10:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m., Opening Remarks and announcements, Earlene Hughes, BITS President
10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Introduce yourself, and share brief remarks with
fellow BITS members
10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m., PDA's, the features we have today, how we use
them, and what features we would like in the future:
PacMate, Ron Miller, Product Manager, Blindness Hardware, Freedom
Scientific, St. Petersburg, FL;
BrailleNote, Matthew Janusauskas, Technical Support and Training Manager,
HumanWare USA Inc., Concord, CA;
Braille Sense, SenseView, and Small-Talk Ultra, Clarence Whaley, Training
Division Manager, GW Micro, Fort Wayne, IN.
** Panel moderated by Lynne Koral, Anchorage, AK.
** Each speaker will give comments about their product and its features.
** Questions will be asked by the moderator as well as from the audience.
** Co-Sponsored by the Braille Revival League, and the Sight and Sound
Impaired committee.
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Announcements and Closing Remarks
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., BITS Technology Vendor Showcase
Get the latest news from more than a dozen leading producers of blindness
products.
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.,
Making the transition to Windows Vista:
Jaws and Magic, Dusty Voorhees, Senior Product Manager, Freedom Scientific, St. Petersburg, FL;
WindowEyes, Clarence Whaley, Training Division Manager, GW Micro, Fort
Wayne, IN;
Matt Campbell, Lead Developer, Serotek Corporation, Russell KS.
** Panel moderated by richard Villa, Austin, TX.
8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m., Hospitality: Bytes with BITS
Come meet and greet BITS members in a friendly casual atmosphere. Lite
snacks, and other beverages will be provided with the price of admission. We
will also be selling raffle tickets to benefit the BITS Memorial fund.
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., BITS luncheon
Speaker: Michael McCarty, Fred's Head Database Coordinator, American Printing House for the
Blind, Louisville, KY.
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.,
Alternative opperating systems:
MAC Operating System, Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, AK;
Linux Operating System, Richard Villa, Austin, TX;
Washington DC.