
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.
Session
Digital Exclusion & How to Change It
We're in 2023 and the way we access healthcare has changed greatly from even a few years ago. You can book yourself a doctor's appointment using the web and have the consultation via video call, so that now you don't need to take the whole morning out for just a 15 minute visit!