Brussels Girl Geek Dinner

For all the Girl Geeks interested in scooters and motors, Honda Belgium organizes a testing evening with a short presentation of the features and an instructor to give tips and tricks. Interested? Email Sylvie dot Bove at honda-eu dot com.

The new Honda PCX was created for riders who desire the compact, economical advantages of a 125cc scooter and the modern, fashionable good looks more often associated with larger-displacement machines. In every aspect, from its low-noise, low-emissions operation to its easy handling and contemporary image, the Honda PCX is designed as a practical, fast and fun ride.
The Honda PCX is the first Honda scooter which is equipped with Honda’s new CV-Matic and the only scooter on the market equipped with the start-stop function.

Time to move, ladies! For the fashion and photography edition I got two things you can take home:

• Fresh samples of the new Activia Drink
• Activia Houp hula hoops

I trust you all know what Activia Drink is but these Hula hoops might need some explanation. From the wikipedia entry on Hula Hoop:

The record for simultaneous hula hooping (minimum time: 2 minutes) is for 2,290 participants at Chung Cheng Stadium in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on 28 October 2000.

The idea is to break that record on Saturday 14 August 2010 at the beach of Oostende. For this we need at least 2300 people hooping at the same time for at least two minutes.

Want to know more? Here’s an introduction from no less than Evy Gruyaert and Julie Taton :


See you on the 14th of August, in Oostende. Let’s break that world record!

Get your hair cut for free @ Tony & Guy, help cancer survivors
Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #30 is actually a trendy haircutting evening at Toni&Guy (“the most powerful hairdressing brand on the planet”) in Antwerp, organised by Geef om Haar/Coupe d’Eclat. So if you have a healthy pony tail of at least 20 cm and want a new trendy summer look, come and have your hair cut for free at this event and donate your pony tail to help women with cancer.

But what exactly is Pantene Geef om Haar/Coupe d’Eclat?
Geef om Haar/Coupe d’Eclat is an initiative of Pantene, in cooperation with Stichting tegen Kanker/Fondation contre le Cancer, that aims to provide emotional and financial support to men and women who have lost their hair as a result of cancer. The initiative encourages Belgians to donate their hair so it can be made into a wig.

• Follow on Twitter: @geefomhaar or @coupedeclat
• Like on Facebook: www.facebook.com/geefomhaar or www.facebook.com/coupedeclat

What if your hair isn’t long enough?
No worries if you don’t want or can’t cut 20 centimeters: you can have your hair
washed, cut and brushed  for 25 euros by the Toni&Guy-team and this amount will be applied to the Geef om Haar/Coupe d’Eclat Fund.

Place: Toni&Guy – Leopoldstraat 53 – 2000 Antwerpen
Time: 18u30 – 21u
Max # of attendees: 14
Put your name on the wiki to be one of them!

All 80 attendees of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #28 get a free 12 month subscription to the Nomadesk file server. They will find their promotional code inside the goodie bag.But what exactly is Nomadesk?

Nomadesk is the easiest and most secure way to share your files with colleagues,suppliers, customers, … over the internet. Nomadesk is a virtual fileserver onyour computer which acts as a traditional hard drive to which you can easily dragand drop files. Your documents can be accessed both online and offline.

Xperia X10, the Android phone of Sony Ericsson is now available on the Belgian market. With the Xperia X10, Sony Ericsson introduces an open and integrated world of social media, communication and entertainment.Discover this new Android phone at Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #27 on 5 May!With new applications like Mediascape and Timescape™, the XPERIA X10 lets consumers organise everything in their phone in an intuitive way. Have a look:

At Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #27, Sony Ericsson will also present the new Xperia X10 mini and Xperia X10 mini pro – not yet on the market in Belgium. Compact versions of the Xperia X10 that let you choose: touch screen or keyboard?

