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Civic Presentation Night - Accessibility and Gov't Policies

Esri Portland R&D Center
309 SW 6th Ave, Ste. 600
Portland, OR 97204, US (map)

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Description

To kick of the Summer of Accessibility 2015, the Portland Accessibility and User Experience Meetup  and Code for Portland are co-hosting a meetup. We will bring together civic hackers, accessibility experts, and creative problem solvers to discuss how we as a community can improve accessibility in Portland.

Speakers

Alex Li from Microsoft will be joining us to share his extensive experience in global accessibility policies and technical standards development. He is a leader in his field and has successfully brought together business partners, government entities, and standards organizations.

Catherine Nikolovski is founder and Executive Director of HackOregon, a community-powered non-profit building civic data projects to promote engagement, awareness, and quality of life. She'll be speaking about design and data in her talk "Designing for Engagement: how to ask data to speak human."

Agenda

6:00 - 6:30 Networking
6:30 - 6:40 Welcome, Intros, and Announcements
6:40 - 7:50 Presentations and Discussion
7:50 - 8:00 Closing Comments

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Find out more about Code for Portland at codeforportland.org.

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