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Tuesday 21st April 2009 - from Maggie Berry, Director, womenintechnology.co.ukAnother month, another update from womenintechnology - I hope you're all managing to survive through 2009, it feels like tough times indeed! Below is a selection of events, nomination and submission deadlines, calls to run for charity as well as for more IT mentors and volunteers. As ever, please get in touch with the relevant contacts directly. Thanks so much!
1 - Management Today's '35 Women Under 35' 2009 - deadline for nominations is Friday 24th April 20092 - International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology - submissions deadline is Thursday 30th April 20093 - Race for Life 2009, May, June and July, UK-wide4 - Edinburgh Girl Geek Launch Night - Thursday 14th May 20095 - Chix & Mortar training courses - dates available in May and July 2009 in Liverpool and London6 - Run for Camfed in the British 10K London Run - Sunday 12th July 2009, London7 - The 12th Women's International Networking Annual Leadership Conference - Prague, Thursday 8th to Saturday 10th October 2009 8 - Volunteering - inspire young people in your area to take up a career in IT9 - Networking in the Credit Crunch - survey10 - Your Chance to Help Build the next Skype, SpinVox or Monitise - Entrepreneur Country Insiders11 - MentorSET - call for mentors
1 - Management Today's '35 Women Under 35' 2009 - deadline for nominations is Friday 24th April 2009Do you know a high-flying young business woman? Are you one yourself? This is MT's final call for nominations... MT is making its final call for nominations for their annual '35 Women Under 35' list of the most talented young women in business. The list of names will be published in the July issue of MT and will feature 35 female leaders of tomorrow. Their search for the top talent in business is drawing to a close, so if you would like to make a nomination please email emma.devita@haymarket.com with a short biog of your nominee, an outline of their job responsibilities and full contact details. Please state in no more than 100 words why you think they should be included in the list. You can also nominate yourself.To qualify for consideration, the person must be aged 35 or under on the 1st July 2009 and be living and working in the UK. They accept nominations from the private, public, third sector and entrepreneurial worlds. The deadline for nominations is Friday 24th April.MT looks forward to hearing from you!
2 - International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology - submissions deadline is Thursday 30th April 2009The IJGST (International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology) is a new independent, open-access, peer-reviewed online journal that welcomes contributions from practitioners, researchers and policy makers concerned with gender issues in and of science and technology.They welcome submissions in the form of:• Full empirical research and theoretical papers• Practitioner case studies and reports• Opinions and perspectives from policy-makers and industryThe first issue will be published online in July 2009 and the latest submission date for this issue is Thursday 30th April. Further issues will appear every four months. If you have any enquiries, please contact Dr Jenni Carr - IJGST Project Officer on j.g.carr@open.ac.ukFurther information, including details of the submission process, can be found here: http://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset3 - Race for Life 2009, May, June and July, UK-wideFollowing on from the event we co-hosted with Cancer Research UK at Deloitte - Survival in the City: It's not just about the credit crunch! - you’re invited to do something amazing at Race for Life 2009!Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life 2009 needs women everywhere and their friends, family and colleagues to take part and raise money to help them continue their life-saving work. Race for Life is the UK’s largest women only fundraising event, where women come together to raise money to help Cancer Research UK beat cancer. Whether you walk, jog or run 5k, you can go at your own pace and enjoy a great day out. There are over 230 Race for Life events taking place all over the UK this summer. So please join them and enter Race for Life 2009 and invite every woman you know to take part too. You can enter today at www.raceforlife.org or call 0871 641 2282.
