Dublin Accessibility Talks

The European Disability Forum brings accessibility leads from four of the largest technology companies into one Dublin room to talk about what actually gets built. It runs alongside EDF's board meeting in the city. Catherine Naughton of EDF moderates, with Maxine Williams, VP of Accessibility at Meta; Eoin Mulligan, Trusted AI Advisor at Microsoft; Shadi Abou-Zahra, Principal Accessibility Standards and Policy Manager at Amazon; and Rachel Bleakley, Programme Manager at Google. Members of the disability movement join them to set out the barriers they hit and the innovations that help. 16:00 to 19:00, closing with networking. In person only: the organiser states online attendance is not available, and places are extremely limited. EDF runs registration itself, not the usual Irish host. Why go: accessibility calls at Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Google are normally made a long way from the people they land on, and this is a rare room where both sides sit at one table. Best for product and design people shipping consumer software, and anyone in assistive tech.