British Science Week: Come learn about tech!

With our ……. Workshop Wednesdays

What better manner to celebrate British Science Week than coming along to a super friendly meeting where there’s plenty to learn, either through coding or just chatting to people who are really keen to tell you about Tech and how/what you might want to do. We offer up a speaker’s corner for those wanting to practice their tech talks on a friendly audience and welcome suggestions on topics that you want to group together for. We also offer super companies the change to come, support, pitch their jobs and offer workshops should they wish to – see details here. This week it’s SG Digital, who have just dipped their toes into Bristol and are recruiting!!

SG Digital are sponsoring this week’s workshop Wednesday on the 11th of March – check out our Jobs Board to see what they are recruiting for and check out their new offices in the Quorum. They will be running a 10-minute presentation at 8 pm just before the pizzas!

Everyone is welcome – you don’t have a to know a thing, there’s no testing you or judging your knowledge, just come along for some free learning about tech. This week we shall have the following:

• Just popping along for some co-working with Women’s Tech Hub – all welcome, tech-curious, questions or support or anything really. We are considering setting up a group to discuss UX so pop along if you are interested in getting something started on that.
• Python beginners – this is a managed set of workshop sessions moving towards a good foundation for data analytics/science etc and also just to learn some python – this week is about working with data (quelle surprise!). Introduction to Pandas & Loading/saving/manipulating data with Pandas
• Bristol Data Science and Machine Learning Study Group – this is a supported group helping people learn and self-study in fast.ai
• CodeHub’s WebDev101 – for anyone doing any web development or simply interested in setting up a website and with questions to ask
• CodeHub’s Python code dojo – this is for all levels of python coders and runs with us monthly

Bristol Girl Geek Dinners

GGD #81 Girlgeek Dinners, Women’s Tech Hub & Bloomberg live at the ACCU!!

Networking event hosted by the ACCU and sponsored by Bloomberg. Showcasing the local tech groups supporting gender diversity in the region

This is a dissemination event and ALL (who are obviously interested in Tech) are welcome.

The event will start with a Bloomberg presentation. We will run through what we have been and are up to with Bristol (and Bath) GirlGeekDinners and Women’s Tech Hub. We are then inviting the other collaborative groups in the area and those wishing to increase their diversity to share the platform and do a shout-out*:

Currently this includes:

• Knowle West Media Centre
• CodeHub
• BDML
• Python Dojo
• WebDev 101
• South West Business Analysts
• PHPSW
• SW mobile
• Ladies that UX
• Tech4Good
• … *Your group here*

Anyone* else that comes to us wanting to showcase. Mail us on info@wthub.org if you want to be included.

*Due to our policies this does not include any recruitment company led groups

Other Stuff

Oh - and Happy International Women's Day - You lot are simply awesome 🙌

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!)

ACCU 2020 – 24th – 28th March (we’ll be here)

“The ACCU Conference is, simply, the premier developer conference in the UK”
 ACCU, a premier conference for programmers and developers, is back for 2020 and will once again return to Bristol to bring together some of the best minds and game-changers in the industry! Taking place across four days, ACCU is the conference for all those interested in native languages and professionalism in programming. As in previous years, two of the five streams will focus purely on C++.  Annually attracting a host of renowned international speakers, 2020 will take an interesting look at the way technology is evolving. Will you be there?

This Week’s happenings

District 1 – Bristol

Monday the 9th

• Co-Working at Illustrate by Bristol Co-Workers
• DCMS 5G Create – Competition Briefing Event: Bristol
• Celebrating International Women’s Day 2020
• Int. Womens Day: Exploring Purpose, Periods and Planet

Tuesday the 10th

• Joint meeting with the Agile Bath and Bristol Meetup by ExpertTalks Bristol
• South West Data Social by South West Data
• Embracing collaborative chaos – running chaos days on large platforms by Agile Bath & Bristol
• The rise of the UX Developer by SWUX – South West User Experience
• South West Data Social by South West Data
• Earth Improving: Collective Action (South West)
• GWR International Women’s Day Event
• Health Matters Event: Scientists in the NHS – what’s the story?

Workshop Wednesday the 11th

• Workshop Wednesdays by Women’s Tech Hub ~ Bristol
• Self-paced peer-supported study session by Bristol Data Science and Machine Learning Study Group
• WebDev101 at Workshop Wednesdays by CodeHub Bristol
• Python Code Dojo @ Workshop Wednesdays by CodeHub Bristol

Wednesday the 11th

• Casual Co-working At Prince Street Social by Bristol Co-Workers
• Clojure Programming Group by Bristol Clojurians
• PHP 7.4 and OpenAPI by PHPSW
• BVRL Evening Seminar and Social – Architecture, Engineering & Construction
• Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo with couplings
• SW Founders – building better products through user-centred design by South West Founders
• Bristol March Meetup by South West Java & JVM User Group
• NI Western Branch – Molten Salt Reactors
• The Maths of Life and Death
• Engineering, Health Sciences, Life Sciences and Science Postgraduate Taught
• Think Cyber Think Resilience Bristol Cyber Pathfinder Training Scheme 6
• Woman Up // Women’s Leadership Symposium

Thursday the 12th

• Casual co-working at the Tobacco Factory by Bristol Co-Workers
• Navigating your Healthcare Career (Tickets via link only) by One HealthTech Bristol
• 5th Product Lunch Club 🥪 – Bristol by Product Lunch Club – Bristol
• Digital Transformation in the Public Sector
• Pizza, Cyber Security CDT and You
• Responses to the Climate Emergency and Biodiversity Crisis
• What is Blockchain Technology? Evening Event
• The F Factor: Bristol Regional Final 2020
• Applied Artificial Intelligence in Health seminar
• VOF Meeting – Digital inclusion & Digital resources
• Construction Innovation Hub – Future Skills Workshop

Friday the 13th

• Feminist Academics Talk Back!

Saturday the 14th

• The Science of Photography

District 2 – Bath

Tuesday the 10th

• Bath Architects Group – Bath Spa University/ Herman Miller Factory Tour

Wednesday the 11th

• BATH Business Expo – Regional Event
• Breakfast Networking at the Regional Bath Business Expo
• Digital Marketing Strategy
• Build Your Personal Brand Online
• Build Effective Presentations
• Get Inspired! An Interview with Sarah Warby, CEO of Lovehoney
• How to be your authentic self on LinkedIn
• Networking for Charities, NGO’s, Third Sector & Social Enterprises
• Networking for Creative & Digital – Publishers, Marketers, Creatives, PR
• Networking for Tech Sector (including Digital Tech, Science & Innovation)

Thursday the 12th

• University of Bath Business Networking Dinner

District 3 – Weston-Super-Mare

Monday the 9th

• Campus Tours – South West Skills

Tuesday March the 10th

• 1:2:1 – IP Clinic – Weston-super-Mare

Did we miss anything?

If you have any events that you want us to mention on our next Blogpost contact us on info@wthub.org. We do try to keep it to free or funded items that our members might relate to.

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.