
Khaya Job
Founder & Creative Director
Khaya is the founder of Nottingham’s Femme Fatale Gals, a creative platform aimed started to empower people through art and the power of vulnerability. Instagram / Website
For and by marginalised people in tech
22nd June 2019
Nottingham, United Kingdom
margins is a free one-day conference for people from marginalised backgrounds that work in/with/around technology (or hope to break into the industry!).
Everyone is welcome to join us in Nottingham for a day filled with inspiration, solidarity and compassion.
Register for margins here!margins would not be possible without the support of these companies:
Lead Sponsor:
Other Sponsors:
Would you like to join this list by sponsoring us? Please email us!
Please note that this schedule is preliminary & will probably change!
Time | What's On? |
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9:00 | Registration |
10:00–10:20 | Welcome & Intro |
10:20–11:00 | Keynote by Khaya Job |
11:00–11:10 | Break |
11:10–11:50 | Talk: How to say no: serving your community whilst also taking care of your self by Amy Workshop: Ren’py Crash Course by Clark |
11:50–12:00 | Break |
12:00–12:40 | Talk: Diverse representations in design and awkward conversations with colleagues by Eriol (Continued) Workshop: Ren’py Crash Course by Clark |
12:40–13:50 | Lunch |
13:50–14:30 |
Talk: In conversation with... Jessica & Vanja Workshop: Practical self care and community care: How to recover from burnout & get our energy back ✊🏿 by LiLi Kathleen |
14:30–14:40 | Break |
14:40–15:30 |
Talk: Minha (Continued) Workshop: Practical self care and community care: How to recover from burnout & get our energy back ✊🏿 by LiLi Kathleen |
15:30–15:40 | Break |
15:40–16:00 | Wrap-Up & Goodbye |
Founder & Creative Director
Khaya is the founder of Nottingham’s Femme Fatale Gals, a creative platform aimed started to empower people through art and the power of vulnerability. Instagram / Website
Junior Developer at jh
Clark Seanor is a queer guy who's interested in web development, game design, and storytelling. He's a junior developer at JH, accessibility editor at Strange Horizons, and an Organisation for Transformative Works volunteer. In his free time, he creates cosplays and reads a lot. Twitter / Website
Agile Coach & Scrum Master
LiLi Kathleen practises creating environments that help people thrive, as an Agile Coach & Scrum Master. Listening is their superpower, which they use to look out for people & team health, stakeholder engagement and facilitating effective working. As a facilitator, they regularly design and lead workshops to include & engage everyone. Kathleen organises Liberating Structures London user group as part of a team. LiLi is writing a novel and two non-fiction books: a secular companion to The Artist’s Way, and a recipe book for people living with fatigue. Loves trees, herbal tea and learning about plant based nutrition. Often found singing. And dancing. Twitter / Website / Linkedin
Product & UX designer
Eriol is a product & UX designer who has worked in-house roles for 9+ years. Now working at Ushahidi, a humanitarian, non-profit technology leader, developing open-source, digital tools to help people with better democratic process, human rights issues, natural and human-made disasters.
Eriol is a non-binary, queer person who uses they/them pronouns and an LGBTQIA+ advocate and committee member of Bristol pride Festival.
They are deeply passionate about intersectional inclusion and promoting healthy attitudes towards mental health in the tech sector. Twitter / Linkedin / Ushahidi & Ushahidi Twitter
Games Designer & Organiser
Marina Díez is a Spanish game designer, events curator and organizer, Italian and German philologist, video games journalist, activist, WIGJ Ambassador and IGDA Women in Games Ambassador. In 2017 she founded her own women-only video games magazine Terebi Magazine and started making her own games. Besides, she is a collaborator for associations such as Femdevs, an organization for women developers, as well as a curator for video games events. She is currently based in London, UK and her dream is to make games that help others and that contribute to a different vision of the world. Twitter / Website
PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology
Minha is a PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. her research interests include moral conflicts and moral emotions, and her PhD project concerns how technology shapes us as moral beings. The focus is on people's dyadic interactions with technological entities, which implicate morally relevant concepts like compassion and fairness. In prior empirical studies, a variety of digital entities like chatbots, robots, and virtual agents were introduced as interaction partners. Her diverse educational background led her to approach research in a multidisciplinary fashion, and she regularly combines qualitative and quantitative methods. Previously, she graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a M.Sc. in Information Science, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY with a B.F.A. in Digital Arts, and University of Minnesota - Twin cities with a B.A. in Philosophy. Twitter / Website / University Profile
Refinitiv Mentors
Following the popularity of this workshop at the inspireWiT's conference, we wanted to provide a further opportunity for attendees to experience this fun and interactive activity. Participants will create code using the BBC micro:bit Blocks environment. Website
Senior Technologist at Refinitiv
Jess is a passionate and experienced Technologist who has worked with and for various organisations spanning multiple sectors. Coming from an initial background in Information Security moving to freelance software engineering, she left him behind in London and joined Refinitiv as herself last October. She is a strong advocate of open collaboration and best practises allowing people to grow within the workspace. She is also very geeky and tends to rant about Event Sourcing, Domain Driven Design and Command Query Responsibility Segregation.
PhD Researcher
Vanja is currently a psychology/data science PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham. Originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vanja worked for several years in advertising agencies in Belgrade and London. Always wanting to understand people, she became passionate about customer data insights and worked for 2 years as a Senior Analyst. During this role, she led a team of four men as a young, immigrant woman. Vanja is passionate about human rights, writing, entrepreneurship and jazz music. Linkedin
GitHub Experts
Amy's Twitter / Iqrah's Twitter
The conference is happening at the University of Nottingham, on its University Park campus in the Studio Space near Portland Building.
The campus can be easily reached via bus (NCTX, trentbarton) or tram (Stop: University of Nottingham). There are two free parking lots close to the venue (~5mins and ~10mins walking).
Please see our FAQs for Accessibility Requirements!