RBS: Insight Day, 27 November 2017 – REGISTER NOW

RBS are opening the doors to their RBS Edinburgh HQ and showing you what both Change and Business Solutions & Technology Solutions are all about! RBS have graduate and intern opportunities for both.

Don’t miss this chance to:

  • Develop your entrepreneurial skills with expert training from their Entrepreneurial
    Development Managers
  • Join a panel session with Edinburgh alumni and find out why they love their graduate
    pathways
  • Network with senior managers, graduates and recruiters
  • Get first hand experience of their collaborative & customer centric culture
  • See how graduates from any degree discipline can use their skills and achieve success
  • Find out about their programmes and how RBS develops graduate talent

 

To find out more and register your place please visit the RBS website here.

 

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RBS: Dine & Discover, various dates and locations – REGISTER NOW

RBS are hosting an invitation only dining experience, exclusively for students to find out more about their programmes.

They have graduate and intern opportunities across their business. You’ll spend an evening dining with some of the brightest minds at RBS. You’ll get to talk with their best graduates and their most experienced managers. You’ll find out about their opportunities, get a great insight into their culture and discover what a career at RBS will mean for you. This is a great chance to network, speak with and learn from the best.

  • Evening networking sessions from representatives across RBS business
  • University specific events plus a regional event open to any student living in and around Edinburgh (inc Napier and HW)
  • Some are bank wide and some are Technology specific
  • Students can apply via the website using the link below

 

Locations and dates in Scotland are:

Strathclyde Business School Foyer, 17 October 2017, 6:30-9:30pm

The University of St Andrews, 18 October 2017, 6:30-9:30pm

The University of Edinburgh (venue TBC), 24 October 2017, 6:30-9:30pm

The University of Glasgow (venue TBC), 25 October 2017, 6:30-9:30pm

 

To find out more and register your place please visit the RBS website here and filter on ‘Dine & Discover’.

 

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Girl Geek Scotland’s Autumn Social: Meet The Volunteers (casual meetup, 21 September)

Well THAT was a wild summer! Lots of sun, lots of rain, lots and lots of work to do and just a flurry of Out Of Office replies. Exhausted, and ready for the gentle exhale of beautiful Autumntime.

Time for another seasonal social meetup for GGS. This is a casual and informal event, an opportunity for the volunteering team to relax and catch up with each other, and to welcome other likeminded folks to meet them, meet each other, network, and have a relaxing Autumnal drink at the delightful Le Monde Hotel bar.

Le Monde is a favourite venue for GGS social meetups. Do come along, meet the volunteers, and chat with other Girl Geek Scotland network and community members.

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EVENTS: Scotland’s first Blockchain Hack + two courses!

Girl Geek Scotland and Legal Hackers Scotland in partnership with ScotCHAIN17 are holding #HackChain17 this Autumn. This will be the first Blockchain Hackathon in Scotland! Individual and team tickets are available. Ahead of the Hack in early October we are offering two free optional training sessions to help participants prep for the hack. More info below and at the links!

 

Note: If you are signing up for the preparatory training sessions, don’t forget to sign up for #HackChain17 first!

 

HackChain17 is coming! Sign up fast!

  • Friday 6-8 October 2017 at 6pm (Friday) – 10pm (Sunday)
  • Take part in the first Blockchain Hackathon in Scotland
  • Brought to you by Girl Geek Scotland and Legal Hackers Scotland in partnership with ScotCHAIN17
  • Scottish Universities Insight Institute, Glasgow, G1 1XQ
  • Read more here…

 

#HackChain17 – Introduction to Blockchain

  • Wednesday 20 September 2017 at 6pm – 9pm
  • Training session for participants in #HackChain17 to help them get to grips with Blockchain technology and come up with awesome ideas for the hackathon
  • Brought to you by Girl Geek Scotland and Legal Hackers Scotland in partnership with ScotCHAIN17
  • Curated House, Gordon Chambers, Glasgow, G1 3NQ
  • Read more here…

#HackChain17 – Blockchain Coding Workshop

  • Saturday 23 September 2017 at 9:30am – 5pm
  • Training session for participants in #HackChain17 to help them get to grips with Blockchain technology and come up with awesome ideas for the hackathon
  • Brought to you by Girl Geek Scotland and Legal Hackers Scotland in partnership with ScotCHAIN17
  • Curated House, Gordon Chambers, Glasgow, G1 3NQ
  • Read more here…
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EVENT: Passwords for Getting Past Angel Finance Gatekeepers at our next Panel Event in Edinburgh

We’re excited about our next panel event Getting Past the Gatekeepers – Passwords for Angel Finance taking place on the evening of Thursday 14 September 2017 in Edinburgh.

