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June Virtual Girl Geek Dinner

We hope you are well in these extraordinary and unprecedented times. As we begin to see the world return to the new ‘normal’ we are excited to announce the very first virtual Girl Geek Dinner. These online events are going to become part of our new normal and will run as well as our in-person events (once normality returns). We understand that not everyone can get to the in-person meetups so this will be another way to connect and learn from one another.

To keep with the spirit of Girl Geek Dinners we have partnered up with a number of industry experts and a culinary expert to provide you with a unique Girl Geek Experience.

Register for our June event today. It is all about personal branding – Topics include:

  • Top 12 tips for a better SEO life – Judith Lewis
  • Understanding your personal character traits to develop leadership & and people skills – Linda Gale
  • ’The Power of You’ – how to build a life of opportunity, impact and fulfilment through the power of being yourself – Hannah Power     

The first round of tickets are now available

Book your ticket

Alongside the usual Girl Geek Dinner topic’s we will be providing you with your very own Girl Geek home dining experience. Upon signing up you will receive a bespoke recipe and shopping list to be able to cook your very own girl geek dinner to enjoy whilst you join our online event.

We will include a vegetarian and standard recipe for you to make something amazing with us. And you can let us know how you are getting on via our social channels and share your creations using the hashtag #virtualggd – we love seeing what you create!

We look forward to seeing you all on Zoom with your culinary masterpieces!

Sarah & Chloe

Virtual Events Team

LGGD & LBG’s Digital Breakthrough Women’s Network – Is it Really Mobile First? A Panel Debate

FREE TICKETS

 

For years pundits have been trying to tell us it was finally the year of the mobile. Instead of this bright new future what has happened is that our gadgets have become indispensable mini computers. The 2nd and 3rd screen revolution has fundamentally changed the way we consume content and as a result it has caused a fundamental shift in the way we distribute that content across multiple devices. Understanding the future of the mobile for interactive advertising and storytelling opens the door to the relevance of wearables, virtual reality and augmented reality. Discover the future of the mobile device and the content that drives the portable screen in everyone’s pocket. Should we be building everything for mobile first, including our clothing? We ask our expert panel this and other questions.

 

Sanj Surati – Holition, AR/VR creative agency working with high profile luxury brands who also have a commitment to have a 50% female developer workforce

Peter Robinson – Dubit Limited, research agency with a finger on the pulse of emerging trends for kids media including supplying research and findings at Children’s Media Conference and Kids Screen

Imre Jele – Bossa Studios, mobile game makers with several successful titles out on mobile as well as console

Femi A – Design Juju, UX/UI expert

Chris Gale, Odyssey Mobile, mobile advertising agency with a firm handle on creative storytelling/advertising that takes mobile immersion to new places

 

This event is in partnership with LBG’s Digital Breakthrough Women’s Network and they are providing the space which is HUGE! Lots of food, lots of drink and lots of debate! They also have jobs available in a variety of areas which we will have more information on at and after the event.

 

On September 23rd, we expect the event to kick off with networking drinks at 5:30pm but the actual debate will start around 6:30 and last until 7:30 meaning you can continue the discussion over a glass of juice or wine later on.

 

Venue will be

48 Chiswell Street

London

England

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Google MapMaker Event with Google Local

photo(3)  Many thanks to the lovely Google Local London team who hosted us at the Google office in Holborn for a fabulous Mapmaker event on Tuesday 11th June 2013.

An eager group of Girl Geeks descended on the office to learn more about Mapmaker and how to contribute and edit Google maps through an informative and fun presentation, where we were introduced to thinking about why we might want to benefit our communities through enriching Google Maps.

We had plenty of questions for the team and had a good evening editing and chatting.  If you haven’t tried Mapmaker yet, have a go for yourself and if you’re not sure how to get started, there’s plenty of help available on the YouTube channel.

If you’re on Google Plus, why not follow Google Local London or follow them on twitter?

However, the fantastic Google Local London team also reminded us about reviewing places and even some of the more private amongst us seemed enthusiastic about the possibilities and uses of reviews.  For further information, have a look at the help pages!

