Category: Location

Annual Regent St Shopping Event – RegentTweet

RegentTweetOn June 23 we will be one again treated, through Sister PR and Regent St, to one of the most talked about and hotly anticipated events of the year –#RegentTweet

This the fourth year that the London Girl Geek Dinners folk will be shopping Regents Street thanks to Sister PR who organise the annual event.

Regent Tweet is an experiential shopping and lifestyle event for women that engages Regent Street’s fashion and lifestyle shops, bars and restaurants with online influencers.  The itinerary includes lectures exclusive to this event at the Apple Store, workshops and many opportunities to receive complimentary products and experiences from the Regent Street brands. The SWAROVSKI CRYSTALLIZED™ Lounge and Concept Store will serve as the Regent Tweet Hub, where you can charge your phones, connect to WiFi, write your blog, upload and share images, drop your shopping bags off and relax before heading out again.

We are going to have a fantastic day out shopping on Regent BUT to be in with a chance to win one of the few coveted tickets you *must* be on the London Girl Geek Dinner Google Group.  This is the place where we announce all special URLs for hidden ticket opportunities.  Join the Google Group at:  http://groups.google.com/group/london-girl-geek-dinners

All our events have tickets released to this list only so whether you are on the Facebook page, Twitter list, LinkdIn group or anywhere else, only our Google Group members get the special URL to get tickets so join today – it is FREE after all 😉

Next Dinner – Geek Chic! 20th June 2012 at the City of Bristol College

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Yes it’s here! The Girl Geek Dinners Fashion Edition – we may be geeks, but we are still girls!

  • BYO FOOD: Please bring a dish to share – salad, crisps, nibbles or a bottle of wine or a soft drink – I will hopefully remember to bring plates and cups!
  • THE TALK: We will have an inspiring talk from geek-friendly style expert Sam Bell – Bristol’s friendliest, award-winning stylist.
  • FREE STUFF: We may not have free food this time but we have got lots of free stuff! We’re going to have a free-to-enter fashion-related raffle! We’ve got a bunch of ‘Geekette’ T-shirts and a software licence from Telerik to give away plus our top prize will be a makeover from a qualified beautician – to be completed whilst the event is in progress!

Sign up here: geekfashion.eventbrite.co.uk

Don’t forget to find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter that’s where most of the action happens!

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More info on our Next Dinner page

Girl Geeks – May 2012

We’re not having our usual meet-up this month as we’ve been putting all of our energy into the IT Megameet event being held at UWE on Saturday 19th May.

All of the major IT & Developer community groups in and around Bristol are coming together for this big meet up of geek groups which is open to the public. Each group will be doing a presentation on themselves, what they are about, and what they offer the local community. Several groups will be putting on a technical presentation in their chosen area. How-to workshops will be running alongside the main presentations. The event concludes with 5 minute lightning talks on a variety of subjects.

Attendee places are limited, so registration is required. Registration has been extended to Thursday 17th May so you just have a couple more days to sign up – we will be giving a presentation about who we are and what we do at this event and one of our Girl Geeks, Jo Reid, will be presenting a workshop on ‘How to make iPhone & Android apps with AppFurnace’

To sign up for the event go to the Megameet website

We are looking for sponsors and a venue for our June event – if you can help please get in touch!

Reading Girl Geek Dinners Re-launch event – Wed 30th May, 7pm at Copa, Reading


REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED!

Girl Geek Dinners are hosting a re-launch event on Wednesday 30th May at Copa,  76-78A Kings Road, R Reading eading, RG1 3BJ

The event will commence at 6.30pm with some networking and games, a raffle followed by a buffet. We will have some more time for networking after the meal.

The theme of the evening will be “I’m a Girl Geek because…..”. Come and share ideas, get inspiration and meet like-minded people. Remembering that you don’t have to work directly in IT to be a Geek. You just need to have a passion for it so you can share your knowledge and ideas or learn from others at the event. Most of all, this is a social occasion where we can enjoy ourselves.   Full Details:

  • Date & Time: Wednesday, 30th May 2012, 6:30pm for a 7pm start
  • End Time: Late
  • Venue: Copa, Reading
  • Hosted by: Reading Girl Geek Dinners
  • Food & Drink: Buffet (vegetarians catered for); buy your own drinks
  • Subject for the evening: I’m a Girl Geek because…..
  • Format: Reception, Dinner, Conversation, Networking Games, Raffle, Prizes.
  • Capacity: 50 people
  • Attendees: As ever, Boy Geeks are welcome to attend if invited by a Girl Geek.  
  • Cost: As we have been unable to locate a sponsor for this event, we do need to request £9 on entry to cover the cost of the catering for the event which we will collect on the night.
  • Registration for this event will close on 25th May.

If you’d like to attend on 30th May, please sign up via the Register button, and we’ll see you at the event!