What do you do? Why should I care? Why would I invest in YOU? These are the three questions that should be foremost in your mind when you plan your pitch to Angel investors. Around 80% of pitches that get past the gatekeepers will get investment. In this panel event we invite gatekeepers of Angel Finance to tell you directly what they are looking for when they review a business application so that you can make it to the next level.

Speakers are Jackie Waring from Investing Women and AccelerateHer, Laura Peachey from MBM Commercial, Vicky Brock from Clear Returns, and Lynzi Leroy from E-VR‘s VR Incubator.

Refreshments of wine/soft drinks and nibbles are provided, and the event is FREE to attend. Entry is by pre-registration on Eventbrite only so please make sure you register.

VISIT OUR EVENT PAGE TO FIND OUT MORE AND REGISTER

 

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Girl Geek Scotland’s Summer Social: Meet The Volunteers (casual meetup, 19 July)

Another seasonal social meetup for GGS. This is a casual event, an opportunity for the volunteering team to catch up with each other, and for others to pitch up, meet them, meet each other, network, and have a refreshing summer drink at the delightful Le Monde Hotel bar.

Le Monde is a favourite venue for GGS social meetups. Do come along, meet the volunteers, and chat with other Girl Geek Scotland network and community members.

 

Free Casual Event – Please let us know you intend to attend by REGISTERING ON EVENTBRITE HERE

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Girl Geek Scotland activities in 2017

GGS have had a BUSY year so far. We have held 8 events so far in Mentoring, Cybersecurity and Blockchain; we’ve delivered a report on role models and mentoring for school age girls for Skills Development Scotland including four webinar sessions; and launched our Declaration of Support for Women in Technology with the delightful support of our Subscribers who help us achieve our aims of: Sharing Best Practice, Profiling Women, Supporting the Delivery of Training, and Being Visible Allies. We would therefore like to give thanks again to all our Subscribers for their ongoing support in our activities. They are:

and of course LINC Scotland.

We’d also like to thank our parent organisation Edinburgh Napier University and Bright Red Triangle.

For the remaining part of the bonnie year of 2017, we are focusing on developing our Mentoring Programme further, updating our website, we will be profiling some inspiring women in tech and related sector roles, and do look out for news of the confirmed dates of our Autumn events. But first we have a Summer casual meetup event coming soon – find out more below.

…also huge thanks to all our beloved GGS Volunteers who help make so much happen, and our event attendees and online community members! We do it all for you and each other :-)

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Girl Geek Scotland and Digital Scotland’s ‘Tackling The Technology Gender Gap Together’ published

This year, Girl Geek Scotland worked with Digital Scotland to produce a report to inform, encourage and support school age girls to consider a career in technology and related sectors through a role model and mentoring initiative by Skills Development Scotland.

You can read more about this initiative here on the Our Skillsforce website, and view the report in full on the Skills Development Scotland website.

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We Are The Future and Datalab collaborate on Fireside Chat event 

We Are The Future are working with The Data Lab to put together a Fireside Chat with Chris Neumann, Venture Partner at 500 Startups at our office in Leith, Edinburgh on 7th July.

500 Startups in one of Silicon Valley’s most successful accelerator programmes, founded by Super Angel Dave McClure.

Chris is a big data veteran who cofounded DataHero (acquired by Cloudability), and was the first employee at Aster Data (acquired by Teradata).

Following the hugely successful DataFest earlier this year, Chris heard about the activity happening in Edinburgh and Scotland so is coming over for a few days.

We would love for you to join us at our office for a casual fireside chat with Chris and The Data Lab team. There is very limited space available unfortunately and only have 30 tickets available – if you’d like to join us can you please sign up here on Eventbrite.

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