Thanks to our main sponsors:
We’re part of Manchester’s International Women’s Day 2013 celebrations.
Following on from our successful ‘Show & Tell’ events, Manchester Girl Geeks are hosting a BarCamp – an all-day interactive ‘unconference‘, where the talks are provided by attendees, and the programme isn’t known until the conference is under way! Think of it as a big, all-day Show & Tell!
Typical topics at BarCamps include technology, science, mathematics, or anything else that’s geeky and fun! Share your knowledge, passion and enthusiasm with other like-minded nerdy types. As with all Manchester Girl Geeks events, male attendees are welcome.
The event is free to attend, and refreshments will be provided. Bring your laptop, tablet, phone or other wi-fi enabled device, and anything you want to share!
Event Details
Girl Geeks BarCamp Manchester will be held on Saturday 16th March 2013, and will run from 10am-5pm. The event will take place across both floors of MadLab, 36/40 Edge Street, in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
The ground floor talks and toilets are wheelchair accessible, and the venue has free wi-fi and power sockets for your laptops.
We also have some funds available to contribute towards costs for child care and accessibility (e.g. taxis). It won’t be a lot, but we’re hoping to help make the BarCamp as accessible as possible for everyone! You will have to notify us before the event so we can consider you for funding. Please email us for details!
Tickets
The event is free to attend, but MadLab has a limited capacity so you will need to sign up for a place. The event is now fully booked, but you can put your name on the waiting list on our Eventbrite page.
Talks
The talks will be scheduled at the start of the BarCamp – just turn up with an idea! We will have a big timetable where you can enter your preferred time slot for your presentation, and the timetable is likely to change throughout the day. The rules for the talks are:
- The topic can be anything that you think might be interesting to an audience with an interest in science and technology.
- The slots will be 25 minutes. Shorter talks are ok, too.
- You can give more than 1 talk on the day.
- It doesn’t need to be a talk – discussion rounds, hands-on tutorials and spontaneous ad-hoc presentations are actively encouraged!
- We will have a projector and speakers on both floors, but please bring a laptop if you have slides. Talks without slides are great, too!
BarCamps are a great opportunity to share your knowledge, test out new ideas, present some tips and tricks you’ve found out, practice public speaking, or encourage a discussion on whichever topic you find relevant. Of course, you don’t have to give a talk at the BarCamp or prepare anything beforehand – just come along and be inspired!
This event is supported by Manchester City Council as part of their International Women’s Day celebrations.
Our sponsors:
Thoughtworks
ThoughtWorks is a force for software excellence and social justice. We look for passionate, inquisitive individuals who are fascinated by technology as we continue to build a community whose purpose is to revolutionise software design, creation and delivery, while advocating for positive social change.
Our clients are people and organisations with ambitious missions; we deliver disruptive thinking and technology to empower them to succeed. In our 20th year, over 2300 ThoughtWorks employees – ‘ThoughtWorkers’ – are currently serving clients from offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, the U.S and the UK, including the ‘UK North’ office in Manchester.
Find out more: http://www.thoughtworks.com/
Team Prime
We specialise in headhunting, recruitment strategy, and finding solutions for anything that involves people/ communities and technology. We work to a strict moral code in every recommendation we make to both clients and candidates alike and we only recruit people with whom we would like to work ourselves.
Find out more: http://www.team-prime.com
Sharpe Recruitment
We’ve been filling tech and creative jobs throughout the North East for almost 4 years now, so we know the Digital Industry inside out over there and we’re excited at the prospect of expanding into the North West to help candidates over here to find their dream jobs in the tech and creative Industry! We love being part of the action and always try to get to events and workshops so we can get to know candidates and stay well connected. We genuinely care about candidates and their careers and pride ourselves on always delivering great customer service.
Find out more: http://sharperecruitment.co.uk/
TechHub Manchester
TechHub Manchester is a world class community of internationally focused technology startups, with 100mb dual synchronous internet connection in a great co-working space to world class events.
Find out more: http://manchester.techhub.com/
