Posts Tagged ‘Girl Geek’

We’re very pleased to announce the second of this years Leeds Girl Geek Dinners which will take place on Thursday 13th May at the City Inn, a swanky new waterfront hotel in Granary Wharf Leeds. The evening will start with networking at 7.30pm-10.30pm.

The evening speakers will include Joscelyn Upendran, the co-founder and CEO of lovle which is a learning and training software & services company. She is also involved in Creative Commons UK as the Public Project Lead for England & Wales, which involves raising awareness about Creative Commons. Prior to this, Joscelyn worked as a commercial lawyer in private practice for a number of years before she commenced a career in higher and further education, training lawyers, accountants and mangers. (more…)

We’re pleased to confirm that the  first ever Girl Geek Dinner York event will be taking place in the beautiful Grays Court Rooms in the city centre of York on 15th April. If you are working in or studying technology then you’re invited to what promises to be a fantastic evening with inspirational speakers and great networking opportunities. 

Speaker Mary Vincent is the Founder and CEO of Green Star Solution, a Global Business, Technology, and Innovation Firm. She also runs a Clean Tech and Green Business News blog. Mary is based near San Francisco and is coming to the UK to talk in a number of locations as part of the Inspiring Women project which is jointly run by Girl Geek Dinners Leeds and Girl Geek Dinners Scotland. 

Tickets cost £10 for food, wine and speakers.  Boy Geeks are very welcome to attend too - you just need to be invited by a Girl Geek

The evening begins at 6.30pm on Thursday 15th April, and tickets are available to book online here…

The Girl Geek Dinner York is co-hosted by IT & Digital York, Digital 2020 and Pilot Theatre’s Shift Happens: ALT Shift.

We are super-pleased to announce the first of this year’s series of Leeds Girl Geek Dinners, starting on Thursday 11th February, hosted at Leeds’ hottest new waterfront hotel, the City Inn, on Granary Wharf in Holbeck Urban Village.

It will see the first in a series of collaborations between Girl Geek Dinners Scotland, Leeds Girl Geeks and supported by UKRC. Speakers for the evening will be Shanna Tellerman, Founder and CEO of Sim Ops Studios, and Kaye Elling, who has over 12 years of expertise in the games industry. The evening will be presented by Infinitus’ Nicole Mathison, nti’s Leia Bassett and Carbon Imagineering’s Imran Ali. (more…)

On Wednesday 21 October, The Loft hosted the fifth gathering of  Leeds Girl Geeks for our Girl Geek Dinner. The day got off to a great start with nti’s own Leia Bassett and Becky Edlin from Magpie Communications being invited on to the Radio Leeds breakfast show to explain what being a girl geek is all about. (more…)

nti Leeds is pleased to announce that Girl Geek Dinners Leeds (managed through a partnership of nti Leeds, Carbon Imagineering and Kilo75) and Girl Geek Scotland will be working together with partners to develop a series of new inspirational podcasts for young women in education aspiring to a career in the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) industries. (more…)

Saw this post via a Twitter message today, and was quite inspired by the whole idea of 1,000 women pledging to publish a blog entry on 24th March. Here’s the pledge:

“I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same.”

At the time of writing 112 people have pledged, so there is still some way to go but plenty of time to get to the desired number.  There were 70 women at the recent Leeds Girl Geek dinner so Leeds could help towards the target in no small way.  Suw Charmin-Anderson is behind this idea, find out more at http://findingada.com/ 

A hectic few weeks came to fruition last night at the Leeds Girl Geek Dinner.  The Loft creative events space is a really stylish venue,  the food was tasty, the speakers thought-provoking and informative, and best of all, there was great company.  Seventy people came along for the second Girl Geek Dinner, from organisations covering the diversity of the sector in and around the city, such as Brahm, Numiko, Fuse8, Swamp, SimpleUsability and Zolv.

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