She’s Geeky was a bit of a whirlwind for me. Kaliya did an amazing job facilitating the event, and I heard a lot of positive feedback from many of the attendees.
I was not able to attend as many sessions as I would have liked, but I had many amazing conversations with some fascinating women, especially Roxanne Darling, Open Source Grrl, Jen Silva, the women from Creative Maven, Anda Abramovici, and Sally Applin.
We’re looking forward to planning another She’s Geeky in New York in the New Year. More information to come in upcoming weeks.
Only six more days until the She’s Geeky (un)conference.
Monday Sessions
A lot of people have signed up this week, and we have a lot of interesting sessions planned for Monday afternoon, including:
- The Future of Technology: Melanie Swan, Christine Peterson from Foresight and Liana Holmberg from Linden Lab.
- Dealing with Analysts — The Good the Bad and the Ugly: Charlene Li , Rachel Chalmers, Julie Ask.
- Owning Your Power — Making it as a Leader: Susan Mernit is coordinating
- Nonprofits and Technology: Beth Kanter and Katrin Verclas
- User Experience Design: Kaari Peterson and Dee Adams
- Online Video / Vlogging: Cheryl Colan, Roxanne Darling, Ryanne Hodson
- Technology and Privacy: Violet Blue
- VC panel: Mary Hodder is coordinating
- How to Lightening Talks: Danese Cooper
- Public Speaking Practice: Lura Dolas
Check out the agenda at shesgeeky.org for more information.
Tuesday Sessions
Tuesday will follow the (un)conference format, and the agenda will be created at 8:30 am on Tuesday. Check out the proposed topics at shesgeeky.org.
Volunteer
We’re still looking for volunteers to help out with food set up and clean up. If you’d like to help out, please contact me at shesgeeky@gmail.com.
If you live on the West Coast, it is still October 15th, so I might just get this post up in time.
Then again, I’m in Alberta right now, which is why my post about the environment is, well, about the environment in Alberta. Or more specifically, the oilsands in Alberta.
I grew up in oil country and was still a child when earlier oil booms led to the creation of architectural wonders (or blunders) such as the Butterdome and the manmade waterfall coming out of the High Level Bridge.
In other words, in my experience, oil money has always represented extravagent spending and limited longterm planning.
After being away for eight years and then returning to Edmonton earlier this year in the middle of the housing boom, I was shocked to see how much the city of my childhood had changed. Yes, the Butterdome and the manmade waterfall are still there. As is “The Mall”. But, the feeling had changed.
Edmonton was suddenly about money, in a way it had never been before, or at least not in a way that I remembered. New housing developments were popping up and so many McMansions were being built that you could not go anywhere without getting into a conversation about real estate and money and oil and economic growth vs. the inevitable collapse.
Today, shortly after reading about blog action day, I happened to read Oilsands’ newest project: a greener image.
FWIW, I thought it was a fitting link to share today.