Brussels Girl Geek Dinner

Tonight’s 48th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners is made possible by Delta Lloyd Life.

As a pension insurer Delta Lloyd Life takes its social responsibility by participating in the debate with the various Belgian pension players. The pension debate shouldn’t just only be conducted in De Wetstraat. An annual pension survey, the Independent Chair of Pension Policy at the K.U. Leuven, the Pension Ambassador Award and the current campaign “Vrouwen Met Pensioen” are just some of its initiatives that seek to put the pension dialogue on the agenda. Take a look at
www.vrouwenmetpensioen.be / www.lapensiondesfemmes.be..

Two female bloggers, Ann Detelder (@AnnMetPensioen) and Claire Cervollo (@PensionDeClaire), were asked to document their month on the minimum pension fee. How did they cope?

And most importantly: which one of the girl geeks win the two iPhones tonight?

More good news: in the goodie bag you’ll find a voucher for a free customizable Wall Calendar offered by Pixum . Value: 19,99 euros (handling and mailing costs are not included). Just in time for the end of year!

Curious about what’s in the goodie bag? There’s one thing we can already tell you: there’s a Duracell Instant USB charger for each one of you!

The Instant Charger allows you to charge many USB-powered devices. It’s a handy portable power solution to keep in your bag, in your car, or on your desk for devices like iPods, iPhones, BlackBerrys, and more.

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?

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.

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.

Thanks to Douwe Egberts the girl geeks at tonight’s BGGD42 in Winkelhaak, Antwerp will go home with a selection of Douwe Egberts L´OR EspressO capsules. But why wouldn’t be taste this top-quality Arabica coffee during the girl geek dinner event? I’ll bring the cups (and some cream and sugar). But who has a Nespresso machine to try the cups out? Let us know in the comments!

In the early days of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners, sweepstakes were invariably organised as a TV show telephone game (often dubbed belspeldelspel by the girl geeks). Today, obviously, it would be a Twitter sweepstake. What can girl geeks win at tonight’s BGGD42 in Winkelhaak, Antwerp?

One of these three LaCie CurrenKey USB Flash Drives, one with a gold(16GB), one with a silver (8GB), and one with a bronze (4GB) finish.

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.

Don’t forget:

#BGGD41 Swishing
With Karolien De Craecker (swishing.be / @swishing_be)
Wed 16 March 19:00-22:00
100 50 guests (female only)
zZmogh
Engelbert van Arenbergstraat 43, 9040 Gent
Use car park at the GB Dampoort (GPS: Pilorijnstraat 22) – route description to Zzmogh)

And this is one of the first posts about the contents of the goodie bag. These are the companies who are keeping the BGGD free, so don’t hesitate to give them some love.

But first, some instructions:

• Hoe doet u de perfecte Pantene Swisshh?
• Vous aussi essayez le Swisssh de Pantene

During the 39th edition of the Brussels Girl Geek Dinner, you have a chance to win an HTC 7 Trophy.

All you need to do is to be present and participative.

Interesting, but what is it?
The HTC 7 Trophy is a Windows Phone 7 smartphone from HTC that will get you into the game! Check out all the things you can do with this gaming phone with full Xbox LIVE integration.

Well to be honest, we don’t know yet.

The Nokia people are deciding which picture of last week’s Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is as we speak. They will announce it today some time after 12:00.
In the meanwhile www.nokia.be/c7 went live, with even more prizes to win, like a trip to Thailand!

[UPDATE] The winner is Sara Vermeylen (@techonheels) with this Yfrog Photo:

The (Nokia branded) goodie bag contains:

• Passage Fitness First: a free 5 day pass for you and a friend
• A bottle of Passoa and a shaker
• BGGD branded M&Ms
• More chocolate goodness (Celebrations and Maltesers to be precise)
• Nokia C7 branded USB sticks
• A code for 3GB free online storage with wuala by LaCie
• Hair care product from Toni&Guy (remember #BGGD30?)

And… the sandwich bar is by Foodmaker (just like at #BGGD35).

As you know, 18:30-19:30 at tomorrow’s Brussels Girl Geek Dinner has been officially declared Passoa Cocktail Hour.