The 25th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is centered around the topic “Self Confidence“. Thanks to Oral-B we were able to get speaker motivating speaker and personal coach Inge Rock to teach us a few tricks on e.g. speaking in public, or presenting your business case to possible investors.

Venue:

Procter & Gamble (Itinerary .pdf)
Temselaan 100
1853 Strombeek-Bever

The programme on Wed 31 March 2010:

• 18.00 Welcome
• 18.30 Introduction by Clo Willaerts and Inge De Backer
• 18.40 Introduction to oral care
• 19.00 What is the connection between oral care and self expression?
• 19.10 Personal coaching by Inge Rock
• 20:00 Walking dinner

Put your name on the wiki to get in for free!

A word about our sponsor:

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The 24th edtion of BGGD on Wednesday 24 March from 5-7 PM at TAN was inspired by www.atelier-alibaba.be.

Alibaba’s recipe is: 2 nutritionists, a pinch of common sense and a lot of indulgence.
At Alibaba, it’s all about re-discovering the pleasure to eat healthy and enjoying it! It¹s about learning some basics on what to eat, how to prepare it, have to make daily evening cooking easier and enjoying meals together, with family and friend, and more especially, enjoying a healty meal with your kids!

One of the pillars of Alibaba, is to work on taste and the 5 senses with your children, while you will receive very useful information and coaching on the nutrition basics:

• how to cook healthy (forget the grill! :-)
• what oils should I use in my kitchen?
• an alternative to the every day meat?

More at www.atelier-alibaba.be (in French – it’s a young startup company so make sure to give them lots of linklove).

What happens if you send a bunch of car loving geek girls to an event like Top Gear Live?

They have get high on fumes, have lots of fun, and even fall in love. More details:

• Ik ben verliefd! by @eveliendb at eveliendb.com.
• We are all the Stig by @bnox at bnox.be.
• Flickr set TopGearLive in Amsterdam by CWillaerts
• The secret ingredients (to seduce a man) by @imkedielen at imkedielen.wordpress.com.
• Facebook foto’s van Imke Dielen.
• Imke Dielen’s video’s: Top Gear Live – football, Top Gear Live – motor, Top Gear Live – fire, and Top Gear Live – the start.

Below: Top Gear Live Flickr set by Gil Plaquet.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Brussels Girl Geek Dinners have been totally spoilt lately! Here’s a round up of recent sponsor contests, and the girls who won:

• Win an Anne-Sophie party dress:  won by La Fie en Rose (@Fielosophie) with A goodie outfit for Clo! Thank you Anne-Sophie
• Win 10 entries to Weight Watchers meetings: won by Witch (@Gudrun) with Weight Watchers. Thank you Weight Watchers!
• Win a ticket to Top Gear Live in Amsterdam on January 24th: won by  Imke Dielen (@ImkeDielen) with Gierende banden en blutsen in de Lamborghini and by Eveliendb (@Eveliendb) with Mijn geschiedenis met auto’s. Thank you Dunlop!

Dunlop is proud sponsor of the Amsterdam edition of Top Gear Live – a thundering show filled with the roar and smoke of the world’s fastest cars and jaw-dropping stunts under the watchful eye of three grown men that talk of little else besides cars, performance, speed and someone’s supposedly whitened teeth. With this travelling show, “the boys”, give every car fan the opportunity to spend an evening on what really matters: cars.

Dunlop offers two car-loving Geek Girls the opportunity to experience the spectacle up close and personal! We’re giving away two tickets to the last European edition of the show on Sunday January 24th in Amsterdam.

As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high and ultra-high performance tires, Dunlop’s name is inextricably linked to motorsport. The technologies that the company develops for use on the world’s leading circuits are also found in the tires it makes for everyday motoring. It is no surprise then that many of the world’s leading vehicle manufacturers, including Alfa Romeo, AMG, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Jaguar, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, fit Dunlop as standard.

Also itching to be in Amsterdam on the 24^th?

