I Lopez: Now we're going into the favorite part of the
I Lopez: day, which we've all been waiting for.
I Lopez: Whoops, that's too fast.
I Lopez: And we're gonna
I Lopez: bring Nadine to the stage and she's going to give all our
I Lopez: lovely honorees their presentation of their
I Lopez: awards for all their great initiatives. So Nadine,
Nadine Vogel: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely, so
Nadine Vogel: I want to share with everyone. Oh, can you
Nadine Vogel: hear me?
I Lopez: I can I can hear you and I'm gonna ask only Karen
I Lopez: and Christian to come off video just for a second.
Nadine Vogel: So we get asked often about why why
Nadine Vogel: did we do the awards what you know, they understand the conference, but
Nadine Vogel: why the awards piece and there's a
Nadine Vogel: few reasons and I just wanted to share this with everyone one.
Nadine Vogel: Fun to celebrate right? It's been the red carpet even
Nadine Vogel: virtually, um, two little
Nadine Vogel: competitions always a good thing.
Nadine Vogel: Three we know and I think someone said it
Nadine Vogel: earlier. This work is not easy, right? It's
Nadine Vogel: a journey it requires commitment at the
Nadine Vogel: highest levels of the organization. It takes time patience
Nadine Vogel: budgets. Sometimes it
Nadine Vogel: includes setbacks.
Nadine Vogel: You often have to sell across functions, you know gaining buy-in
Nadine Vogel: all the way.
Nadine Vogel: So for us what we want to recognize everyone
Nadine Vogel: for is that even small wins?
Nadine Vogel: Help reinforce staying the
Nadine Vogel: course.
Nadine Vogel: And if you do that each small win starts kind
Nadine Vogel: of adding and it becomes a much bigger lasting
Nadine Vogel: win one that has to be acknowledged and
Nadine Vogel: not just acknowledge by your colleagues within
Nadine Vogel: the organization but recognize in a
Nadine Vogel: much bigger broader way. So for those
Nadine Vogel: who ask this is why we have the
Nadine Vogel: awards ceremony that we do.
Nadine Vogel: So because we are virtual on you
Nadine Vogel: will be getting your Awards sent to
Nadine Vogel: you. I know that we'll talk about that a little bit later and although
Nadine Vogel: this is not what your reward looks like. We are
Nadine Vogel: going to virtually present you
Nadine Vogel: with an award so that even on screen you can
Nadine Vogel: be receiving something. So I'm Yvette. Would
Nadine Vogel: you like to get us started and announce the
Nadine Vogel: first recipient?
I Lopez: I will let me go back
I Lopez: to sharing my screen.
I Lopez: And our first recipient is Dallara
I Lopez: and accepting the award is chief executive
I Lopez: officer and general manager Andrea Pontremoli.
Nadine Vogel: Andrea congratulations, we got
Nadine Vogel: to hear some of the amazing work that
Nadine Vogel: you are doing and how you are really changing mindset
Nadine Vogel: Turning Heads about
Nadine Vogel: sports racing for people with disabilities. So
Nadine Vogel: congratulations. Would you like to say a
Nadine Vogel: few words?
Andrea Pontremoli: Yeah, thank you. Could you hear me? Nadine Vogel: Yes.
Andrea Pontremoli: Yeah, I am very proud to receive this
Andrea Pontremoli: award on the bealph of
Andrea Pontremoli: the entire company because what we try to do is
Andrea Pontremoli: not only to do product and
Andrea Pontremoli: services related to
Andrea Pontremoli: people with disabilities, but also to promote
Andrea Pontremoli: the disability as a
Andrea Pontremoli: an advantage as a
Andrea Pontremoli: part of the diversity and we
Andrea Pontremoli: have some people with disabilities also
Andrea Pontremoli: very
Andrea Pontremoli: Very difficult, but I have to say that
Andrea Pontremoli: the level of motivation that you they are able
Andrea Pontremoli: to bring to the company. Give us
Andrea Pontremoli: our reward and really I
Andrea Pontremoli: suggest to everybody to to work
Andrea Pontremoli: on these things because it's really
Andrea Pontremoli: a pleasure human being from
Andrea Pontremoli: one side. But on the other side is really
Andrea Pontremoli: an advantage is a
Andrea Pontremoli: sustainable Advantage for the entire company and only
Andrea Pontremoli: if you start to work
Andrea Pontremoli: on this way, you can perceive this because
Andrea Pontremoli: it's not enough to say and we have
Andrea Pontremoli: to walk what we say,
Andrea Pontremoli: you know, is that what the talk? So because
Andrea Pontremoli: at the end the people they
Andrea Pontremoli: see what you do not what you think what you say. And so
Andrea Pontremoli: this is why we try to do this
Andrea Pontremoli: inside with our people but also
Andrea Pontremoli: outside and
Andrea Pontremoli: The product that we have produced for Alexandria that
Andrea Pontremoli: was for him at the beginning but now is available
Andrea Pontremoli: for everybody and I'm very
Andrea Pontremoli: proud to see how many people want to
Andrea Pontremoli: use this product to announce
Andrea Pontremoli: their self. And as in the last speaker that
Andrea Pontremoli: I heard is really something that
Andrea Pontremoli: make my day. Thank you very much.
