Venue Name: Newcastle College ‘Space’ Higher Education Centre
Venue Web Address: http://www.ncl-coll.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us-and-maps.aspx

Web Address: http://www.girl-geeks.co.uk/contact.html
Telephone: 07817 858347
Description: 11th March Event Details:

Date & Time: Thursday, 11th March 2010, 6pm for 6.30pm start – 10pm ish finish

Venue: Newcastle College 'Space' Higher Education Centre (At the bottom of the Rye Hill Campus in between The Performance Academy and The Lifestyle Academy) – http://www.ncl-coll.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us-and-maps.aspx

Suggested Parking: Parking on site in front of the venue, entrance from Scotswood Road http://www.ncl-coll.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us-and-maps.aspx

Refreshments: Finger buffet. Please inform us of any dietary requirements. Drinks will be provided and there will also be a cash bar.

Format: Warm welcome, introduction to the evening and update, buffet dinner, talks from guest speakers, shared experiences from a few Girl Geeks members, conversations, networking.

Event Host: Kim Inglis www.kiminglistv.com (former Tyne Tees TV presenter and reporter now freelance journalist/media trainer/speaker in addition to being appointed as the presenter for new Lakes TV http://www.lakestv.net) will be our host for the evening.

Speakers:
Sophie Davies-Patrick, Head of International, Yahoo! Developer Network will be coming to the region especially for the Girl Geeks event! Sophie will be talking about her exciting career to date, her role at Yahoo! as well as introducing Yahoo! 's Developer Network.
Sophie started the Yahoo Developer Network in the UK, dealing with everything the YDN supports in the US but extending it out to Europe, Asia, Canada and South America.

She knows the markets, empowers the right people to talk to other right people and to their outside contacts about Yahoo and in general keeps the US aware of what the outside world is up to.


Call to action and introduction about Young Enterprise North East. http://www.young-enterprise.org.uk/regions/regionsitehtmlservlet?regionId=5§ionId=1&rtn=YE


Girl Geeks Web Surgery:
Is there something you always wanted to know about the web, but never had a chance to ask, or never had satisfactory answer?
Sick of hearing buzz words and not knowing what they mean? Not sure how a particular technology could help your business?
Now is your chance to ask a web geek and get an answer in plain English.

Jo York been creating websites and online applications commercially since 1999. With varying roles over the years, from designer to programmer, Jos current role as Creative Director (and co-owner) at Ki Media http://www.ki-media.co.uk allows her to see projects through from concept stage right through to delivery. Ki Media has clients both locally and nationally, ranging from small start-ups to large multinational companies and public sector organisations such as EMI, Readers Digest, Northumbria University, The University of East London and Gateshead Council.

In preparation for the event, please think of a question or issue you need solving and fill in a form when you arrive.

The question can be specific to your business, or keep it anonymous if you prefer. Jo will then go through each question and give a brief answer or explanation for each one. If we run out of time and your question isnt answered, please feel free to find Jo or her business partner Kev after the session.

Cost: £10.00 for a attendees per event
Booking: Please reserve your place and book your ticket for either (or both) of the March Girl Geeks events via the payment link on the contact page of the Girl Geeks website http://www.girl-geeks.co.uk/contact.html or Paypal payment to events@girl-geeks.co.uk

Girl Geeks is a north east based, fun and friendly professional community for women and girls interested in technology, science, digital, innovations, entrepreneurialism, creativity and computing. We hope you will come along and join our fun networking opportunity for like-minded women to get together, network, dine, drink and discuss all things geek. 'Boy Geeks' are welcome to also attend and can book via the links below but spaces are limited for these events