Today we’re happy to announce that Hungary has just joined the countries that now host Girl Geek Dinner events. You’ll find these events in Hungary in the city of Budapest and you can find all the details about the events and more over on their website and you can also follow them on their Twitter account.
If you are interested in the stats, this now brings the total number of countries with Girl Geek Dinners to 25 and the total number of cities to 74!
Alexandra Alecu, Software Engineer di Google, racconta sul blog che anche la grande società di cui fa parte è sempre alla ricerca di opportunità di collaborare con organizzazioni che promuovono la diversità e incoraggiano la partecipazione professionale delle donne nella tecnologia.
Come saprete, le Girl Geek Dinners sono un’iniziativa internazionale che fa esattamente questo: ospitare eventi “social” per promuovere il networking tra donne e costruire community con la stessa passione per la tecnologia e altri settori tradizionalmente dominati dagli uomini.
L’interesse da parte di Google si è recentemente manifestato con la sponsorizzazione della Girl Geek Dinner di Amsterdam, dove il relatore principale è stato il famoso matematico (donna) Smeets Ionica.
Google e le GGD condividono o stesso obiettivo: rendere possibile a tutti intraprendere una carriera nel campo della tecnologia, indipendentemente dal sesso. Durante il suo intervento, Alexandra ha delineato le numerose iniziative per promuovere e sostenere la diversità nella tecnologia. Ci sono vari programmi di borse di studio per aiutare gli studenti a perseguire i loro interessi ed incoraggiare più donne ad intraprendere la carriera scientifica, assistendo e partecipando a conferenze di ricerca in tutto il mondo attraverso sovvenzioni per eventi in Europa, Medio Oriente e Africa [info qui].
E in Italia? Quando vedremo Google come main sponsor di una delle nostre cene geek?
Next Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is on Mon 12 July 18:30 in the heart of Brussels. This time it’s a female only edition, with up to 40 girl geeks this time.
Dujardinstore.com is the rebirth of a very famous traditional Belgian brand back in the 20th century, now relaunched through a complete new business model focusing on e-commerce.
The collections are 100% made in top-quality cashmere, targeted at male and female who like tradition with a touch of glam, and who are rapidly becoming addicted to the softness of the cashmere….
Top-quality cashmere, partially hand-made in best Italian factory at affordable prices are made possible through this new economic model, without any distributor.
Still, Dujardinstore.com has a few ambassadors boutiques in Brussels, Knokke, Spa, La Hulpe, Paris,…(and more to come) where customers can try the clothes on before ordering online via iPads made available for them in the boutiques.
At Dujardinstore.com, we strongly believe the new technologies are changing our ways of consuming and buying products and we would be very pleased to show you how it works for us while let you discover in an exclusive avant-première our fall/winter 2010 collection !
Tom Palmaerts (@palmaerts on Twitter) is a trendwatcher, coolhunter, speaker, photographer and blogger. He works for Trendwolves and specialises in youth culture, trends and online communities.
For the curious: the results from the poll for primary e-mail address are 46% Gmail, 18% Hotmail, 12% work address, 11% Telenet, 8% other, 5% Yahoo and 1% Skynet.
Well, the winner is not a girl geek but a male guest (or sacoche as we like to call them): Gerrit Vromant (@vromant) with his idea for a Walkie-Talkie data-call application:
What the jury liked:
Nice app that combines various functions of the phone (maybe combined with GPS)
We are going to the vacation time here you can Talk to your whole family at the same time a great new way to communicating
the app is social but e.g. in your family and it combines voice with a twitter like function.
The 32nd edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners is planned for Tuesday 22 June 18:30-21:00 in Brussels. Wiki will open up shortly. But first: please fill out this survey on Information Overload, or as we prefer to call it: infobesitas.
Some people think that Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is an organisation. I think it’s really a network, and depending on the channel some of the nodes are more active than others. This twitter list explorer tool is not perfect, but it provides a nice snapshop of the Brussels girl geeks who are active on Twitter, and who’s talking to whom.
