Samantha Payne, recently shortlisted for the Women in Business’s ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ award and runner-up in Intel’s international ‘Make it Wearable’ competition presents Open Bionics.

Open Bionics, based inside the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, uses 3D scanning and 3D printing to innovate the prosthetic industry.

The young startup aims to radically reduce prosthetic fitting times, prosthetic cost, and innovate design for amputees across the world.

This event is kindly hosted by Infineon at their office near Bristol Parkway on 18th feb – 6:30pm for 7pm start.

More info on our next dinner page: bristol.girlgeekdinners.com/next-dinner/

We’ve now switched from Eventbrite to Meetup for our events – please sign up here: www.meetup.com/Bristol-Girl-Geek-Dinners/events/220330559

Thursday 15th January 2015. The Porter, Bath.

We were very excited to have kicked off Girl Geek’s 10th Birthday year with a hands-on workshop on data hacking from the team at Bath:Hacked.

There was a drinks reception from 6.30pm to catch up with fellow Girl Geeks and welcome new faces to the group. Followed by a presentation, dinner and a hands-on workshop.

Knowing how to glean useful insights from data is becoming an increasingly important skill to have. Leigh Dodds from the Open Data Institute, who also plays an instrumental role in Bath:Hacked events, delivered a presentation and practical workshop on ‘hacking data’ to give us a taster of what’s involved in a typical ‘hack’, the skills involved and how to get started.

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors at Bath Ruby

Our wonderful sponsor for our next Girl Geek is Bath Ruby Conference.

The one day event is a community focused conference for Ruby developers of all skill levels. There will be talks from some of the Ruby community’s favourite speakers from around the world, including Linda Liukas, founder of Rails Girls  and Saron Yitbarek, founder of CodeNewbie.

The conference will take place in Bath’s Assembly Rooms on Friday 13th March and, since we’re running it as a non-profit event, tickets are just £99 + VAT with 10% of sales being donated to Shelter.  Please visit the website for more details, including our Code of Conduct and accessibility statement.

Happy new year! Our 2015 programme of events kicks off with a talk about women in software engineering with Rabeb Othmani, a software engineer working currently for Microsoft as part of the MixRadio client development team.

The event is sponsored by ClusterHQ and will be hosted at their shared workspace at the Engine Shed in Bristol. ClusterHQ are hiring, so this is the perfect opportunity to come and check them out if you are interested in a new career for the new year!

More details on our Next Dinner page

Sign up here: geek-event-39.eventbrite.co.uk

Bath Girl Geeks joined the amazing team at Bath Hacked for their weekend Hack Event on 1st and 2nd November 2014.
The Hack used open data available from the local authority as a basis for the weird and wonderful creations of the weekend! Including Eat a Food for when you cannot decide what to eat in the beautiful city of Bath!

For many of us it was our first Hack, whilst others dove straight in with their developer and coding skills. It was an amazing opportunity for us Girl Geeks to learn more about hacking open data and the end-to-end process of building an application for easy consumption of data.

A few photos from the event