IxDA Sydney, in association with Adobe, are very proud to bring you a panel discussion for the first World International Design Day 2018 #IxDD alongside over 50 other cities around the world. This year’s theme is Diversity and Inclusion in Design and we are excited to have a stellar line-up to speak on a panel about this exciting and relevant topic.
We are very pleased to welcome experts in this area, Manisha Amin, Ashlea McKay, Meera Pankhania and Sarah Pulis, alongside you and your participation.
We will be asking our community for some questions before the day (Tweet to @IxDA_Sydney with the hashtag #IxDASydQA) to get us started, but we will also take questions from the audience as the discussion evolves on the night.
The panellists
Dr Manisha Amin
Dr Manisha Amin is the CEO of the Centre for Inclusive Design (formally Media Access Australia), a not-for-profit social enterprise that uses the power of the marketplace. As the real and the digital worlds collide CfID help people to build and design products, services and policies that are inclusive and usable to as many people as possible. As technology becomes more complex they work to provide simple solutions to that everyone has opportunity to participate in economic, social, civil, political and cultural life.
Ashlea McKay
Ashlea McKay is a freelance UX researcher, writer and keynote speaker with more than 8 years of experience in UX spanning both the public and private sectors in Australia as well as the international start-up space. She comes from an industrial design background and co-founded UX advice column UX Agony Aunt with Optimal Workshop in 2015. Ashlea is a proud autistic person who was diagnosed later in life at the age of 29 and is currently writing her first book on life as an autistic UXer that will also explore research and design for autism. www.ashleamckay.com
Meera Pankhania
Meera has over 14 years experience working with digital agencies and consultancies and is the former Head of Accessibility and User Experience at AbilityNet, where she helped deliver the most inclusive Olympic Games in London 2012. At the DTA, Meera was a Product Manager and Service Designer on the Identity Program (GovPass) and is currently heading up the Service Design practice at the DTA. Meera has worked for global organisations including British Telecom, HSBC, Microsoft, The United Nations and Walmart.
Sarah Pulis
Sarah Pulis is director of accessibility services and co-founder of Intopia, Australia’s fastest growing digital accessibility consultancy dedicated to creating an inclusive digital world. Sarah has worked in digital accessibility and inclusion for over 8 years, including as Head of Accessibility Services with PwC Australia and digital accessibility evangelist and specialist for Media Access Australia. Sarah is founder of A11y Bytes, a series of events run across Australia for Global Accessibility Awareness Day and A11y Camp, Australia’s premier conference on digital accessibility and inclusion. She is also co-organiser of the Sydney Web Accessibility and Inclusive Design Meetup.
With the support of Adobe, IxDA.org and BCG Digital Ventures