Tonight Tuesday8 June, 25 Belgian Girl Geeks will challenge the attendant men to a gaming tournament, organized by Rock Star Games. They will take a stand against each other playing Red Dead Redemption, the long expected successor of the Grand Theft Auto games.
During the battle, there will be a delicious Western style BBQ at the inner court of the PR’ins showroom.
Con immensa sorpresa (anche nostra!) i ticket della prima GGD Toscana del 12 giugno sono spariti in neanche 2 ore.
Grazie per l’entusiasmo con cui state seguendo il nostro progetto!
Se non siete riuscite ad iscrivervi, no panic! La lista di attesa è aperta.
Mentre se vi siete iscritte e non potete più venire avvertiteci il prima possibile: mandate una mail a info[at]girlgeekdinnerstoscana.com, indicando esattamente il nome, cognome, email, e il nome e cognome dell’invitata/o che non può più partecipare, così la cancelleremo dalla lista in modo da far passare avanti qualcuna dalla lista d’attesa.
Speriamo di tutto cuore che non ci siano refusi da parte nostra nè da parte vostra nella compilazione del form. Qualora riscontraste dei problemi, mandate una mail a info[at]girlgeekdinnerstoscana.com
Ci vediamo da Fnac (presso centro commerciale i Gigli, Campi Bisenzio, FI) il 12 giugno a partire dalle 18!
Gli uomini che si iscrivono da soli verrano rimossi a favore della lista d’attesa.
Carissime Girl Geek oggi vogliamo catalizzare la vostra attenzione su un dettaglio tutt’altro che trascurabile:
Domani alle 11 pubblicheremo il link attraverso il quale potrete iscrivervi alla prima GGD Toscana.
Essere una geek girl non significa doversi associare a GGD Toscana, anche perchè noi non siamo un’associazione. Sentirsi geek significa vivere un certo modo, o avere simpatia per coloro che usano le tecnologie nella loro vita di tutti i giorni.
Per partecipare al primo evento GGD in Toscana dovrete, quindi, iscrivervi all’evento a numero chiuso che pubblicheremo su Eventbrite, la popolare piattaforma di vendita ticket online.
Riservate un ticket se vi iscrivete da sole, oppure 2 se avete deciso di portare con voi un’amica (o un amico). Non potrete riservare più di 2 ticket e la registrazione all’evento è totalmente gratuita. Qui troverete le domande più frequenti in merito a come iscriversi a una GGD.
Essere fan, aver cliccato su partecipa nell’evento su Facebook, mandare una mail o un tweet dicendo che volete partecipare non vi farà automaticamente iscrivere. Dovrete passare per forza di cose da Eventbrite! E se siete in mobilità… c’è anche l’app per iPhone, cosa volete di più?
Se avete dei dubbi in merito alle modalità di iscrizione, sentitevi libere di esprimerli nei commenti. A domani!
Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner #6 will be hosted by Polyvore on Thursday, June 17th, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Event is FREE for all girl geeks.
Are you a guy geek who wants to attend this event? Have a girl geek register you as her guest.
There will be a panel discussion along with drinks, heavy appetizers, schwag, interactive games, and a photo booth with props. Girl geeks will also be treated to Polyvore kiosks and live demos.
