CREATE partners with industry, non-profits, community groups, and government to achieve translational impact and mutual benefit. Translation activities take our research into the world in the form of products and services, and ensure that diverse voices inform our innovations.
Consider joining us to amplify each other’s missions.
Contact us at create-contact@uw.edu.
Our goals include enabling CREATE innovations to move into the world, supporting sustainable research deployments, and establishing cooperative relationships between researchers and the community.
Learn about our Community Partnerships and Campus Partnerships.
Industry partners
Inaugural founding partner
Microsoft is CREATE’s original investor and is proud to support the UW’s goals in accessibility innovation. The UW’s and Microsoft’s approaches align in their longstanding records of recognizing the untapped talent among the disability community.
Google is pleased to support CREATE’s efforts to bring together interdisciplinary work that has the potential to change the landscape for accessibility.
Meta is supporting CREATE to ensure the future of human communication and connection is an accessible one.
GitHub is partnering with CREATE to support work that advances the accessibility of computer science learning experiences for learners with disabilities and in any age group, from preschool to continuing education.
- See GitHub’s impressive Accessibility page with videos and a spotlight on CREATE and our campus partner AccessComputing.
Industry partner benefits
Our partners enjoy these benefits:
- Visible recognition and acknowledgement on the CREATE website
- Invitations to campus to connect with CREATE faculty and students for potential collaborations based on shared interests
- Inclusion of jobs and recruitment in our emails and announcements
- Access to the annual CREATE research showcase where cutting-edge research in accessible computing is shared
- Invitations to CREATE lectures of various kinds
- Invitation to Community Days, hack-a-thons, and other translation-oriented events
- Opportunities to propose student projects, such as major class projects or capstones
Partner with us to CREATE an accessible future
As a research center, CREATE’s lifeblood is conducting cutting-edge research, and designing, building, and evaluating the next generation of accessible technologies. We are dedicated to propelling accessible technology research and education from incremental improvements to paradigm-shifting breakthroughs that enable greater inclusion and participation for people of all abilities. Learn about our current research activities and our current education activities.
To support CREATE’s faculty and student research, education and translation, please contact Kathleen Quin Voss, CREATE Community Engagement and Partnerships Manager at kqvoss@cs.washington.edu or visit the Contact CREATE page.
Industry Partners news archive
- Virtual Traffic Stop App Aims to Ease Tensions, Aid Communication
- Accessible eSports Showcase 2023: Event Recap
- Community Day 2022 Wrap-up
- CREATE Community Day and research showcase
- Accessible CS Education workshop focuses on inclusive experiences
- Caspi to lead collaborative $11.45M Transportation Data Equity Initiative
- Forbes' Mindset Matters highlights CREATE as the innovation industry needs
- New UW center bankrolled by Microsoft aims to make technology more accessible to disabled people
- Microsoft invests $2.5M in CREATE, a new center for accessible tech at the University of Washington
- $2.5 million inaugural investment from Microsoft launches CREATE