Our Speakers
We are making videos of every speaker who talks at our events this year. They will be national and international female speakers talking on the subject of Creativity, Computing and Entrepreneurialism. Can you help us reach 20,000 views?
Please get in touch at info [at] girlgeekscotland.co.uk Aimee Maree ForsstormTuesday, 14th Sept, EdinburghI have been consulting with OLPC Australia as a web solutions designer since May, and have designed there new cloud based solution for laptop.org.au and also there soon to be released educational portal. Josie GoodaleTuesday, 14th Sept, Edinburgh
Josie has over twenty years industry experience, most of it spent in telecoms and networking companies in the US and UK. Since May 2000, Josie has worked for Cisco Systems. For the majority of this time Josie was in Product Management where she became director of a software product line that supported some of the world’s leading Telecoms providers. More recently, Josie has moved to the European arm of Cisco’s Professional Services business and into a Strategic Planning and Operations role. Prior to Cisco, Josie held Business Development and Product Line management positions in companies including Atlantech Technologies (acquired by Cisco); Spider Systems and Bellcore. Josie has a B.Sc. in Applied Physics from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, and an M.S.E in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she was a Thouron Scholar. She is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the School of Computing, Dundee University. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two teenage daughters; trying to improve her golf handicap, as well as biking and hiking the beautiful, remote wildernesses of Scotland, and most recently, Canada.
Justine CassellTuesday 11th of May, Aberdeen
Justine Cassell is the director of the Center for Technology & Social Behavior, and a full professor in the departments of Communication Studies and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science atNorthwestern University. She is also the graduate director of the new Technology and Social Behavior joint PhD in Communication and Computer Science. She holds courtesy appointments inLearning Sciences, Linguistics, and Psychology. Cassell previously held a tenured associate professor appointment at the MIT Media Lab where she directed the Gesture and Narrative Language Research Group. Justine received the Anita Borg "Women of Vision"Leadership award in 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4vZRLwbm5Q In her youth, Justine would pour over novels and write down favorite words in a notebook. Quickly, this fascination for words and storytelling turned into a love of what she calls, "the science of language" which eventually led her to a Master's degree in Literature, a Master's in Linguistics, and two Ph.D's in Linguistics and Psychology. After more than ten years of study, she first applied her knowledge and interest in language development and communication to the technological advances found at the University of Pennsylvania Center of Human Simulation, where she designed a computer-generated intelligent character that possessed speech, gestures and facial expressions. This experience marked the beginning of Justine's interest in technology and its potential as an innovative tool for child development, online communication and virtual storytelling... You can check out Justines wikipedia entry here or Read more on www.girlgeeks.org innergeek! Eileen Brown CEO of AmastraTuesday 11th of May, Aberdeen
Eileen Brown is CEO of Amastra; a company which helps you achieve your aspirations using offline and online social methods. She has been in a variety of roles in the IT Industry since 1993. After spending 10 years in the Merchant Navy as Shell Tankers first female Deck Officer, Eileen managed a fleet of ships in a container shipping company, moving into IT support, then training and management at a Microsoft Training provider in London, technical consultancy at HP and Manager of the IT Pro Evangelist team at Microsoft before leaving to start her own company. Eileen delivers consultancy engagements, projects, and workshops with companies to help them understand their strategy around Social Media, work out their architecture and extend their reach to engage better with their customers. She also delivers workshops to help individuals become a better speaker, deliver powerful presentations, and create energised teams in the workplace. Eileen is an accomplished and well-known international speaker and expert on Social Media, Online Branding, Web 2.0, Unified Communications and Systems Architecture and is a key advocate for the advancement of Women in Technology. She explores the art of the possible, looking at how technology is changing the world we live in, simplifying work and making you more productive. Eileen is a member of the IoD, the BCS, is part of the BCS Strategic panel for Women in IT, on the BCS Committee for the Essex region and is the Chair of Intellect Women in Technology strategic group. However, her life isn't spent entirely at her laptop. Away from work, she makes jam and chutney in awesome quantities, tends her flock of chickens, grows organic vegetables and fruit and races around the countryside in her home built 6.6 litre cobra replica car. As much as possible, whenever she encounters warmer waters, she scuba dives as much as possible to get away from the phone... You can read her blog here If you are on Twitter and are interested in following Heidi RoizenTuesday 12th of October, Glasgow
Heidi Roizen is a celebrity in 'The Valley' and has her own entry in wikipedia. She has spent her life immersed in the Silicon Valley Ecosystem, as a member of the board, corporate executive, venture capitalist and member of the boards of private and public companies trade associations and nonprofit institutions. After receiving her undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford Univeristy, Heidi cofounded T/Maker Company. (an early personal computer software company) in 1983, where she served as CEO from inception through to its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation in 1994. In 1996 Heidi joined Apple as Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations. From there, Heidi entered the venture capital world serving as a Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital from 1999 to 2007. Today Heidi splits her time between her entrepreneurial endeavour, SkinnySongs and board service in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. She is a member of the board of directors of TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) a director of the Yellow Pages Group (TSX:YLO.UN) and also serves on the advisory board of Springboard Enterprises and the National Center for Women in Information Technology. In 2008 Heidi was named the Annual Achievement Award Winner by the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives. Read more about Heidi Roizen at Millionaire Moms Recent SpeakersMary VincentTuesday 11th of April, Glasgow
