Sponsors & Partners
We want to thank our sponsors and partners who have generously supported Girl Geeks Scotland. Please get in touch if you would like to sponsor a Girl Geeks event.
Our list of sponsors and partners can be easily accessed by selecting a link from the list below:
NCR | blonde | brightsolid | UKWRC | Edinburgh University | SICSA | Harvey Nash | BCS | WYLLN | nti Leeds | Carbon Imagineering | Kilo 75 | Codeworks | Digital 20/20 | WEA
Easthaven
Easthaven are sponsors for the speakers at our Aberdeen event in May.
Easthaven is a vibrant global Training Consultancy that creates a difference through fresh thinking, and specialises in the design and delivery of learning interventions which are relevant, practical and of immediate use across all industries.We work with clients in the financial and professional, education, and public sections.
We can provide a service designed to suit your business environment, address your business goals and ensure learning is fun and engaging for your people. Key service offering:
- Manage Projects and collaborate with teams and clients
- Data management - organising and sharing data across your organisation
- IT Training and Self Paced Learning
- Sharepoint, Livelink, Documentum Consultancy through to implementation.
NCR
NCR are sponsors for our Launch Event in Dundee on the 9th of Feb 2010, and international video archive of Shanna Tellerman.
We are the new NCR: Leading how the world connects, interacts and transacts with business.
NCR is at the center of the self-service revolution, strategically poised between consumers who demand fast, easy and convenient options, and businesses intent on increasing revenues, building customer loyalty, reaching the contemporary consumer, and lowering their cost of operations.
Our leadership in customer interactions is built on deep consumer and industry expertise. NCR is the only company focused beyond a niche self-service technology, geography or market. Our people offer a broader perspective that enables our customers not only to achieve their goals, but to transform their business models. And our size, scale and stability instill confidence in the marketplace.
It's from this unique position that NCR boldly invites businesses and consumers to "Experience a new world of interaction."
www.ncr.com
blonde
In this connected, networked world of ours, it’s bizarre to see such a gulf between the agency that writes the site copy and the agency that writes the ads directing prospects to the site. There’s little or no connection. Step beyond the landing page and any tone that the original ad possessed goes walkies.
And no, of course, this isn’t true of all sites (or of all agencies and all clients). But unless your standards are depressingly low, it’s undeniable that good web copy is the exception rather than the rule. And good web copy that’s consistently on-brand, hitting the right tone of voice from one end of the map to the other, is as rare as rocking horse poo.
www.blonde.net/
brightsolid
brightsolid are sponsors of our Dundee Girl Geek Dinner and Launch Event for our speaker series for 2010. We would like to thank them for helping us lower the cost of tickets for our dinner guests.
brightsolid began life in 1995 as Scotland Online and is a leading UK independent provider of IT business services to large public and private sector organisations.
We help our clients to design and implement high volume, high availability, high performance online products and services, and have done so successfully since we became one of the pioneering Internet companies of the mid 1990s. brightsolid has two divisions, online publishing and online technologies.
www.brightsolid.com
UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UKWRC)
The UKRC is the Government’s lead organisation for the provision of advice, services and policy consultation regarding the under-representation of women in science, engineering, technology and the built environment (SET). We work with employers; professional bodies; education institutions; women's organisations and networks; policy institutes; sector skills councils; the government and many others to promote gender equality in SET. We offer tailored services and support for women at all career stages, including getting started, returning after a break, seeking promotion and aspiring to leadership.
www.ukrc4setwomen.org
The University of Edinburgh
We would like to thank the University of Edinburgh for acting as our parent organisation for our speaker series for 2010.
www.ed.ac.uk/home
SICSA
The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) is a collaboration of leading Scottish Universities. Our aim is to work together to consolidate and develop Scotland's position as an international research leader in informatics and computer science (ICS).
In Scotland, we have one of the five biggest top-quality research clusters in ICS in the world, with more than 200 world-class academic researchers. We are the foremost cluster of ICS research in the UK: about 16% of the very best research output comes from Scotland, and SICSA members hold about 20% of national ICS research funds.
Our research covers virtually all areas of computer science and informatics from low-level hardware design, through networking and middleware, to wetware, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction and social informatics. We are world leaders in both theoretical and practical aspects of the discipline and have a strong interdisciplinary tradition involving maths, engineering, psychology, the humanities and the social sciences.
www.sicsa.ac.uk/
Harvey Nash
Harvey Nash, a leading Executive Search, IT Recruitment and IT outsourcing service provider, is committed to delivering the very best talent and IT solutions to a broad base of international clients. With 3700 employees operating from 36 offices covering the USA, Europe and Asia, its talented professionals pursue the highest levels of integrity and quality in providing a unique portfolio of services: executive search, interim management, IT and finance recruitment and IT outsourcing.
Our main aim in supporting Girl Geeks is to enhance networking opportunities for women of all ages and levels and to promote IT as a career to young women starting out or at the early stages of their career and encouraging them to remain within the industry for years to come. We would also like to contribute to creating an open forum for women at all levels to share their knowledge and experience with one another. We believe there is definitely a niche for a group such as Girl Geeks to develop and grow within Scotland and would like to come out in support of that. In addition, Harvey Nash Scotland is headed up by one of only 2 female Directors, Rhona Hutchon and employs several female consultants at the forefront of the IT sector.
www.harveynash.com/
The British Computing Society
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, promotes wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice.
