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Monday, July 20, 2015 at 12:53pm.
Civic Presentation Night - Accessibility and Gov't Policies
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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
All attendees of Code for Portland events agree to follow the Code of Conduct.
Find out more about Code for Portland at codeforportland.org.