Mary Vincent is Founder and CEO of Green Star Solution, a Global Business, Technology, and Innovation Firm.Previously, Mary worked at Sun Microsystems and DHL, creating and managing global Java engineering, customer, and compliance programs. Mary has an MBA in E-Business and served in the US Peace Corps in Hungary.Mary founded the following businesses: Green App Store, an online green electronics store, Gratitude Gourmet, a sustainable food website, and co-founded the Green Software Unconference Silicon Valley. Mary publishes a green business blog called Clean Tech and Green Business, operates the Clean Technology Facebook Group, speaks on Clean Tech, Green Software, Green Business, Sustainable and Low Carbon Food, and Environmental Entrepreneurship, and is a Stakeholder Advisory Group Member of the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol, developing a new standard for product and supply chain GHG Accounting and Reporting. Mary gave the first of her talks in her tour of Scotland at Robert Gordon University on Monday 12th of April and this is what they said! Congratulations Mary! Previous speaking engagements include:
What the Papers SaidRobert Gordons hosted two talks from Mary courtesy of Girl Geek Scotland which they reported in their RGU News. This was also reported in the Press and Journal, the Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerceand received a short mention in the Scotsman "Ian Allison, head of the School of Computing at RGU, said: “We are delighted to welcome Mary to our shores. When you consider that Google handles something like 200million searches daily, and some say just a couple of these generate as much energy as it takes to boil a kettle, the issue of green IT suddenly becomes a pressing matter. Research suggests that the IT industry generates as much greenhouse gas as the world’s airlines.” You can now have a look at the slides from her presentation on Green IT Innovation here In the News
Jill BoultonTuesday 11th of April, GlasgowJill Boulton is managing director of Visual Products Ltd, an innovative consumer products company. Visual Products plans to take to market the first product for motorcyclists that will enable them to clean their visors while they are riding. Jill is currently raising funds for the R&D stage of this project, which will result in prototypes to be tested by police motorcyclists. A former newspaper journalist, Jill won a place on the Starter for 6 programme 2010 and was a regional finalist in the John Logie Baird Awards2009. The company has also come up with a mobile phone app called the CoolTimer, which tells you when the drink you’re chilling in the fridge or freezer is ready to drink. In the Papers The Scotsman Emma McGrattanTuesday 9th March, Edinburgh
Emma McGrattan is senior vice president of engineering at Ingres. She is responsible for the development and integration of the Ingres database and associated products and technologies. A leading authority in DBMS technologies, Emma has been instrumental in the ongoing success of the Ingres product line. Emma joined Ingres from CA where she held a similar position and was responsible for the Ingres family of relational database management products. She started her career with Ingres in 1992, and has held a variety of senior development and management positions. Not only a talented engineer and manager, Emma is also a great communicator as transpires from her blog and many speaking appearances. Balancing intelligence with humor, she is known to have been referred to as a "firecracker" at more than one instance. Born in Ireland, Emma earned a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University. Recognized for having open source development at heart, she is also a member of the board of directors for the Eclipse Foundation. Read Emma McGrattans blog for Ingres! It is full of topical tech. Lesley Eccles Hubdub LtdTuesday 9th of March Edinburgh
With over 8 years experience as a London-based Managing Consultant, Lesley Eccles moved to Edinburgh, had her second child, moved house again, and co-founded an Internet business with her husband using their entire life savings - in the space of 6 months. Lesley is now Marketing Director for Hubdub Ltd, the social gaming company she co-founded, which successfully raised $1.2m VC funding last year. She doesn't believe in taking the easy option. Read more about Hubdub and Fandual a site where participants can make real money by playing and winning at fantasy sports games here and read about how she managed to secure her VC funding in thenextwoman.com Shanna TellermanTuesday 9th of February, Dundee
Jump to: 1:45:46 for a snippet interview with Shanna Tellerman & Morna Simpson on BBC Radio Scotland. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00qm94w and... here is a nice little snippet from The Courier - our local Dundee paper. Shanna Tellerman is the Founder and CEO of Sim Ops Studios, Inc., a spin-off company from Carnegie Mellon University formed in January 2006. Shanna has overseen operations, development,fund raising, and strategic relationships since the formation of Sim Ops. She has several years of experience working in the video game and emerging serious games industry with a focus on breaking down the barriers for creative development in 3D environments by enabling the everyday user to create and self-publish 3D content. Graduating with a Masters degree in Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2005, she was hired on as commercialization specialist at the Entertainment Technology Center to continue development and investigate commercialization opportunities for the highly publicized simulation training platform technology Hazmat Hotzone. This technology platform launched the formation of Sim Ops Studios, for which Shanna negotiated an exclusive technology license from CMU. Shanna has experience in a variety of roles including strategic development, business development, project management, user-centered design and research, and 3D artistic production. She worked as a production intern for Electronic Arts on The Sims 2, the sequel to the best-selling PC game ever, and has also researched and co-authored the paper titled "Emergent Stories in Massively Multiplayer Online Games: Using Improvisational Techniques to Design for Emotional Impact" (International Conference on Entertainment Computing, 2004).Shanna received her Bachelor's in Fine Arts and a Minor in Multi-Media Production from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003. Wild Pockets is a spin out company from Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. Drawing from the initial vision of bringing 3D game environments and experiences to the masses, this passionate team of game developers, artists, engineers and dreamers have spent the past few years envisioning and building the next generation platform for games and media on the web. The internet has rapidly progressed from text to images to movies to 2D media - we believe the next big wave is interactive, 3D media. The Wild Pockets team is on a mission to not only technically enable full 3D environments to run in the browser, but to build an entire ecosystem that simplifies the process of creating 3D games and media, distributing this content and building lasting businesses and communities around this content. We are working hard to make 3D development easier, faster, less expensive and more collaborative. At its core Wild Pockets is a friendly community and platform that seeks to empower you to share your creative vision with the world! (Wild Pockets was originally named Sim Ops Studio, Inc., which is the legal entity under which the company operates)
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