Events

2025

Continual Engine participated at the OIT Virtual Vendor Day on Feb 20, 2025.

Continual Engine presented at the CSUN 2025 Conference on March 13, 2025, with a session titled “Transforming Document Remediation: Expert-Led and AI-Driven.” The presentation explored Document Remediation 3.0, highlighting how AI, automation, and subject matter expert validation come together to streamline accessibility at scale. The session was led by Vijayshree (VJ) Vethantham, SVP of Growth & Strategy, Continual Engine US LLC, and Kristin Yokota, AVP of Sales, Continual Engine US LLC.

Continual Engine also exhibited at the conference, where our CEO, Mousumi Kapoor, and the leadership team were present.

2024

Continual Engine and Virginia Tech Earn Brandon Hall Group Silver Award for Tech Advancements in Serving Learners with Disabilities

Continual Engine attended and presented at the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) 2024 Conference, which was held between January 25 – 27, 2024 in Orlando, Florida./div>

The topic of the session was – Unleashing the Power of Generative AI for Making Accessible Videos.

Our CEO/Founder, Mousumi Kapoor, presented at the Zero Conference 2024, There were 1,000+ participants from 100 countries at the conference. During the conference, she presented at two different sessions:

Session 1: Innovation Pitches: Promising Tech-Innovations and Impact Investors

YouTube Link of the Session

Session 2: Free Resources to Increase Web Accessibility

YouTube Link of the Session

Continual Engine presented and exhibited at the 39th Annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference between March 18 to 22, 2024, in Anaheim, California.

The topic of the session in which Continual Engine presented was – Title: Revolutionizing Video Accessibility: Role of Generative AI.

Continual Engine also co-presented at the 39th Annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, 2024, with ACT on the session topic – Using AI to Create Image Descriptions in High Stakes Testing (CSUN Assistive Technology Conference). Our SVP of Growth & Strategy co-presented with Allyson Vignola, Accessibility Content Lead, ACT.

Continual Engine presented virtually at the 2024 Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities Inc. Continual Engine presented virtually on the topic – “Closing the Inclusion Gap: AI-Powered Transcription and Captioning for Education”

Continual Engine participated in the 2024 UnConference by VHEAP hosted at the University of Virginia’s Student Health & Wellness Center.

PREP – PDF Remediation Platform is now part of the D2L Integration Hub! This milestone achievement signifies that PREP – PDF Remediation Platform has received the endorsement of D2L, placing us among their trusted partners dedicated to enhancing digital accessibility in education.

Our advisor of Continual Engine, Dr. K. Sriram, was featured in a podcast with Lawrence Gunther on the podcast titled “Outdoors with Lawrence Gunther”!

Brandon Hall Group published an article about Continual Engine and our digital accessibility solutions and services.

Continual Engine hosted a Webinar on “The Future of Document Accessibility Best Practices & Key Insights for 2024” on October 3rd, 2024 with Kristin Yokota, AVP of Sales at Continual Engine, and Ken Nakata, Principal at Converge Accessibility.

Continual Engine presented at the 12th Annual M-Enabling Summit 2024, where our CEO, Mousumi Kapoor joined a panel of experts on October 15, 2024, in a session titled “AI Accessibility Tools for Developers“.

Continual Engine announced its partnership with Stanford University to provide comprehensive document and PDF remediation across its campus.

Continual Engine Presented and Exhibited at the 27th Annual Accessing Higher Ground Conference in Denver, Colorado on November 14, 2024. The topic of the session was ‘Learn How PREP Brings 95% AI-Led Automation for PDF Accessibility with Higher Accuracy’. Our SVP of Growth & Strategy and AVP of Sales were present at the event.

PREP API was introduced, which is a significant part of PREP. It can be seamlessly integrated into any existing software or current workflow, to detect and correct accessibility issues in documents.

2023

Continual Engine has been selected among the top 100 EdTech companies in South Asia by HolonIQ.

Continual Engine has co-presented and exhibited at the ATIA 2023 Conference with Virginia Tech on 2nd Feb, 2023.

The speaker of the session was Vijayshree (VJ) Vethantham and she had co-presented with Mark Nichols, Senior Director of Universal Design and Accessible Technologies, Virginia Tech.

Continual Engine participated in the Awareness Conclave on Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities, which took place on February 23, 2023, at the Chancery Pavilion in Bangalore.

This event was organized by Samarthanam in collaboration with DXC Technology, IIITB, and the Government of Karnataka.

The team from Continual Engine, Rajat Prakash and Pavan Deepak as Product Owners, and Dr. K. Sriram as Advisor, attended the event.

Continual Engine hosted an accessibility webinar on “All About WCAG Accessibility And What’s Next” with IAAP-certified Web Accessibility Specialist Sarah Stricker from ansrsource.

The virtual event took place on February 16th, 2023.

Accessible version of the presentation.

Continual Engine hosted an exclusive webinar ‘ Prepping PDFs For Accessibility’ by Sarah Stricker – an IAAP Certified Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) and Instructional Technologist at ansrsource on June 15th, 2023.

Accessible Presentation.

Continual Engine has attended the 46th Annual AHEAD Conference on Equity & Excellence: Access in Higher Education. The event took place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland from July 17–21, 2023.

2022

Graduated from the 9th cohort of the NetApp Excellerator program. NetApp’s four-month global accelerator program is aimed to develop deep tech startups.

Continual Engine has been selected as one of the 8 participants out of 180+ global startups.

Continual Engine presented its products on January 20th, 2022, for the Cohort 9 Demo Day.