Nadine Vogel: Well, thank you very much and you know a CEO
Nadine Vogel: of the company coming on and accepting the awarded
Nadine Vogel: also makes a statement of that you have made
Nadine Vogel: a commitment to this work at the highest level. So
Nadine Vogel: thank you very much and congratulations. Once again,
Andrea Pontremoli: thank you. Nadine Vogel: Absolutely. Yeah.
I Lopez: Whoops, just making sure you can hear me. Can you
I Lopez: hear me? Yes. Okay. Thank you Andrea. And
I Lopez: now to the stage is our next
I Lopez: Award winner.
I Lopez: And that is The Envision team and
I Lopez: it's Karthik. Kannan. He is the co-founder and chief
I Lopez: technology officer for Envision. Thank you.
Nadine Vogel: Congratulations to you and the
Nadine Vogel: team, um, you know, the product
Nadine Vogel: that you have created and the
Nadine Vogel: path that you're on as you talked about it earlier about some
Nadine Vogel: other products down the road.
Nadine Vogel: Is it it's life-changing for
Nadine Vogel: people right? It's beyond empowerment. It's really life-changing.
Nadine Vogel: And so we want we're delighted to
Nadine Vogel: be bestowing this award on you. So would you like to
Nadine Vogel: make a couple of comments?
Karthik Kannan: Yeah, thank you so much for you know, Nadine for
Karthik Kannan: giving Envision this award. It's
Karthik Kannan: it's truly an honor to be to share the the stage
Karthik Kannan: with all the other great folks that are doing amazing
Karthik Kannan: work in the disability space. I think this is
Karthik Kannan: a testament to the fact that envisions always
Karthik Kannan: put users first and like I was talking about earlier in
Karthik Kannan: the panel today a lot of what we do. We know
Karthik Kannan: we you know, I'm not personally visually impaired. There are
Karthik Kannan: other members of the team who are not visually impaired as well. So we have
Karthik Kannan: to constantly put ourselves in the shoes
Karthik Kannan: of someone with the visual impairment and be
Karthik Kannan: humble enough to understand that we're not the users of the off
Karthik Kannan: the products that we're building at the end of the day and work very
Karthik Kannan: very closely with people in order
Karthik Kannan: to be able to build the things that we want to build and
Karthik Kannan: I think you know more companies that want
Karthik Kannan: to get into accessibility and inclusion should put
Karthik Kannan: users first regardless of who might be the final
Karthik Kannan: person who pays for the product, right?
Karthik Kannan: Because I think it's the end of today great products require
Karthik Kannan: constant work with the users. And I
Karthik Kannan: think this award is a testament to the fact
Karthik Kannan: that you know, we've been working with users together co-creating
Karthik Kannan: Envision glasses The Envision app
Karthik Kannan: and all the other things that we have in the pipeline move forward.
Karthik Kannan: So it's a huge honor and I'm super
Karthik Kannan: super excited to win this and really really
Karthik Kannan: encouraging to be receiving the
Karthik Kannan: award and taking this photo. Nadine Vogel: Yeah. Well, you know,
Nadine Vogel: there's a saying in the disability Community nothing about us without
Nadine Vogel: us and you have certainly certainly taken
Nadine Vogel: that on and taking it seriously. So again, thank you
Nadine Vogel: and congratulations. Karthik Kannan: Thank you.
Nadine Vogel: Yvette.
I Lopez: We're moving on to our next award.
I Lopez: And to the stage head of the stability management vice
I Lopez: president uni credit bank, Austria is Christian
I Lopez: Schinko.
Nadine Vogel: Christian congratulations. Christian Schinko: Thank you so
Christian Schinko: much.
Christian Schinko: i'm so honored to receive the award in for UniCredit bank Austria
Christian Schinko: just let me at some some words caring
Christian Schinko: is one of our core values
Christian Schinko: at UniCredit group meaning simply being
Christian Schinko: there for each other.
