Brussels Girl Geek Dinner

Good news! Registrations for the 49th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner are open.

>> Put your name on the Twikilist to get in for free

The topic is children’s safety when online: How are children behaving on the Internet today in Belgium?  What are the risks for children as well as their parents and teachers? What role do teachers and schools play in teaching children about Internet safety?

Our main speaker is Simone van Zuylen, spokesperson for Norton (@norton_be), and also a mother of two children who are currently learning how to safely navigate the exciting, and risky, world of the Internet.  Simone will highlight the recent research on Belgian families’ Internet behavior, and provide practical advice on how parents and teachers can keep their children safe.

>> Do you know what your kids are doing online? Answer this quick survey and see the results at the BGGD 49.

When:
Wednesday 8 February 2012 from 18:15 to 21:30

Where:
Location: Technopolis, Technologielaan, 2800 Mechelen

What:

• 18:15 Doors open and welcome.
• 18:45 Opening words by Jennifer Jones Duffourg, Norton
• 18:55 What do the Belgian Mother Geeks think their kids do online?
• 19:05 Norton Online Family 2011 Report by Simone van Zuylen, Norton
• 19:30 Demonstration of the free family safety solution, Norton Online Family
• 20:00 Networking with food and drinks. Computers will be on hand to try Norton Online Family for yourselves
• 21:30 Grab the goodie bags and go home

Tonight’s BGGD [registration page] in a nutshell:

18:00 Doors and welcome

18:30 Presentation: gaming magazine Roekie

18:35 Presentation: game tablet uDraw

18:45 Demo & tryout time! Games: Pictionary, Instant Artist and Disney Princess

22:00 Grab the goodie bags and go home

Hello girls,

Registrations have just opened for the 47th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners.

>>> Put your name on the Twikilist to get in for free <<<

In a nutshell:
GGD47 Gaming
Wed 23 Nov 18:00-22:00
Speaker: Steven Van Gaever (@pekesenertjes) on uDraw GameTablet (20 min)
Venue:
Telenet
Liersesteenweg 4
2800 Mechelen

The event is open to 50 girl geeks this time, but each girl geek can bring one guest. This guest could be a game loving friend, or even a child (as long as they’re allowed to stay up until ten).
Just make sure to register with realnames, as Telenet Security needs those for their building access list.

&About the uDraw:

uDraw on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/worldofudraw?sk=wall
uDraw on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/world_of_udraw
Official website: http://www.worldofudraw.com/

To support breast cancer awareness (and the 5th edition of Pink Ribbon Magazine) a few dozen of my Sanoma Media colleagues have volunteered to pose nude with the magazine. Among them virtually every magazine editor and a couple of men, too.

I’ve used mine as a profile picture on Facebook and Twitter to spread the message.

During #BGGD46, girl geeks can line up for the same photo shoot (if they want too, of course). It’s an all-female professional photo crew and they’re very pleasant to work with. By the way, do you recognise the girl geek in this gallery?

Don’t forget: Thursday 22 September is Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #46, the Charity Edition.

Can’t make it? No problem, remove your name from the attendees list to give the reserves a chance. There are about 20 of them, and we’re hoping to get them all in.

Location

Sanoma Media Belgium
Telecomlaan 5, 1831 Diegem

Grotere kaart weergeven

Course of the evening

18:30 Welcome with drinks and finger food
18:45 Start of photo shoot
19:30 Speaker 1: Rosette Van Rossem about Pink Ribbon Magazine
20:00 Speaker 2: Samia Lounis (Skype link) about One Laptop Per Child
20:30 Sweepstake Philips lamps – we’re giving away 8 of them!
21:00 Dinner and networking
22:30 Wrap-up and goodies

What’s missing? Post it in the comments!

During #BGGD45 the battle for the Sony Tablets was fierce. Eventually we had 4 winners.

From left to right: @applefanbe @gudrun @sanaered @nathalieb84.

