Go and find out yourself at the award ceremony on 9 February in Brussels.
Want your name to be put on the guest list? Then contact Ghita Philipi and tell her the girl geeks sent you :-)

Fellow girl geek Stephanie Booth has just finalised the details of the blogger programme for the Solar Impulse’s visit to Brussels and is still looking for bloggers to participate.

Picure by Stephanie Booth http://www.flickr.com/photos/bunny/

Saturday 28 May 09:30-11:30 Breakfast discussion with both Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg. Inside the hangar in Brussels airport, where the Solar Impulse is currently parked, you’ll sit at a discussion table to have breakfast and ask your questions, talk about anything related to the project, film, photograph, blog, tweet, you name it. For 60 minutes, we will leave the two founders of the project at your mercy ;-)

Interested? Apply for the exclusive blogger/podcaster programme using this form.

Keynot speaker is globally renowned game designer Jane McGonigal (janemcgonigal.com, avantgame.com and twitter.com/avantgame). McGonigal is convinced that individuals who are used to tackling problems in computer games will also be more creative and faster at finding solutions to problems that might occur in real life.

Register now for this stylish female event, spiced up by the beats and dishes of our Lady DJ’s and the Bru Lady Chef of the Year 2011.

And if you are a man? You are most welcome too! We really need you to support our message… although during this event, all spotlights will be on the ladies!

On April 6th, 150 Belgian Developers will meet at Web Camp to learn and discuss about HTML5. In the dawn of the Internet Explorer 9 launch and looking at the effervescence on the browser market, Microsoft Belgium would like to invite you to meet some of the people designing the web of tomorrow and share your ideas with them during a cocktail reception.

Agenda

• Welcome speech (6:30pm) by our hosts Jean-Benoît Van Bunnen (IE9 Product Manager) and Katrien De Graeve (Developer Evangelist)
• Networking with finger food (7:00pm)
• Showcase (7:30pm) of some neat websites with IE9 on some of the latest and coolest devices available.

Interested? Register at http://www.beautyoftheweb.be/cocktail/

Women, who represent 60% of university graduates, are a reservoir of talent for science, technology and innovation. However, only 33% of them choose science or technology at higher education and very few make a career in this field. The majority of women in science are in the fields of medicine, biology or mathematics (to become teachers) and they often completely drop subjects such as computer science or civil and industrial engineering.

We must increase the attractiveness of science and technology subjects in order to increase the gender balance in this sector and bring innovation and economic growth.

Programme of the day
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>>  Vote now for the next ICT Woman of the year!

Voting starts on January 14th and you can take part until Wednesday  January 26th.

Bizcamp is an unconference organized by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. It is all about learning from other entrepreneurs and about sharing what you know.

It is called an unconference because there is minimal organisation beforehand and the day itself is completely free for all participants. In exchange, participants help to organise, present, take pictures, clean up afterwards, etc.

Anyone can speak at Bizcamp – and everyone is encouraged to do so! There’s only one rule: no commercial speeches. You can’t speak about what you do at
work, but you can definitely share what you’ve learned while doing it.

Have a look at the presentations from the last Bizcamp Belgium to get an idea of the style and topics. Some examples:

• Financing your business
• Dealing with taxes and subsidies
• Things that went wrong and what we learned from them
• Tools that help us do business better
• Building and managing teams / hiring people
• Doing business abroad
• Managing work/life balance
• Sales and marketing techniques
• Starting your business

This is the third Bizcamp Belgium: the first one assembled almost 100 people at The Hub Brussels in late 2009, and the second nearly 70 people at SAP
Lounge in June 2010. This edition will take place at the gorgeous Den Bell building courtesy of the city of Antwerp.

The building (located at Francis Wellesplein 1, 2018) is not far from the public transport – train ride followed by a tram ride or a brief walk – and has plenty of parking which will be available to Bizcamp participants on the day free of charge.

Keep in mind: the number of tickets is strictly limited, and half of them is already gone! Register now at
http://bizcampantwerp.eventbrite.com/ – or if the latest batch of tickets is sold out, subscribe to the newsletter at http://www.bizcamp.be/newsletter/ to be
the first to hear about the next batch becoming available.

See you on December 11!

• Take a global view with these international keynote speakers
  • technology expert Andy Mulholland: Technology driven markets – Business driven technologies
  • experienced business consultant Ashutosh Sheshabalaya: How to integrate Asia in one’s technological and industrial strategy
  • trendwatcher Sven Tollmien: The influence of the Outernet to different market places
• Find out what tomorrow’s world will look like
• Meet the new, first female, president of Agoria
• Shake hands with a hologram and hug Probo, the intelligent robot

Feel free to bring your laptop or smartphone – wifi will be available. If you tweet about this, please use the hashtag #agoria2010.

So the BetaGroup has invited 6 ladies Web Entrepreneur to present their startup for the next meeting.

Book your free spot now for this special event “Ladies on Stage” on March 30th at 6:30PM at the ULB in Brussels.

Info and registration at :

http://betagroup17.eventbrite.com/

Presenting Startups :

1.   UserPlus.org by Lonneke
2.   Silkinabox.com by Vanessa
3.   123feelfree.be by Leen
4.   Kameleonbon.be by Eva
5.   SchmoozyFox by Olga
6.   Belmodo.tv by Tiany & Angelique