2009

May & June 2009

We had a couple of months off to concentrate on July & August events... along with putting together our charitable status proposal

23 April 2009

Confirmed Date: Thursday, 23rd April 2009

Venue: TBC

Organizers: Sarah, Nicole and Zuzanna from Silicon Stilettos and Kate @ AxiCom

Subject: How the Internet has opened up creative new ways for entrepreneurial individuals to build businesses creating and selling their own products on their own terms.

Speaker: Eileen Gittens, CEO and founder of Blurb (recently voted one of the most influential women in tech)

30 April 2009

Confirmed Date: Thursday, 30th April 2009

Sponsors: SCI-FI-LONDON

Venue: SCI-FI-LONDON Joint events

Organizers: Sarah, Nicole & the team from Sci Fi London

Subject: Practical Science Fiction

Sign up Page: http://scifilondonlggd.eventbrite.com

2008

February

Proposed Date: 25th Feb 08 7pm - 11pm

Sponsors: None - Feel free to mix and mingle it's a buy your own event

Venue: Just St James

Organizers: Sarah Blow + Nicole Mathison

No speakers, just talking about what people want from the events for this year... ideas, suggestions and catching up with one another. Lets see what we can get arranged!

Confirmed Date: 25th Feb 08

Sign up Page: No official sign up for this one is required - just turn up if you fancy catching up! We've set up a facebook event if you want to know who else on facebook is attending : London Girl Geek Dinner 18

March

Proposed Date: 25th March 2008 7pm - 10:30pm

Sponsors: Latitude

Venue: TBD

Organizers: Sarah Blow, Imp & Judith 'deCabbit' Lewis

Confirmed Date: 25th March 2008 from 7:30pm

Sign up Page: sign up here! password SearchMe

April

Joint Girl Geek Dinner & Geek Dinner with Special Guest Speaker!

Proposed Date: 26th April

Sponsors: -

Organizers: Sarah Blow, Ian Forrester, Cristiano Betta & Melinda Seckington

Speaker: Dr Sophie Kain

Dr. Sophie Kain is a very interesting woman. Shes most known for being on the 3rd season of the UK Apprentice where she admitted to being a geek. Although Sophie didn’t win the position at Sir Alan Sugar’s side, she has setup innovation company, Prior Kain Ltd and launched web venture entitled Toast and Trash. Sophie is highly intelligent, bubbly and full of life. Shes certainly someone you will want to share a couple of ideas with during a bottle of red wine.

Confirmed Date: Saturday 26th April, 6:30 PM - 11:50 PM

Venue: Horse Bar, 124 Westminster Bridge Road, Waterloo, London SE1 7XG

Nearest Underground: Lambeth North

Cost: 10 pounds for Food and Venue

Upcoming: 452888

Sign up Page: Please use Upcoming to indicate you are coming. Sign up is necessary, because there is an attendee limit of 100.

June

Proposed Date: 25th June 2008

Sponsors: iT4C can sponsor some refreshments (wine and snacks) and the room.

Venue:WCIT

Organizers: Sarah Blow (LGGD) & Anne Stafford (IT4C)

Speaker: Katherine Moonan (with Christian Heilmann on implementation)

Subject: Web Accessibility and Web 2.0

Speaker: Rachel Burnett

Subject: IT & Law

Speaker: Caroline Bucklow

Subject: IT 4 Communities

Additional speakers are welcome please contact the organizers if you are interested!

Confirmed Date: 25th June 2008

Sign up Page: http://lggdwithit4c.eventbrite.com/

July

Proposed Date: 11th July 6.15 - 8:45

Sponsors: TBD

Venue: Girls School London

Organizers: Sarah Blow & Janet Chapman

Subject of the evening: Getting into IT - Panel Discussion

Host: Sarah Blow - Founder Girl Geek Dinners

• Liz Sarginson Head of Web Operations -The Guardian
• Nicola Avery eLearning / Learning Technologies - Surrey University
• Celia Francis - CEO WeeWorld
• Lotte Nickel - IT Associate Morgan Stanley

Waiting to hear from Rare, EA Games, Microsoft, Google

Confirmed Date:11th July 2008 6:15 - 8:45pm

Sign up Page: http://gettingintoit.eventbrite.com/

August

Proposed Date: 28th August 2008 - 3 Year Anniversary Event

Sponsors: Google

Venue: The Canteen - Google Victoria

Organizers: Judith & Sarah

20 Minute Talks:

• Drew Buddie on Tech & Schools

• Google on future technology

Panel Discussion: Work Life Balance

Host: Dr Al James (a lecturer researching work life balance) & Susanne Doyle-Morris (Coach & mentor on flexible working and lifestyle management)

Panelists:

• Alx Klive CEO - WorldTV.com
• Celia Francis - Wee World
• Maria Ingold - Head of Technology in Film, FilmFlex Movies
• Liwei Li - Google

Reserves:

Patricia Hanrahan

Victoria Walberg

Confirmed Date: 28th August 2008 time tbd

Sign up Page: (most likely to be a google signup page :) url to follow closer to the event)

September

Proposed Date: 29th September (TBC)

Sponsors: N/A

Venue: WCIT

Organizers: Nicole Mathison

Speaker: Collective game

Subject: Superstruct

Confirmed Date: 29/9/08

Sign up Page: (will be placed here when placed onto the Girl Geek Dinner Eventbrite page!)

October

Proposed Date: 9th October 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Sponsors: Microsoft

Venue: Victoria Office

Organizers: Sarah Blow & Mandy from MS.

Host for the evening: Eileen Brown (TBC) or Sarah Blow

Speaker: Julie Lerman

Subject: Getting into the technical speaker circles & more!

Speaker: Elizabeth Kelan

Subject: Technology, Gener & Innovation

Panel Session hosted by We are the City

Host: Vanessa Valley

Panelists

TBD

Confirmed Date: 9th October 2008

Sign up Page: (will be placed here when placed onto the Girl Geek Dinner Eventbrite page!)

December

Proposed Date: or 13th December with @cubicgarden & @rainycat

Sponsors: BBC Backstage

Venue: Arranged

Organizers:@rainycat

Joint event with Geek Dinners & BBC Backstage 

Confirmed Date:13th December

Sign up Page: (will be placed here when placed onto the Girl Geek Dinner Eventbrite page!)