2025 AES International Conference on Breaking Barriers in Audio: Full Schedule

Kirk McNally is a recording engineer, music producer and sound artist living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He received his Master’s of Music in Sound Recording from McGill University. As a recording engineer he has held positions at the Tanglewood Music Centre (Lenox, MA... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 8:20am - 8:40am PDT
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Allyship and Advocacy in the Audio Community, Paper | Inclusive Pedagogy in Audio Education, Paper | Representation, Paper

8:40am PDT

Designing for the Neurodiverse Population: A Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Framework for Inclusion

Friday April 4, 2025 8:40am - 9:00am PDT

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Speakers

Murale Venugopalan

Amrita School of Business Kochi

Vandana Madhavan

Amrita School of Business Kochi

Anju Vijayan

Amrita School of Business Kochi

Friday April 4, 2025 8:40am - 9:00am PDT
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Workplace Inclusivity and Diversity Initiatives, Paper

9:00am PDT

Expanding the Bandwidth: Mentorship

Friday April 4, 2025 9:00am - 9:35am PDT

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Speakers

Mary Mazurek

University of Lethbridge

Friday April 4, 2025 9:00am - 9:35am PDT
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Mentoring for underrepresented groups, Workshop | Representation, Workshop | Role models, Workshop

9:35am PDT

Be the Conduit | The Impacts of Showing Up & Networking

Friday April 4, 2025 9:35am - 10:00am PDT

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Speakers

JW Newson

Dem Ductions & Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi

Friday April 4, 2025 9:35am - 10:00am PDT
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10:00am PDT

DEI Town Hall

Friday April 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PDT

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Speakers

Jiayue Cecilia Wu

Assistant Professor, Graduate Program Director (MSRA), University of Colorado Denver

Originally from Beijing, Dr. Jiayue Cecilia Wu (AKA: 武小慈) is a scholar, composer, audio engineer, and multimedia technologist. Her work focuses on how technology can augment the healing power of music. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Design and Engineering in 2000... Read More →

Mary Mazurek

University of Lethbridge

Friday April 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
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11:00am PDT

The Death of "Industry Standard"

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:20am PDT

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Speakers

Jeff Kaiser

University of Central Missouri

Friday April 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:20am PDT
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Barriers to entry (Gatekeeping), Paper | Inclusive Pedagogy in Audio Education, Paper | Technological Access and Digital Divide, Paper

11:20am PDT

Reporting after Teaching Diversity in Music Technology Class

Friday April 4, 2025 11:20am - 11:40am PDT

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Speakers

Zeynep Özcan

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Friday April 4, 2025 11:20am - 11:40am PDT
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Inclusive Pedagogy in Audio Education, Paper | Role models, Paper

11:40am PDT

Learning through making: How critical making facilitated new works in my Gender in Electronic Music course

Friday April 4, 2025 11:40am - 12:00pm PDT

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Alexandria Smith

Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Praised by The New York Times for her “appealingly melancholic sound” and “entertaining array of distortion effects,” Alexandria Smith is a multimedia artist, audio engineer, scholar, trumpeter, and educator who enjoys working at the intersection of all these disciplines... Read More →

Friday April 4, 2025 11:40am - 12:00pm PDT
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Historical Exclusion and Erasure in Audio, Paper | Inclusive Pedagogy in Audio Education, Paper | LGBTQIA+ Representation in Audio, Paper