4 - Edinburgh Girl Geek Launch Night - Thursday 14th May 2009After the fantastic success of the Scotland Girl Geeks Dinner launch in Dundee, they are proud to announce the launch of Edinburgh Girl Geeks Dinners!Details are listed below but be quick as they're expecting the event to be a fantastic night!Edinburgh Girl Geek Launch NightThursday 14th May 2009, 7pm – 10pm, Mini-Forum 2, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB.Cost - £10 including hot buffet and soft drinksGirl Geeks Dinners has arrived in Edinburgh! Come to their launch night, where they aim to gather the region's brightest female computer scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs and techies for good food and good company. The evening will be chilled, friendly and informal. They hope to attract students, as well as professionals across the Lothians. There will be two speakers on the night - Danielle Wilde (an artist and design researcher at Monash University Faculty of Art and Design and the CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Engineering) and Polly Purvis Executive Director of ScotlandIS, which represents Scotland's software, communications and IT services businesses. And there will be plenty of time available to mingle and chat throughout the evening. Tickets are limited (40 available), so please book soon to avoid disappointment. Tickets available at: https://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/events/eventdetails.asp?eventid=114
5 - Chix & Mortar training courses - dates available in May and July 2009 in Liverpool and LondonWeekend DIY Courses for Women taught by TV's DIY expert Craig Phillips.This two day DIY weekend workshop - designed for women - is written and endorsed by the National Construction Academy and taught by star of Big Brother and TV’s favourite builder, Craig Phillips. Craig will give you the skills and confidence to manage and decorate your property in a no-pressure environment!Learn the basics in tiling, plastering, decorating, laying floors, plumbing and tools.Courses are held across UK with dates currently arranged in Liverpool (9th/10th May) and London (11th/12th July and 18th/19th July)Price: £199 per person for two days.Bookings : Contact Collette on 07771 886790 or info@chixandmortar.comMore details: www.chixandmortar.com
6 - Run for Camfed in the British 10K London Run - Sunday 12th July 2009, LondonPull on your running shoes for Africa!YOU can reduce poverty in Africa by pulling on your running shoes for Camfed (Campaign for Female Education) in the 2009 British 10K London Run on Sunday 12th July 2009!The charity Camfed is recruiting a team of runners to raise money for girls to go to school in some of the poorest communities in Africa. This is a unique opportunity to run through the heart of London, inspired by landmarks along the way including Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and St. Paul’s Cathedral and by the knowledge that every step raises more money for a good cause! It costs just £180 to support a girl through secondary school for an entire year – helping to transform her future. Joining the Camfed team today will help to set hundreds of girls on the path to success! womenintechnology has been very supportive of Camfed in the past and many of our members have run for Camfed in previous years so I hope you will consider undertaking this challenge for this good cause in 2009. More information can be found here: http://uk.camfed.org/news/2009/02/19/pull-on-your-running-shoes-for-africa/
7 - The 12th Women's International Networking Annual Leadership Conference - Prague, Thursday 8th to Saturday 10th October 2009 Wisdom in Action. The W.I.N. 2009 global leadership conference is the 12th in a series of visionary leadership events that inspire thousands of women, enhance their careers and improve business practices. Be part of it:Learn – about the new trends shaping the environment in which we work and liveDiscover – what world class companies are doing to survive and thriveBe inspired – by stories from successful professional women working around the worldGain – new personal and professional skillsCreate – business connections and alliances within a dynamic international networkThe interactive content of the three-day forum includes presentations by more than 30 world-class speakers, touching issues around economy, politics, technology, society, environment, humanity, life and work. Panel sessions are complemented by over 30 workshops for body, spirit and mind and plenty of networking events. Free one-to-one coaching sessions are also available. For ten days only benefit from exceptional registration prices: Monday 20th to Thursday 30th April Standard Ticket Euro1,000 - Standard Ticket applies to all professional participants (entrepreneurs, consultants, professionals, corporations etc).Subsidized ticket Euro 700 - Subsidized Ticket: for women in transition, students, pensioners, NGO members, individuals.Learn more at www.winconference.net