Many thanks to Google for hosting us.  We had a fabulous evening of learning and networking and we look forward to working with them again in the future.

It was great to see a lovely group of Girl Geeks at Google and we’re looking forward to seeing you at RegentTweet this month!  Don’t forget that our birthday will be in August – hope to see many of you there!

 

 

Sci Fi London Girl Geek Dinner

SCI-FI-LONDON and London Girl Geek Dinners presents an evening of geek girls in film…

If you do a google search for ‘women in film BAFTA 2011’ two of the first four hits are about red carpet fashion. Looking though the 2011 BAFTA nominations it seems like women are mostly only taken seriously in film if they are actors or doing hair, make-up and costumes. Leilani Holmes and Anna Higgs have both had successful careers in a male-dominated field and are joining SCI-FI-LONDON and the London Girl Geek Dinners to present about how they make use of new media, crowd sourcing content and engage with collaborative filmmaking forums to challenge the glass ceiling.

Leilani Holmes is short film maker, screen writer and actor who co-runs a collaborative filmmaking group www.ottfilms.co.uk/forum and blogs for the London Screenwriters Festival.

Anna Higgs is a producer with a background in the world of BAFTA-award winning interactive ‘edutainment’ and has been involved the production of a wide range of games, as well as managing digital media projects for a diverse range of clients including Sony, Sainsbury’s, BskyB, Telewest and the BBC.  In 2006 Anna completed her MA in Producing at the NFTS, and founded Quark Films with producer Gavin Humphries.

Quark is a company working across drama, documentary and animation for theatrical, TV and digital platforms with credits as diverse as feature doc THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS, DVD tour film THE MIGHTY BOOSH: FUTURE SAILORS TOUR and BOY CHEERLEADERS for BBC Wonderland and music videos for the Arctic Monkeys.  Anna was recently selected as a finalist for the British Council’s Young Screen Entrepreneur of the Year award 2010 and is a NESTA Fellow on the prestigious Clore Cultural Leadership programme 2010/11.

The wine we will be quaffing are from the Dinastia Vivanco winery and fabulous wine museum in Rioja (Spain).  The white wine  (Vivanco Blanco) is a blend of Viura and Malvasia from 2009.  If this sounds fabulous and you’d like to know more, check www.dinastiavivanco.com and become a fan of the Dinastia Vivanco wine Facebook page to show you appreciate them providing the wine.  We’ll also be asking volunteers to just chat about or give their opinoons on wine in general on the night as well so please do volunteer 30sec of your time if you can

Full Details:

Date & Time: Thursday, 28th April 2011, 6.30pm

Venue: Apollo West End Theatre, 19 Lower Regent Street, SW1 4LR; nearest tube is Piccadilly Circus, Directions here

Hosted by: Girl Geek Dinners and SCI-FI-LONDON

Food & Drink: Drinks and nibbles in the bar, from 6.30pm

Attendees: As usual, men allowed as a guest of a LGGD member.

Tickets: Available from Wednesday 13th April at: http://scifi-london.eventbrite.com/

London Girl Geek Dinners 5th Anniversary Event at Google UK

It’s that time of the year again – London Girl Geek Dinners is turning FIVE YEARS OLD!

Yes that’s right, five years of bringing girl geeks in London a chance to meet, mingle network, find out about some great tech firms, find a new job, go shopping and enjoy learning.  We have had some phenomenal sponsors over the last five years and for our birthday we have a dazzling array of them.

This year, we have a limited number of tickets (80) so we’ve decided to do a raffle.  You can go into the newbie lottery if you are new (and thus aren’t on any of our attendee lists) or the old hat lottery if you’ve signed up for something before.  Part of our goal in having this event is to increase the number of members we have on the Google group as well as getting new people out.  Please join the Google Group to get the URL for tickets: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/london-girl-geek-dinners

We’ll draw ticket winners on TUESDAY JULY 27th giving everyone plenty of time to get their name in the hat.

The event will kick off at 6pm at Google on AUGUST 4th with a bit of mingling and then some dinner.  We will then have 3 great speakers in Sue Black speaking on the Women of Bletchley Park, Sarah Gordon of Google speaking on mobile engineering and hopefully a third speaker we’re just finalising.  It will be an inspirational evening!  Afterwards we hope to have something for dessert and mingle and mix until 9pm.

