Please note that due to a soccer match taking place on Tuesday 21st May at the Cape Town Stadium we will have to move our dinner to Wednesday 22nd May.
If you cannot make this new date and would like a refund please contact Suhaifa before 16th May 2013. Refunds will only be issued to those who contact us before 16th May.
Thank You.
Launch48 brings it’s 48 hour entrepreneurship event to Cape Town.
On the 17th May, held at the Bandwidth Barn, a Launch48 Weekend event for entrepreneurs to get together and build a completely new online or app based business in just 48 hours.
Kicking off on the evening of Friday 17th May 2013 the attendees will be given the opportunity to pitch their ideas, create teams, consume plenty of pizza before being guided through a busy weekend spent learning what it takes to launch an online startup. Prize giving and judging will happen on Sunday 19th March 2013. Mentors will be on hand to support attendees, offering guidance, support and ideas to help teams achieve the most they can in the short period of time. As well as access to mentors and business training all attendees are given a goodie bag of software and tools, valued at over £3,500 ($4,500) to help them in their mission to launch a startup.
If you have a great idea, you could win a ticket to Launch48 Weekend
We are giving one lucky person a ticket to pitch their idea at Launch48 Weekend in Cape Town. All you have to do is fill in the form below telling us what your awesome startup idea is. We will collect all the entries and the best idea wins. Winners will be announced on 3rd May 2013.
More about Launch48 Weekend
“Launch48 is a valuable part of the startup eco-system and anyone interested in becoming an entrepreneur should look to attend. You will learn more in this 48 hour period than any other time in your career” said Simon Jenner, CEO of Oxygen Accelerator and regular Launch48 mentor. “We [Oxygen Accelerator] have invested in Launch48 attendees and startups created at Launch48 Weekend events as we know they have been forced to focus on what really matters in a startup.”
Launch48 run a range of events across 5 continents and previous Launch48 teams include Bluefields (Seedcamp & 500 Startups), Hipsnip (Springboard), Unifyo (Springboard), and WeWana:Play (Oxygen Accelerator). More information can be found at www.launch48.com.
Tickets for Cape Town Launch48 Weekend are available at www.capetown.launch48.com. For any information please contact Lianne du Toit lianne@siliconcape.com
You are kindly invited to the May Girl Geek Dinner Cape Town event of 2013. The theme of this dinner is social entrepreneurship. We have an amazing speaker lined up as well as a fabulous venue. One lucky person who makes payment before 5th May will be featured in our Mobile App.
Date and time: Wednesday 22nd May 2013 | 18h30 for 19h00
Venue: Moyo, V&A Waterfront, Clocktower
Guest Speaker: Barbara Mallinson
Cost: R180 for a 3 course dinner, welcome drinks sponsored by Nu Beginnings and a goodie bag.
Barbara Mallinson is the Founder and Director of Obami, a social learning platform that is bringing equal education to hundreds of schools and learning institutions across Southern Africa, the US, UK and Europe. In the past 3 years, she has presented her views on social learning, technology and entrepreneurship across the world. She took part in Old Mutual’s “Do Great Things” campaign, and was identified as one of the Mail & Guardian’s “Top 200 Young People to Take to Lunch”. She is a council member for the Fifth Conference (a global initiative that recognises disruptive ideas and innovations, with her role focusing on education) and has been identified by the Cape IT Initiative as an IT Hero.
Barbara has contributed to the UNESCO Courier as one of 21 young people changing the world and has been recognised as one of the top entrepreneurs and women in business in Africa, by the likes of IT Web Africa and CNN. Barbara is the only African representative sitting on the Mobile World Capital Advisory Board – an initiative run by MWC Barcelona in conjunction with the GSMA.
Moyo is the realisation of one man’s passion for all things African – from art and design to music, cuisine and crafts. In 1998, Jason Lurie started moyo as a small 120 seater restaraunt in Norwood, Johannesburg serving exceptional African cuisine amidst soulful vibes. Today, live African music and sophisticated African dining are the benchmarks of the eight evocative moyo establishments.
Please RSVP here. If you need to get in touch with the event organisers, please e-mail us.