We serve over 70,000 members including practitioners, businesses, academics and students, in the UK and internationally.
http://www.bcs.org/
Girl Geek Dinners Leeds
Girl Geek Dinners Leeds provide the chance to hang out with the city's brightest creatives, technologists, programmers, entrepreneurs, marketeers, PR professionals and creative and digital girls - oh, and we'll usually have a smattering of boys too ;-)
Girl Geek Dinners Leeds is managed through a partnership of nti Leeds, Carbon Imagineering and Kilo75.
We are creating educational podcasts and associated learning materials through our Inspiring Women project, to motivate young women in higher and further education institutions across West Yorkshire to achieve more in science, engineering, technology and maths (STEM) subjects.
Finally we’re also working to extend the Girl Geek network in the Yorkshire, number and North East regions so that more Girl Geeks can socialise and connect in more cities across the north.
West Yorkshire LifeLong Learning Network
The West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network (WYLLN) is one of 30 LLNs across England. The WYLLN is a partnership of higher education institutions, further education colleges and other organisations throughout West Yorkshire all committed to providing quality vocational progression for learners to progress into higher education. All of the partners are committed to providing quality vocational learning opportunities to enable learners to progress into and through higher education.
http://www.wylln.ac.uk/
nti Leeds
nti Leeds provides professional training for businesses from Leeds Metropolitan University. We are the Apple Authorised Training Centre for Yorkshire, Humber and the North East region and are accredited by the Institute of IT Training. At nti you’ll train alongside like-minded individuals using real-life examples that relate closely to your day-to-day work, whether you’re a film-maker, photographer, web designer, IT guru or project manager. However, nti is more than just a training centre. Our aim is to provide a training environment where our clients can learn new skills, exchange ideas and even work collaboratively. We offer quality training courses as well as a full programme of events, seminars and networking opportunities.
www.ntileeds.co.uk
Carbon Imagineering
Carbon Imagineering is a research and innovation consultancy formed in September 2002 to explore the frontiers of new media business strategy and technology. An emerging technologies think-tank, Carbon Imagineering brings together a group of partners and associates to explore emerging technologies and their applications; providing consultancy to help clients shape their innovation strategy; creating and incubating concept technologies and services; publishing works for technology conferences and blogs; and contributing pro-bono expertise and guidance to public bodies and academia.
www.carbonimagineering.com
kilo75
kilo75 is a web design agency based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. We love working with ideas, design and technology. Since 2000 we have been lucky enough to win web site design commissions from people who like that stuff too. We are a small team and believe that good design under-pins the success of the world’s best organisations. Our mission is to apply design in intelligent ways to meet the challenges faced by our clients and to help them achieve their goals.
www.kilo75.com
Codeworks
Codeworks is a centre for digital innovation based in North East England. We work with technologists, digital companies, entrepreneurs, university researchers, venture capitalists, economic developers, rationalists and visionaries in the development and creation of digital companies. Our sector development programme manifests itself through our collaborative networks Codeworks Connect and Codeworks GameHorizon. These hugely successful private sector associations facilitate commercial collaboration and provide hands-on support to digital technology and media companies of all sizes.
www.codeworks.net
Digital 20/20
Digital 20/20 is Yorkshire and Humber’s initiative to ensure that the people and organisations in our region have the capabilities to get the most out of living, learning, working and doing business in the digital world. The scope of Digital 20/20 reflects the way in which digital technology, and our ability to exploit it, permeates our society and our economy. It is focused on two key areas: Skills for a connected region; and ICT for competitive business. Each area involves a partnership of public and private sector organisations, working to a specific Action Plan. In each case, the goal is to provide a lever for information sharing and decision making, so that funds are directed to agreed priorities and synergies between initiatives are exploited for greater benefit. At the same time, the two strands are working together to enable a coordinated approach while maximising shared messages, new and existing partnerships and investment linkages.
www.digital2020.org.uk
Workers’ Educational Association (WEA)
The Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) is the UK’s largest voluntary provider of adult education. Founded in 1903, in order to support the educational needs of working men and women, the WEA has maintained its commitment to provide access to learning for adults from all backgrounds, and in particular those who have previously missed out on education. The WEA operates at local, regional and national levels. Nine Regions in England, a Scottish Association and over 450 local Branches make up the WEA’s National Association.
www.wea.org.uk or www.weascotland.org.uk
The WEA Scotland’s Women@Work (W@W) Project is a Highland-wide women’s network, which provides information, learning and support for working women (paid and unpaid). The Project helps women to understand issues, develop skills and become more able to speak out about things that matter to them at home, at work and in the community.
W@W aims at providing a forum to exchange ideas and opinions and to support women to share common experiences, while growing in confidence and making new contacts.
It provides a link between local and national public agencies and the WEA W@W local networks, which enables them to consult a spectrum of rural women, and ensure that this important perspective is included in decision-making.
www.weawomenatwork.org.uk
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