Bath Digital Festival

Bath Digital Festival is happening again this year – so get ready to join us in celebrating all things digital!

Our Girl Geeks events are part of the Bath Digital network which includes many different groups (like ours) that have a digital theme. All of these groups are open to everyone, so check them out on the Bath Digital website and feel free to sign up for their events.

While these groups run events throughout the year, the Digital Festival is a great opportunity for us to all get together and ‘show off’ all of the fantastic digital activity happening across the city. During the Festival you can expect to see events run by all of the Bath Digital groups as well as lots of interesting one-off sessions.

We’re really looking forward to being a part of the Festival and seeing Girl Geek members at events throughout it!

Next Event – January 24th 2013

krasiOur next event is being kindly sponsored by Bristol University and our speaker will be Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova who a Reader in Applied Mathematics at the Department of Engineering Mathematics, telling us about her interesting academic career.

We are honoured to have Krasimira come and speak for us as she has previously been invited to speak at prestigious institutions including: National Institutes of Health, Rockefeller University, Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University, and John Innes Centre.

You can read more about her on our Next Dinner page.

In addition to Krasimira  we will have two very short  Pecha Kucha presentations (the warm up act) by two PhD students talking about their current work.

Sign up for this event here: geeksatbristoluni.eventbrite.co.uk

Great Christmas quiz for Bath’s girl geeks!

We had a fantastic time at the Christmas quiz, as the photo below will prove! A huge thank you must go to our fantastic sponsors Deep Blue Sky, Bath Spa University and Coworking Bath.

We were asked to share the quiz questions with you – so you can see them here. We’ve separated the answers (so you can play again if you want to) so see the answers here.

We’ll add all the other photos to our Facebook page too, so feel free to tag yourselves.

And if you’d like to get involved in Bath Digital Festival contact Katrina James to volunteer.

In the meantime, have a fantastic Christmas and new year!

The Girl Geeks do Gangnam Style…

Next Event – Wednesday December 12th with ForgeRock Bristol

forgerock

Our hosts this month are ForgeRock – a Silicon Valley startup and global open source vendor. Backed by one of the world’s most prestigious investors who fund the likes of Facebook and Groupon, ForgeRock has just launched its UK HQ in Bristol’s Queen Square. They were worried about squeezing us all into their office so they’ve booked a function room at the nearby Bristol Hotel for this event.

I know it’s close to Christmas and short notice but the buffet selection looks amazing and we’ve got yet another great speaker lined up for you.

More info on our next dinner page. Sign up here: girlgeeksandforgerock.eventbrite.co.uk

Congratulations Jade! Girl Geek wins startup weekend.

Bath Girl Geek Jade Hughes was part of the winning team during a recent Startup Weekend held in the city.

Jade, along with team members Rachel Dobb, Lauren Lucas and Andrew Nesbitt pitched their business ‘Greenage’ during the

GreenAge won this year's startup event in Bath.
GreenAge won this year’s startup event in Bath.

event, and impressed judges by making exceptional progress with their business plan over the course of the weekend.

Greenage is an online up-cycling marketplace, which aims to become the go-to place for up-cycling, the use of materials which would otherwise be sent to landfill to create new produces of a higher value.

Jade is co-founder of Greenage, and a digital marketer by profession. She secured the provisional agreement of a supplier of wooden parts, and of two producers of up-cycled products, and also played a central role in the digital marketing strategy of the company.

To learn more about Greenage, see the company’s website.

Next Event – Thursday 29th November – Patent Talk

Cerian Jones

Another great event this month from a very interesting Girl Geek – Cerian Jones will be talking about patents and bringing some inventions to show us at this event sponsored by UDL Intellectual Property LLP and hosted by the City of Bristol College.

UDL will be providing the refreshments so just bring yourself for what promises to be yet another very interesting and entertaining occasion.

You can find out more about Cerian on our Next Dinner Page
Sign up for this event here: geekpatenttalk.eventbrite.co.uk

Reading Girl Geek Dinners event, 30th October 2012, hosted by Symantec

 



We’re thrilled to announce our next Reading Girl Geek Dinners event which is sponsored by Symantec and will be held at Symantec’s offices in Green Park, Reading.

The event will open at 6.30pm with registration for a 7pm start.

 

Full Details:

      • Date & Time: Tuesday, 30th October, 2012 @ 6:30pm for a 7pm start
      • End Time: 10:00pm
      • Venue: Symantec, 350 Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 6UH.
      • Hosted by: Girl Geek Dinners and Symantec
      • Food & Drink: Buffet
      • Subject for the evening: Special Guests and talk subjects to be announced
      • Evenings Agenda: 
        • Registration 6:30pm
        • Start 7pm – Talk/s
        • 8:00pm – buffet and networking
        • 9:00pm – 10:00pm – close

 

Speakers

      • Maggie Philbin – Symantec have worked with Maggie over the last 6 months around Teen Tech, and Maggie will join us to talk about Teen Tech and attracting young girls into STEM roles. This also supports a lot of the SWAN and charity work that Symantec and the Girl Geek Dinners movement in the UK carries out.
      • Kate Russell –  A reporter and journalist, Kate Russell started writing about technology, gaming and the Internet in 1995 and now appears weekly on the BBC’s flagship technology programme Click, as well as being a regular on the sofa at ITV’s Daybreak. She writes technology columns for National Geographic Traveller magazine and Web User magazine as well as curating a daily blog at MyWebDaily.com. Her first book Working the Cloud: a collection of tips, tricks and online resources for small businesses and entrepreneurs, will be published early next year.
Kate also recently presented at London Girl Geek Dinners and therefore we are delighted that she is available to continue sharing her knowledge and experiences with another chapter of Girl Geek Dinners.
      • Sian John –  Snr Security Advisor, Symantec – Sian will give an overview of the threat landscape
      • Carolyn Herzog – Snr Legal Counsel and chair of SWAN will host the session as a senior female Symantec leader

 

Capacity: 30 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 30th October, please sign up via the ‘Click and Register’  button, and we’ll see you at the event!

NOTE: If you are an internal employee of Symantec, please contact your SWAN representatives for registration details. This registration is for non internal Symantec attendees only.
Your SWAN contacts are:
Claire Scull – [email protected]
Hayley Mowat – [email protected]
All Non Internal Symantec attendees, please register via the button below…

Eventbrite - Reading Girl Geek Dinners Event, October 30th 2012, hosted by Symantec

London Girl Geeks’ Facebook Invasion

A huge thank you to Facebook London for hosting us on Monday 10th September.  Philip Su, who’s worked with San Francisco Girl Geeks, opened the evening and Sonia Flynn, Srinath Anantharaju and Kuan Hon inspired us and tickled our curiosity with presentations on the human impact of Facebook, security measures and EU cookies law.

For those of you who weren’t able to join us, the event space was fabulous – enjoying presentations from a deck chair was certainly a new and welcome experience!  The pizza was yummy, there was plenty of drink and the post-presentation networking fuelled lots of interesting conversations.

We’re looking forward to running future events with Facebook London – if you’re not a member of the London Girl Geeks Dinners Google Group, join up to receive first notice of events and tickets.

So, thank you all for coming – we hope you had a wonderful time.

Thank you Facebook London for being fantastic hosts!