Christian Schinko: With our own disability management team we have
Christian Schinko: received or we have been committed more
Christian Schinko: than 10 years to offering all our employees
Christian Schinko: and customers the most inclusive environment possible
Christian Schinko: without barriers.
Christian Schinko: In this way, we managed to create tangible added
Christian Schinko: value of everyone every day.
Christian Schinko: And I'm all the more pleased and grateful.
Christian Schinko: That our many years of commitment have all the
Christian Schinko: received International Record Nation with your reward through
Christian Schinko: this prestigious award. Thank you
Christian Schinko: so much Nadine and the whole springboard team. Thank you.
Nadine Vogel: You are very welcome. Most deserving. We'll see you
Nadine Vogel: again in a minute. Christian Schinko: Thank you. Okay.
I Lopez: And our last Marketplace award.
I Lopez: Is associate professor special education official inclusione and
I Lopez: Universita Europea di Roma Professor Gianluca Amatori.
Nadine Vogel: Congratulations Professor amatori.
Gianluca Amatori: Thank you. Nadine Vogel: Your University Beyond
Nadine Vogel: most I would say
Nadine Vogel: any that I am familiar with globally has taken such a
Nadine Vogel: commitment to this work that you're
Nadine Vogel: so deserving of this award. So congratulations and
Nadine Vogel: please any thoughts you'd
Nadine Vogel: like to share. Gianluca Amatori: I thank you very much for these
Gianluca Amatori: award. It is very important for us
Gianluca Amatori: to to receive these prestigious a word
Gianluca Amatori: as a as a sign of a path that we started
Gianluca Amatori: only a short time ago, but which
Gianluca Amatori: is already bearing fruit and it will
Gianluca Amatori: be a father incentive for
Gianluca Amatori: us to do more and better to build a
Gianluca Amatori: society that is increasingly inclusive and
Gianluca Amatori: attentive to the needs of each and
Gianluca Amatori: everyone through the training professionals
Gianluca Amatori: and managers. Thank you
Gianluca Amatori: very much Nadine and thank you everybody. Nadine Vogel: and you
Nadine Vogel: made a comment earlier today that you know,
Nadine Vogel: It starts with education most companies when they're looking to hire.
Nadine Vogel: They're looking for folks with University educations and
Nadine Vogel: and about connecting the dots between
Nadine Vogel: education and employment and we are
Nadine Vogel: just delighted that that is a big Focus for you. So
Nadine Vogel: again, thank you and congratulations. Gianluca Amatori: Thank you.
Nadine Vogel: Yvette.
I Lopez: sorry about that.
I Lopez: and on to our next
I Lopez: category is credited agricult. It's Patricia
I Lopez: Ghisleri internal Communications and
I Lopez: CSR area.
I Lopez: Patricia
I Lopez: I don't think she has.
I Lopez:She has logs in so we're going to continue but she
I Lopez: should come back. Nadine Vogel: Yeah, she should be absolutely.
Nadine Vogel: But she says she's here.
I Lopez: Okay, let me see if I can find I'm not seeing her.
Nadine Vogel: J08, something like that.
I Lopez: Oh, I'm sorry.
I Lopez: Is that j55791?
I Lopez: Oh, there it is. She's coming.
I Lopez: Patricia you just need to unmute
I Lopez: So you can hear us.
Nadine Vogel: You know, why don't we why don't we go? I Lopez: Yeah. Well come back.
Nadine Vogel: Yeah, let's come back.
j08715: Sorry. I Lopez: oh there she goes. Nadine Vogel: Okay. j08715: Yes. Hello everybody.
j08715: Thank you
very much about that. We have the problem about Wi-Fi.
Nadine Vogel: No problem. Well, congratulations
Nadine Vogel: on on your award. Most deserving
Nadine Vogel: any comments.
Nadine Vogel: that you would like to make
j08715: We thank you very much. I want
j08715: to thank first and foremost Barilla for
j08715: our nominating us for the
j08715: honors and springboard for recognizing therefore
j08715: of Credit Agricole Italia and such
j08715: as the people and myself. We try
j08715: our best to make sure no not
j08715: only at our our employees feel
j08715: free to express the themself but
j08715: so that they feel understood
j08715: the supported by the company ensuring that
j08715: the communication is never one sided. I
j08715: also want to thank my team
j08715: my diversity inclusion team
j08715: for the childless work is the
j08715: career that every day and something that
j08715: project we will make sure to
j08715: keep the worker and
j08715: to improve the equation.
j08715: I think of our policy.
j08715: We have many new projects are easy
j08715: to be put the interactions and we are planning with
j08715: founder some of the
j08715: already exciting its existing owner.
j08715: And last not but not
j08715: least. I want to thank the colleague and the speakers
j08715: of the panel for sharing their experience. Thank you
j08715: very much. And sorry for you.
