ABLE Summit 2026 Opens Monday at AUB

The American University of Beirut opens the ABLE Summit 2026 on Monday, April 27, at its Bliss Street campus. The two-day conference is built around digital accessibility, inclusive innovation, and equitable access in higher education. ABLE stands for Accessibility for a Bolder Learning Experience. It is an initiative run by the AUB Office of Information Technology, and the summit is positioned by organizers as the first of its kind in Lebanon and the wider region focused on digital accessibility in higher education. What the program includes The agenda combines talks, hands-on workshops, and networking sessions across the two days, according to summit materials published by the ABLE Initiative . The lineup is reported to feature speakers from global organizations working on digital accessibility, although the publicly available materials do not include a complete speaker roster. Workshop sessions cover practical accessibility skills for staff, faculty, and developers, and tie back to the wider work the ABLE Initiative has done on auditing and adapting digital tools used inside the university. Where Lebanese higher ed stands on accessibility Lebanese universities and software builders have not yet adopted formal accessibility standards at scale. AUB has used its IT office to push the topic onto its own campus, but the question of who else moves, when, and at whose cost is still open. For founders building education, government, or workplace tools, the summit is also a chance to meet potential institutional buyers and to map procurement requirements that could eventually be tied to accessibility compliance. How to follow it The summit runs Monday and Tuesday on the Bliss Street campus. The full schedule, registration, and contact details are published on the ABLE Summit site maintained by AUB.