Brussels Girl Geek Dinner

Time and place:

Wed 16 Feb 2011 18:30-22:00
Microsoft Belgium HQ
Da Vincilaan 3
1935 Zaventem

Max amount of attendees:

100 (1 male guest aka sacoche allowed per girl geek)

Course of the evening & speakers:

The evening will start with Mee Hyang Van Den Broeck who will give a short description of the new Mobile Operating System, Windows Phone 7. She will then introduce Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Katrien De Graeve for a presentation on how easy it is to develop an app for the Windows Phone 7 platform, showcasing a “girl-geek application” created specifically for the occasion.

To conclude, the amazing Steffest will explore the Windows Phone 7 to its limit and link it to the topic of hacking.

Use the Twikilist to register. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Time for another BIG edition! The 38th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinners welcomes no less than 80 girl geeks and their sacoches (= male guests). And this time we’re on a boat!

In short:

http://brusselsgirlgeekdinner38.pbworks.com

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

If you’ve been following us for a while, you know the girl geeks love to put their game face on once in a while. This time, thanks to Microsoft BeLux, we’ll be able to get our hands on the Xbox Kinect before it hits the stores!

Kinect for Xbox 360  is a “controller-free gaming and entertainment experience” by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game platform. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller through a natural user interface using gestures, spoken commands, or presented objects and images.  Kinect is scheduled to launch worldwide starting with North America on November 4, 2010,  followed by Europe on November 10.

Date & Time:
Wednesday 3 November 18:00-22:00

Venue:
Kinect Concept Loft
Avenue Besme 107
1190 Brussels (Forét/Vorst)

Registration:
Free if you register through this wiki page:

>>> http://bggd36.pbworks.com/

See you on the 3rd!

Just a quick note: we’re finalising the order for catering with The Foodmaker for this Thursday’s Subtlemob in  Ghent.
If you won’t be able to make it, or would like to invite a friend, please update the attendee wiki today:

• http://brusselsgirlgeekdinner35.pbworks.com/

The “edit” tab appears after you log in to pbwiki.com

Weather forecast for Thursday warns for chilly temperatures, so make sure to dress warm.

A quick overview of the Brussels Girl Geek Dinners we’re planning:

• Thu 21 October 2010 18:30: Art/performance, Subtle Mob, Ghent.
• Wed 3 November 2010 18:30: Livingroom entertainment, Kinect, Forest/Vorst (Brussels)
• Sun 14 November 2010 10:30: Coffee, Brunch, Brussels.
• Wed 16 March 2011 19:00: Fashion, Swishing, Ghent.

If you got any ideas for goodie bags, let me know in the comments.

Honda got us an extra Honda CR-Z Hybrid for our roadtrip next week so now we’ll be Looking at *22* female car geeks who’ll be driving to Paris.

I also got news from the Dolce hotel in Chantilly, where we’ll be staying. It has a swimming pool, and the possibility to order massages (or, “remise en forme”, as they call it).  Here are the availabilities – make sure to book well in advance for the massage sessions:

Looking for 20 female car geeks to test drive 10 Honda CR-Z Hybrids all the way from Brussels to Paris (Paris Motorshow!) and back. With  dinner and a night’s stay at the gorgeous Dolce hotel in Chantilly in between.  Time slot: from Tuesday 5 October 09:30 until Wednesday 6 October 16:00.

Sounds like a plan?

Put your name on the wiki to get in for free:
http://bggdroadtrip.pbworks.com/

And please, no wiki chick fights. Don’t steal locks, don’t remove other people’s names, put your name with the reserves if the list is full. There will be many many more exciting Brussels Girl Geek Dinner events!

Hello ladies,

Next Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is on Wed 15 September 18:30 in the amazing Living Tomorrow in Vilvoorde. This time you can bring a male guest if you like, with up to 50 seats available.

Sponsored by:

• Fedict (venue, catering, goodie bag)
• Anaxis (goodie bag)

Course of the evening:

• 18:00      Doors
• 18:30     Welcome drinks
• 19:00     Speaker  Peter  Strickx (CTO at FEDICT) about Fedict‘s missions and ambitions
• 19:15      Speaker Bart Gysens (@wadje12 & eGov at Anaxis) about the project Brand en Burger
• 19:30    Tour around Living Tomorrow – focus on eID applications
• 20:30      Networking, drinks and finger food (thx Fedict)
• 22:00    Grab the goodie bag and go home

Put your name on the wiki to get in for free:
http://brusselsgirlgeekdinner34.pbworks.com/

Last year, at the start of Klarafestival, we had our first BGGD night out (with Gavriel Lipkind!) in Flagey Studio, Brussels.

