The agenda for the conference will be made live in real time at the event during the first hour of each day. When people register for She’s Geeky we ask them what they would like to talk about so this will give you some more ideas about what the women are likely to put forward as session topics.
What issues and topics would you like to discuss with women working and studying in STEM fields/Science, Technology, Engineering, Math?
- Work/Life Balance, Applying Quality Methods to our work and everyday lives
- New Venture Opportunities in technology
- networking, how to get in, supporting each other
- healthcare and social media
- Interactive, E-learning, UX
- soft skills technical jobs (such as technical communication), podcasting and geeky hobbies
- Developing for online education
- web design, CMS, database-driven web sites, mobile apps, GIS, game design.
- Online privacy, the impact of social technologies on relationships
- Content strategy, web and application design, how to learn to code, information management, technical writing skills, SEO, and the list goes on!
- How can we better enable sharing of technical knowledge and skill?
- starting up online businesses; resources for women to get help, learn, stay connected
- Information protection
- agile development
- Generation O – crowd sourcing
- setting goals as a woman in technology, overcoming obstacles unique to women in technology, networking successfully
- What are the benefits and challenges of pursuing a freelance programming career?
- Over 50% of verbal communications relates to the physical (including appearance). I’d love to help women learn how to stand out and be successful with personal style.
- leadership
- mobile development
- health and tech
- “I’m not a “”STEM”" person by trade, so any ways to make those topics more accessable to the mainstream would be appreciated”
- QR Code art
- blogging
- SEO
- engineering
- Math & Science education; Technology enhanced learning
- What are challenges that women commonly face working in the field of technology?
- building community software
What are you hoping to learn, share and experience from attending She’s Geeky?
- Meet other women in leadership roles, understand their challenges and how to engage more females in the world of Math, Science and Technology
- Meet people with similar personalities, backgrounds.
- Meet more women working in technology
- Learn about new technology, what is happening in the field
- to meet other women involved in these fields
- Hoping to meet others who share the same interests as I in technology and science.
- Networking, meeting other geeky women, friendship, sharing my knowledge
- I really want to connect with other women doing web technology work.
- Connect with local women who do similar jobs; learn about to new technologies
- I’m hoping to be inspired.
- The community of women is most important to me. As the only female on my product design team, it’s very helpful to reach out to other women professionals for support.
- Networking, learn more in the mobile space
- Meet more technical women
- Where to begin – turning an idea for an online web app into a reality
- networking,idea sharing
- How do others decide WHAT to learn next?
- So much new stuff – so little time!
- Confidence building…fighting shyness and insecurities to move forward.
- Hoping to get ideas for connecting with people via social media and potential app ideas. Hope to share that style can be fun (not scary!).
- i want to meet other women in tech in the twin cities
- Networking with other women, learning about how I can better utilize technology in my job
- Meet woman in technical fields. I work for an AV company based in New Hope – mostly with middle-age men. Would be fun to meet others in techy fields.
- I’m hoping to network, learn new things and be inspired. My 7 year old daughter will be attending Saturday and we just started a blog for her.
- I am to learn new information about STEM topics, and to network with other geeky women.
- I’m hoping to meet other women who work in technology to exchange ideas, insights, and promote networking beyond the unConference.
- Introduce a summer garden technology open source project, possibly play a programming game, meet rad women
- Introduce a summer garden technology open source project, possibly play a programming game, meet rad women