Category: Event

Girls in Tech Represent! at #LeWeb13

Startup VIllage and Google Workshop under construction at the eve of the event

Startup Village and Google Workshop under construction at the eve of the event

#LeWeb, the annual conference gathering thought leaders and innovators – which started 10 years ago – is taking place this week in Paris. For 3 days, globally-minded startups, innovators and leaders from the tech industry will discuss the future of the internet. We couldn’t resist the opportunity to be the witness and report on what’s hot and ahead in tech.

Here is a quick heads-up on who, when, why, how, where and what to expect from #LeWeb reported by Girls in Tech London 😉

  • Live reporting

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for a live stream and follow our blog for critical insights into some of the hottest topics of tech.

  • What’s hot, cold or UFO in Tech?

This year, LeWeb is questioning what’s ahead in the next 10 years in the internet space. What can we expect if we look back at the last fast-paced 20 years?

Looking at the programme so far it seems that Geraldine & Loic have planned to answer this with a schedule that brings recognised, strong industry leaders of the last decades (Paypal, Microsoft, Apple, etc) and some of the most innovative businesses of the recent years (Uber, Evernote, Twitter, and the likes).

  • 3 days, 3 perspectives, and many, many topics covered

Looking at the sessions planned, the agenda seems to articulate this theme in 3 steps:

Monday – The first day, successful internet industry leaders of the past ten years will describe their vision of the future, perhaps telling the story of their company, what made them successful, and what’s their strategy to sustain that success in the next ten years.

Tuesday – This day could be titled: the state of innovation and entrepreneurship. Looks like a lot of sessions are trying to define what it means to be an internet entrepreneur, what are the current problems (#mobile, #meditation!, #Emerging Countries,…)  and how to make yourself innovative moving forward.

Wednesday – Internet advocates from the French Government are joining the leaders of cutting-edge technologies (artificial intelligence, connected TVs, 3D printing) to close #LeWeb, and (eventually) address its core theme. The big boys that have invested and are investing big money in the future will talk about their projection and the bets they have made for the next 10 years.

  •  What to expect 

Our partnership team will be on the ground with Marie Hardel and Josephine Goube, acting as agent representative of Girls in Tech London, along Roxanne Varza, our leading coordinator for Girls in Tech UK and France.

With their critical eye, sometimes on the (bad) edge of bitchiness, we will be reporting for GIT on what we think are the most thoughtful and meaningful ideas of #LeWeb. A first glance at the panel of speakers, it already seems like the gender ratio status quo is yet to be disturbed. But enough of feminism and moaning, let’s get this changed!

Girls, I count on you to be loud, to tweet and make women more visible online and offline at #LeWeb. 😉

 @josephineGoube

Follow @GirlsinTech_UK to get a live stream of critical tweets from #LeWeb about the Internet’s past, present and future.  Tweet at us, share your insights, and if you are at LeWeb too, please come say hello!

Recap: Networking Night at Warner Yard

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Monday’s Girls in Tech networking night at Warner Yard was a great success! We had many ladies and gents come out, sharing their interesting startups and other projects they’re working on.

We started off with a talk from Emily Atkinson (events team), introducing Girls in Tech London, who we are, what we do, and how we can collaborate with others. Also that we have some very exciting events planned for 2014!

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In order to show support for GIT London, we took pics of our guests with a flashy sign 🙂

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IMG_6964Then we enjoyed a round of lightening talks from a few attendees:

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Thank you again to our amazing sponsors, Warner Yard and Playfair Capital, for the space, pizza, & drinks.

Can’t wait to meet you in 2014! Watch this space for all the upcoming events.

Networking night with Girls in Tech London

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We’re happy to announce a final event for 2013: a networking night sponsored by Warner Yard & Playfair Capital. We’re warming up for 2014 and want you to join us for what’s to come!

When: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 7-9pm
Where: 8 Warner Yard, London EC1R 5EY
What: Beer, pizza, & networking

Book your spot here: http://goo.gl/VJciuR (and see more details about the event)

As always, men are welcome too. We can’t wait to see you!

Many thanks again to our sponsors:

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What do you know about Ladies Who Code?

It was such a pleasure to chat with Angie Maguire, co-founder of Ladies Who Code – an organisation that plans monthly meetups to bring the brightest female minds together to discuss tech, share ideas and innovate.

Ladies Who Code was founded in NYC in May 2011 by Angie and Shoshi Roberts. The two ladies used their strengths to team up: Shoshi the main inspiration/developer and Angie the event-planning and organisational mind behind it. To date the network has totalled 1500 women developers!

There are three main aspects behind what Ladies Who Code is about: visibility, retention, and most importantly community. Angie said “the whole point of Ladies Who Code is that one day it won’t exist” because hopefully one day being a woman developer in tech won’t be something people think twice about.

The movement has quickly spread to the UK and today has 3 chapters this side of the pond: Manchester, Birmingham, and London. This year marks the second annual conference and the first here in Europe, held this weekend on October 26th. It’ll feature a number of amazing speakers, and men are encouraged to join as well! It’s nearly sold out, so grab your tickets now.

