José Velasco
Chief Program Manager & Autism at Work Program Ambassador at SAP
Jose H. Velasco is a Chief Program Manager in the Product Engineering Board area at SAP and Autism at Work Ambassador. Jose’s 30-year Information Technology career spans private and public sectors and companies ranging from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises. During his tenure of 22 years at SAP, Jose has occupied positions in product management, consulting, development, strategy, go-to-market and diversity functions.
Jose participated as a panelist at the United Nations World Autism Awareness Day, testified before U.S. Congress on the “Global Challenge of Autism” and collaborated on the topic of Corporate Social Innovation at the World Economic Forum. Through his work at SAP Autism at Work, Mr. Velasco and his team have been featured in more than 1,000 global, national and local publications including the Wall Street Journal, CBS This Morning, NBC, Fox, Inc. Magazine and Forbes among others.
In 2016, Jose launched the Autism at Work Summit, a conference series designed to foster collaboration between private and public sectors, academia, government, schools, philanthropists, civil societies and the autism community with the ultimate purpose of improving opportunities for individuals with autism in the labor market.
Jose is a board member of The Arc, the largest national community-based organization in the United States advocating for and serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. He holds a master’s degree in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin and B.S. in Computer Science from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.
Takes part in
How to Disrupt Racial, Disability, and Gender Bias and Make Culture a Competitive Advantage?
- How to design a training meant to shift inclusion both internally and for customers
- How to enable critical outcomes and drive positive change within the matrixed business through diversity and inclusion
- How to use training as a foundation to disrupt everyday biases
Gail Tolstoi-Miller
José Velasco
Lenora Billings-Harris
Kirsten Mitchell
Delfina Daglio
Albert E. Smith Jr.