Seattle Girl Geek Dinner 4 is January 28, 2009

Posted by stevi on January 7, 2009 under Dinners | 7 Comments to Read

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.

Margaret Cobb Speaker Bio for December 4th Holiday Dinner

Posted by stevi on November 28, 2008 under Dinners | Be the First to Comment

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!