Posted by stevi on August 9, 2010 under Announcements, Dinners | 
Happy summer, everybody! We’re excited to announce that Mantis Technology Group, Inc. will be sponsoring a barbeque-style dinner at Marymoor Park in Redmond on August 18. Hamburgers, hot dogs, and veggie burgers will all be available.
Space is limited for this event, so be sure to sign up via Eventbrite!
Date: Wednesday, August 18th
Time: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Marymoor Park, 6046 W Lake Sammamish Parkway NE, Redmond, WA
Guest Speaker: TBD.
Parking details will be sent the day of the event.
Liz, Stevi, and Vanessa
Posted by stevi on June 24, 2010 under Dinners |
The topic for tonight’s Seattle Girl Geek Dinner has been announced, it will be Cloud Storage FUD (Failure, Uncertainty, and Durability). Our speaker will be Alyssa Henry, General Manager of Amazon Simple Storage (S3). Her overview:
Failure and uncertainty play a key role when engineering a general purpose online storage system to be durable, available, scalable, and cost effective. I’ll share some of the uncertainty we’ve encountered and the impact of that uncertainty on the design of the system. I’ll also cover some of the hardware and network failures we’ve encountered, others that we anticipate occurring, and how we’ve engineered Amazon S3 to be resilient to them.
Parking information:
There are two types of paid parking: short-term for up to 2 hours and longer-term for up to 10hours. Some of the 2-hour parking will also be signed for Residential Parking.
In the Cascade neighborhood where there are many older buildings, some streets will be signed for RPZ parking. Residents with RPZ permits may park for free on the designated streets and are not subject to the two-hour time limit.
Event Location
Van Vorst Conference Center (building has a yellow V in front, and is in the center of the courtyard).
PLEASE ENTER THROUGH THE RIGHT SIDE of the conference center.
Address: 426 Terry Avenue North, Seattle 98109
And don’t forget, our generous hosts, Amazon.com, will be giving away a Kindle, so please bring your business cards!
Posted by stevi on May 25, 2010 under Dinners |
Happy Spring, ladies!
Amazon has graciously offered to sponsor the next Seattle Girl Geek Dinner. More information will be coming soon about the speaker and topic.
Hope to see you all there!
Liz, Stevi, and Vanessa
Date: Thursday, June 24th
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Amazon Headquarters – 426 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109 (Van Vorst)
Speaker: Alyssa Henry – Director, SW Development, S3
Title of Presentation/talk: Coming soon!
Be sure to sign up on the Eventbrite page to reserve your spot! We usually fill up quickly!
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Posted by stevi on December 3, 2009 under Dinners |
The University of Washington has graciously offered to sponsor our next dinner event! Our speakers and topics will be the following:
Yoky Matsuoka
Bio: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yoky/bios/
Topic: Understanding human movements
Neurobotics is a new field that lies at the intersection of Robotics and Neuroscience. In Neurobotics, robotic models and environments are used to understand the neuromuscular control and biomechanics of human limbs.
In parallel, robotic systems are developed to augment, replace and rehabilitate damaged sensorimotor functions. In this talk, a girl geek will talk about using a robotic tool to understand human level dexterity.
Magda Balazinska
Bio: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/magda/
Topic: handling humongous amounts of sensor-originating scientific data.
Our dinner will be held in located in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Directions to campus (and the building) may be found here: http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/maps.html
Date: December 3rd, 2009
Time: 6pm-8pm
Location: University of Washington, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. The dinner will be in the atrium.
Sign up at our EventBrite event page!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Liz and Stevi
Posted by stevi on August 20, 2009 under Dinners |
We know it’s been a while, but we’re very excited to announce Seattle Girl Geek Dinner #5.
Microsoft’s Corporate Research Development will be hosting us on September 17, 2009 at the Microsoft WestCommons in Redmond.
Find all the details and sign up on our Eventbrite page. This event will fill up fast!
Can’t wait to see you on September 17!