Nadine Vogel: No, no problem. Congratulations again.
j08715: Thank you.
Nadine Vogel: Yvette
I Lopez: Okay.
I Lopez: and
I Lopez: up to the stage is Daniele Regolo, Brand
I Lopez: Ambassador dni for Seltis Hub.
Nadine Vogel: Daniele, congratulations, you know,
Nadine Vogel: it's it's one thing when a company is
Nadine Vogel: looking to recruit to their own company
Nadine Vogel: right to look to employees, but you're there
Nadine Vogel: to believe be the resource for the companies because
Nadine Vogel: it's a challenge to do that. So congratulations you
Nadine Vogel: guys are doing great work. And would you
Nadine Vogel: like to make some comments?
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: Thank you very much. This award comes
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: unexpectedly and
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: gives me the confirmation that
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: if you work honestly and
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: consistently every day. The
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: results will come for us is
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: very important to believe
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: that the person with disability
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: is a person. First of all
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: disability is an important part of
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: our Lives matter not all of
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: our person apart.
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: And I also would like to remember that
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: the United Nation convention.
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: We have all the answers
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: we need.
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub:And it is right to share this moment
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: with my many colleagues for today.
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: You cannot see but who are always by
Daniele Regolo Seltis Hub: my side. So thank you again. Nadine Vogel: Absolutely.
Nadine Vogel: Congratulations.
I Lopez:And our next Award winner.
I Lopez: Is Christian Schinko, you know, he's
I Lopez: a three-time winner? Christian Schinko: Yes. So
Christian Schinko: honored Nadine Vogel: before I let
Nadine Vogel: you make some comments. I I have to I have to share with
Nadine Vogel: everyone a little information about this because you
Nadine Vogel: probably wondering why he's back. So I'm
Nadine Vogel: this has only happened. This is
Nadine Vogel: only the second time that this has happened in disability
Nadine Vogel: matters history, which is going on 17 years
Nadine Vogel: where a company has been
Nadine Vogel: bestowed to Awards in
Nadine Vogel: the same year.
Nadine Vogel: And so for Bank Austria, this is Workforce and
Nadine Vogel: marketplace. Now what most of
Nadine Vogel: you may not know is that just a number of years back? Thank Austria
Nadine Vogel: won the workplace award.
Nadine Vogel: So this is the trifecta if the
Nadine Vogel: bank has won an awarded each category, and
Nadine Vogel: I know Christian that you've talked about you've been
Nadine Vogel: at this for 10 years, but it really brings to
Nadine Vogel: the attention of everyone the commitment
Nadine Vogel: that the bank has made the
the long-standing commitment right to
Nadine Vogel: have this as a sustainable not just
Nadine Vogel: a one time initiative but a sustainable integrated model
Nadine Vogel: for the bank for disability inclusion.
Nadine Vogel: So I just want to be able to share that with everyone and
Nadine Vogel: congratulations again, and please any
Nadine Vogel: comments you'd like to share. Christian Schinko: Thank you so much. And and so
Christian Schinko: I'll know to to receive all categories.
Christian Schinko: Finally. It's a
Christian Schinko: it proves our approach right a holistic
Christian Schinko: approach for these
Christian Schinko: topic and and we are so thankful and
Christian Schinko: honored by these Awards and
Christian Schinko: let me
Christian Schinko: Just add also some words because covid
Christian Schinko: has made of all the vulnerable group for
Christian Schinko: a Time.
Christian Schinko: And we all have become painfully aware
Christian Schinko: of what it is like to be restricted
Christian Schinko: in our mobility and freedom of movement companies like
Christian Schinko: UniCredit Bank Austria had a clear Advantage during this
Christian Schinko: time and they're able to react flexibly in
Christian Schinko: the interest of the employees and customers and
Christian Schinko: maintain work in chops as well as products and
Christian Schinko: services.
Christian Schinko: This is the achievement of many years of dealing with accessibility
Christian Schinko: and inclusion in combination
Christian Schinko: with barrier-free digitalization in
Christian Schinko: all essential areas.