But there was yet another tablet to win, with a haiku contest. This is the winning tweet, by @LoreDierickx.
Lore, if you read this: email/DM your post address to Clo so Sony can take care of the handling and delivery of your Tablet./

Very curious what their experiences with the Sony Tablet are. If you find any girl geek reviews, please post them in the comments.

i.materialise is a creation and 3Dprinting service that enables people with a creative mind to create unique, customised and beautiful products. The girl geeks visited them in their early days, back in november 2009. Many of the girl geeks envisioned using the technology to create unique jewelry pieces.

Well, the 3D printed jewels have arrived. More and more designers worldwide are using 3Dprinting to create wonderful pieces of art. We would like to present a couple of those on the next Girl Geeks night. We look forward to your feedback. Enjoy girls!

Tonight, at the reception desk, there are 25 freshly printed 3D jewels – just for the ladies. Please pick one as you arrive and let us all know on Twitter, Facebook, your blog etc what you think of it!

During the IFA fair (the world’s largest and most important trade fair for consumer electronics and household appliances) Sony threw their answer on the tablet pile: the Sony Tablet. And they want to have your thoughts on the newborn during Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #45. No boring you to death with 500 slides, but an entertaining evening. Well, let’s be honest, it’s the Sony people who will be entertained by you!

You’ll be fighting a geek battle: you and your buddy will fight a number of cross-category challenges against the other teams. Pop quiz, videogaming, the occasional app to download and use, uploading a picture…

Two top geeks will win a Sony Tablet at the end of the evening. And there’s an additional challenge for the more
creative geek who’s not in a combative mood. A part from the prizes, who has never wanted to beat another geek at their own game?

Studio Brussel’s Steven Lemmens (@stvn) will act as MC, jury and shoulder to cry on if you’re not happy with the results of the evening.

Course of the evening

• 18.30 welcome and explanation of the rules of the game
• 19.00 walking buffet – find your buddy – check out the list of challenges
• 19.45 battle!
• +/- 22.00 finals and award presentation

Venue
The Event Lounge
Gen. Wahislaan 16F Av. Gén. Wahis
1030 Brussels

The Event Lounge hosts the Sony open days at the same time, so you’ll have a chance to see the latest products that’ll hit the AV-market in the coming months.

As promised:

#BGGD45 Wed 14 Sep 18:30, Brussels: GeekBattle sponsored by Sony, with Steven Lemmens
70 male/female (= 35 ladies + sacoche) #geekbattle
Put your name on the Twikilist to get in for free: http://twikilist.com/BGGD45

#BGGD46 Thu 22 Sep, Brussels (Diegem): Charity Edition by Pink Ribbon, with, among other things, a speaker from the One Laptop per Child project.
50 ladies
Put your name on the Twikilist to get in for free: http://twikilist.com/BGGD46

Hello ladies,

Keep these dates free:

• #BGGD45 Wed 14 Sep 18:30, Brussels: GeekBattle sponsored by Sony, with Steven Lemmens
  70 male/female (35 ladies + sacoche) #geekbattle
  More stuff for the goodie bag very welcome; leave a note in the comments if you can help.
• #BGGD46 Thu 22 Sep, Brussels (Diegem): Charity Edition by Pink Ribbon, with, among other things, a speaker from the One Laptop per Child project.
  50 ladies

Registrations will open op 1 September!

Just a quick note to let you know that the cows are fine. Tomorrow’s weather will be a little cloudy but warm nevertheless. Kinrooi (the blue blot on the map) happens to be in the zone with the highest temperatures tomorrow.

More good news: there are 4 seats available. So if you have a friend you’d love to take along, let her register through the Twikilist to get in for free:
http://twikilist.com/BGGD44

A recent study unveiled that a lot of Belgians do not know that milk products are actually made of milk. They mistakenly think this is done with milk powder.

Time to come and visit the milk farm with your kids and discover how a milk farm has changed over the years! And thanks to Danone, we can afterwards enjoy a healthy brunch and ditto goodie bag. This time we got room for 30 girl geeks and any (small) kids they wish to tag along.