This year, international Brussels music festival KlaraFestival starts today 7 September, with concerts and specials until 17 September.

I’m going to the  Club K project on Wednesday 15 September 21:30-23:59 in  Club K-Nal.
Course of the evening:

• 21u30 : Concert Invisible + Visual Kitchen
• 22u30 : American classical and jazz pianist and composer Uri Caine + Visual kitchen
• 23u15 : Mauro Pawlowski + Visual kitchen
• 00u : Shameboy

Want to join me? Let me know in the comments and I’ll arrange to have your (real)names on the guest list.  Feel free to bring a guest – just make sure his/her name is mentioned below. List closes at 30 BGGD names…

See you on the 15th!

Good news: the Brussels Girl Geeks will make another trip. And it’s going to be epic!

Registration will open soon but because I know you’re all busy ladies you might want to make some practical arrangements in time.

In short:

• We leave on Tuesday 5 October 10:00 in Zellik
• We will be driving ourselves – in shiny new cars so we can test them.
• Destination: Paris (!)
• Tuesday night: stay at the Dolce Chantilly hotel
• Wednesday 6 October 16:00 back in Zellik, Belgium

And don’t worry: there’s room for 20 girl geeks!

Hello ladies,

Next Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is on Mon 12 July 18:30 in the heart of Brussels. This time it’s a female only edition, with up to 40 girl geeks this time.

Thanks to http://www.dujardinstore.com we’ll be able to indulge in:

1) For 10 of you: learn how to walk like a catwalk model, with tips from a professional fashion stylist.

2) Fashion photography workshop by fellow girl geek Monica Monté (@sart68).

There will be healthy/girly food and of course we’ll try out everything we can get our hands on from the upcoming Dujardinstore.com winter collection.

Put your name on the wiki to get in for free:
http://brusselsgirlgeekdinner33.pbworks.com/

Dujardinstore.com is the rebirth of a very famous traditional Belgian brand back in the 20th century, now relaunched through a complete new business model focusing on e-commerce.
The collections are 100% made in top-quality cashmere, targeted at male and female who like tradition with a touch of glam, and who are rapidly becoming addicted to the softness of the cashmere….
Top-quality cashmere, partially hand-made in best Italian factory at affordable prices are made possible through this new economic model, without any distributor.
Still, Dujardinstore.com has a few ambassadors boutiques in Brussels, Knokke, Spa, La Hulpe, Paris,…(and more to come) where customers can try the clothes on before ordering online via iPads made available for them in the boutiques.
At Dujardinstore.com, we strongly believe the new technologies are changing our ways of consuming and buying products and we would be very pleased to show you how it works for us while let you discover in an exclusive avant-première our fall/winter 2010 collection !

The 32nd edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner (co-orgnised with CaféNumerique) is centered around the topic “Infobesitas“. Thanks to Microsoft we were able to get speaker Tom Palmaerts to talk to us about information overload, and how we try to handle it.

Tom Palmaerts (@palmaerts on Twitter) is a trendwatcher, coolhunter, speaker, photographer and blogger. He works for Trendwolves and specialises in youth culture, trends and online communities.

Venue:

Claridge
Chaussée de Louvain / Leuvensesteenweg 24B
Brussel

If you come by car, best park your car here (Claridge is just around the block)

Parking Scailquin‎
Rue Scailquin 35, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, België‎ – 02 217 57 07

Grotere kaart weergeven
The programme on Tue 22 June 2010:

• 18.30 Welcome, opening walking dinner & drinks
• 19.15 Introduction by Clo Willaerts
• 19.30 Infobesitas – Tom Palmaerts
• 20.05 Discover the new Windows Live Hotmail & Messenger
• 20.20 Q&A, mingle&mix

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

For the curious: the results from the poll for primary e-mail address are 46% Gmail, 18% Hotmail, 12% work address, 11% Telenet, 8% other, 5% Yahoo and 1% Skynet.

Tonight Tuesday8 June, 25 Belgian Girl Geeks will challenge the attendant men to a gaming tournament, organized by Rock Star Games. They will take a stand against each other playing Red Dead Redemption, the long expected successor of the Grand Theft Auto games.
During the battle, there will be a delicious Western style BBQ at the inner court of the PR’ins showroom.

