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The fifth Leeds Girl Geek Dinner is happening at the Loft Leeds this Wednesday, the 21st October 2009.
Background: "The Girl Geek Dinners were founded on the 16th August 2005 as a result of one girl geek who got annoyed and frustrated about being one of the only females attending technical events. She was tired of being assumed to be marketing, tired of constantly having to prove herself and decided that she just wanted a change and to be treated just the same as any other geek out there, gender and age aside."
The speakers for the Leeds Girl Geek Dinner will include:
christine morris // @cmoz;a Canadian living in the UK for over ten years with what she refers to as a healthy obsession with technology. She is always after the latest trends & research in the field, hoping to explore it further.
She has received joint funding (British Council & Arts Council) for digital works, namely re-writing Freud, which was shown at ProgME Brasil, France, Scotland, London. This was an algorithm written for a wall mounted touch screen, which randomized the entire book The Interpretation of Dreams, and re-printed it in a completely new order every time.
Working in education for several years keeps her motivated and her research & fascination has led her to her current project, Apps & Hats - a quirky iPhone application review show, created only a few months after the app store launched.
sarah hartley // @foodiesarah;
a digital editor for the Guardian and has been an online journalist since 2000 after starting her career in regional newspapers.
She blogs about the evolution of journalism, social media and online communities, as well as the Media Guardian’s PDA blog.
Journalism training and development is an area of particular interest for Sarah who has run courses in all aspects of online content production, blogging and multimedia for organisations in Britain and oversees ranging from NATO to NCTJ journalism colleges.
Before joining the Guardian she was the head of online editorial for MEN Media in Manchester, publishers of the award-winning Manchester Evening News.
There will also be a showing of her code, 
"a short film, bringing together a series of interviews with women in leadership positions across Silicon Valley."
The Her Code: Engendering Change in Silicon Valley study was conducted in the first half of 2009 by Orange Labs's Pascale Diaine, in San Francisco.
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