So we guess the can we go back yet was a bit of a ‘yeah but no’ moment. We spotted some tap dancing members out there playing so we’re really glad you are all keeping your spirits up mostly!
Workshop Wednesdays

To further keep your spirits up check out this week’s Workshop Wednesday lineup here an absolute essential if you are job hunting at the moment and anyone wanting to understand a BA role then a brilliant workshop/presentation on that. The main part will not have video except for the presenters so no need to put clothes/makeup/smile on .. and we’ll mute you to avoid overhearing your partners saying how much they would love a purple catsuit .. we didn’t hear that on Friday honest!! 🙉
There will also be a Python beginners course at 7:30pm. This is in addition to the workshops already scheduled here: https://www.wthub.org/workshop/workshop-wednesday-lineup-on-the-20th-of-may/
The intention is to follow an online Python Course, with fortnightly workshops to go over the course material with the opportunity to ask questions, share coursework etc.
The coming Wednesday will be the kick-off meeting where the specific course will be confirmed (based on initial ideas but also taking on board any feedback/preferences of attendees), agree the pace of learning, settle communication method inbetween workshops etc.
If you would like to join please sign up to Workshop Wednesday meetup link above – it’s open to all genders. If you can’t make the first meeting but are still interested, then you are very welcome to attend subsequent workshops.
The following one we are currently putting together and hopefully will include Tableau & Data visualization for current Excel users by Gabs#1 – again (TBC) and the 2nd BA workshop by Sara Price. We are currently looking at interest in Python and Webdev101 coming back.
We are also sharing projects that people can be involved with to up their skills and put on their portfolios, so if you have something you are working on and need help with you can do a callout at the meeting and we can set up breakout rooms for you to discuss.
New TechTalks platform .. and its free for us!!

On that note Adam Butler who runs the Bristol JS group has been busy putting together an app to support event organizers manage things a bit better!
TechTalks is more than just an events platform. It’s a home for your community. Sessions such as talks, panels and hackathons have so much value and shouldn’t just disappear or go elsewhere when the day is over. TechTalks can be a home to the content that you and your community create.
If you’re a tech event organiser then we’ve got your back. You’ll soon be able to accept or discover talk proposals for your community. It will be seamless, all the control with none of the copy and pasting. That’s just for starters, a whole host of tools will be available to make running your events more efficient and better than ever.
As a speaker, you can build and grow your personal brand, host your content and publish your speaking schedule. Soon you’ll also be able to get insightful metrics and feedback on your sessions too.
Oh, one more thing. TechTalks is also a community itself. I’m a strong believer in getting product feedback early. I’ve made our roadmap public and we’ll be hosting regular remote sessions to find out what our community wants from TechTalks.
This is just a start, but an exciting one. Not everything is ready right now but there is a vision and we’re moving fast towards it. Join us and be a part of it.

Women’s Tech Hub are available for support online in place of our Free Three Fridays (F3F) for zoom catch-ups. Sign up on our meetup here or mail us on info@wthub.org for details.
We are also aware that we need to up our efforts into getting our members into work – for now we have our candidates page here but we are working on being a bit louder moving forward so bear with us for now while we put it together.
Stuff we spotted and thought we would pass on
The British Science Association are looking for new volunteer trustees to join our governing body (Council) and help increase our influence and impact. Details here.
We want to ensure science is not just seen as being for professional scientists or something you did at school. We’re looking for people from across the UK with different skills and experiences to broaden our diversity, and a science background is definitely not necessary.
Nimbus Centre, CIT and SFI CONFIRM Launch of Female PhD Scholarship

New scholarship in Ireland – thanks Zoe for letting us know!! Take a look here.
Conferences .. they’re back! (online and a lot are free)

The AI summit is offering us 25% discount and will send on all the presentations as its US-based – mail us on info@wthub.org for the discount code. 21st – 22nd May.
WOMEN TECH GLOBAL CONFERENCE 2020