8 - Volunteering - inspire young people in your area to take up a career in ITOne of our key aims at womenintechnology is to attract more women into careers in technology, so we have partnered with non-profit Growing Ambitions to encourage you, the women in our network, to engage in career speaking volunteering as part of your CSR activity. Growing Ambitions is a unique UK-wide volunteering initiative that puts real people, doing real jobs, in front of young people to tell them what their careers are really like and give them great ideas for their future. Careers advisers are often under-resourced and need the input from the world of work. Young people need information to help them make informed career choices. It is particularly important that young girls have female IT role models they can look up to and aspire to be like. It would be great if you could register as willing to give a voluntary half-an-hour talk about your job and career to young people near where you live or work.It only takes just a few minutes to sign up through the volunteering portal on our website. You can speak just once if you want to, or as many times as you like. http://www.womenintechnology.co.uk/volunteeringFour stepsRegister to speak – it only takes a few minutes to complete a screen Wait to be contacted by a careers adviser (from a school, college or university near your home or workplace) The careers advisor will liaise with you by email to arrange a date and time that suits you Go in and speak
9 - Networking in the Credit Crunch - surveyWill the credit crunch impact the way you network? Do you think that men and women have a different networking style?Are you looking for new networking models that may not be currently available? Tell Aquitude and bidiversity.com, partners to womenintechnology.co.uk, all about it! Please fill in the on-line survey here: http://www.bidiversity.com/2009/03/networking-in-the-credit-crunch-the-survey/Don't miss out on your personal invitation to an exclusive reception where we will present the results and offer you your copy of the detailed report.
10 - Your Chance to Help Build the next Skype, SpinVox or Monitise - Entrepreneur Country InsidersImagine it’s December 2003. You are a post graduate student invited to download Skype because you’ve been identified as someone who can influence the development of a brand new service that has yet to be exposed to the mass-market. Skype values your opinion and asks you about your experience of using an early version of a service that will slash your phone bills by allowing you make free calls on the web. You immediately start to save money calling your friends and family, but your feedback also shows that you understand the revolutionary power of the P2P VoIP application. As an early adopter you are invited to a social event where you meet Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom and subsequently are offered a job at Skype - one of a handful of people in a young, dynamic company dedicated to changing the world of telecommunications. Less than two action-packed years later, your options vest when Skype is acquired by eBay in September 2005. At just 24, you are a multimillionaire and use your experience and new-found wealth to start investing in start-ups, building a new generation of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Country InsidersPure fantasy? They don’t think so. They're Ariadne Capital, a global investment and advisory firm and one of the companies behind some of Europe’s most successful recent start-ups – including Skype, SpinVox and Monitise. The early team of five people at Skype included four Ariadne Capital Executives in Residence. They can’t promise that this will happen again. But they are building a group of young influencers called the Entrepreneur Country Insiders with a programme that will put you in front of today’s and tomorrow’s most exciting entrepreneurs and applications. As an Insider, you will receive exclusive email invitations approximately once a month to access new services and provide feedback that will shape the technologies and services of tomorrow.Insider PromiseWhat they will do: Give you early access to new services, the entrepreneurs behind them and Insiders like yourself. What you will do: Give them your unabashed view of what’s good, what’s bad, what works, what doesn’t and how it could be improved. It's that simple!Becoming an InsiderInterested? Here’s what you need to do! Follow this link to registerhttp://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=OVsZB9ZQak9XlIvWzev3_2fA_3d_3dMembership is free. All participation is voluntary; you can pick and chose in which projects you want to be involved. You can unsubscribe whenever you like. All data received from your registrations or surveys is kept confidential. They will never share our database list and information with any third party, or try to sell you something. They’re looking forward to working with you!
11 - MentorSET - call for mentorsHave you considered becoming a mentor?MentorSET is currently looking for IT mentors. Becoming a mentor is a great way to improve your managerial skills, gain contacts and obtain a different perspective on the IT industry. You will also have great satisfaction knowing that you have helped someone else. To find out more please see the MentorSET website www.mentorset.org.uk or contact Jan West on jan.west@mentorset.org.uk
