Our June dinner is being held on Wednesday 26th from 6.30pm at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of the West of England.

There will be six speakers talking about their work in the Lab. Food and drink will be provided courtesy of UWE’s Faculty of the Environment and Technology.

Read more and sign up here: http://girlgeeksvisitbrl.eventbrite.co.uk/

It is important that you register if you wish to attend.

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/

Please print this out and display it in your study/work place!

Poster (pdf)

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/

A Great Opportunity to represent the Bristol Girl Geek Dinners Group by giving a talk at the Bristol ITMegaMeet 2013 (Saturday 1st June)

Dear Bristol Girl Geeks,

I’m helping with this free event to be held at UWE Frenchay on Saturday 1st June 2013.

We’re looking for Bristol Girl Geek Dinner members who work in either the computing/IT/teaching IT/computing industry to 
speak at the Bristol ITMegaMeet this year on the theme of women in this industry. The talk would be to around 30 people to last for up to 40minutes (including the opportunity for any questions from the audience).
The MegaMeet is a community event, a great networking opportunity with a focus on the IT related open forum groups/communities in the city and the surrounding area.
200 people attended the first Bristol ITMegaMeet event last year and this year we’re expecting 300 people. There’s unfortunately no payment for the talk – all are giving their time for free with the open community theme, however this is a networking opportunity not to be missed, you will be given a Great free lunch/refreshments and there’s a free after-party.

The website is here:
http://bristol.itmegameet.co.uk

The Talk:
A talk from Girl Geek representatives from your group would consist of a 10minutes introduction about the Bristol Girl Geek Dinners group followed by 30minutes (including questions from the audience) on the theme of women in the IT/computing industry. There may be several of you who wish to take part and if so you could each talk to contribute to the total 40minutes available to your group.

For infomation as to what kind of talks are given please see the group talks timetable for the event last year (the 1st year this event took place):
http://bristol.itmegameet.co.uk/archive/2012/

Also, we would be grateful if you could pass on that this free entry event is looking for sponsorship and donations to charity.Details here:

http://bristol.itmegameet.co.uk/sponsors.html

Best wishes,
Indu Kaila

pinschen@gmail.com

Many thanks to Dr Tracy Johnson from Brainbox Coaching

Click here for slides (pdf)

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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twitter: @brainboxcoach

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

Maria has written a great article about our group for the ‘Ladies What’ website: www.ladieswhat.co.uk/girl-geek-dinners

And while I’m here…don’t forget to sign up for our next event! With Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova at Bristol University this Thursday: Sign up here

More info here

Maria has also made a poster for this event if you’d like to print one out and put it up. Available here

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