Building for Everyone at Google Paris

Name: Building for Everyone at Google Paris
Start: 2022-09-19T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-19T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Google Paris

Google Paris, 8 Rue de Londres, Paris, 75009

GDG Paris

“Building for Everyone” is an event entirely focused on accessibility and inclusion in technology, with the mission to educate developers to incorporate accessibility best practices into their products, and to raise awareness about accessibility guidelines and tools. At the event, developers will learn how to develop products and applications that are more accessible and inclusive.

Sep 19, 2022, 4:00 – 8:00 PM (UTC)

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Key Themes

Accessibility

About this event

“Building for Everyone” is an event entirely focused on accessibility and inclusion in technology, with the mission to educate developers to incorporate accessibility best practices into their products, and to raise awareness about accessibility guidelines and tools.
At the event, developers will learn how to develop products and applications that are more accessible and inclusive, and use the accessibility testing tools available.
Catch-up on our conversation on product accessibility over Twitter space here! 👉 https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKbNWWyevKX
Where we discussed accessibility vs. usability and developers can most effectively collaborate with designers, cool accessibility features everyone can include in their Android app, what features Google Cloud offers to create an innovative, accessible experience, what assistive technology is, building accessibility into the dev workflow… and much more!

When

Monday, September 19, 2022
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM (UTC)

Where

Google Paris
8 Rue de Londres
Paris, 75009

Agenda

4:00 PM	Doors Open
4:30 PM	Opening Remarks	Opening Remarks by Florence Poirel
4:40 PM	Keynote - Building inclusively, building accessibly, with Christopher Patnoe	Christopher will discuss three principles about building inclusively and will share examples from Google demonstrating them in products and services, and the challenges that brings.
5:10 PM	How machine learning can contribute to improving accessibility, with Guillaume Laforge	Everyday, we're hearing about more and more use cases where machine learning can be applied. The idea is not to replace all our efforts on accessibility with magical neural networks that would do the job for us! No, but let's see where machine learning can complement our accessibility techniques and contribute to improving it. In this presentation, we'll talk in particular about on the shelf cloud based machine learning services and APIS that developers can put to good use, for vision, speech, or text understanding.
5:50 PM	Networking Break
6:00 PM	Building for Accessibility in Reusable Components, with Emily Meng	How the Google Maps Platform approaches building accessibility into reusable components which get used by developers in many different ways.
6:45 PM	Networking Drinks
8:00 PM	End of Event

Speakers

Christopher Patnoe

Google

Head of Accessibility and Disability Inclusion for EMEA

Guillaume Laforge

Google Cloud

Developer Advocate

Emily Meng

Google

Software Engineer, Maps JavaScript API

Host

Pritesh BHEEMANEE

T-Systems France

Senior Product Owner

Organizers

Pritesh BHEEMANEE

Deloitte

GDG Organizer

Building for Everyone at Google Paris

Sep 19, 2022, 4:00 – 8:00 PM (UTC)

Key Themes

About this event

When

Where

Agenda

Speakers

Christopher Patnoe

Guillaume Laforge

Emily Meng

Host

Pritesh BHEEMANEE

Organizers

Pritesh BHEEMANEE

Modeste ASSIONGBON

Jihene Mejri

Houssem Mahmoud

Featured Attendees

Antonella Belluccini

Amel Azzi

A.Mahdy A

Luc MAHOUX

Heron Maturana Júnior

Seifeddin Mansri

BOUALEM TOUDJI

Merve Noyan

Cyrille Nouboué

sarah bouzit

Thandiwe Mkhetshane

Reem Saad

Amel AZZI

Sep 19, 2022, 4:00 – 8:00 PM (UTC)