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Abstract: Dr. Kyle Keane is a new Senior Lecturer in Assistive Technologies at the University of Bristol's School of Computer Science. Although writing this abstract caused nearly debilitating imposter syndrome, he very much wants to recruit PhD students to work with him and is grateful for the opportunity to share his past, present, and future. Since this is a mid-career transition of epic proportions, he’ll very likely ramble about his strange, non-linear path from his PhD in quantum computing; to working as a natural language processing engineer at wolfram alpha; to teaching computational materials science at MIT; to working as a research scientist at the intersection human perception science, natural intelligence, and artificial intelligence. He'll also describe his nurturing and development of a global network of engineers and advocates, working together to develop logistically sustainable ecosystems that drive and support reliable and trustworthy assistive technologies, and cover how this network is compatible with highly constrained interaction tolerances in even more highly variable environments. He’ll certainly finish the talk with an overview of his strategic investments and research plans that currently centre on five cutting-edge devices that he believes are changing how society perceives life without eyesight.