ATIA Conference 2022 on January 28, 2022, in Orlando, Florida. We have showcased our product PREP at this event.

Rajiv Narayana and Vijayshree Vethantham were the presenters.

Topic: Learn about the Impact of Community in AI Technology for STEM Accessibility.

Continual Engine presented and exhibited at the 37th Annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference from March 14–18, 2022, in Anaheim, California.

Korey Singleton, ATI Manager, George Mason University, co-presented with Rajiv Narayana and Vijayshree Vethantham.

We have showcased our product PREP in this event.

Topic: The Role of Champions in Accessibility Technology Innovation.

Hosted by the Australia and New Zealand Accessible Graphics Group (ANZAGG), Continual Engine participated in the 2022 Round Table Conference on May 18, 2022.

Rajat Prakash and Dr. K. Sriram were part of this event.

45th Annual AHEAD Conference on Equity & Excellence: Access in Higher Education at the Huntington Convention Centre in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 20, 2022.

Vijayshree Vethantham presented at this event.

13th Annual Island Conference on September 17, 2022. This conference was held as a hybrid event, both virtually and in person at Princeton University.

Topic: Using AI to instantly make STEM images and documents Accessible.

Vijayshree Vethantham (VP, Growth & Strategy) and Rajat Prakash (Product Owner) were the presenters at this event.

Webinar on STEM Accessibility with Rachel Comerford, Senior Director of Accessibility Outreach and Communication at Macmillan Learning, on October 12, 2022.

Vijayshree Vethantham was the host of this webinar.

5th Empower Conference, 2022, at the IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai.

Pavan Deepak, Dr. BSM Kumar, and Dr. K. Sriram were part of this event.

25th Annual Accessing Higher Ground (AHG) Conference from November 14–18, 2022, at Hilton Denver City Center, Denver, Colorado. Both PREP and Invicta™ were showcased.

Vijayshree Vethantham and Rajiv Narayana were the presenters at this conference.

Continual Engine participated in the AbilityNet TechShare Pro (ATP) Virtual Conference from November 15–17, 2022.

In collaboration with Roger Firman, Chair of UK Association for Accessible Formats (UKAAF), and the Open University, Continual Engine hosted a virtual session on November 17, 2022.

The virtual session covered the importance of making images accessible while presenting a short demo of Invicta™.

2021

Continual Engine got featured in the Top 50 AI Use Cases and received the title ‘Challengers’ in the prestigious Nasscom AI Gamechangers 2021 for the category AI for Inclusion.

Continual Engine got featured in the article “10 Best Startups Leaders To Follow In 2021-Continual Engine” by Swift N Lift.

Continual Engine got featured in the article by INDIAai – AI Gamechangers: Changing the landscape of STEM learning with AI.

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Continual Engine got featured in the article by YourStory.com – AI for good: This deeptech startup makes content accessible to millions of people with special learning needs.

Continual Engine got featured in the article by YourStory.com – How EdTech startup Continual Engine is making e-Learning Accessible with AI.

Continual Engine got featured in the article by Silicon India – Continual Engine: An AI-enabled Edtech Start-up using Technology to Automate Accessibility and Democratize Learning.

EMPOWER 2021 Conference on October 30, 2021.

OLC conference 2021 for our talk on “Using Collaboration and Technology to Overcome Growing Inequity in Digital and Blended Learning”.

Presenters: – Scott Disanno, Director, Content Production and Digital Studio, Pearson

– Rajiv Narayana, Chief Learning Officer, Continual Engine

24th Annual AHG Conference 2021 on ‘The Evolution of Innovative Technology for Accessible STEM’ held between November 15–19, 2021, in Denver, Colorado.

Speakers: – AnnMarie Dittell, CPACC, Accessibility and Compliance Manager, Pearson Education

– Vijayshree Vethantham, Vice-President, Partner Engagements, Continual Engine US LLC

– Rajiv Narayana, Chief Learning Officer, Continual Engine

Continual Engine got featured in the YourStory article ‘NetApp Excellerator cohort 9: Demonstrating an agile approach to innovation with data, cloud, and AI’.

Continual Engine got featured in an IT Pro article on ‘How AI-powered tech can improve digital accessibility’ by Debabrata Deb.

The article highlights how AI technology is transforming the alternate text (alt text) authoring process, allowing people with visual impairments to consume image content easily.

Continual Engine is proud to have won Gold at the Brandon Hall Technology Awards 2021 jointly with Pearson for its cutting-edge product Invicta™ in the category ‘Best Advance in Diversity and Inclusion Innovation’.

YourStory Media featured Continual Engine in the top 25 startup stories 2021 list.

2023

Continual Engine was featured in the prestigious IITM Shaastra Magazine with a special feature titled “Signs of the Times”. Dr. K. Sriram, an advisor of Continual Engine, shared valuable insights on our PDF and document remediation platform, PREP.

2022

Our products Invicta™ and PREP received the “Cool Tool Finalist” award for STEM Solution and Special Needs / Assistive Technology Solution in EdTech Awards 2022.

Continual Engine was selected as part of the 2022 South Asia EdTech 100, an annual list of the most promising EdTech startups.

2021

Our product Invicta’sTM use case ‘Automating Alternative Text Generation for STEM images, using AI’ was featured in Top 50 AI Use Cases and received overwhelming positive feedback.

Continual Engine was recognised as a ‘Challenger’ in the Nasscom AI GameChanger awards 2021. The awards showcased AI innovation success stories at scale in the country with the vision of #AIForAll.

Continual Engine got selected as one of the GSV Cup Elite 200 Startups – a group of the world’s most innovative early stage ed-tech startups.