Being Human in Times of Disruption, Technology and Innovation. June the 10th – 12th
At times like these we believe it is important to stand together even when being at the same place is not possible. Sign up here
Upskilling resources can all be found on our training page.
This Week’s happenings
District 1 Bristol
We’re publicising Bristol area first now as the rest is taking over and we would like to support our local groups as a priority and ensure they are still here
Monday the 18th
- Community Speedrun Challenge #3: Intermediate ML by GDG Bristol
- 22 Industrial IoT and Device Identity by Bristol and Bath Internet of Things Meetup
- BRVGCG Mon Eve Social Gaming Night – ONLINE! by Bristol Retro Video Gaming and Collectors Group
- Virtual Meetup – Career Management with Jason Alba by .NET South West
Tuesday the 19th
- ONLINE Snake oil and sexism: how do we fix conversational AI? by Anthropology Technology Meetup Group
- iO Java Virtual Meetup – Microservices for the Masses by South West Java & JVM User Group & The Bristol Tech Symposium
Wednesday the 20th
- Workshop Wednesdays by Women’s Tech Hub ~ Bristol
- WebDev101 at Workshop Wednesdays by CodeHub Bristol
- Cloud native & devOps talks – DevOps – A Search For a Better Definition by Bristol Cloud Native & DevOps
- 2nd Cybersecurity Innovation Group Meetup (Virtual) by Bristol Cybersecurity Innovation Meetup Group
- Custom built software is not like making a chicken salad sandwich from scratch by ExpertTalks Bristol
- Digital Marketing Meetup Bristol by Digital Marketing Meetup Bristol
- 28 : [Webinar] Analytics for user research – extracting the wood from the trees by UCD Bristol (User Centred Design, UX, Research)
Thursday the 21st
- DevOps Bunker – DevOps and Continuous Delivery Might Save Your Business by Bristol DevOps, Dev and Test Gathering
- #24 An Introduction to Cypress by South. West. Test.
- Bytesize #2 – Francesco Renzi – Tales Of Docker / Chris Smith – Lightning Talk by Bristech
- Virtual Coffee Morning #9 Founder Journeys with Rich Keith by TechSPARK(bristol)
Friday the 22nd
District 0 – ONLINE UK and Europe(Benelux)
Monday the 18th
- LJC Virtual Meetup: Using Graph Theory to Explore your Microservices Archit…
- Upskill and Thrive in Project Management – Virtual Mentoring Programme
- STEM MODE IN – Week 9: Monday Meal Plan (Zoom)
Tuesday the 19th
- WEBINAR: Certifying Medical Software
- Agency Advice: How to win new leads and customers in a crisis by Manchester Digital – the tech and digital trade body
- “How will Data Drive Business Transformation” with Rob Kellaway by Business Intelligence & Data Webinars – Robert Walters
- The Virtual DevOps Battle Royale “Round Eight” The Cloud Data Platform Showdown by The DevOps Battle Royale
- Lightning Talks (virtual) by Agile in Leeds
- Real-World Problem Solving with Azure Cognitive Services by HaintonDotNet – Yorkshire
- Game on – Online for a while by Board & Card Game Enthusiasts, Birmingham & West Midlands
- Building Real World FaaS Applications by PHP North East
- Workshop: TBC by Tech Leads NW
- Tuesday Night D&D Online! by Tabletop Manchester – Dungeons and Dragons, RPGs and More…
- Hearts over Diamonds – getting needs met with Bob Marshall by Lean Agile Stockport
- UK #ScratchEdMeetup (#2). 19May20
- Rittman Mead’s FREE Online Oracle Data Visualization Training
- LJC Virtual Meetup: Introducing GraalVM : The Fast, Polyglot JVM
- Film Screening: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani
- Upskill and Thrive in Project Management – Virtual Mentoring Programme
Wednesday the 20th
- Power BI Lunch & Learn Episode 5 by Manchester Power BI User Group #PBIMCR
- [Online] Tech Wednesday: Tech Nation Takeover! by Tech Wednesday