Christian Schinko: by ultimately
Christian Schinko: It's our but utterly the ultimately it's
Christian Schinko: our people who make the difference in dealing with inclusion
Christian Schinko: accessibility in crisis, and here I
Christian Schinko: was to like I would like
Christian Schinko: to specifically thank our employees with disabilities, and
Christian Schinko: they would also like to dedicate this special Workforce
Christian Schinko: Awards to them. So, thank you
Christian Schinko: Nadine again and the whole springboard's
Christian Schinko: team and thanks so much
Christian Schinko: for all the honor you give me and
Nadine Vogel: absolutely so deserving. Thank you.
Christian Schinko: Yeah. Thank you.
I Lopez: and our next award
I Lopez: goes to Phil Canale vice president
I Lopez: International area management for BNY Mellon.
Nadine Vogel: Phil congratulations to you and everyone at
Nadine Vogel: BNY Mellon do you like to make a few comments?
Phil Canale: Thank you Nadine. And thank you to the disability matters team
Phil Canale: for this recognition on behalf
Phil Canale: of BNY Mellon. We're honored and
Phil Canale: humbled to receive this and humbled in
particular because I know the nominations came from employees from
Phil Canale: colleagues and that's that's a huge recognition of
Phil Canale: the work that we're doing that actually employees
Phil Canale: take the time to to nominate us
Phil Canale: for the award and and it's great that we're here
Phil Canale: to receive it.
Phil Canale: And it's particularly around the mental health Journey that
Phil Canale: we've taken in BMI Mallon as part of
Phil Canale: our broader disabilities program.
Phil Canale: Started off with wearing green ribbons a few
Phil Canale: years ago the occasional disclosure and the
Phil Canale: disclosures became stories and the
Phil Canale: stories became films and the
Phil Canale: films have become part of
Phil Canale: the fabric could be my Melon now and and we now have
Phil Canale: films internal and external that people can see of employees
Phil Canale: talking about their challenges of
Phil Canale: disability and in particular mental health, but it's
Phil Canale: not one person job. It's a
Phil Canale: cultural thing. We have worked hard
Phil Canale: to embed this within the organization and and that
Phil Canale: comes from the top down committed to the to the
Phil Canale: to external bodies and
Phil Canale: Partnerships the valuable 500
Phil Canale: signing up to that and and
Phil Canale: having visible leaders. Who and we've
Phil Canale: heard this already walk the talk, but the teams
Phil Canale: that sit behind this are well-being team our diversity
Phil Canale: inclusion team.
Phil Canale: All the heart supporters and hearts are disability networking
Phil Canale: being my melon globally are leadership
Phil Canale: of heart, but actually mostly
Phil Canale: to the brave colleagues and I say
Phil Canale: brave because whether we like it or not mental health still attaches a
Phil Canale: stigma and and it takes
Phil Canale: courage for people to step forward and tell their story.
Phil Canale: But in doing so it empowers others to say me too,
Phil Canale: and and I can't think of a
Phil Canale: better way of closing this thank you by saying how
Phil Canale: you know honored we are to receive
Phil Canale: it. Thank you very much.
Nadine Vogel:Absolutely, so so deserving. We're honored to
Nadine Vogel: be honoring you.
Phil Canale:Thank you. Nadine Vogel: Yvette.
Nadine Vogel: Yvette
I Lopez: sorry, I had a zoom lag.
I Lopez: And the next award goes to Simona Piva diversity
I Lopez: officer and people care.
I Lopez: at Findomestic
Nadine Vogel: Congratulations.
Nadine Vogel:We loved hearing about all the work that you're
Nadine Vogel: doing Simona you and and the entire team.
Nadine Vogel: Would you like to say a few words?
Nadine Vogel: Is that a no?
Nadine Vogel: I think she was having some technical difficulty.
Nadine Vogel: Simona you
there?
I Lopez: We may need to come back. I think she dropped
Nadine Vogel: you drop them back.
I Lopez: Let me go to the next person.
I Lopez: And the next award goes to Karen Flinspach Regional
I Lopez: head transaction Bank banking Europe
I Lopez: and America's for Standard Chartered Bank.
Nadine Vogel: Hello and congratulations. We
Nadine Vogel: love what you guys are doing. Would you
Nadine Vogel: like to share a few words?
