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This event will be online on YouTube & in-person (New York City). The speaker & live stream starts at 7:30 pm ET. In-person attendees may arrive as early as 7 pm ET. If arriving late, please leave a comment on this page & someone will come down ASAP.
Description
Every product we ship carries a worldview. "Efficiency is paramount." "Scale is the goal." "User engagement is the gateway. Most of us don't pause to reflect on what foundations we're building within ourselves. Stuff that feels too nebulous & exists out there, instead of in us, in here.
This isn't a talk about "bad actors." It's about the rest of us. The well-intentioned designers, PMs, & engineers whose unexamined defaults quietly shape what gets built, who it serves, & who it harms.
Drawing on indigenous learnings from Aotearoa New Zealand, & examples from accessibility & AI design, we'll explore what happens when we treat worldview work as foundational rather than optional.
Elina Ashimbayeva is determined to find hope amid humanity's existential crisis! Join Elina! This session will focus on examples & allow people to interact with each other to reflect on our individual & team practices & worldviews.
Because you can't change a practice without first changing the soil it grows in.
Attendees will leave with ...
A clearer view of the worldviews running underneath your own work
Language to name them with your team
Examples of how different worldviews produce radically different products - especially in AI & accessibility
A small set of tools & prompts for doing worldview work as part of practice, not separate from it.
Presenter bio
Elina Ashimbayeva is a product manager, community builder, & facilitator with over a decade of work across healthcare, education, & social impact. Originally from Kazakhstan & Aotearoa New Zealand, she is now based in New York. Elina has led product & discovery work at Health New Zealand, designed the Equitable Product Cohort on ethics & equity in tech, & run a storytelling community, Storyo.
Her practice sits at the intersection of human-centred design, values-led leadership, & the harder, slower work of shifting the worldviews underneath how teams actually operate.
She recently launched Making Good Money, a podcast on financial transparency with founders of mission-driven ventures, where she talks about the values that we make decisions from, in life & in work.
Elina loves dancing, poetry and, notable mention, mayonnaise.
Accessibility
The presentation will have human captions [CC], not automatic captions. For ASL preferred speakers, learn about the Aira ASL App, & download it before the event.
For the Blind & Low Vision community, learn about the Aira Explorer App & download it before the event. To access the online webinar for audio description, use the A11yNYC Access Offer to call, or simply inform your Visual Interpreter that you'd like that offer applied when you connect.
For additional accessibility requirements, please email meryl@equalentry.com two weeks before the event.
Livestream
YouTube link
Provided by Internet Society Accessibility SIG.
Location details
The event is at 72 Spring street on the 4th floor. Everyone must be accompanied to the event on the 4th floor. Because everyone needs to be escorted, please arrive early or on time. When you enter the ground floor, a representative from A11yNYC will be there to provide elevator access.
Transit
The building 72 Spring street is near several transit stops:
6 train
Spring Street (non-accessible stop): 100 feet
Canal Street (accessible stop): 0.4 miles
B/D/F/M trains
Broadway-Lafayette Street (accessible stop), 0.2 miles
N/Q/R/W trains
Prince Street (non-accessible stop): 0.2 miles
Canal Street (accessible stop): 0.3 miles
M1 / M55 Bus lines
Broadway/Spring Street stop: 500 feet
Cabs & rideshares can let passengers out right near the building entrance.
Finding the building
In Google Maps, find 72 Spring street. It shows the correct location of the entrance: on Spring Street, halfway between Crosby & Lafayette.
It's also between the Glossier store & the Krewe Eyewear store.
Inside & over the reception desk in our building 72 Spring st, it says Marc Jacobs.
Traveling to the event?
We recommend Hotel on Rivington or Crosby Street Hotel.
Accreditation
All A11yNYC meetups are pre-approved for IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC).
Sponsors
Thanks to Aira, AKQA, Deque, Evinced, Equal Entry, & Fable for sponsoring. Want to be a sponsor? Contact meryl@equalentry.com
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