The end of the conference will feature the launch of the speakers programme, which is meant to train women developers to have the confidence to speak in front of others and to provide scholarships for women to attend conferences.

Luckily if you can’t make it out this year, the conference talks will be hosted on the Ladies Who Code Youtube channel. Follow them on Twitter at @ladieswhocode for updates on that.

This movement is looking to spread, so consider if you’d want to lead a Ladies Who Code meetup in your city!

Pub Summit hits Cambridge and you’re invited

The guys at Web Summit are hosting their next Pub Summit in Cambridge tomorrow and you’re invited!

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The Pub Summits are a great opportunity to meet startups, investors, media and advisors and make those vital connections in your hometown.

The Cambridge Pub Summit is co-hosted by Springboard and ideaSpace and will take place on Tuesday 26th of March 2013 from 8pm at The Fountain, 2 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DB

You’ll be able to invite some friends or colleagues to join you so you won’t be alone! You can RSVP here.

Girls in Tech & General Assembly Breakfast – Round 2

General Assembly LogoAs many of you know, last month we held a breakfast event with General Assembly London featuring some fabulous speakers. We knew the event would be good but to our surprise, the event was an even bigger success than we had imagined!

With a completely full house that left many standing and a waiting list of attendees, we decided that maybe we should give it another go 🙂 So here is your official invitation to the Girls in Tech London and General Assembly Breakfast – Round 2! We encourage you to sign-up ASAP because if this event is anything like the last one, we’ll sell out pretty quickly.

Please join us on March 28th from 9:30-11am at General Assembly London for a breakfast event focused entirely on COMMUNITY! We’ll be featuring some impressive speakers to discuss how they built and leveraged their communities – both in the UK and abroad, online and offline – for their respective businesses. Speakers for this edition include:

  • Reshma Sohoni, Seedcamp
  • Courtney Boyd Meyers, General Assembly London
  • Megan Zoback, Uber

Please be sure to sign-up here and we look forward to seeing you there! Oh yes, not a single man showed up to our last event. Let’s hope we change that this time, BOYS (VERY) ALLOWED 🙂

Girls in Tech London & General Assembly invite you to breakfast

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FEBRUARY 28th @ 9:30-11am

Girls in Tech London and General Assembly Breakfast

Girls in Tech London and General Assembly invite you to breakfast! We’ll hear from several stellar women on how they hacked the London startup scene, including:

Alicia Navarro, CEO and cofounder of Skimlinks

Judith Clegg, CEO of Takeout

Kelly Schneider Lees, GM Europe of Gogobot

Olivia Solon, Associate Editor of Wired.co.uk

Space is limited to please be sure to confirm if you plan to attend here. All attendees also receive 100 minicards from Moo.com 🙂

What to expect at the Girls in Tech Launch event

As we are literally less than 24 hours away from our launch event, I thought I’d take a moment just to give you an idea of what to expect.

Wait, no agenda?

As you may have noticed, we did not release the official agenda anywhere. This is because we want to avoid a mass of people coming for a particular topic and then leaving right after. The programme is packed and we’re hoping all attendees will come with an open mind, be surprised and discover something new.

That said, we have released the full list of speakers here. Be sure to check out the impressive people we have lined up.

Who else will be there?

In addition to our speakers, we’ve got a great group of attendees for you to network with as well. Press, investors, entrepreneurs and people from companies like Ebay, Conduit, Linkedin, Apple, Index Ventures and more.

Hungry? Come early!

We’ll be starting promptly at 12:00pm and serving a light lunch for the early birds.

…and the GIT EURO 100?

Many of you have asked about the GIT EURO 100. We received hundreds of nominations from across Europe and will be announcing the final list at very end of our programme, at 5:50pm just before closing remarks.

Afterparty?

Once the event is over, anyone and everyone is welcome to join us for drinks at Cargo in Shoreditch.

We’re thrilled to have such an amazing line-up planned for tomorrow. If you have any questions or have not yet received your invite, please feel free to get in touch.

Girls in Tech London launch event: sign-ups now open.

So, without further delay we are pleased to announce the Girls in Tech London launch event on June 1st at Google Campus from 12pm-6pm. Our fabulous sponsors Google and Criteo have helped us line up some fabulous speakers. You can see some of the names here.

The GIT EURO 100: nominate the best women in tech in Europe.

For the occasion of our launch event, we’re also launching the first-ever list of the top 100 women in tech in Europe! If you know someone who should be recognised for their great contribution to entrepreneurship or the tech ecosystem, please feel free to nominate them!

Want to attend?

The event is FREE to attend and open to men and women alike. However, space is incredibly limited. Therefore, we ask that you introduce yourself if you’d like to attend and we’ll be in touch with an invite shortly.

Questions?

For any additional questions on sponsoring, speaking or whathaveyou, please feel free to get in touch.