About the girl geek panel discussion:
Meaningful product innovation is redefining the consumer experience for browsing, discovering and shopping on the Internet for the first time. In a panel discussion moderated by Polvore CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, we will discuss the intersection of technology and style with a handful of women technologists and leaders driving Commerce 3.0 innovation:
» Jess Lee, VP of Product Management, Polyvore » Corinne Chan, CTO, Chictopia » Julia Kung, Director of Marketing, Moxsie » Sandra Lin, Director of Fashion Vertical, eBay
Schedule of events:
6pm – 7pm: Registration, heavy appetizers & drinks, networking, demos, and photo booth 7pm – 8pm: Moderated panel discussion on “Reinventing Fashion Online” 8pm – 9pm: Networking, demos, and photo booth
About our girl geek panelists:
Jess Lee is the VP of Product Management at Polyvore, the web’s leading fashion social shopping platform. Prior to Polyvore, Jess was a product manager at Google for 4 years, where she led front-end development for Google Maps and launched features such as draggable driving directions and My Maps. After falling in love with Polyvore, Jess decided to officially join the team and has done everything from writing code to ad sales to washing dishes. Jess holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Corinne Chan is the CTO of Chictopia, a privately funded social networking site for fashionistas which she co-founded with Helen Zhu and Richard Ho in April of 2008. Corinne spent 12 years as a software developer and systems engineer for companies such as Wells Fargo and other various startups in the Silicon Valley. Corinne holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
Julia Kung is Director of Marketing for Moxsie. In her role at Moxsie, Julia utilizes the new media landscape to help grow the retailer’s traffic, brand presence, and sales, earning Moxsie top industry attention from trade media including Ad Age, California Apparel News, Women’s Wear Daily and more. Prior to her role at Moxsie, Julia has held marketing positions at Google as well as within the startup environment. Julia holds a B.A. from Stanford University.
Sandra Lin is the General Manager leading the re-launch of eBay’s fashion marketplace for an online and mobile experience. Before eBay, Sandra led strategy and operations for PayPal Mobile establishing partnerships with MTV, Fox, NBA, NBC, Sony BMG enabling them to reach consumers through the mobile medium. Her early career began at Procter & Gamble, before her product management and marketing roles in Silicon Valley. Sandra graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is CEO of Polyvore. She spent 5 years growing new businesses at Google as President of Asia Pacific and Latin America for Google and as the General Manager for Google Local & Maps. Sukhinder was also Co-Founder and SVP of Business Development at Yodlee, CEO-in-Residence at Accel Partners and previously worked for Amazon.com, News Corp and Merrill Lynch. Sukhinder has served on the board of J.Crew and is currently a board member at A Woman’s Nation and Jobtrain. For her work in the Internet industry, Sukhinder has been profiled in numerous publications globally, including Fortune, Business Week, Canada Post, India Today, and the book Innovation Nation which includes Canada’s most innovative business leaders.
Polyvore is redefining how people around the world experience, create and share fashion on the Internet. To see more of what Polyvore does, please check out what Polyvore’s all about.
Polyvore’s easy-to-use virtual styling tool lets people mix and match products from any online store to create their own fashion collections called “sets.” With over 6 million unique visitors and 140 million pageviews per month, Polyvore is the largest fashion community site in the world. Polyvore is backed by leading venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners and consists of technology industry veterans from Google and Yahoo.
The world of games is still considered as a man’s bastion by some.
However: the past few years lots of women started gaming.
This is why on Tuesday the 8th of June, PR’ins and Brussels Girl Geek Dinner organize an heroic ‘battle of the sexes‘ in the heart of Antwerp. 25 Girl Geeks will challenge the attendant men to a gaming tournament, organized by Rock Star Games. They will take a stand against each other playing Red Dead Redemption, the long expected successor of the Grand Theft Auto games.
During the battle, there will be a delicious Western style BBQ at the inner court of the PR’ins showroom.
Red Dead Redemption is a sandbox-style action-adventure western video game with role-playing elements developed by Rockstar and released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in May 2010.
The game takes place in the year 1911 in the American Old West territory and follows John Marston, a former outlaw, while he tries to save his wife and son, taken by government agents, by capturing and killing his former gang members.
This month’s Winnipeg Girl Geek dinner is all about blogging. Liz Hover and Polly Washburn will be sharing their experience, from the technical aspects of applications, tools, and themes, to the creative aspects of choosing a focal point, post composition, and how to keep content fresh and readers coming back for more.
Join us on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010, 6:00 PM at Aqua Books for a bite to eat and a chat at the EAT! Bistro. From there, we will move upstairs to the Live! Lounge for the interactive presentation.
