Category: Location

DATE: Tues 31st October 2006 7:30pm – Late
WHERE: Venue: Balls Brothers , 5/6 Carey Lane, London, EC2 Mini Map google map CONFIRMED!!!
HOW MUCH: Free, Microsoft Sponsored Event

OPEN MIC NIGHT: Speakers so far:

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Title: “Ten klever ideas to make you rich from Kleinwort Benson”
Speaker: Veena Mahbubani
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Contact Info:Tel: 020 3207 7642
email: veena.mahbubani@ kbpb.co.uk

Title: “Choosing Your Own Start-Up Adventure”
Speaker: Kimikawa de Castro
Contact Info:K4 Innovations Ltd
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 07884352252.

Title: “Blogging and how it affects people and politics”
Speaker: Melissa Cragshawy-Williams
Contact Info:

Title: “Technology from a media perspective”
Speaker: Katie Ledger
Contact Info:

Title: “London Girl Geek Dinners – Where we want to take it! + Q and A”
Speaker: Sarah Blow
Contact Info:[email protected]

Feedback!!! To give ideas and feedback on the event please post your Ideas here.

If you would like to recommend a speaker for a future event please do this here: SpeakerRequests

The London Girl Geek Dinners short film directed and produced by Angela Saini of ITN has just been released for an exclusive preview to us. It will soon be hosted on FourDocs (Channel 4 documentary downloads area). Have a look and see what you think! Personally I am really happy with the outcome of the film and I think that it will help to give a real life impression of what us girly geeks are like. I hope you enjoy it!

• Broken Arrow buy

Download the film here: The London Girl Geek Dinners Short Film by Angela Saini!

Men of Honor release

Men of Honor film

• Day X hd

Or if you would prefer to see it on the big screen it premieres on 14th August at the Ritzy in Brixton as part of “Our Society”

• The Narrow Margin the movie

DATE : Tuesday 29th August 2006 7:00pm
WHERE: Balls Brothers Wine Bar, 6-8, Cheapside, St. Pauls, London, EC2V 6AB Map and Directions
HOW MUCH: £5 per head (But if someone would like to sponsor it that would be great, just get in touch!)
SIGN UP: http://www.thehughpage.com/London_Girl_Geek_Dinner

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Speaker: Abigail Sellen
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Featuring Abigail Sellen (http://research.microsoft.com/~asellen/) Senior Researcher in Microsoft’s Cambridge Lab in Socio-Digital Systems, a new interdisciplinary group with a focus on the human perspective in computing.

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Abigail is interested in simple technologies and learning from everyday life to inform the design of systems that are both useful and compelling. Her talk will cover the topic of research and invention, addressing the relative ease of invention (she has filed around 50 patents) in contrast to the difficulty of making an impact through technology transfer, and the role of research in the process.

Abigail joined Microsoft in June 2004 from Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol, where she had spent six years researching many different kinds of topics ranging from appliance design to web use to mobile technologies. Prior to HP, Abigail spent seven years at Xerox’s research lab in Cambridge UK (EuroPARC), was cross-appointed to the MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, and was a Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. During these years her research covered many topics including: reading, paper use in offices, videoconferencing design, and computer support for human memory. Much of this work resulted in two books: The Myth of the Paperless Office, and Video-Mediated Communication.

Date and Time: Tuesday 16th May 2006 7:30pm – late
WHERE: The Polar Bear, 30 Lisle St, London, WC2H 7BA map gmap
HOW MUCH: £5 per head (But if someone would like to sponsor it that would be great, just get in touch with me!)
Speakers: Celia Francis, CEO WeeWold
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Content:

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Birds of America Celia Francis is the CEO and founder of WeeWorld, the lovable personalisable characters that you see all over the web. She will be talking about how she started this business and some of the challenges that she faced with it and how she found her way around the crazy world of new business enterprise.

Date and Time:

Mousehunt release

• The Hard Corps trailer

Monday 24th April 2006 7:30pm – late

Mission: Impossible release

Location: Pitcher and Piano on Bishopsgate
Price: Free – Sponsored fully by Women in Technology
Speakers: Helen Duguid
Content:

Chariots of Fire trailer

Helen Duguid, former Head of Great Leaders, Microsoft, now Independant Consultant has been doing a study on women in technology for companies such as Microsoft. She is going to share some of the results of her study with us and will hopefully be able to give an insight into how these larger organisations tick and where they will be needing to change to stay at the leading edge of technology and how women will have an impact on the future of technology.

Date: Tuesday, March 14 2006
Time: 8pm – Late
Location: Pitcher and Piano Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II dvd , Islington
Entry Cost: £15 (Food and wine, see food menu on the wiki and group e-mail)
Speakers: Cory Doctorow
Attendees: The list of attendees can be found here!
Theme: Cory is, in his words, “an activist, a writer, a blogger, a public speaker, and a technology person.” He is also one of four editors on the most linked-to blog around, boingboing.net. From 2002 until January of this year, Cory was the Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a technology advocacy nonprofit that works to upload liberty in technology law, policy and standards. Now he remains an EFF fellow, but is focusing more on writing. Cory is also on a number of tech-related advisory boards and boards of directors, including those of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Open Rights Group, the MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, Onion Networks, and others; as well as the confernece committee for the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. He also co-founded the open source P2P technology company OpenCola, which was sold to OpenText in 2003. To learn more about Cory, check out this page: http://www.craphound.com/. The photos from the 4th event can be found here: Katy’s flickr pics

The podcasts!!!!

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London Girl Geek Dinner 4 Part 1 Podcast (MP3) (23.4 Mb)
London Girl Geek Dinner 4 Part 2 Podcast (MP3) (26.3 Mb)
London Girl Geek Dinner 4 Part 1 Podcast (Wav) (7.88 Mb)
London Girl Geek Dinner 4 Part 2 Podcast (Wav) (10.7 Mb)

Date: Thursday 19th January 2006
Time: 7:30pm – Late
Location: Bordertown hd

Mission: Impossible rip

The Texas Embassy Cantina, 1 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5DL Map
Entry Cost: £20
Theme: Heart and Souls trailer Open Mic – 15 minutes each for anyone to speak on a subject of their choice.
Sign-Up Page: List of attendees and podcast/ pictures/ blog entries are here on the : London Girl Geek Dinners Wiki page

This evening was designed to let women in the technology industry get together and discuss technologies and software that they are working on. Hopefully software problems were solved, advice given and friends made.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind release