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

9th June 20199th June 2019

Social Media Week

Social Media Week is a global conference held in over 25 cities worldwide. Participate in the Bristol edition and attend events across the city which are designed to upskill, inform, explore ideas and opportunities and further the conversation on key issues in media, marketing and technology. For full details you can check out the main website Social Media Week on from the 10th to the 14th – we’re expecting that they’ll be publicising it well!

Workshop Wednesdays

Starting at the next Workshop Wednesday 19th June, Kathryn (from CodeHub (https://www.codehub.org.uk/) will be kicking off self-led python study group(s). The aim is to bring together people who want to learn or improve their python skills, provide suggestions on learning materials/courses, and share experiences on what makes effective self-led groups. At the end of the evening we’d hope that there would be one or more groups who have agreed to study together and have, at least, planned the next step.

All levels and genders are welcome, though the focus is likely to be on those who are less (or no) experienced in python. We would warmly welcome those who have a few python skills already and would be willing to support the groups – it will be a fun way of helping your own development, as well as being a great addition to your CV!

GrrrlGames will also be there ” Grrrl Games is for women* interested in the field of game development. We meet up on the first Tuesday of every month in Bristol, for talks, practical sessions and group discussions on all areas of gaming. “

Any companies wishing to engage by paying for pizzas and drinks and running workshops etc please get in touch on info@wthub.org.

1st June 20191st June 2019

Looks like they’ll be back…

I’ll be Back South West

June 2019’s I’ll Be Back South West is going to be a colourful summer riot of knowledge and wisdom. In the usual convivial fun-filled style that you’ve come to know and love. And we’re back at the coolest club in town: THE SQUARE CLUB.

It’s a monthly meet-up for people interested in the impact of artificial intelligence/machine learning/technology on the creative process in the ad industry. Each month we have three/four/five guest speakers from brands, startups, agencies and academia to share their perspective on creative AI.

If you’re having troubled thoughts like ‘Is that machine text generator better than me’ or ‘I wonder if I’ll lose my job to a robot?’ or ‘What the hell is a GAN anyway?’, then this is definitely the event for you. You will receive the gift of new, exciting information planted in your brain, and leave excited and inspired about the future.

On that note

We had a meeting with the wonderful Tiny Giants team (from I’ll be back) last week and it looks like they are keen to work with us on the Bristol Tech Fair (currently setting up the site!) alongside Technotopia, our Tech3shed careers fair and WISE and possibly with some collaboration with TEDxBristol. It’s all in early planning stages but we are VERY excited about what we will come up with – and we would love any volunteers to let us know if they want to help on the day – mail us on info@bristoltechfair.org.

We have our next Workshop Wednesdays event this week and we will have Pitching yourself, your business, or your idea. (Bristol) by Meet & Speak , we are happy to host other groups and of course any companies wanting to engage, help with pizzas or workshops.

Blockercon

is this week 4-6 June 2019 at Sansovino Hall, Bristol Harbour Hotel, 53-55 Corn St, Bristol BS1 1HT and we also have an extra discount on tickets for our female members you can get your tickets here – mail us for discount which sees an extra 30% of the women in tech price.

26th May 201927th May 2019

Half Term!

Half Term so hopefully a quiet week

We had great fun last week with our first Workshop Wednesdays event and if you would like to pay for pizzas/ run workshops and engage then please contact us on info@wthub.org. The next one will be on the 5th June and includes Pitching yourself, your business, or your idea. (Bristol) by Meet & Speak , so we hope to see you there. It’s open to all and it was great to see so many ex bootcampers come along for the CV workshop. A big thanks to Mia for running that and also to Amy with her financial advice. For the bootcampers we hope you can come along to our social this Friday which we are running as a WTH May Social – Celebration for the recent bootcamp achievers – all welcome.

Blockercon is coming

Thats next week but we have a discount on tickets for our female members you can get your tickets here – mail us for discount which sees an extra 30% of the women in tech price.

BLOCKERCON is a global gathering of blockchain experts, startups and enterprise organisations.

With over 100 engaging sessions across three action-packed days, and speakers from all around the world, BLOCKERCON will once again bring the future of blockchain technology to Bristol on 4-6 June 2019!

BLOCKERCON 2019 – major new venue with keynote stage, expo area, meet the expert round-table sessions and workshops. The must attend blockchain event for high-growth startups, service providers and enterprise organisations!

.. and so is the Pixel Pioneers Conference & social media week

A one-day conference of practical and inspiring design and front-end talks, featuring eight world-class speakers, preceded by a workshop day. In Bristol Pixel Pioneers is on 7 June.

19th May 201919th May 2019

It’s Launch (and Data) week

Workshop Wednesdays starts on the 22nd

This is the week we have been waiting for as we finally kick off our Workshop Wednesdays taking over the entire third floor of the lovely Desklodge House. The space is open to all and you can join up on Women’s Tech Hub to pop along – and YES men are welcome as members with Women’s Tech Hub .. we considered maybe renaming it to “Wo Men’s” so it wasn’t so scarey but thought that really, the type of men we want to see, would get over their fear of the word and sign up.

We plan to run workshops around different themes so if you want to put together some training/workshops around Python, Javascript, UX, learning Salesforce etc then speak to us and we can plan it in. We are also planning on running some for our founders and start ups as well as supporting the local bootcamp cohorts to help them get work.

This week we have the wonderful Mia Impey ADLIB’s Diversity and Inclusion specialist doing a workshop on CV’s.

Amy Newton will be giving a talk on “Essentials of a business plan in raising bank funding for your business” to help out start ups – for this you can sign up on Women’s Tech Founders (same rules re gender as above … I mean it’s not like MANPOWER only get men into jobs – or do they?)

It’s Data Week 2019

The Jean Golding Institute is running a week long series of workshops, talks and events in the field of data science and data-intensive research. Including Python, open data, reproducible research, data analysis, live coding, deep learning and more. So rather than individually naming all the free data training options please click the link and sign up! So for all you Data geeks out there – sign up and pop along as they look great!

13th May 201913th May 2019

Sparkols’ VideoScribe and CyberCon

Our lovely friends at Sparkol are running with TechSpark a Techie Brekkie event “Using video & animation to grow marketing reach & engagement” over at Desklodge House this week. They will show how their tool VideoScribe can be used to create your own videos for marketing, sales, HR or training purposes. See Videoscribe here

It’s free to attend and will take place on Thursday, 16 May from 8:00-9:30am. Registration is here: Techie Brekkie | Using video & animation to grow marketing reach & engagement.

The world’s first gameified Cyber conference is coming to Bristol!

We believe Cyber conferences should be fun and engaging – and open to all, regardless of experience. Thus BristolCyberCon was born!

At BristolCyberCon you’ll be incentivised to network with others through fun social engineering & gameification activities, encouraged to participate in the interactive events, and engage with our speakers throughout the day. We’ll also have our comedy duo doing cyber skits through the day (and in the bar afterwards) to keep the day enjoyable.

We’ve 4 interactive workshops, 2 hackathons, a Red Team vs Blue Team panel debate and 15+ inspiring speakers who will be discussing everything from social engineering your way into an office, building cyber diversity in the workplace, using GitOps to deploy software securely, to reverse engineering electric cars!