Women's Tech Hub~Bristol | Advancing Gender Diversity in Tech

14th July 201914th July 2019

Want to exhibit at Technotopia?

Call for exhibitors Bristol Tech Fair 2019

“Bristol’s first Tech Fair is here, and we are inviting local organisations to join us as exhibitors, sponsors or partners for a full day of hands-on activities, workshops, and creativity for the whole family to enjoy.

Bristol Tech Fair 2019 is a FREE event, a celebration of the best technology in our city and an invitation to young people and families to learn, interact and get excited about the opportunities that new technologies are bringing into our lives.

We are a featured event part of Bristol Technology Festival, organised in collaboration with Engine Shed, Women’s Tech Hub, Wise Campaign and other local organisations working in partnership to make technology accessible to our communities in Bristol and beyond.

We are looking for companies eager to come down and teach the next generation just how exciting the world of Tech is. If you are supporting STEM outreach or have some exciting fun stuff that you want to share, then please get in touch as this is the perfect platform for you! Companies simply wishing to support are also very welcome to sponsor so that we can make this a great fun event and support charities and social enterprises with great solutions to also be at the event. “

It’s world Emoji Day on the 17th

Emoji’s have been used since the beginning of the internet to transmit emotion in the written medium. As internet technology advanced, so did the use of the emoji, with previously pure text bits of ascii art turning into full-fledged animated faces and symbols. We’ve all used them, and we’re excited for the future of them! World Emoji day celebrates the history of these emotional expressions, and encourages you to be exceptionally emotive! After all, it’s always nice to let someone know how you’re feeling when you write, isn’t it? Emoji’s are just one more way!

7th July 20197th July 2019

Announcing Bristol Tech Fair !!

We’ve been planning this for a while and are finally able to announce that as part of Bristol Technology Week we will be running the Bristol Tech Fair in collaboration with Technotopia and the WISE campaign. As a follow on from our previous Tech³Shed engaged careers fair in March we have gotten together with Technotopia and the WISE campaign to run what promises to be a brilliant and fun day, mixing discussion, with careers and children!! So put it in your diaries that we’ll be at the Colston Hall on the 9th of November!

Happy History of Math 2.0 Day

“A celebration of the blending of technology and mathematics. For a lot of us, math wasn’t a favorite subject, we’d spend the entire period staring at the equations and wondering what sort of livid madman designed these torture chambers on paper. Ultimately, however, we realised that math is utterly indispensable in our modern world.”

UXBristol 2019 Friday July 12th

” The one day conference will offer hands-on workshops and aims to bring UXers together to share their knowledge and expertise. It is aimed at all levels from aspiring students to experienced consultants. “

30th June 20191st July 2019

Happy Canada Day!

To all our Canadian friends and family on July the 1st! (its also national icecream month btw)

We have a few things coming up around wellbeing at work and mental health and while we try to keep this to positive Tech stuff we do think it’s worth sharing a couple of things …

The Tech to Connect Challenge is looking to help civil society develop their early stage ideas for tech that enables more or better interactions between people. Tech can be alienating or divisive for those that are isolated, so we want to help civil society translate their knowledge into good ideas for new ways to connect people.

RSA: The Power of People for Transformative Change – “Connect: Create: Collaborate” Thursday 8th August from our friend Michelle Preston

” What are the differences between community, network and movement? Join us at this one day conference to explore and understand how connected communities, nurturing networks and meaningful movements provide opportunities for us all to “connect: create: collaborate”. “

We also spotted this – a practical film about it showing in BATH, SCREENING OF ‘STEVE’ this Wednesday. They are our brothers/fathers/friends/partners or children and we know of far too many of our members affected so well worth a look.

… and as part of PRIDE we spotted a techy related event Pride of Science on Friday the 5th

We are also involved with a new technical Advisory board with UWE and they have just announced their new masters 1 year Full-time/2 year part-time MSc Financial Technology has been validated, which we love as it spans Finance and Tech, and is a great course to do to help transfer into a very vast growing sector of the Tech world.

23rd June 201923rd June 2019

Happy International Women in Engineering Day

Today is Happy International Women in Engineering Day (23rd June) so big shout out to all of us in the industry and striving to support our colleagues and other women to make the move into a great industry.

We do have one conference in town this week and the sparkies awards so welcome to …

The Sparkies

This year the awards will be held in the UNESCO world heritage city of Bath, at the Assembly Rooms, on 27 June 2019 and if you’ve been to the SPARKies before you’ll know it’s a great night for digital debauchery, comedy and community with awards for everything from outstanding tech startups to mentors, hardware, virtual reality and more. Good luck to all the nominees and say hi to WTHub Constance Fleuriot if you are there as she is one of the judges!

DrupalCamp Bristol 2019 Friday June 28th

“The main conference day will be held from 9am until 5pm on Friday the 28th of June at The Station, Silver St. There will be a wide range of talks on a single track allowing technical and non-technical attendees to enjoy their day. “

16th June 201916th June 2019

Wednesday really is the new Black

Looks like its a busy Wednesday .. it is the Business showcase but it seems like everyone loves a Wednesday, we have even managed to clash with ourselves – running our Bristol GGD #76 Digital Exclusion and Double Diamonds with BJSS with our workshop Wednesdays (more details below!). Hopefully, it means we will all be well fed with pizza by the end of the night and we are obviously on trend!

Our other news is that we have now set up a jobs board which allows our Tech3Shed Careers Fair sponsors and our Women’s tech Hub members to advertise their roles as part of their member/sponsorship offerings. The sponsorship package for being part of the Bristol Tech Fair is also ready this week so mail us on info@bristoltechfair.org for info! .. there will be more info coming in the next few weeks! There also happen to be a couple of big Conferences on this week

B-sides – which is a massive London cyber Conference

What is BSides Bristol?

BSides Bristol is a two-day infosec community event run under the BSides Security movement. It’s the first BSides event to be run in the south west following the success of other UK BSides events like BSides London and BSides Manchester, with a seperate core team. It’s coming to town this week 20th – 21st June 2019 at UWE

Who should come?

Absolutely anybody interested in InfoSec disciplines like Penetration Testing, Digital Forensics, Incident Response, or generic Cyber Security. You don’t have to work in InfoSec to attend; all you need is a spark of interest! We’re hoping to capture a pool of cyber-ness from the south west primarily, attracting people from Bristol, Cardiff, Bath and Gloucester, as well as visitors from around the country and the world.

Collaborate Bristol 2019

Collaborate Bristol is The South West’s leading UX, Ai and Design conference. The conference returns for the seventh year running, aimed at encouraging sharing, learning and networking within the digital community.

The event returns to the Watershed on Friday June 21st , offering a unique chance to network with peers and learn from top brands and internationally renowned speakers against the backdrop of Bristol’s floating harbour.