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Data Science Conference & Recruitment Fair

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Women’s Tech Hub in collaboration with UWE

April the 28th 2022 @ The Watershed, Central Bristol

Women’s Tech Hub is proud to present a one day conference in collaboration with UWE Bristol. Rather than it being a conference for people in the field, this is a conference for people interested in Data Science and learning what it’s about, how to transfer into the field and generally what it’s about. The full details are on our dedicated page and we’ll update with speaker Bios and companies looking to recruit as we go.

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Career support and intersectionality

Career compass

Girl geek scotland career support

Girl geek scotland are running some career events and they are virtual so well worth dropping into we think. First one this Wednesday.

From online courses and training, to graduate apprenticeships and MSc’s, we’ll hear how each made the decision to change and the reasons for choosing their very different routes to get there. We’re looking forward to hearing them share the goods, and the bads, about their journey, and hope it will inspire you too.

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Imposter Syndrome?

Imposter pear

Changing the Imposter Syndrome Narrative

This week we are running Workshop Wednesday alongside Girlgeekdinners as the subject matter we believe is of interest to everyone.

Imposter Syndrome

Feelings of self-doubt and a lack of confidence are often explained away as imposter syndrome, especially for working women, but is that a useful diagnosis?

If we want to build a truly diverse and inclusive world of work, then we need to question the universally accepted beliefs about imposter syndrome. We need to change the narrative from a problem faced by an individual and instead ask ourselves what it is about organisational culture that leads to 70% of people suffering from imposter syndrome during their careers.

Join Made Tech’s Delivery Principal, Laura Burnett as she explores how we can challenge the common misconceptions surrounding imposter syndrome and learn:

  • Who suffers from Imposter Syndrome?
  • Is Imposter Syndrome even a problem?
  • How should Imposter Syndrome be addressed?”

Full details for signing up are on our events page here.

Theres some great stuff going on in Bath – check out:

Bath Digital Festival October the 19th – 22nd
Bath Digital Festival

This year, our event series will focus on recovery, skills and talent plus, we’ll be launching our brand new Digital Skills Exchange programme. So, if you’re looking to sharpen some skills, wondering who’s recruiting at the moment or new to the tech scene, there’s an event for you. 

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Summer Break .. just one last thing ..

Summer Break

With Term coming to a close we are finishing off with one final event relating to last weeks newsletter:

Girl Geek Dinners presents Weston College courses

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Weston College have funding to deliver a series of 12weeks skills bootcamps in Cloud services and Cloud Data Engineering which is free to independent learners. Running 2 sets from September and January and hopefully with the guaranteed interview.
They also have loads of engineering and tech courses available which they will present (part of the WEIoT) and are presenting and discussing what the option are on the final GGD events of the year this coming Thursday

Sign up on the Bristol GGD #86 Weston College courses or Bath BGGD Reloaded #16 Weston College courses

Introducing the Data Ethics Club (hosted by the Jean Golding institute)

Data Ethics Club is a “journal” club about doing data science ethically. “Journal” because they will also read blog posts, (parts of) books, or watch videos.

The club is open to all and they are lucky to have attendees from around the world and with diverse expertise, from practising lawyers to data analysts in the UK National Health Service, to social scientists, to Research Software Engineers in the USA. Everyone is welcome to come and discuss Data Science and Ethics with us: and they look forward to learning from your perspective.

They send out regular reminders of our meetings to our mailing list, so joining it is the best way to regularly hear about our upcoming meetings.

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Tomorrow’s Engineers & Codehub Mentoring

Mentoring

Inspiring Tomorrow’s Engineers

Our ambition is to inform and inspire young people and grow the number and diversity of tomorrow’s engineers. We support employers and the wider engineering community to achieve this collective aim and engaged directly with schools via our outreach programmes.

Applying an Impact Framework Date: Monday 28 June Time: 10:30-12:00

At this webinar EngineeringUK’s Head of Research, Steph Neave, and Senior Research and Impact Manager, Mollie Bourne will take you through an impact framework model for engineering outreach. We will also share insights on how the framework has been applied to a current engineering outreach programme. You will then have the opportunity to collaborate with other Signatories and Supporters in facilitated breakout rooms where you will discuss questions and ideas about how the impact framework could be applied to your own programmes. We are looking to record the workshop and share with those who are unable to join us on the day.  Please use this link to sign up.

Virtual Work Experience Date: Thursday 15 July Time: 10:30-12:00

At this webinar we will share with you some key learnings on design and delivery of engineering focused virtual work experience. We will share insights gathered via EngineeringUK’s Virtual Work Experience Working Group and showcase virtual work experience programmes that members of the Code Community are delivering, to share and build understanding about what works. In break-out sessions there will be the opportunity for participants to discuss key challenges, successes and ideas, in relation to delivery of virtual work experience.  Please use this link to sign up.

We hope that you will be able to join us at these two events, please do get in touch with The Code Team if you have any questions.

CodeHub Mentoring

CodeHub Logo

Codehub have been running a very successful mentoring group for a few seasons now. They are just about to launch this years, so if anyone is interested in being either a mentor or a mentee then please get in touch. They also welcome companies to get involved so contact them on their contact mail if you are interested in having a chat or getting involved info@codehub.org.uk.

South West Business Analysis

‘What goes where – an introduction to my wardrobe and UX architecture’ from Amy Lobé. This is an interactive session where you can learn some useful research skills to help organise your information (or potentially your wardrobe).

Amy is a Product Designer who’s run lots of user research and loves to share her skills. Get up to speed on how a user experience designer uses various research methods to make their decisions.

In this session you will:

  • discover a few methods of research to help create structure or architecture.
  • understand the pros, cons and uses for each of them.
  • get to grips on the details of a Card Sort
  • practice a basic Card Sort in teams.

13.00-13.45 June 29th. Sign up here.

Business Development Toolkit from SWCTN

In the course of our work across new ideas in immersion, automation and data we have developed the components of our Protopying the Business Programme, and we have made some new tools to help companies think about their offering, their way of working, and how they communicate that to others. Find it here.

This set of tools are designed to help you to dig into some essential aspects of your creative business, for example: 

  • understanding and creating a closer conversation with your audiences; 
  • knowing your market and how you can get to it
  • considering the different business forms possible and selecting the one that fits for you and your values
  • establishing the right business model for you and your idea,
  • aligning with your visions, values and culture to make the business that works for you.

The Computer Vision Festival: June 22-24.

Here’s a snapshot of the experts speaking:

  • Vice President, Image Data Scientists – AstraZeneca
  • Director of Computer Vision – Nike
  • European AI Hub Lead – Rolls Royce
  • Lead Machine Learning Scientist – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Product Owner Industrial Computer Vision – Volkswagen Group

We appreciate your timezone and your calendar may mean you can’t tune in live.
So, we’re giving you replay access to every presentation on the house.  Grab your pass.

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