Events

Girl Geek Dinner Review: Thursday 17th September

What a great night last week's dinner was!

We had a good turnout of Girl Geeks, two fantastic speakers and some great prizes.

I want to say a huge Thank You to Patrick Van Rinsvelt and Thea Myers for giving us two awesome presentations on Continuous Service Delivery and Usability. They were right on the money in regards to covering topics that all of us deal with and can learn from, and we were shown a great selection of tools that I'm sure we'll all be busy playing with over the coming weeks! Also thank you to Jo Newcombe-Cook who made all of our brains work with the famous women name game which was pretty tricky but we got most of them paired up by the end of the night.

It was great to catch up with the Girl Geeks of Tauranga, and Patrick too of course! Patrick told me at the end of the night that he was keen to come along again as his wife's 'date' as he had a good evening with us. Just so you know - guys you're more than welcome to attend our girl geek dinners, but the deal is that you have to come along as a 'date' of another girl geek, and girls - as good for the ego as it is to have multiple 'dates', you're only allowed to bring one 'date' to each dinner! So guy geeks of Tauranga, if you're enticed by one of our speakers or want to come along and see what it's all about, just follow the rules and you're more than welcome (and it's not mandatory to wear pink!).

A big thank you to our sponsor of this month's dinner: Western Bay of Plenty ICT Cluster, and a thank you to Microsoft for their continued support.

And a final thank you to the wonderful companies and individuals who support Girl Geek Dinners by donating spot prizes and goody bag items.

I look forward to seeing you all at the next dinner, which will be planned for mid-end of January (to avoid the crazy Christmas season!).

Original dinner invite:

Tauranga's Next Girl Geek Dinner!

Tickets available now for our next dinner!

When? Thursday 17th September @ 6pm

Where? Hotel Armitage, 9 Willow Street, Tauranga

Ticket Price: $25

Ticket price includes platter-style dinner and goody bag!
Cash bar available throughout the evening.

Join us for a night of socialising, a bit of tech talk, spot prizes and fun, with good food to top it all off.

Speakers/Presentations:

> Thea Myers from Optimal Usability, Auckland We are extremely lucky to have Thea come to Tauranga and present for us. More details soon about her presentation, but expect lots of user experience and customer journey goodness!

More speaker announcements coming soon... If you are interested in presenting at our dinner, please contact me.

Spot Prizes:


One year subscription to NetGuide magazine	Microsoft goodies (more details to come)	Look after you skin with Caci Clinic Tauranga. (Prize details to come)

More spot prizes coming soon... if you would like to donate a spot prize or goody bag item, please contact me.

Tickets available soon!

Huge thanks to the sponsor of our next dinner:

The Western Bay of Plenty ICT Cluster was established in 2003 to stimulate growth in the sector by information sharing to encourage synergies and collaboration. Facilitated by Priority One, the cluster now has around 350 members from over 180 ICT and related businesses. Increasingly the cluster is focusing on the growth of software development companies and generating collaborative opportunities with other sectors using ICT to increase productivity.

Past Tauranga Girl Geek Dinners:

29th May 2010
24th February 2010
27th September 2009
28th May 2009
19th February 2009
27th November 2008