Jess Budd is an front-end developer, conference speaker and a strong advocate for web accessibility, ensuring her knowledge and experience as a digital accessibility consultant is leveraged to make the web a better place for all people. She is also Senior Digital Producer at Australia’s second largest not-for-profit health fund HBF.
Jess can often be found volunteering her time for the benefit of the local community through various leadership, mentoring and volunteering roles. This includes mentoring primary and high school students, mentoring women learning to code and co-organising a community group for front-end developers, Fenders Perth. Jess actively promotes increased representation of women and diversity in technology by encouraging a supportive, collaborative and inclusive web community.