Karin Flinspach:Thank you so much. And I hope you can see here and see
Karin Flinspach: me technical problems are everywhere. So
Karin Flinspach: thank you so much
Karin Flinspach: for recognizing the great work that Standard Chartered
Karin Flinspach: has been doing to increase accessibility and to
Karin Flinspach: enable people to bring the best of themselves to work and
Karin Flinspach: be appreciated for who they are and you
Karin Flinspach: know, obviously behind Standard Chartered
Karin Flinspach: you will find and very active dni Council
Karin Flinspach: passionate people about disability
Karin Flinspach: the employee Resource
Karin Flinspach: Group senior sponsors and leaders and the
Karin Flinspach: very focused supply chain and property team
Karin Flinspach: that consistently engages in
Karin Flinspach: actions to create a more inclusive and more appropriate
Karin Flinspach: workplace. And you know, I just
Karin Flinspach: want to say that this award is not just recognizing a
Karin Flinspach: success. It's very nice, but it also reinforces our
Karin Flinspach: commitment to create an inclusive to create
Karin Flinspach: inclusive behaviors and
Karin Flinspach:Practic techniques that challenge bias assumptions and
Karin Flinspach: stereotypes and for that. I'm really really grateful
Karin Flinspach: with Standard Chartered to accept this award and
Karin Flinspach: and thank you so much for the for for
Karin Flinspach: awarding us at it's wonderful
Karin Flinspach: and recognizing all the people who make this 470 Karin Flinspach:00:25:05.400 --> 00:25:08.300 happen every day, and I hopefully
Karin Flinspach: it will inspire a few more in our company to to make
Karin Flinspach: things better because as
Karin Flinspach: you say disability matters, thank you so much. Nadine Vogel: Congratulations. Thank
Nadine Vogel: you.
Nadine Vogel: And you know, I just want to make a comment for all of our
Nadine Vogel: honorees. You know, you you're coming
Nadine Vogel: to this in many ways from different aspects, but
Nadine Vogel: at the end of the day
Nadine Vogel:You are you're contributing in such
Nadine Vogel: incredible ways to leveling the
Nadine Vogel: playing field for individuals with disabilities with
Nadine Vogel: all disability types. And you know, I don't
Nadine Vogel: know how many of you familiar this is a
Nadine Vogel: song called It's a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. If
Nadine Vogel: you're not familiar with that after the
Nadine Vogel: conference pull, you know, go into iTunes someplace
Nadine Vogel: pull it up and and listen to
Nadine Vogel: that and the reason I say this is because the words
Nadine Vogel: have meaning and hearing about what all of
Nadine Vogel: you are doing.
Nadine Vogel: To qualify for this award. You are
Nadine Vogel: all making this place a wonderful world
Nadine Vogel: for people with disabilities their families,
Nadine Vogel: like myself and my family and I
Nadine Vogel: just personally want to say not only congratulations, but
Nadine Vogel: thank you for doing that. I think
Nadine Vogel: Simona is back and so Simona we'd
Nadine Vogel: like to
Nadine Vogel: Know we want to present you with your award. So
Nadine Vogel: congratulations and any comments
Nadine Vogel: you would like to make.
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: Thanks. I thank all of you for this
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: very welcome how. I it
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: represents the recognition of
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: all the work we have done that
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: we are doing and that
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: we will do then I
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: is not for me a job.
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: But a mission that can only
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: develop it with
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: a great passion and the conviction I
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: thank Barilla for having nominated the
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: us for this recognition and for the constant
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: and the constructed dialogue, I
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: thank my company for the
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: ability to innovated the
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: and experiment. I think my HR
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: directors for the constant and
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: the constructive. I thank
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: you Nadine and all the
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: Springboard and
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa:All the colleagues who are here today and
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: yesterday to tell experience only
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Absolutely. Well, congratulations again and
Simona Piva Findomestic Banca Spa: thank you. Nadine Vogel: Thank you to everyone. and
Nadine Vogel: Yvette. I'm gonna turn it over to you.
Nadine Vogel: I think we still have a few closing remarks and take
Nadine Vogel: it away.
I Lopez: We do. Let me just scroll through and coming
I Lopez: to the stage for our
I Lopez: closing remarks.
I Lopez:For this years disability matters Europe
I Lopez: is Maurizio Cannavacciuolo He's
I Lopez: the Human Resources Director group marketing DNA Human
I Lopez: Resources board member for Barella group. Thank you for being
I Lopez: here. Thank you. Thank you so much to you.
Maurizio: Can you guys hear me?
I Lopez: Yes. Nadine Vogel: Yes, we can hear you. Maurizio: So first
Maurizio: of all, thank you Springboard Consulting
Maurizio: and also Talita our
Maurizio: chief dni officer for
Maurizio: organizing this event and giving me
Maurizio: the opportunity to say a few words about
Maurizio: about this subject to close to close the
Maurizio: event.
