GirlGeekDinnersMelbourne

2012-05-21

• 12:35 UTC The Secrets of Success: Leaders in transformational change
  Event Date: May 31, 6pm Achieving sustained improvement in performance and efficiency requires that organizations move beyond structures, processes, and systems to address individual and collective behaviour—including culture, mind-sets and capabilities, and team and group dynamics. A key aspect of creating transformational change involves co-creation and collaboration to design and implement interventions to build skills, [...]

2012-01-13

• 14:57 UTC AdaCamp Girl Geek Dinner
  The Ada Initiative is planning to hold an “Ada Camp” in mid January in Melbourne (See http://adainitiative…. ). This means there will be lots of open-tech geeky women in town, a good opportunity for a GGD! NOTE: This venue requires that we pay up-front, so we are selling tickets through Eventbrite. RSVPing here is not [...]

2011-10-18

• 16:00 UTC ‘Be Your Own Devop: Making and Maintaining a Website’ Discussion Dinner
  Got an idea for a website? Who hasn’t, from a personal PR piece, to a missing community niche, or a fan’s tribute, or your business on the side. Many of us would have some experience in starting, maintaining, sysadminning or fixing a website in one area or another – design, features, security, usability, backups. (And [...]

2011-07-26

• 16:08 UTC Mentors: Do you need one? Should you be one?
  Mentors provide expertise to less experienced individuals to help them advance their careers, enhance their education, and build their networks. In essence, a mentor should be: Someone to be accountable to. It is often too easy to neglect priorities through recurring postponement of tasks. Sharing of your goals with your Mentor means that if you [...]

2011-06-28

• 16:13 UTC An Evening at ThoughtWorks: Gender Roles in the Workplace
  Have you ever felt like you were treated differently because you’re a woman? Or perhaps maybe you felt the need to change the way you acted in front of your male peers? Have you mastered the ability to not let such external factors affect the way you act or make decisions. Either way, we’d like [...]

2011-05-29

• 18:47 UTC The Sustainability Thing
  Jenni Goricanec is interested in working with others to enhance the sustainability of human systems. Jenni Goricanec is Director of The *Wicked* Innovation Practice. She has worked for notable companies, including: Ericsson, RMIT, Telstra, and The University of Melbourne In 2010, Jenni earned a PhD in Sustaining Futures and began her schoolastic career by earning [...]

2011-04-04

• 18:53 UTC April 27th: Transmedia, An Evening with Dr. Christy Dena
  Transmedia storytelling is a technique of telling stories across multiple platforms and formats, recognized for its use by mass media to develop media franchises. Dr. Christy Dena specializes in the design and execution of trans/cross-media projects. As Director of Universe Creation 101, she consults on the design of projects, now produces as well, and is [...]

2011-03-02

• 14:51 UTC March 8th: International Women’s Day
  We have some pretty incredible women showing up to our monthly dinners. Our discussions are always intelligent, courageous, humorous, insightful and most of all show off the range of personalities and professions amongst us. There used to be a stigma around anyone working in technology. Digital media has helped break down a lot of barriers [...]

2011-02-23

• 18:35 UTC March 30th SXSW Wrap-Up & Local Conferences Discussion
  Couldn’t make it to SXSW Interactive this year? No worries, GGDMelb is going to review the programming, blog posts, event apps and general discussions about one of the most highly anticipated digital media conferences. SXSW® Interactive features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted [...]

2011-02-06

• 17:13 UTC February 23rd: Introduction to Arduino
  Have you ever wondered if it was possible to customise one of your favourite gadgets? Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Andy Gelme, Systems designer and technical lead at Geekscape has graciously [...]