There are 2 places left!

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The world of games is still considered as a man’s bastion by some.
However: the past few years lots of women started gaming.

This is why on Tuesday the 8th of June, PR’ins and Brussels Girl Geek Dinner organize an heroic ‘battle of the sexes‘ in the heart of Antwerp. 25 Girl Geeks will challenge the attendant men to a gaming tournament, organized by Rock Star Games. They will take a stand against each other playing Red Dead Redemption, the long expected successor of the Grand Theft Auto games.
During the battle, there will be a delicious Western style BBQ at the inner court of the PR’ins showroom.

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

Red Dead Redemption is a sandbox-style action-adventure western video game with role-playing elements developed by Rockstar and released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in May 2010.

The game takes place in the year 1911 in the American Old West territory and follows John Marston, a former outlaw, while he tries to save his wife and son, taken by government agents, by capturing and killing his former gang members.

To get you in the right mood, here’s a Red Dead Redemption Trailer – The Women of Red Dead Redemption:

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!

Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #27 (on Wed 5 May in Antwerp) is fully booked, but no worries: there’s still room at Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #28 on Sunday afternoon 9 May in Ghent. Put your name on the wiki to be part of this unique art event!

Electrified 02 – Hacking public spaces, the second edition of  S.M.A.K. and the Vooruit ‘s biennial art project, takes up a decisive position on the crossroads of several directions in the visual arts. At the same time it will expose the friction between the areas where the two institutions operate: the S.M.A.K. in contemporary art and the Vooruit in media art, sound and performance art. In the quest for a shared ‘mentality’ in these different dynamics, the public space is taken as a common thread. In this case, the term ‘public space’ is all-embracing, without losing sight of the actual distinction between real and virtual public space.

About the artist (from Vooruit.be):

In her work, Roberta Gigante (b. 1986, Arpino, Italy) explores relationships between public space, image and sound. More specifically, she examines the resonance frequencies of various objects and how sound behaves as an ‘image’. As part of Electrified02, Gigante will be going to the harbour in Ghent. It is not so much the setting that interests her as the site, where twelve gigantic metal pipes are being stored. The pipes lie next to one another, like separate organ pipes waiting to be brought together in one instrument. Each pipe – depending on its thickness, diameter and length – has its own resonance frequency, which is recorded and then used as a keynote in a site-specific sound installation. In OrganOOn the artist ‘hacks’ the port site in Ghent with a sound installation that appeals to the imagination and will be activated just once, namely on Sunday 5 of May, 2010. This unusual organ concert also questions the classical organisation and setting in which concerts like this are held.

Programme of the day (on Sunday 9 May):

• 13:30 Attendees arrive at the S.M.A.K.’s The Factory
• 14:00 Welcome + start of the tours: electrified (2 groups) & ed templeton (1 group)
• 15:00 End of tours + cake and coffee
• 15:30 Transport to secret location in Ghent harbour – use the wiki to arrange your own transport by car
• 16:00 Arrival of Roberta Gigante
• 16:30 Cava moment
• 17:00 End  - transport back to S.M.A.K or home

Good news! The month of May is packed with interesting girl geek dinners and for the 27th, 28th and 29th edition you can finally bring male guests again. Feel free to bring your sacoche!

Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #27
Wed 5 May  18:30 (doors 18:00)-22:00
Speaker: Michaël Uyttersprot on Android applications.
Thanks to Sony Ericsson.
The Pub Agency, Antwerp

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Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #28
Sun 9 May 13:30 – 17:00
Speaker: Roberta Gigante  on OrganOOn, her contribution to Hacking Public Spaces.
Thanks to Vooruit
S.M.A.K. + the port site, Ghent

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Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #29
Wed 12 May 18:30-21:00
Speakers: Ine and Catherine (http://nomadz.nu/) on Travelling geeks.
Thanks to Telenet
Telenet, Mechelen (Wifi available)

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The 26th edition of Brussels Girl Geek Dinner is centered around the topic “Girls vs Video Games“. Thanks to girl geek Aleksandra Logist (@aleks2401) we’ll be able to play with a range of video game classics and new releases.

the consoles :

• One Xbox 360
• One PS3
• One Nintendo Wii
• One Nintendo Dsi (or DSi XL)
• One PSP

Venue:

Wed 21 April 18:00-21:30

Ad!dict Creative Lab  – Belgium
LAB.001 bvba
Delaunoystraat 60
1080 Brussels Belgium

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