It’s all the fun of the BristolTech Fair!
We’re starting to get very excited by the Fair and the companies coming along to show off their support of their Diverse and inclusive workforce! We have almost 1000 tickets gone already and the events and sponsors are starting to come together So don’t forget to signup here on Eventbrite.
WISE mini-conference
A quick overview – last week we shared the WISE
Tech3Shed Careers Fair
The Careers Fair is the second that we have run and we have called out to teh city to see what great companies out there want to talk about Diversity and want to actually have a converstaion with diverse groups. Whilst we concentrate on getting the women into the industry we welcome all diversity and people looking for work to come along and have a discussion.
Companies currently signed up (there are others still mid signup .. we’ll let you know who as they confirm!) are:
Check out our JobsBoard to see some of the great Jobs they are looking to discuss – contact us in advance if you want an introduction on info@wthub.org
Technotopia
Technotopia have a great show being put together (for Children and families) – they are going to update us with teh full programme shortly so we will share that in next weeks newsletter!
GirlGeekDinners
Don’t forget that Girl Geek Dinners are running both in Bristol and in Bath this week – see the happenings below. Interestingly we had almost 100 new Bristol GirlGeekDinners members sign up this week – so if you are reading this .. a big WELCOME!
Echoberg is still on the road
Digital Culture Research Centre present a funny, thought-provoking show created afresh each time by the audience in conversation with an artificial intelligence. These shows are part of academic research into audience opinions on the performance and the role of AI in entertainment and in wider society. Pop along to one of their events at UWE for sign up here
Workshop Wednesdays
Our Next workshop is next Wednesday the 23rd
If you want to
Project Rainbow – WTH Supporting Non Profits.
JavaScript Self-Led Study Group
Python Self-Led Study Group
Self-Study/Co-working
Other Stuff
We were sent this for budding founders out there
Do you have an idea for a business that’s been niggling away at you, something that you’ve always wanted to start? Or do you know someone who keeps on putting their’s off?
As part of our Side Hustle competition for #BackHerBusiness, we’ll be awarding £20,000 in cash prizes and another £80,000 in grant funding to women to get their side hustles started. To take part and be in with a chance of winning up to £10,000 from NatWest towards your business, just tell us your idea in 100 words.
Conferences
We advertise any conference details we spot on our conference page – we’ll give you highlights here (our events and ones with offers come first and loudest obviously!)
Bristol Tech Fair 2019 November the 9th
The Festival of Female entrepreneurs are offering us £20 discount on October the 18th .. use this link to get the discount
Django Girls Workshop October the 18th & 19th
The ‘networked self’ final dissemination event: Building a network of
This Week’s happenings
District 1 – Bristol
Monday the 14th
- Paving the Way – How women are overcoming the gender pay gap and you can to
- #21 James Bach comes to Bristol! by South. West. Test.
Tuesday the 15th
- Bristol Machine Learning #8 – Social One by Bristol Machine Learning Meetup
- Free Session at OneUp Coworking by Bristol Co-Workers
- Hack Night by CodeHub Bristol
- South West Ruby #21 by South West Ruby
- I’ll Be Back South West – creativity, AI and ads (OCTOBER)
- Resource recovery from waste
Start Up Rail – Bristol- Sustainable Technologies Business Acceleration Hub networking event
Wednesday the 16th
- Casual Co-working At Prince Street Social by Bristol Co-Workers
- Digital Marketing Workshop – Reboot by Digital Marketing Workshop
- October talk night by
SWmobile - UCD Bristol 22 – Delivering Experience Design in Developing Economies by UCD Bristol (
User Centred Design, UX, Research) - South
West : Black Belt Negotiator - RPA: Proven Success In The Public Sector – Bristol
- IT for Beginners Course
- cheeky non-tech plug Bauhaus and Women
- How Diversity can Transform your
organisation – What you need to know - Pitchfest South West 2019 – Investor Registration, Bristol
Thursday the 17th
- GGD #78 CAV and Safety hosted by Scott Logic by Bristol Girl Geek Dinners
- Free co-working at Framework by Bristol Co-Workers
- How will 5G make Bristol a Smart City? by Bristol Science Cafe
- Cabot Institute Annual Lecture 2019: Can we thrive as an urban species?
- Murder Mystery Howlers (we love the look of this one !)
- IR35 – Is this the end of contracting as we know it?
Friday the 18th
- Our regular Friday, women-only networking courtesy of Desklodge Free Three Friday is back with Careers support with ADLIB
- Robot swarms in our cities at the Festival of the Future City by Hauert Lab (Bristol Robotics Laboratory) & Festival of the Future City
- Festival of Female Entrepreneurs 2019
Saturday the 19th
District 2 – Bath
Tuesday the 15th
Wednesday the 16th
Thursday the 17th
Techspark social: Digital futurology and free beer! (+ One year of DBAH!) by BathSPARK- Innovation in Chains: Value, Supply, Block
District 3 – Weston-Super-Mare
Nothing we’ve spotted in Weston this week but we’ll include somerset!
Thursday the 17th
Did we miss anything?
If you have any events that you want us to mention on our next