Maurizio:Little bit about me. I joined Barilla one
Maurizio: year ago with more than 15
Maurizio: years of experience across the world always on
Maurizio: the HR field and I joined body lies a chart
Maurizio: director for the marketing function based in
Maurizio: London, and I'm also the
Maurizio: managing director of the legal entity here in UK for
Maurizio: Barilla and end of last
Maurizio: year. Tallita and my direct manager the chro
Maurizio: asking me also to represent the HR
Maurizio: function within the DNR Board of the company.
Maurizio: Um, I know that this session is actually closed
Maurizio: called closing remarks, but
Maurizio: I won't be spending time when I'm
Maurizio: making it summary of of the session.
Maurizio: We we heard so
Maurizio: many example in breast practices that company and
Maurizio: Society can do on this subject that
Maurizio: to be honest mentioning them
Maurizio: again as somebody
Maurizio: would probably just diminish them.
Maurizio: What I want to talk today that a few minutes is
Maurizio: about awareness that some people
Maurizio: like me.
Maurizio: Can offer and have to offer actually when
it comes to people with disability because of
Maurizio: our experience.
Maurizio: the reason why I'm so championing this this topic
Maurizio: is that I have my mother who
Maurizio: has been on wheelchair since my older brother
Maurizio: was born when she was 23 24
Maurizio: and it took me quite some time to realize and
Maurizio: properly understand what she had.
Maurizio: And to be honest with you when I was a kid, everything
Maurizio: was so natural and so normal that
Maurizio: I really didn't have to curiosity to understand
Maurizio: what what he did really happen.
Maurizio: So interesting enough some
Maurizio: doctors were saying that he could
Maurizio: have been actually the pregnancy.
Maurizio: Not some point. They were actually proposing to
Maurizio: stop it.
Maurizio: Fortunately, my mother decided not to do it. So to go
Maurizio: ahead and basically she
Maurizio: had an internal bleeding
Maurizio: to the spinal cord and and since
Maurizio: then she has not been able to move her
Maurizio: legs anymore.
Maurizio: It was nothing to do with pregnancy. So it
Maurizio: was good that basically she was she was basically
Maurizio: listening to to her gut
Maurizio: feeling.
Maurizio: However, since that issue, she has been
Maurizio: always super energetic and very very
Maurizio: autonomous from the beginning. She was
Maurizio: so active that at some point.
Maurizio: She she did have actually a miscarriage before
Maurizio: me because she was just moving too much.
Maurizio: Fortunately when she when it was my case and that
Maurizio: my the pregnancy upon myself, she was much more
Maurizio: careful and today I'm actually here.
Maurizio: But I have to say that during life. She I
Maurizio: mean she since since I was born she
Maurizio: perfectly educate myself, of course my brother and
Maurizio: she taught us values such as
Maurizio: empathy courage and in commitment.
Maurizio: Have to confess that all these years. I've always
Maurizio: been struggling to find the same
Maurizio: thing to many other people and I've
Maurizio: always felt that she may not be able
Maurizio: to work, but she did have so many other things
Maurizio: to offer.
Maurizio: then it was incredible and and I
Maurizio: have to say that even in the most common situation
Maurizio: that
Maurizio: people will disability and such as
Maurizio: not basically not walking can face
Maurizio: where I was societies not ready
Maurizio: to support them properly. She always
Maurizio: smiled and and focused on all
Maurizio: the things that she she can't really do.
Maurizio: On all the other abilities that she
Maurizio: has and and basically my closing
Maurizio: remarks for this session, which is something that I'm really
Maurizio: really passion is the other
Maurizio: abilities.
Maurizio: And that's where really I would like to hear much
Maurizio: more when we think about people with disabilities. I
Maurizio: think we have to respect their
Maurizio: disability. We need to understand them.
Maurizio: We need to support them as much
Maurizio: as we can.
Maurizio: but we have to really
Maurizio:focus on the other abilities that they
Maurizio: are able to develop and Leverage
Maurizio: all of them have great other abilities
Maurizio: in some cases, especially when
Maurizio: the disability is
Maurizio: something that is is happening
Maurizio: right away except that I mean have not found
Maurizio: yet the other abilities that they
Maurizio: can rely on but as a
Maurizio: responsible organization, I think we and also
Maurizio: as as people that we are fortunate enough.
Maurizio: To to basically to to work
Maurizio: and and be wealthy we
Maurizio: have to give opportunity to
Maurizio: people to find the other abilities. And
Maurizio: and also we
Maurizio: need to understand what part we have to use and what way
Maurizio: but really let's let's focus on on
Maurizio: helping to find them
Maurizio: the other the other abilities and that's really the
Maurizio: way on how I want to to talk about
Maurizio: people with disability.
Maurizio:And I at the end of the day if you think about it, it's it's
Maurizio: all about opportunities and
Maurizio: entrust.
