Name: World Product Day - Global Accessibility
Start: 2025-05-21T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-21T20:00:00+01:00
Location: CodeBase

Product people! Join ProductTank Edinburgh's special World Product Day celebration, where we will dive deep into making the products we work on, accessible to all.

We will be hearing from incredible voices of our cross-functional partners in engineering, content, and design on how and why we should put accessibility at the top of our minds for product decision-making.

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**Agenda:**

5:30PM-6:10PM - Food & networking
6:10PM-6:15PM - Opening remarks
6:15PM-6:40PM - Carme Mias & Meg Booth - Fostering a bold accessibility community
6:40PM-7:05PM - Kevin Stewart - The business case for accessibility
7:05PM-7:20PM - Speaker Q&A
7:20PM-8PM - Close & networking

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**Our speakers:**

About [Carme Mias](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carme-mias/): Carme is a software engineer at FreeAgent with over twenty years of experience in the tech industry, from pure hardware to pure software and a few in between. A founder-member of FreeAgent’s Accessibility Champions group, she is a firm believer that collaboration is the magic key to some of the best things in life.

About Meg Booth: Meg is a Senior Content Editor at FreeAgent, with experience of creating educational content as an English Language specialist internationally, she’s taking her passion for the written word and the people that read it to digital spaces. She’s a member of the Accessibility Champions group and when she isn’t advocating for those with accessibility needs, you might find her writing a novel or two and workshopping poetry with minority voices.

About [Kevin Stewart](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-stewart-b1967477/): Kevin collaborates with leadership teams to uncover the transformative potential of exponential technologies, particularly generative AI, on their products, services, and customer experiences. His work focuses on reimagining product portfolios and designing innovative solutions that create competitive advantages.

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**Thank you to our sponsors:**

[CodeBase](https://thisiscodebase.com/): CodeBase is an ecosystem builder, building better startup ecosystems. We connect founders and their teams with governments, local authorities, corporates, investors and academia to increase the number of successful businesses.

[Format-3](https://format-3.co/): Format–3 is an experienced design and innovation company. Our global team brings together our extensive knowledge in strategy, design, motion, engineering and growth to assist global brands, crafting exceptional and innovative product experiences.

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