Tech3Shed is here! – Women's Tech Hub~Bristol

We’ll be announcing the workshops all week but let’s give you an overview of who’s coming and what we know so far!

Check out the main website for updates and further info Tech³Shed and Sign up on eventbrite

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It’s the 15th and 16th of Match 2019 – so thats this coming Friday afternoon/evening and Saturday daytime. We want to ensure that this is best ever careers fair you have EVER been to. Failing that we want to ensure that it’s engaging, welcoming and helpful so we have some volunteers who will be there to help as ‘buddies’ and ensure you get chance to engage and speak to the people that are of interest. Any persons wanting to come can sign up as a volunteer on our meetup page – any humans welcome to help!

We request no unsolicited social media – you are welcome to take selfies but please ask if you want someone else in the picture and if they say ‘no’ that’s it – a complete sentence, no reasoning needed and no badgering them! The same with there being no recruiters, this is a sponsored event by the companies in attendance and not an opportunity for recruiters so let us know if you spot any and we will kindly ask them to leave.

We just got asked how smart to dress as the picture on our website looks quite suited – we’ll admit we were looking for an event picture with diversity on it, we didn’t even consider the clothes. The industry is pretty relaxed about dress code so please don’t bother with 3 piece suits for the occasion, it’s about having a relaxed environment with a chance to actually talk to the people inside companies rather than through their HR or a recruiter. If you feel more at home in a 3 piece suit then we obviously won’t kick you out for dress code but please don’t worry too much (obviously you might want to check for dodgy shirts!)

Friday

The Friday starts at 2pm and runs until 6pm on the 3rd floor of Desklodge House. After that, we are offering everyone a chance to network from 6pm – 8pm on the ground floor. This part comes with free wine and pizza so pop in on your way home and say hi if you can’t make the afternoon. We’ll also be feeding the lovely people who will have been on stands, volunteering and running workshops during the day.

The workshops on that day will be running from 3pm until 6pm and currently we have the following workshops :

3pm – 3:50pm
- Graphcore
- Lisa Forte – Red Goat
4pm – 4:50pm
- UltraSOC
- Ceri Newton – Agile
5pm – 5:50pm
- Altran
- Deloitte Digital
- Cookpad

Saturday

This starts at 10am and runs through until 4pm on the 3rd floor of Desklodge House.

We will be feeding our stand holders, volunteers and workshops on the day but other than that there is no food onsite. We will have drinks available (non-alcoholic) and if anyone has a food stand that they want to run outside in the car park then we are more than happy for them to pop along. The workshops are running from 11am until 4pm. At 4pm we will be not be drinking wine and pizzas at Desklodge although I suspect a few of us may saunter down to a local watering hole …

11am – 11:50am
- Altran
- Esoterix
12pm – 12:50pm
- UltraSOC
- Cer Newton – Agile
1pm – 1:50pm
- Break ….
2pm – 2:50pm
- TEDx
- TBC
3pm- 4pm
- TEDx
- TBC

News & Events coming up

The Next Girl Geek Dinners have been announced – The Engine shed have kindly offered for March 21st and we will be at the ACCU on April 11th and sponsored by Bloomberg. We are just putting together the speakers for these, but you are welcome to sign up on the holding pages on MEETUP
Cyber Security – the 4th April there’s the major security recruitment fair securityclearedjobs and then in June bsides is coming to town – “The south-west’s all new community-driven and industry-supported cyber security conference hosted in sunny Bristol 20th – 21st June 2019 at the UWE”
We have 15% Discount on Data Protection & GDPR with OSPCyber training in March and April.
Women who Code are next up with Sondheim, Seurat and Software: finding art in code – with Jon Skeet on March the 20th
Open Data Jam / Hackathon – 23/24th March
Data Projects. Pitching and commissioning event – 1st April (no joke!) Will be constructive fun, and there are three available commissions of £1.5k.

This Weeks happenings

District 1 – Bristol

Monday the 11th

Annual Garrad Hassan Lecture 2019 – Are Kites the Future of Wind Energy? How can we sense when we make bad security decisions? An Adafruit Circuit P…
Great to see this “About time we had a meeting – and we are merging …” from Bristol and Bath chatbots and AI group
This looks interesting – we’re aware there are some changes to the Curriculum OCR Computing Teacher Network – Bristol

Tuesday the 12th

Mentorship Kickoff with CodeHub
South West Data Social
Start-up Drinks Bristol: Tech & Cider Takeover
Digitisation Technology and Techniques Roadshow

Wednesday the 13th

Bristol co-workers at the Prince street social
South West Founders Meetup

Thursday the 14th

Friday the 15th (international Womens Day)

Co-working at the tobacco factory
FinTech West Breakfast Seminar
Tech³Shed Tech Careers Fair – volunteering or attending

Saturday the 16th

Tech³Shed Tech Careers Fair – volunteering or attending

District 2 – Bath

Tuesday the 12th

Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present and Predicting the Future

Wednesday the 13th

Saturday the 16th

ProductCamp Bristol & Bath

District 3 – Weston-Super-Mare

Wednesday the 12th

1:2:1 – IP Clinic

FreeThreeFridays & Other stuff

Our regular Friday, women only networking courtesy of Desklodge is cancelled this week as we will mostly be at the Jobs Fair! We’ll be back after so join up here F3F and Womens Tech Jobs are available if you want to chat careers or training.

If you have any events that you want us to mention on our next Blogpost contact us on info@wthub.org.