Everyone is invited; if you plan on attending, please RSVP via Facebook or Eventbrite.
The presenters:
Liz moved to Winnipeg from London seven years ago. She works as digital media manager for the National Screen Institute – a film and television training school. She authors two blogs: Diary of a Web Gal and Hi, I’m Sadie Shih Tzu (nominated for a Canadian Weblog Award). Liz has presented workshops about the social web for the National Screen Institute, On Screen Manitoba, Canadian Women in Communications, the National Film Board and more. She also does web consulting to help develop and improve websites. Her passion is the internet and how to best use it as a communications professional.
Twitter @lizhover @nsicanada @sadieshihtzu
Polly moved to Winnipeg from New York over 10 years ago. She is a film and digital media producer, owner of the production and consulting company Positron Media. She provides consulting and training in the areas of production and web marketing. She is currently producing three feature films, a couple of short ones, a collaborative online digital media project, an iPhone app and an augmented reality game. She has just launched a new blog ScreenLiving to examine content creation and distribution in a world where screens are both converging and proliferating.
We are now into our fourth month of Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinners, and so far the interest shown has been fantastic! We have had great speakers come out and shared excellent company together.
To continue to grow and cater to our members, this month we are holding a planning meeting on Tuesday, May 11th 6:00 PM at Aqua Books. We will begin as usual in the EAT! Bistro and move up to the small meeting room shortly after 7:00 PM. So we know how many people to expect, please RSVP via Eventbrite above or via Facebook.
This event is for everyone; those who are interested in helping out, those who want to share their ideas, and those who want to attend and observe. If you are unable to attend, but want to be involved, please send me an email. To get a feel for what people are intersted in, we have prepared this two-question survey: http://polldaddy.com/s/12503A062EC6F079.
Areas where help is needed:
looking for speakers, venues, sponsorship
sharing ideas for future events
making blog posts
maintaining Facebook group/fan pages
maintaining Twitter presence
Also, for those of you interested in .Net development, there is a free all-day Visual Studio 2010 launch event on May 11th that is being held at IMAX, Portage Place. It starts at 8:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM, so you can just walk over to Aqua Books afterward for the Girl Geek dinner. Check out http://www.dotnetwired.com/ for more information.
Come and geek out with us at the next Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner at EAT! Bistro in Aqua Books on April 13, 2010, starting at 6:00 PM. Everyone is invited; enthusiasts, students, professionals, young and old. Guys are invited too; the rule of thumb is to be invited by another girl attending. Admission is free, but you pay for your own food and drinks (excellently priced and delicious). There will be some door prizes drawn courtesy of Microsoft.
The tools of social media are multiplying every day: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, blogging, StumbleUpon, Google Apps… But behind them all is the idea of interacting with others for a variety of purposes in your professional and personal lives.
Liz Hover and Polly Washburn will present an overview and demonstration of some of the current tools for engaging with others in the digital world, and answer your questions. To attempt to tailor this ever-changing topic to meet the needs of their audience, Polly and Liz would like you to put the “interactive” into “media” via a short web survey:
Liz moved to Winnipeg from London seven years ago. She works as digital media manager for the National Screen Institute – a film and television training school. She authors two blogs: Diary of a Web Gal and Hi, I’m Sadie Shih Tzu (nominated for a Canadian Weblog Award). Liz has presented workshops about the social web for the National Screen Institute, On Screen Manitoba, Canadian Women in Communications, the National Film Board and more. She also does web consulting to help develop and improve websites. Her passion is the internet and how to best use it as a communications professional.
Twitter @lizhover @nsicanada @sadieshihtzu
Polly moved to Winnipeg from New York over 10 years ago. She is a film and digital media producer, owner of the production and consulting company Positron Media. She provides consulting and training in the areas of production and web marketing. She is currently producing three feature films, a couple of short ones, a collaborative online digital media project, an iPhone app and an augmented reality game. She has just launched a new blog ScreenLiving to examine content creation and distribution in a world where screens are both converging and proliferating.
