{ leeds 27.05.09
Over the last year, Leeds has played host to three hugely sucessful Girl Geek dinners - in August, December and March. In that time we've had six inspirational women - Lorna Mitchell, Lydia Machel, Katie Lips, Monica Tailor, Lucy Wurstlin and Emma McGrattan. So we're super-pleased to announce that nti's Linda Broughton and Carbon Imagineering's Imran Ali will be hosting Leeds' fourth Girl Geek Dinner on Wednesday 27th May, again at the lovely The Loft Leeds!
This edition of the Leeds Girl Geek Dinner is part of LSx, the second Leeds Web Festival - find out more about the LSx programme of events at lsx09.com & leedswebfestival.com
so what's a girl geek dinner anyway?
where can i register?
where will the dinner take place?
who'll be coming?
The evening will be informal, friendly and chilled. For just £15, you can enjoy some food, drinks and the chance to hang out with the city's brightest creatives, technologists, programmers, entrepreneurs, marketeers, PR professionals and creative & digital girls - yeh yeh, we'll have a smattering of boys too ;)
the evening's speakers will include...
reshma sohoni;
Reshma runs Seedcamp on a day-to-day basis as its CEO.
She joined Seedcamp from the venture team at 3i. Prior to 3i, Reshma spent over 3 years at Vodafone in their Commercial Strategy team, working across the Europe and Japan footprints in marketing strategy and pricing functions.
Reshma started her career in the US in investment banking (Broadview) and venture capital (Softbank).
jennifer o'grady;
Jennifer has been at the forefront of the PR scene in Manchester, scooping up awards for great work in PR, events and marketing.
In 2008, she launched Democracy PR, a new agency created to blend traditional PR skills with social media opportunities. Their approach delivers clients creative, reputation making campaigns that embrace the power of a brand's democracy to deliver accountable results.
She speaks on how to use PR skills to manage your own personal profile online, offers practical tips on how to protect yourself against risk and showcases some examples of those who get it right (and those who get it spectacularly wrong).
femputer;
The Femputer is a fembot diguised as a femputer so she can rule the Amazonians.
She came from a planet ruled by a chauvinistic manputer that was actually a manbot. Whenever men come to her planet she punishes them although she fell in love with Bender when he discovered who she really was.
(OK, Femputer isn't really a keynote speaker - but wouldn't that be really, very cool!)
Do tell your friends, Girl Geek Dinners are open-invitations events and we'd love for you to tag your blog posts and photos as... leedsgirlgeek
6-9pm @ the loft leeds on cross york street
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