Here’s what you need to do:

1) Write a blog post before January 21st. Make sure it contains the correct answers to these three questions:

1. Of which international race, that takes place from 14 – 16 January, is Dunlop title sponsor?
2. Which Dunlop ultra high performance tire contains Kevlar® in the apex of the tire?
3. Which Dunlop winter tire was named ‘Testsieger’ in the 2009 winter tire test conducted by German automotive magazine AutoZeiting?

Also make sure to convince the Dunlop people in a few sentences why you ABSOLUTELY have to be there on the 24th!

2) Put a link to this post (http://www.brusselsgirlgeekdinner.be/?p=539) in your blog post so we can see it pop up in the TrackBacks of this story.

Good Luck!

The girl geeks that attended Weight Watchers’ cooking workshop yesterday had the pleasure of receiving a perfect starter kit to test the brand-new ProPoints Program:

• Shopping guide: Giving all the ProPointsTM value of the most common food, and for the most important brands
• 365 days cookbook: healthy cooking pleasure for the whole year.
• … and more!

Remember the 19th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners , the one with @designarenas and @imaterialise as the speakers? We launched a Facebook contest shortly afterwards, with even more design prizes to win. And here are the winners:

• Ann Marcelis won the vases
• Lien de Leenheer won a market tote
• Elvire van Ooteghem, Gudrun Rombaut, and Inge Mestdagh each won a bravit candle

Oh, and one more thing: if you’re in trouble finding a holiday gifts, do yourself a favour and get them at http://arenascollection.com.

All dressed up and nowhere to go? No worries: all the girl geeks who put their name on the wiki guest list for Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #21 (the Fashion edition) get in for free at the first edition of Shut Up And Dance, Friday 11 December 2009 at the Tijuana in Ghent.

Shut Up And Dance is a new party concept, based in Ghent, and aims to bring back the feeling of the late eighties and early nineties: house and new beat were kinda undergroundpopular, and techno was breaking through. It was a Beatles revolution with only beats. Punk minus the slogans, and far better looking. A new form of instrumental protest. M’as-tu vu without the empty talking. Shut up. And dance.

Hungry after a full day of shopping? Just-Eat has put a 5 euros discount code in each of the 50 goodie bags. These codes are transferable and valid until 31 December 2009.

Just-Eat’s mission is to make consumers’ and restaurants lives easier by enabling hungry surfers to “Order Takeaway. The Smart Way.” At the end of 2009 Just-Eat Group operates in 8 countries, has 8,000+ restaurants online and, every month, over 1.5m takeaway meals are bought through their sites.

• For Belgium, use http://www.just-eat.be/ to order.
• Follow http://twitter.com/JustEatBE on Twitter
• Subscribe to the Just-Eat blog (in Dutch)
• Become a fan of Just-Eat on Facebook and win free meals

During the BGGD#21 at Anne-Sophie Smartshopping, Logitech will be present to give you a demo of their latest Logitech Harmony. These universal remotes allow you to control all of your gadgets with one remote. And let’s face it, as a girl geek, we know you have a lot of them ;-)

You can try out the Harmony now on www.mycrib.be which was just launched! That’s where you’ll also find a clip of Alex Agnew showing you around his house, but a couple of things go wrong…
The kind people of Logitech will be giving away a few Harmony’s to 3 lucky winners. What you’ll have to do in order to be able to win them, will be revealed tomorrow. See you there!

It’s almost a tradition to give away girly and/or techy stuff during Brussels Girl Geek Dinner. And it’s no different for our Fashion edition on Wednesday 2 December at Anne Sophie Smartshopping. Thanks to producer of electronic accessories Memorex we are able to hand out two iPod accessories: one SingStand Karaoke microphone/speaker system and one miniMove Boombox for iPod.