Maurizio:on really all the things that they can
Maurizio: do and and they they can offer and
Maurizio:to be honest with you. I'm one year
Maurizio: now old in in Barilla and I'm extremely
Maurizio: happy.
Maurizio:Be part of an organization like like
Maurizio: Barilla that definitely puts inclusion
Maurizio: on on top of the
Maurizio: business agenda and also and
Maurizio: this is something that we recently experience
Maurizio: experience with the lead exetera when
Maurizio: we had our dni survey. We got
Maurizio: some feedback and definitely we are
Maurizio: working on it really to improve the life of our
Maurizio: employees, especially when it comes again
Maurizio: inclusion and some of other mistakes
Maurizio: that potential even a company like body like
Maurizio: So I I thought that this
Maurizio: was was for me really did the best way
Maurizio: to at least to give some of the contribution that
Maurizio: I want to give for for this session. So
Maurizio: I really thank you
Maurizio: again for attending this session and I'm very
Maurizio: very fortunate that I was part of
Maurizio: it and I really looking forward to the next one.
Nadine Vogel: Thank you Maurizio and thank you for sharing
Nadine Vogel: your your personal story, you know throughout the
Nadine Vogel: conference. We've talked about the power of stories of
Nadine Vogel: Storytelling and I think you just you just
Nadine Vogel: prove that once again and and you're
Nadine Vogel: right. It's about opportunity and trust and all of that begins
Nadine Vogel: with with awareness. So thank you and anything
Nadine Vogel: Barilla for doing that. So ladies
Nadine Vogel: and gentlemen.
Nadine Vogel:We are now officially coming
Nadine Vogel: to the close of disability matters Europe 2022.
Nadine Vogel:I can't actually believe it's coming to a close already that the time
Nadine Vogel: is flown. We have educated we've
Nadine Vogel: inspired we've celebrated we have
Nadine Vogel: had subject matter experts keynote speakers
Nadine Vogel: company Executives that in my
Nadine Vogel: opinion represent the best of the best
Nadine Vogel: you when it comes to disability inclusion, whether
Nadine Vogel: of candidates employees or
Nadine Vogel: customers, like I said earlier
Nadine Vogel: for our honorees
You're what makes this such a wonderful world for
Nadine Vogel: for those of us who either have a disability or
Nadine Vogel: caring for someone with a disability?
Nadine Vogel: Again, Louis Armstrong It's a Wonderful World. Please look
Nadine Vogel: up that song and when you do know that those words or
Nadine Vogel: what we're sending out to you to thank all
Nadine Vogel: of you, you know, I want to thank
Nadine Vogel: everyone on the Springboard team Yvette and Gretchen
Nadine Vogel: Darlene Fatima, you know
Nadine Vogel: what you do every single day and then especially what you've
Nadine Vogel: done to make this statistical event to
Nadine Vogel: everyone at Barilla.
Nadine Vogel: There is just a personal thank you Talita, everyone
Nadine Vogel: on the team, you know, when working with us
Nadine Vogel: to bring this event. We had some changes because
Nadine Vogel: of covid we want to thank you for your commitment
Nadine Vogel: to people with disabilities your support
Nadine Vogel: of Springboard and the disability matters event.
Nadine Vogel: For those of you don't know this is the second
Nadine Vogel: time that Barilla has hosted this event
Nadine Vogel: for us and probably most importantly we want
Nadine Vogel: to thank you for your friendship. That means that means
Nadine Vogel: everything it's from from our heart. I want
Nadine Vogel: to wish all of you the the most
Nadine Vogel: incredible rest of the year.
Nadine Vogel: Safe be healthy be happy
Nadine Vogel: be successful and we look forward
Nadine Vogel: to experiencing and sharing disability matters
Nadine Vogel: 2023 with all
Nadine Vogel: of you next year and hopefully in person
Nadine Vogel: with a real red carpet. So again, thank
Nadine Vogel: you all and Yvette any
Nadine Vogel: last comments you want to share with everybody. I Lopez: just
I Lopez: want to thank everybody for participating. It's always
I Lopez: wonderful to have everyone with us and to our
I Lopez: speakers. It was great working with you and building up to
I Lopez: this event. So thank you for all of your assistance and appreciate you
I Lopez: being here.
Nadine Vogel: Be well everybody.
I Lopez: Thank you everyone for attending the 2022 disability
matters Europe conference and Awards live stream.
I Lopez: We hope to see you next year in 2023, and
I Lopez: hopefully in person many wishes
I Lopez: best wishes. Bye.