The event will be at Google in their main canteen.  Google UK  have generously donated space and dinner and a goodie bag with a few things in it to London Girl Geek Dinners.  We are extremely proud and pleased to have Google as our main sponsor and to have one of their engineers as a speaker! 

In addition to the generous Google sponsorship we have some other amazing sponsors:
 
The wines we will be quaffing are from the Dinastia Vivanco winery and fabulous wine museum in Rioja (Spain).  The red wine is the Rioja Crianza 2005, the White wine  (Vivanco Blanco) is a blend of Viura and Malvasia from 2009, and Rose is Vivanco Rosado 2009 – delicious rose.  If this sounds fabulous and you’d like to know more, check www.dinastiavivanco.com  and become a fan of the Dinastia Vivanco wine Facebook page to show you appreciate them providing the wine.  We’ll also be asking volunteers to just chat about or give their opinoons on wine in general on the night as well so please do volunteer 30sec of your time if you can.

Green & Blacks are donating their new Organic Milk & White Miniature Bar Collection to the goodie bag as well!  Green & Black’s NEW Milk Miniature Bar Collection gives you a taste of our milk and white chocolate bars. Contains 12 miniature bars ranging from our uniquely cocoa-rich milk chocolate with crunchy butterscotch or roasted almonds, to our new Creamy Milk and White Chocolate. Oh dear goodness YUMMY!

In the goodie bag will also be VitaminWater’s new drink – i-focus.  i-focus will have you tickled pink, with a delicious strawberry-kiwi flavour, packed with antioxidant vitamin c, energy releasing b vitamins for a little more kapow and vitamin a to help maintain healthy vision.  Pretty in pink and giving away an iPad to boot – defo the water of choice for the girl geek!

We also have the amazing Juniper Networks involved donating some lovely stuff to us though we haven’t confirmed what just yet so we’ll leave that as the surprise element of the evening. Juniper networks provide high speed, reliable switching routers and you can see their suite of kick butt stuff here

The lovely Iona Innovations are also donating raffle prizes for us to help us fund our work at getting charitable status.  So bring your pound coins and buy some tickets on the night!

We’ll even have some Forbidden Planet flyers as we know SF and Girl Geeks often go hand in hand.

So as you can see it is going to be a fantastic evening and one you won’t want to miss!

See you there!

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/london-girl-geek-dinners

Regents Street Shopping with London Girl Geeks

Fashionable shopping destination Regent Street is teaming up with London Girl Geek Dinners to offer a futuristic shopping day which includes experiences from a presentation at the Apple Store, Augmented Reality interactive displays, free beauty and technology products that will be revealed through the latest technology on your smart phone.  Throughout the day there are also opportunities for free lunches and cocktails.

Get your name on the list to get a ticket to this event full of fun fabulous freebies.  There will be all sorts of fun and excitement to kick off this day at the Apple Store where we will all gather to hear a great talk before getting our instructions and getting off to explore the shopping of Regents Street.

This is a gadgeted event so bring your smartphone, laptop and all your tech to blog, tweet, and QR your way around the day.  There will be a technology hub called “basecamp” where you’ll be able to plug in your technology, edit your videos, blog, tweet or just relax before getting back at it.

Remember you have to be registered so go to the London Girl Geek Dinners google group for the secret URL and in the top right corner of the special page click on “register”.  If you click elsewhere you won’t be able to sign up.

You *MUST* be registered to get in to this event.  Men *MUST* be a guest of a registered and attending Girl Geek.  There are non  Girl Geek Dinner people clamouring to get into this event so please sign up ASAP.  Any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask (but as I work full time I can only check emails once a day – sorry!)

Here is out schedule of events:

SATURDAY JUNE 19th 2010

Once you’ve signed up, you’ll get details of the timings for the day.

Get your name ticked off our list of registered attendees and we’ll meet and get a talk on “The Internet of Things: Digital Cows and the ways in which online behaviours are influencing the real world.”

