Panel: Socially Conscious Software

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Speaker

Sareh Heidari

Senior Software Engineer @Accurx

Sareh Heidari is a Londoner and is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Accurx, a health tech startup, working with the NHS ensuring everyone involved in a patient's care can communicate with each other. Prior to this, she worked at BBC News on the home page and articles pages. She cares about accessibility, web performance and ensuring user needs are centred when designing and building websites. She's worked on sites with a global reach of millions of visitors a week and enjoys learning about the ways that technology can be used to empower those most marginalised.

In her spare time, she enjoys reading speculative fiction and going on day-long walks.

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Speaker

Andrew Walker

Founder at Kraken Industries

Andy Walker has spent over 30 years working in tech companies from the early days of the World Wide Web with Netscape through to Google. During that time he’s built teams and products all over the world. These days he confines himself to writing about his experiences for the next generation techies and doing the odd bit of coaching.

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Speaker

Germán Bencci

Founder of CodeYourFuture

Germán is the founder of CodeYourFuture, a community-led organisation changing people’s lives by offering accessible training for people of refugee and low-income backgrounds, helping them start thriving software development careers. In the past, Germán worked in open innovation roles and has led artistic productions and fundraising campaigns. He holds degrees in Engineering and Literature.

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Speaker

Aleena Baig

Senior Software Engineer @Suvera

Aleena is a Senior Software Engineer at Suvera, a health-tech startup based in London.

She is currently studying on the inaugural MSt in AI, Ethics and Society at the University of Cambridge, where she is exploring an anti-capitalist and anti-hype approach to tech. With a background in startups, Aleena has spent the last several years working at the intersection of tech and healthcare, including delivering a covid vaccine booking solution that has been used to book over 30 million vaccines across the UK. Her engineering work centres on the technical aspects of building products for differently-abled users, and she also volunteers at various outreach projects that work on getting more underrepresented minorities into the tech industry.

Find her on Twitter/Instagram/YouTube at @aleenacodes

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Digital Exclusion & How to Change It

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Sareh Heidari

Senior Software Engineer @Accurx

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Paul Lawson

Principal Architect @gosupercritical

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Socially Responsible Companies -- Do We All HAVE to Change the World?

Tuesday Mar 28 / 01:40PM BST

We'll spend some time talking about traditional social product attempts from the lens of people in need. We will discuss if traditional for-profit businesses should worry about creating social impact.

Speaker image - Germán Bencci

Germán Bencci

Founder of CodeYourFuture

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How Big Tech Lost Its Way

Tuesday Mar 28 / 02:55PM BST

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Andrew Walker

Founder at Kraken Industries

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Unconference: Socially Conscious Software

Tuesday Mar 28 / 05:25PM BST

What is an unconference? An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions.

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Shane Hastie

Global Delivery Lead @SoftEd, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods @InfoQ