Posted by stevi on January 21, 2009 under Announcements, Dinners |
We’re very exited about the huge response for next week, when Dinner 4 will be hosted by Google. In fact, as you have surely noticed, we’ve already filled up our available spaces and created a waiting list.
For those who do have a spot via EventBrite, if you discover you can’t make it, please let us know as soon as possible so we can offer that space to someone on our waiting list. Send Stevi the email you used to register.
Thanks to everybody for helping us make sure as many people who want to come can, thanks to Google for sponsoring us, and we look forward to seeing you!
Posted by stevi on January 13, 2009 under Dinners |
All the spaces we have available for the January 28 dinner have already been claimed! If you haven’t had the chance to register via Eventbrite yet, please email Stevi to get your name on the wait list.
If you have registered but won’t be able to attend, please email Stevi to let us know, so we can give your space to someone on the wait list!
We’re really excited at the high level of interest in this Girl Geek Dinner!
Posted by stevi on January 7, 2009 under Dinners |
Hi all,
We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.
Google has graciously offered to sponsor the 4th Seattle Girl Geek Dinner! Hope to see you there.
Liz and Stevi
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 28th
Agenda:
6:30 – 7:00PM: Registration, Food, and Networking
7:00 – 8:00PM: Welcome and Technical Presentation by Dorothy Nelson
8:00 – 9:00PM: Networking
Location:
Google Seattle office: 651 N 34th St. Seattle, WA 98103.
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Topic of the evening:
User Experience Design: the way of the Geek Artist
The best of both worlds. How minimalist design aesthetic and “form becomes function” make apps fast and elegant as well as usable, and how having geek skillz lifts a designer out of the “make it pretty” ghetto in product teams.
About the Speaker:
Dorothy Nelson is a User Experience Design Manager at Google. She has been programming and designing user-focused front end interfaces since the mid 1980s, from Bell Communication Research and Oracle to uber-dot-bomb Webvan, then to eBay (designing the selling experience) and Google. In her spare time, Dorothy enjoys traditional “dirty-hands” arts involving charcoal and ink and the non-traditional art of Silly Putty sculpture, as well as horsing around with her non-artistic but lovable husband and Yellow Labradors.
Please find street parking as Google cannot provide parking. There should be plenty of parking options with the lots, street and garages.
Posted by stevi on December 5, 2008 under Dinners |
The Seattle Holiday Girl Geek Dinner was a great success. We saw a lot of familiar faces from previous events, and lots of new faces too! We hope everyone had as much fun as we did.
We’d like to give a big thank you to the Microsoft Entertainment and Devices division for their sponsorship. An especially big thanks to Dina and Megan, who made sure everything ran smoothly and put on a great evening for all who attended. Congratulations to the winner of the raffle prize, an Xbox!
Also thanks to Margaret Cobb. We really enjoyed your presentation on how your team took on marketing the Xbox to women. The demo of Lips at the end really got everybody excited.
We will be announcing the details for our January Dinner very shortly, so be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed in your favorite RSS Reader, or via Email!
Posted by stevi on November 28, 2008 under Dinners |
Our December 4 Holiday Girl Geek Dinner is almost here!
We’re excited to have Margaret Cobb as our speaker.
Margaret Cobb, Director of Internet Explorer Consumer Product Management
Margaret Cobb is a wife, mother, sister, daughter and Director of Internet Explorer Consumer Product Management. She’s been at Microsoft for over 13 years in various functions including Xbox LIVE Product Management. The last few years at Microsoft she’s spent understanding female consumer audience trends. Specifically, how much money do women control and spend and where do they spend it? As marketers what can we do to capture the interest and buying power of women worldwide? Margaret is a graduate of Michigan Tech University where she earned her degree in Mechanical Engineering. It was working as an engineer that she realized that many of the latest innovations in technology just didn’t resonate with the average female. For over 20 years she’s been working to demystify technology and capture the interest of female consumers.
It looks like we’re going to have a great turnout for this dinner, and we hope to see you there, too! Don’t forget to let us know you’re coming by registering for this dinner at Eventbrite!