The 44th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner (well, a brunch actually) will be held at Mieke and Maartens’milk farm in Kinrooi (Dolenweg 1, 3640 Kinrooi). Mieke and Maarten are both active on the farm and they look after 90 milk cows. Also the children Jill, Robbe and Lien are very happy to live on the farm. Son Robbe knows all the numbers of the milk cows and keeps an eye on them.
Christiane and Mathieu, Maartens’ parents founded the milk farm and still help out.

When and where?

Mon 15 Aug 10:00-13:00
Maarten en Mieke Snijkers, Dolenweg 1, 3640 Kinrooi

>> Put your name on the Twikilist to get in

On the agenda:

• 10:00 Back to the milk roots, a tour of the milk farm, given by Mieke & Maarten (one for the girl geeks and one for the kids)
• 11:00 Enjoy a glass of fresh milk and a brunch
• 13:00 Grab the goodie bag and go home

Instagram taken by LiselotteVH.
Most instagrams, twitpics etc taken by a.o. @saravdv @skaroline @Pussycatpline @miespaties @LieselotteVH @Seya_ @LaVer0nica @flexyflow are archived over at Storify: http://storify.com/bnox/bggd43-at-samsung.

Blog posts so far:

• BGGD43: Samsung launches the Galaxy Tab 10.1 @ endimi.wordpress.com
• On Cyberpads & Girl Geeks @ outoftheblog.com
• Merci Samsung :) @ kreature.be
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 @ saravdv.be
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 op Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #43 @ carmenrocha.be

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

No less than 19 girl geeks applied for the Tab 10.1 testing. Tough choice, but eventually Alia Papageorgiou (@Eurocentrique) was chosen to talk about her experiences with the tablet during #BGGD43 on 3 August in Brussels.

Where and when?

Wed 3 Aug 18:30
Samsung Electronics Benelux
Medialaan 50
1800 Vilvoorde

70 seats (for female and male geeks) available!

>>> Add your name to the list to get in for free <<<

Course of the evening

• 18:30 Welcome with drinks and finger food
• 19:30 Loesje De Vriese (Marketing Manager Telecom at Samsung) preview of the Tab 10.1
• 20:00 Testimonial by fellow girl geek Alia Papageorgiou (@Eurocentrique)
• 20:30 Sweepstake: win a Tab 10.1
• 21:00 (Walking) dinner + networking
• 22:30 Wrap-up and goodies

Keep the date free: on Wednesday evening 3 August Brussels Girl Geek Dinner will be all about tablets. One of the speakers is … you!

#BGGD43 sponsor Samsung is looking for a girl geek to test the Galaxy Tab 10.1, then talk about her experiences during girl geek dinner on August 3.

Interested? Mail Samsung@leadsunited.com . This Monday we’ll publish who the beta tester will be.

Building a story about the 42nd edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner. Any (blog, flickr, …) posts I’m missing?

>> Storify: BGGD42 at Winkelhaak, Antwerp <<

Brussels Girl Geek Dinners are not only about listening to interesting (tech) speakers and meeting the other girl geeks in an informal environment, but also about trying out new stuff. Like making beer cocktails.

Liefmans on the rocks offers you a whole new beer experience, a fruity drink served over ice for the ultimate summer refreshment. With notes of strawberry, raspberry, wild cherry, blueberry and elderberry this combination creates a stylish, fruity, sparkling and elegant experience. With the cocktails Liefmans even goes the extra mile in the world of beer experiences.

The attendees list for #BGGD42 filled up really quickly. But no worries: there are always last minute cancellations and usually we get all the reserves in!

Course of the evening:

18:30 Doors & welcome to De Winkelhaak
19:00 Speaker Wim Wouters, GriN founder and CEO about “The web is our playground”
19:30 Cocktail workshop by Liefmans Fruitesse; sodas (thank you Schweppes) and sandwiches
21:00 LaCie Twitter Sweepstake
21:30 Grab the goodie bags (thank you Liefmans & Douwe Egberts) & go home