We are setting up regular Reading Girl Geek Dinners for this year: we are holding them on the THIRD Thursday of each month after this session. We are always interested in your opinion, what you would like to hear about and, of course, if you wish to sponsor the event.
We are also delighted to announce that Natasha O’Brien has joined the Reading GGD team.
Our next event is Thursday 1st April (no joke!) and it is sponsored by Microsoft UK. We will be going back to La Tasca in central Reading.
The event will commence at 6.30pm; a lovely tapas dinner will follow from 7pm and we will have some time for networking during and after the meal.
The theme of the evening is “Dedicated to Ada Lovelace”. We will have a very interesting and entertaining speaker: Rachel Cooper, from Graphico – who will be talking about how she started in IT and about the amazing figure of Ada Lovelace.
Full Details:
Date & Time: Thursday, 1st April, 6:30pm for a 7pm start
End Time: Late
Venue: La Tasca, Reading
Hosted by: Girl Geek Dinners
Food & Drink: Spanish tapas, buy your own drinks
Subject for the evening: Dedicated to Ada Lovelace
Format: Reception, Dinner, Conversation
Capacity: 40 people
Attendees: As ever, boy geeks are welcome to attend if invited by a girl geek although on this occasion we do stress that there are few and limited spaces so more boy geeks = less girl geeks.
If you’d like to attend on 1st April, please sign up via the Register Now button below, and we’ll see you at the event!
La Lina Aguirre, col·labora com a periodista per a La Vanguardia, en el seu bloc Teclado Móvil parla de la Sara Blow fundadora dels Girl Geek Dinners i també parla del nostre grup.
Gràcies a totes les que feu possible aquests dinners
Lina Aguirre, colabora como periodista para La Vanguardia, en su blog Teclado Móvil habla de Sara Blow fundadora de los Girl Geek Dinners y menciona nuestro grupo.
Gracias a todas las que haceis posible estos dinners
Lina Aguirre, a journalist from the La Vanguardia, writes in her blog Teclado Móvil about Sara Blow the founder of Girl Geek Dinners and mentions our group.
Thanks to everybody who makes the dinners possible
The next Winnipeg Girl Geek Dinner will be held at EAT! Bistro in Aqua Books on March 9, 2010, starting at 6:00 PM. This month’s event is sponsored by Microsoft. Ruth Morton, an IT Pro Advisor at Microsoft Canada who is presenting for the Align IT series, will be joining us and providing us with some door prizes for this event and future events.
This Month’s Topic: Keys to Success in the Corporate IT World
Valerie will describe her progression from junior software developer to program manager at a major cancer therapy corporation located in the Silicon Valley and discuss some of the tactics she has used along the way that contributed to her success. One of the key themes of the discussion will be how combining solid technical skills with strong soft skills can provide a significant advantage.
Valerie Romance’s Bio Valerie Romance is a program manager at Varian Medical Systems which is headquartered in Palo Alto California. Since 1994, she has also worked for the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission, James Richardson International, Assante Asset Management, and Cengea Solutions (formerly Linnet). Her jobs have included software developer, systems analyst, project manager, application development manager, and solutions delivery manager.
In her current role Valerie is responsible for delivering integrated releases of Varian’s suite of cancer therapy products to new and existing customers. Varian has many locations around the globe including one in Winnipeg which is the office Valerie works from.
Valerie lives near Lorette with her husband Yury and her daughter Natasha. When not working, Valerie can be found outside gardening in the summer, or cross-country skiing in the winter. Valerie can be reached at Valerie.romance@varian.com.
Since starting Girl Geek Dinners there has been a fair amount of media interest sorrounding Women and the Technology industry. As a result Girl Geek Dinners have had various amounts of news coverage in traditional media. If you click on the image below then you will find the Google News Timeline for Girl Geek Dinners showing all the interesting articles to date about us!
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