Our May dinner is being held on Wednesday 22nd at the University of Bristol from 6.30pm.

The speaker will be Melanie Bennet from the Bristol Biochar Foundation. ‘Biochar’ is a blanket term for charcoal when it is used for particular purposes, especially as a soil amendment.

This event is more science-oriented than a lot of our previous events have been, so will be a very interesting change. Please feel free to invite anyone who you think might be interested, including students.

Read all the details and register here: http://girlgeeksdiscoverbiochar.eventbrite.co.uk/

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Our April dinner is being held on Thursday 11th in conjunction with the ACCU 2013 conference.

The event starts at 7pm for 7.30pm, at the Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre. A few female IT professionals will talk briefly about themselves and their jobs. There will then be time for discussion and networking.

Read more and register http://girlgeeksataccu2013.eventbrite.co.uk/

Many thanks to Dr Tracy Johnson from Brainbox Coaching

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This month we’re very excited to have Dr Tracy Johnson from Brainbox Coaching, hosted by Nokia in bristol.

Tracy will be sharing the coaching skills she uses with her clients to develop confidence across a range of situations, such as meetings, presentations and networking, that can be used to help any woman feel more at ease as a freelancer. As a self-protection instructor, Tracy will also be offering tips for safe solo business travel, as well as for defusing any tricky situations.

Sign up here: brainboxatnokia.eventbrite.co.uk

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We’ve decided to keep it informal with drinks at the Watershed and a chance just to chat and talk about geeky things instead of having food and a speaker. Follow our twitter feed or facebook page to find out where we are sitting on the night!

The event starts at 7pm – As always we do not exclude men, but they must be accompanied by a Girl Geek so we don’t get outnumbered!

Sign up here: girlgeekbirthday.eventbrite.co.uk

Our 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

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