The rich flavour of Central and South America gave birth to Passoã with its sweet and fruity taste.  For neraly 20 years now, its famous black

bottle has kept the secret of how to fuel latin fiestas. Passoã is the must for any party all over the world.

Passoã is now launching its new limited edition bottle, come celebrate it with us!

Join us at http://www.facebook.com/Passoa and www.passoa.com

Good news! Nokia has kindly agreed to up the maximum amount of Brussels Girl Geek #38 attendees from 80 to 100. By the way: if your name is on the attendees list but you’re not 100% sure you can make it to Brussels at 18:30 this Thursday, please move your name to the off list. This way we can give the Reserves on the list a chance to join us.

And there’s more:

• 18:30-19:30 is now officially declared Passoa Cocktail Hour.

The (Nokia branded) goodie bag contains:

• Passage Fitness First: a free 5 day pass for you and a friend
• A bottle of Passoa and a shaker
• BGGD M&Ms
• More chocolate goodness (Celebrations and Maltesers to be precise)
• Nokia C7 branded USB sticks

Dear Girl Geeks,

In the name of NESCAFÉ® Dolce Gusto® and Mmmmh!, it was a real pleasure meeting you during this delicious brunch (that you prepared yourself, it is true J). It was a great adventure we will remember for a long time having our 40 dedicated women chefs!

We hope you enjoyed the great recipes, the final contest and more than anything else the coffee and the brand new Piccolo machine you just received. We wish you having a lot of fun using it in your every day live and we hope that you will love it as much as we do.

Also, as you did great, The Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Cooking Officer of the “Nescafé Dolce Gusto Academy” have the pleasure announcing you that you all deserve the Degree of “Cooking and Coffee Specialist”. You can download it here (.pdf). Congratulations!

Finally, as a last gift, do not forget registering your machine on the website www.dolce-gusto.be and receive a set of Espresso Cups for free with your first order.

Do not hesitate joining the actual Dolce Gusto community on the Facebook fanpage where we posted the pictures of the event and the link to the Paris Match article.

Sincerely yours,

The Nescafé Dolce Gusto and Mmmmh! Teams

As you know, we put a lot of effort in keeping Brussels Girl Geek Dinners free and open. And thanks to companies like Nokia, we’re able to celebrate the 38th edition of BGGD on a boat (!). So if you publish anything, please give lots of linklove to their latest model, the Nokia C7.

About the Nokia C7

http://www.nokia.be/C7

About our Nokia keynote speakers:

• Ann Van Dessel, Head of Marketing Nokia Benelux
• Grace Boicel, Senior Design Manager at Nokia Finland

About Nokia:

At Nokia, we are committed to connecting people. We combine advanced technology with personalized services that enable people to stay close to what matters to them. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people connect to one another with a Nokia device – from mobile phones to advanced smartphones and high-performance mobile computers. Today, Nokia is integrating its devices with innovative services through Ovi (www.ovi.com), including music, maps, apps, email and more.

• Follow Nokia Belgium on Twitter via twitter.com/Nokiabe
• Become a fan on Facebook
• Subscribe to Youtube channel: youtube.com/nokia

For the launch of their futuristic Piccolo coffee machine, NESCAFE Dolce Gusto invites 40 Brussels Girl Geeks for a cooking class at Mmmmh! headquarter in Brussels.

During this morning you will have the opportunity to cook 3 delicious recipes with well-known Chefs at your side while savouring a delicious cup of Cappuccino, Latte Macchiato Espresso…You name it!
This is the perfect Dolce moment to cook and chat with your friends…
Also, to spice everything up, a contest will be organised and the best cooks will receive a special prize at the end of the morning.

And,
Cherry on the cake, our party will be published in one of the most glamorous magazine of all times…  So it is the perfect occasion to be there and show off :-)

Location & Info

Date :
Sunday 14 November 2010
10:30 – 13:30

Place :
92 chaussée de Charleroi-Charleroisteenweg
Parking space (just for us): Rue Faiderstraat 20 in 1060 Brussels

Number of guests :
40

Format :
3 different workshop + surprise

Price:
Free entry for those who registered through this wiki page (request access to get in):
http://brusselsgirlgeekdinner37.pbworks.com