You need to be on the list to get in to the event so remember to go to the London Girl Geek Dinners group and join to get access to the special URL.

 We’ll then head off for some lovely Shopping along Regent Street where we can hit the shops; Enjoy the sunshine; Take advantage of the fantastic offers; But most importantly, Have Fun! The day is yours so make the most of it. Remember you can always nip back to the basecamp to relax, cool down & drop your bags off before heading back out onto the streets.

We’ll end out day at the tech hub called “Basecamp” where you will have been able to store stuff, charge your tech, edit your videos, blog or whatever and we’ll have cocktails, share our experiences with the other girls and take part in the interactive presentation.

See you and your tech there! 🙂

GGD: June 9th

Our May Girl Geek Dinner on the 12th was great!  I hope everyone that attended had as much fun as I did!  If any Boulder Geeks have any suggestions for places to host a GGD, please let me know!

The June Girl Geek Dinner is coming up on June 9th!  It will be Argyll in Denver.  I look forward to seeing all the Denver Girl Geeks!

Full Details

  • When: June 9th, 2010, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Where: Argyll, 2700 E. 3rd Avenue, Denver, CO 80206 (map)
  • Hosted by: CO Front Range Girl Geek Dinners
  • Food & Drink: UK Gastropub, buy your own
  • Format: Informal networking and conversation
  • Attendees: Boy geeks are welcome to attend if accompanied by a girl geek
  • RSVP: COGirlGeekDinner@live.com or Facebook Event Page

CO Girl Geek Dinner TOMORROW

I’m really excited about our Girl Geek Dinner tomorrow!  I hope lots of girl geeks can make it.  We’ll be at Turley’s in Boulder from 6-9pm.  Check out this previous post for more details.

Our next Girl Geek Dinner will be in June in Denver.  I’d love to hear your thoughts about what you want out of Girl Geek Dinners.  Let me know in the comments or send an email COGirlGeekDinner@live.com.

GGD: May 12th

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We’re excited to announce our May Girl Geek Dinner at Turley’s Restaurant in Boulder.

Full Details

Based on feedback from members, you really want to get to know each other.  Lightning talks are a great opportunity for casual talks on a variety of subjects.  We would love to hear what you are passionate about or anything you’d like to teach us!  Since we’ll be in a restaurant, there won’t be normal presentation supplies available, so please no slide decks.  If you would like to a Lightning Talk (I hope you do, it’s a great way to introduce yourself and impart knowledge!) or have any questions please email me, COGirlGeekDinner@live.com.

Stay tuned for a post about Lightning Talks and why you should submit one for this dinner!

Announcements!

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We had a lovely Girl Geek Dinner in April at BJ’s Restaurant. We had a wide range of attendees: industry, students, education. There were some great conversations!

Wendie and I have decided, based on the feedback from the dinner in February, to have monthly Girl Geek Dinners.  We’ve decided to host Girl Geek Dinners of the second Wednesday of every month.  Mark you calendars from 6-9 pm for the rest of the year!

  • May 12th
  • June 9th
  • July 14th
  • August 11th
  • September 8th
  • October 13th
  • November 10th
  • December 8th

The locations (except for May and June) have yet to be determined.

From my Facebook and Twitter poll, Boulder was the preferred choice for the May Girl Geek Dinner.  If you’re in Denver, don’t worry!  I’m planning on having the June Girl Geek Dinner at the Denver Tech Center.  If you have any thoughts on where we can have it in the DTC, please email me at COGirlGeekDinner@live.com.  The May GGD would be a great chance to get know a fellow Girl Geek and carpool to Boulder.

Here are all the details for the May Girl Geek Dinner (I’ll do a dedicated blog post for the May GGD as well).

Based on feedback from members, you really want to get to know each other.  Lightning talks are a great opportunity for casual talks on a variety of subjects.  We would love to hear what you are passionate about or anything you’d like to teach us!  Since we’ll be in a restaurant, there won’t be normal presentation supplies available, so please no slide decks.  If you would like to a Lightning Talk (I hope you do, it’s a great way to introduce yourself and impart knowledge!) or have any questions please email me, COGirlGeekDinner@live.com.