beyond disabilities and breaking the barriers of bias and stigma, together. The Summit held on Sept 27 2015 focused on the inclusion of disability and persons with disabilities, as a matter of course, in every sphere of life, The date held another significance as well: it also happened to be the international day of the deaf.

Divided into two panels, IncludAbility20 was set in a conversational mode and sparked off keen, animated discussions on an information and inspiration sharing basis. The first panel focused on education & employment and included principals of inclusive school, college, a representative of MHRD, and the M.Ds of two top ranking equal opportunity employers. The second panel, focussed on societal impact and the need to look beyond the disability at a person as a person with potential first. And at the end of the Summit, everyone both the participants and the panelists were charged and each one determined to take forward the need for inclusion and an equitable civil society for all.

Our Panelists

Divyanshu Ganatra Psychologist, Corporate Trainer, Researcher, Pune	Jaya Bachchan Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Mumbai
Kanika Agarwal V-sesh, Mumbai	Manju Arif Principal, Delhi Public School (North), Bengaluru
Mariazeena Johnson Director, Sathyabama University, Chennai	N K Ranganath Managing Director & CEO, Grundfos Pumps India Pvt Ltd, Chennai
Navin Chawla Former Chief Election Commissioner, New Delhi	Prahlad Kakar Founder, Genesis Films, Mumbai
R C Meena I.E.S.(retd), Former Economic Advisor, MHRD, Govt of India	Revathy Actor/Director, Chennai
Sandeep Kanabar Senior Software Engineer, Symantec Corporation, Chennai	Siddharth Jayakumar Chief Manager, IndusInd Bank Ltd, Chennai
Siddharth Taneja QA Engineer, Makemytrip.com, Gurgaon	Sivasankari Author, Chennai
Sruti Mohapatra CEO, Swabhiman, Bhubaneshwar	Tanveer Alam Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase, Mumbai