- Developing an Agile Mindset with Paddy Corry by agileYork
- [Online] May BirminghamR Meetup by Birmingham R User Group (R Programming Language)
- Covéa Talk Digital. Join us online for tech talks. by Covéa Talk Digital
- QABC #6: How to write a QA/Tester CV and Automation to the People! by QA Beginners Club
- May Meetup 2 – Cleanish Strategy by Agile Nottingham
- [🌐Online] A passwordless future & Open ID Connect, OAuth 2.0 with John Craddock by dotnetsheff
- MWUG Monthly Meetup by Manchester WordPress User Group (MWUG)
- Manc Web #14 – An Evening of TypeScript by Manchester Web Meetup
- Online Only: PHP and HTTP: Guzzle and SDKs & Comparing Database Types by Leeds PHP Meetup
- PyData Lancaster May (Virtual) Meetup with Array Festival by PyData Lancaster
- The MoTrix: Real World Example of Performance Testing with Lukasz Nowanski by Mids Test
- STEM MODE IN – Week 9: Wednesday Tutorial (Youtube Livestream)
- LJC Virtual Meetup: An Experiment in Continuous Deployment of JVM applicati…
- Upskill and Thrive in Project Management – Virtual Mentoring Programme
- 2nd European Virtual Student Conference
Thursday the 21st
- Virtual Workshop: All Things Apache Kafka by Distributed Data Manchester
- “People Skills Analysts Need to Succeed” with Paul Laughlin by Business Intelligence & Data Webinars – Robert Walters
- NT: Barber Shop Chronicles – Online Stream now until 7pm 21st May by GO: Heart Of England
- DevOps Exchange – Virtual Event #2: Google, AWS and Red Hat by DevOps Exchange Manchester
- [ONLINE] Social Media Meetup #41 by Social Media Meetup Liverpool
- Drupal Yorkshire Monthly Meetup by Drupal Yorkshire Monthly Meetup
- Introduction to Knowledge Graphs with Grakn and Graql by Grakn Manchester Engineers
- LeicesterJS – May Remote Meetup – Psychological safety in high performance teams by LeicesterJS
- [Online] Agile practices in practice and working from home – group discussion by Wolves Devs
- Working Through The Problem: How Developers Can Get Involved With Research by North West Ruby User Group
- Coriolanus – Online Stream – now until 21st May by GO: Heart Of England
- Upskill and Thrive in Project Management – Virtual Mentoring Programme
- Meet the new Exo Glove – Live online demonstration with Q&A
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2020
- A11y Online – With speakers Glafira Zhur & Robbie Moore
Friday the 22nd
- LJC Virtual Roundtable: Speaking at events and conferences – From getting s…
- Online Space Mission Designathon: Neptune and Planet 9 (MAY 2020)
- STEM MODE IN – Week 9: Friday Live (Instagram)
- Upskill and Thrive in Project Management – Virtual Mentoring Programme
We know that for many people and children the office and school can be their refuge so please be aware that in Bristol, Next Link domestic abuse telephone helplines are open 10am – 4pm Monday to Friday 0117 925 0680. Help is also available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on the National Domestic Violence Helpline – Freephone 0808 2000 247.
Domestic Violence Support
Did we miss anything?
If you have any events that you want us to mention on our next

As a suggestion from one of our lovely members (Thanks Gabs #1!), we have also set up a “buymeacoffee” page for those wanting to give us a small thank-you. Check it out here.
Women’s Tech Hub products
Our Candidates page advertises the skillsets of the women we have looking for roles in the area (and some of our male allies).
We have a Jobs Board for those wanting to advertise specifically to our members in the area – check it out here.
If you want to engage with our members, advertise your companies and share any jobs then you can support us by sponsoring the Workshop Wednesdays – details here.