Due to the limited number of seats available, we would like you to note that only proof of payment secures your seat.
| Thank you to all those who attended the Girl Geek Dinner last week. It was a very special dinner for us as we had numerous students from Edgemead High School and UCT attend. A very big thank you to all those who contributed towards the student sponsorship, without your help, the dinner would not have been possible. If you know of any academic organisations that we can contact regarding student invitations please get in touch with us.If you didn’t attend the dinner then not to worry, all the information will be available on our mobile app soon. We definitely hope to see you at the next one.Save The Date: The next dinner will be scheduled for the 21st May 2013 and invites will go out soon. Please save the date. |
| Pictures: All the pictures from our dinner are on the Facebook Page, please take a look at the pictures and tag yourself.Students: We would love to invite more students to the next dinner, if you know of young girls interested in technology, send us their details and we will invite them. Student tickets are also sponsored and if you can help in any way towards this, please let us know.Sponsors: Once again, we love our sponsors. Thank you to all those who contributed towards the March dinner.
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Twitter: We are happy to have had BrandsEye on board as a sponsor. The event was covered via Twitter and the hash tag #GGDCPT was being tracked. A detailed infographic about the tweets was then provided to us.
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You are kindly invited to the March Girl Geek Dinner Cape Town event of 2013. The theme of this dinner features female software developers and we would like to extend this invitation to students on all levels. Please pass this along to any girls studying computer science or learning to code. We are working towards getting their tickets sponsored as well. Thank You!
Date and time: Tuesday 26th March 2013 | 18h30 for 19h00.
Venue: Salt, Ambassador Hotel, Bantry Bay
Guest Speaker: Shalina Naicker and Lyndsay Lawrence
Cost: R180 for a 3 course dinner, welcome drinks and a goodie bag.
Shalina Naicker
Shalina is currently working as a software developer at Open Box Software After completing her Bsc Computer Science degree at the University of KZN, Shalina started her career in Quality Assurance and was soon intrigued by the mysteries and complexity of software development. After 2 years, she sought opportunities to skill up on current development technologies such as asp.net& c#, and soon crossed over, where she finally found her niche.
Shalina describes the feeling of getting a piece of code to work after hours of frustration and countless debugging efforts, as sweet triumphant victory. This, along with her desire to make a positive impact in people’s daily lives, is her driving force as a developer.
Lyndsay Lawrence
Lyndsay is a Junior Developer at BrandsEye. She is passionate about Education and is the Chair of Project Umonya, which consists of Umonya and Umonya Girls. Umonya is a course that teaches High School children how to program using Python. Umonya Girls teaches girls between 11 and 16 how to build web-pages using HTML and CSS. In her spare time she likes to paint, bake and play boardgames.
Commanding a breathtaking position in Bantry Bay, Salt is an all-round sensory experience. Floor to ceiling glass windows stretch the length of the restaurant, unfolding to reveal the fresh seabreeze and sounds of the crashing waves below.
Please RSVP here. If you need to get in touch with the event organisers, please
e-mail us.
Due to the limited number of seats available, we would like you to note that only proof of payment secures your seat.
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2012 is almost on its way out and we are excitedly preparing for 2013.
Thank You!!
The Girl Geek Dinner Cape Town initiative has grown substantially in the last two years and we would like to thank all our members as well as the community for keeping it alive and making it so awesome. Due to the success of the 2012 dinners, it was unanimously decided that Suhaifa will be the chairperson for 2013. We would also like to thank our support team: Elena, Kaeli and Jacques whose support and dedication has been highly appreciated.
The dinners this year have provided some great insight and have been exceptionally informative due to our amazing speakers. Thank you to all the speakers for being so passionate about what you do and also taking the time to share it with us. Our sponsors for 2012 deserve a big thank you, without them exceptional goodie bags were not possible. And a very big thank you to Bianca Packman for designing our logo.
The speakers for 2012 were:
The sponsors for 2012 were:
Want to get involved in 2013?
We are actively looking for volunteers who would like to be a part of Girl Geek Dinners Cape Town. If you would like to organise or procure goodie bags, please let us know. Suggestions for venues, speakers and other details are always welcome so please feel free to email us.
We wish you and your loved ones a blessed festive season and success and happiness for 2013.
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The winners of the PyConZA Competition we recently hosted were announced today!
Congratulations to following 5 geek girls:
If you would like to attend the PyConZA event taking place between 4th – 5th October 2012 in Cape Town, add your name to the waiting list today.
Each dinner, one lucky attendee will be featured on our mobile app dinner invite. This will allow other attendees to get to know someone else attending the dinner. The main reason behind this idea was to promote as many women in technology in the Silicon Cape as possible.
How it works:
We will have a random draw 2 weeks before the event and select one lucky attendee. Their interview will then be featured in the dinner invite on our mobile app. To be fair, only attendees who have made and confirmed payment will be entered into the draw.
The draw for the September dinner will be taking place on Monday, 10th September.