The SingStand is a uniquely designed accessory that filters out the artist’s voice and lets you sing along with music stored on your iPod, with an area to place the iPod directly underneath the microphone mount, and speakers built into the stand’s base. Other features include a 3.5 mm input jack for the iPod, voice control, an echo effect, dual microphone inputs and input jacks for other musical instruments.

miniMove Boombox for iPod is a purse-shaped system with an iPod dock below the handle and a digital FM radio. The boombox is available in turquoise, black or pink.

Availability
Both the Memorex SingStand and miniMove are available at Media Markt, Saturn, Cora, Makro, Carrefour and Krefel and cost respectively €99,95 and €79,95.

Good news! Brussels Girl Geek Dinner has 20 free tickets for the national Avant Première of OceanWorld 3D on Mon 30 November 19:45 at Kinepolis, Liège. Want to join us? Put your name (and those of the friends you bring with you) on the wiki page.

Digital 3D film production is in full flight: 2009 is therefore the ideal year to launch a Film Festival entirely dedicated to 3D. From Bollywood to Hollywood, from Shanghai to Brussels and Liège, the 3D planet is bubbling with excitement: three 3D films were distributed in 2008, some fifteen in 2009 and to date we have counted more than 150 3D films in production (listed films).

The 3D Stereo MEDIA 2009 Film Festival offers the general public and 3D image professionals:

• A selection of the best 3D films from the digital 3D era*. This selection is composed of 15 mid- and feature-length films.
• A short film competition and a feature film competition*. Three films were selected in each category by the organisers and will be presented to the jury.

The 3D Film festival will be held both by Kinepolis Antwerp, Brussels & Liege. Kinepolis will play a selection of 3D movies every night from the 1st December till the 3rd.

*Ocean World 3D*

France/ French-English

Director: Jean-Jacques et François Mantello

Producer: 3D Entertainment

Length: 85 min

Follow Aris the sea turtle, who embarks on a journey across the oceans in search of the origin of mysterious, far away calls. Aris encounters both her friends and her predators. What she finally discovers is that the greatest threat to the fate of ocean life doesn’t lie beneath the waves, but in the hands of the people from above.
In French with the lecture of Marion Cotillard.

Don’t forget to thank our goodie bag sponsors, too…
Here’s what that big Ecover bottle in the #bggd20 goodie bag is about:

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The 19th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner takes place in Leuven on Wed 18 November 2009 18:00. Speakers are Ward Callens, Director, .MGX Division at Materialise  & Dominique D’Heedene (@designarenas) of DesignArenas, an e-tailer specializing in bringing hotel luxury and lifestyle at home.

The topic of this edition is 3D technology. From .MGX by Materialise (make sure to check out the .MGX Facebook page)

.MGX works with innovative 3D printing techniques and some of the top designers, architects and artists from around the world to produce architectural models, art pieces and other custom projects, as well as a range of exceptional lighting objects, furniture, interior goods and accessories – all with a degree of detail, complexity and speed that cannot be offered by other production techniques.

Through the specific technologies of stereolithography and selective laser sintering, objects are brought to life primarily as single pieces, without joints or seams, through the principle of ‘additive fabrication’, whereby material is transformed from one state to another (liquid to solid or welding of material particles by laser beam). In most cases, .MGX creations would be impossible to produce using other manufacturing methods.

Recent .MGX collaborations have included projects with artists such as Frank Stella and Peter Jansen, as well as Asymptote, Future Systems, SOM, Foster & Partners, UN Studio and other leading architectural and design firms. The .MGX line of design products is currently exported to over 20 countries worldwide; has received many awards, including two Red Dot Design Awards; is featured in numerous international museums, including the MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris; and regularly appears in top design and decor publications such as: Icon, Surface Magazine, Elle Decor and Vogue Living.

You know from our Upcoming BGGD overview that on Wednesday 7 October is the 18th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner. Topic is Movies. Or rather: Eighties Ladies at the Movies. And there’s good news: there will be room (and goodie bags) for no less than 100 girl geeks. Thank you  kinepolis.com/ladies!

Have you already guessed what movie we’ll see? Here’s a hint.