londongirlgeekdinner wiki / Past Events

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

* SEO the core elements - Judith 'deCabbit' - Amanda to start the q & a as she's just done a site and used automated seo tools... will make for a good conversation...
* Semantic Markup and Organic SEO - Sheila Farrell - Danielle from Israel to instigate the Q & A based on her experiences in Israel
* Search Vs Find, the mobile search perspective - Sarah McVitte - Vero to instigate the Q & A as she's great with the mobile search stuff...

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/