 

Eventbrite - Reading Girl Geek Dinners Re-launch Event

Sci-Fi London & London Girl Geek Dinners Presents… 2012

We’re going back to Sci-Fi London and once again you can buy your Sci-Fi London tickets at a discount as well since you’re a LGGD member! “GEEK GIRLS” is the code for your discount – THANK YOU SCI-FI LONDON!!  http://www.sci-fi-london.com/

The London Gir Geek Dinner event will be on the evening of Thursday 3rd May.  The drinks will be from 19:30 with the talk starting at 9pm.  We have to do it this way because of the films in the screens.
Thanks so people not showing for the EA Games event we do have leftover wine so a big THANK YOU to EA Games for the wine 🙂 Have you contacted them yet about job opportunities?  You should! Amanda Cowie was the lovely person at the last event and you can contact her with your CV on [email protected]
If anyone wants to go to screening of the shorts at 6:30 that evening it will be over in time for the LDDG talk – like previous years everyone will get a code for getting a discount on films at the festival.
We’re just confirming speakers. We hope to get a couple of women to talk about the ZX Spectrum and how it changed programming (especially for women) and possibly Raspberry Pi but this is proving difficult so we may have people speaking on Gaming but hey – that’s half the fun of going to a LGGD talk – no matter what the topic you know it is going to rock – and have the world’s largest power point slides!
So if you’d like a ticket for networking with other women and amazing talks, grab a ticket NOW!
Eventbrite - Sci-Fi London & London Girl Geek Dinners Presents... 2012
Remember – we opperate a 3 strikes policy so if you can’t make it please don’t grab a ticket and let someone else come – THANKS!

EA Interactive & LGGD Forensics Event

On the lower level of the O2 Workshop, the London Girl Geek Dinners had a fantastic event sponsored by the lovely folk at EA Interactive.  The lovely people at the O2 Workshop offered us a great deal if we wanted to renew or sign up on the night – so much so I wish I had been able to take advantage!

The theme of the event was “Computer Forensics” and after a fantastic introductory session, we were introduced to some great tools being developed to find people doing bad things or things that had gone before on their hard drive.

Probably the most shocking talk was the first one. It really opened everyone’s eyes to how computers work, how erasing a disk works, how disk recovery works, and how it is almost impossible to erase all information from a hard drive.  As a rather ancient computer sits in my hall waiting to be taken to the dump, I’m trying to figure out just how to wipe all the information from the disk drives or whether a sledge hammer really is enough!

Apparently our identities are bought and sold rather cheaply and one of the reasons criminals like our mobile phones is for our personal data – eek! But the things we learned that night are going to last for all the women who were there. I know I learned a lot and I think everyone really learned a lot that night.

Our next event will be at Sci-fi London and as always, we will also have a special deal for tickets.  Sign up to the Google Group for London Girl Geek Dinners to get information on the event, special discount tickets for the event or information about any of our events.

If you’d like a chance to work at EA Interactive, pop over to their careers page or contact Amanda Cowie and see what is available. See you in May!

Next Dinner announced: Wednesday 14th March at City of Bristol College

Our next event is on Wednesday 14th March at City of Bristol College, kindly sponsored by TVS and featuring a talk from Nat Alt (pictured left).

PLEASE NOTE: MEN ARE NOT ALLOWED AT THESE EVENTS UNLESS INVITED BY A GIRL GEEK. YOU CANNOT JUST REGISTER AND SHOW UP OF YOUR OWN ACCORD IF YOU DO SO YOU WILL BE TURNED AWAY.

More details on our next dinner page.

Register for this event here: http://girlgeekswithnatalt.eventbrite.com/

 

Bristol Girl Geek announced as finalist in the National Everywoman in Technology Awards

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We are very proud of Bristol Girl Geek Dinners member Jo Reid of Calvium who has been announced as finalist in the National Everywoman in Technology Awards. The winners will be announced on 29th March so good luck Jo!

Calvium are based in Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio, where we held our last dinner. The up-and-coming tech company has designed a mobile app development software platform called AppFurnace which makes it more affordable and easy for small businesses to make their own apps. Clients that have already used the service include the Royal Shakespeare Company, Historic Royal Palaces, Soho Theater and many others. The idea came after the company spotted a gap in the market for a method of making cost-effective smartphone apps, with the typical AppFurnace app costing a fraction of the usual commercial cost.

Jo Reid said:

“We created AppFurnace because of our passion for helping people in the creative industries. Its an innovative product that inspires innovation in others.”

Jo, 49, has been involved with the cutting edge of technology throughout her career, starting out on novel ways to design copier interfaces at Xerox, through expert systems for computer aided software engineering tools at Texas Instruments and penultimately working on applications of pervasive computing technologies at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories.

Jo is currently responsible for consultancy, sales and marketing. In this role she runs training courses and applies her expertise in mobile experience design and her knowledge of location and context aware applications to help customers create history inspired located games, community story telling walks, trails, hunts and quiz games  as mobile apps.

The AppFurnace platform allows designers and front-end developers to make beautiful custom mobile apps for clients, providing everything that you need to make your own apps.

A Bristol based Freelance Art Director & Designer who has used the service is Tyrone Probert. He said:

“Using AppFurnace has opened up a whole new world of design and business opportunities. I currently have at least two Apps in development which I’m hoping will lead to some bigger revenue streams in 2012.”

Jo has also written a blog piece celebrating female app makers: http://www.appfurnace.com/2012/02/the-female-technology-touch/

If any fellow Girl Geeks are  interested in Everywoman and perhaps getting involved in the awards next year you can find out more info here: http://www.everywoman.com/techawards/finalists