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Schedule
TIME | SESSION |
|---|---|
| 10:30am PT 1:30pm ET 17:30 UTC | Doors open |
| 10:45am PT 1:45pm ET 17:45 UTC | Opening Remarks Jill Binder, Event Organizer, Canada |
| 11:00am PT 2:00pm ET 18:00 UTC | Talk 1 – Keynote “Changing the World, One Slide at a Time” Allie Nimmons, She/Her/They/Them, USA |
| 11:30am PT 2:30pm ET 18:30 UTC | Talk 2 “From professional musician to web designer” Lumi Ciobanu, She/Her, Romania |
| 12:00pm PT 3:00pm ET 19:00 UTC | Talk 3 “So… We Broke Production” Daniel Bertoldi, He/Him, Brazil |
| 12:30pm PT 3:30pm ET 19:30 UTC | Talk 4 “Making a climate-friendly website, it’s not what you think” Heather Gray, She/They, Canada |
| 1:00pm PT 4:00pm ET 20:00 UTC | Break |
| 1:30pm PT 4:30pm ET 20:30 UTC | Talk 5 “Staying Human In A World of Shortcuts” Nicolas Demers, He/Him, Canada |
| 2:00pm PT 5:00pm ET 21:00 UTC | Talk 6 “What Widely-Used Tools Get Wrong About Users They’ve Never Met” Awesome Akinfenwa, He/Him, Nigeria |
| 2:30pm PT 5:30pm ET 21:30 UTC | “Afternoon Break: Meditation for Tech Nerds” Special guest: Michael Persimmon |
| 2:45pm PT 5:45pm ET 21:45 UTC | Talk 7 “Folk Tech: Public-Good Alternatives to Big Tech Need You” seeley quest, sie/hir, Canada |
| 3:15pm PT 6:15pm ET 22:15 UTC | Talk 8 “Web Design, Art History, And Staying Resilient Through Tech Change” Rachel ‘Win’ Winchester, She/Her, USA |
| 3:45pm PT 6:45pm ET 22:45 UTC | Talk 9 – Special Guest “Mini Workshop: Get Energized, Unstuck, and Ready to Create Someting New” Kriti Gupta, She/Her, Canada |
| 4:00pm PT 7:00pm ET 23:00 UTC | Closing Remarks (15 min) Jill Binder, Event Organizer, Canada |
| 4:30pm PT 7:30pm ET 23:30 UTC | Doors Close |
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