GGD Tech Discussion: 2010 Review, 2011 Predictions

Do you have any predictions for 2011 in tech? Do you think Green IT will become more prevalent? Was 2010 the year of the video or location based software?

Have your say and hear from women around the globe.

We will be meeting for dinner and then connecting to women around the world via webcam for an indepth discussion about what technology has made the biggest impression on women in a wide array of fields.

If you’d like to share your review and/or predictions, but can’t attend our event – please upload a video on YouTube, Facebook or Vimeo and use the title ‘GGD Tech Discussion: 2010 Review 2011 Predictions‘

We look forward to hearing what you have to say!

Di Gallo, Venessa Paech and Lisa Lang will be our discussion leaders driving the conversation to each aspect of technology; including: the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization.

Join us at Honey Bar in South Melbourne on Wednesday, November 24 · 6:30pm – 11:30pm

Alternatively, you can also join us remotely via http://www.livestream.com/ggdmelbtv

Since we hope to have an International audience participating by Skype and Twitter, we’ve blocked out time for the following:

Pre-Dinner drinks 6:30pm
Dinner 7:30pm
Southern Hemisphere Discussion 8:30pm
Break 9:30pm
Northern Hemisphere Discussion 10pm

For those who are overseas and not sure about the time difference, here a few examples for the time difference around the world:

8:30pm Melbourne
9:30am London
5:30pm Beijing

10pm Melbourne
6am NYC
12:30pm Johannesburg

Pssst- we are looking for corporate sponsors to help us put on more events like this one. If you are interested to help support women in tech, please contact
jessica.lowry@gmail.com

Join Us for a Panel Discussion: Collective Intelligence, The Wisdom of the Crowd

Calling all Girl Geeks! We have a very exciting event planned for you this October.

A panel discussion on Collective Intelligence, The Wisdom of the Crowd. It’s inspired by the work of James Surowiecki, who wrote the book The Wisdom of the Crowds. A read that postulates there is a reason the audience of Who Wants to be a Millionaire guesses the correct answer more often then the ‘experts’ who act as lifelines.

Jeff Howe, reinforces this point in his book entitled Crowdsourcing describing how a crowd’s diversity leads to innovative thinking and breakthroughs. Many observers of crowdsourcing are noting that we are smarter at decision making when there is a pool of diverse individuals and not a group of like-minded experts.

For all you web people, you’ll be familiar with this concept in action by witnessing the evolution or Linux and other open source software.

To help us tackle this very powerful topic we have invited a few local experts to share their own perspective.

Jason Sew Hoy, General Manager at 99designs

Mary Henderson, Founder & CEO, GeekITGroup

And our own Girl Geek

Brianna Laugher, former President of Wikimedia Australia (psst- subscribe to her blog its awesome http://brianna.laughe…)

This panel discussion will be held at our new regular monthly Meetup location, The Honey Bar in South Melbourne. I really hope all of you are able to make it and please invite your friends- the more the merrier!

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