New Zealand Girl Geek Dinner #3
The third Auckland Girl Geek dinner on the 27th March 2008 was sponsored by Blackpepper Interactive with a donation towards the food & drink costs. Fronde Systems Ltd kindly allowed us to use their boardrooms for the evening.
The new format and venue worked much better than at previous events and everyone seemed to have a really good time. We had a fairly geeky quiz and a number of lightning talks from women in the IT industry. The feedback received has been very positive.
Speakers
The speakers gave 5 minute lightning talks telling us about their career or the industry they work in, the technology they work with and how you might get into that industry.
Speakers:
- Jennifer Shadbolt - Technical Pre-Sales Architect, Axon
- Justine Sanderson - Usability & User Experience Consultant, Userfaction
- Angela Hart - Technological Careers Ambassador, Futureintech
- Pamela Clark - Landco
- Cherie Carbines - Business Director, OpenMedia Ltd
- Ann-Marie Keller - Assistant Manager, KPMG Forensic
- Jenny Durno - Managing Director, Phoenix Recruitment - Jenny is going to cover various areas which may include: How to cross over into an IT job from another field. What's going on in the NZ/Auckland IT scene. What opportunities are out there for IT consultants. These topics may be covered or Jenny may decide to cover other similar areas in her talk.
Format
The format of the night was as follows:
