Lightning Talks Evening

What we’ll do:

In 2018 we held a number of workshops to give more women the skills to encourage them into public speaking, with the aim of ensuring representative speakers at local tech events. Female representation as speakers in tech events was excellent in 2018 - and we are keen to provide another event that will help female speakers practice their talks - in advance of 2019 tech events - OR just to give it a whirl anyway!

We ran a similar Lightning Talks event in November 2018 in collaboration with Women Who Code and it was a great success - we had a real range of speakers and topics - delivered to a very warm room of listeners- a supportive, women-dominated, techie audience.

So, once again we looking for new and beginner speakers to present 5-15 minute lightening talks.

These talks can be about anything related in some way to tech; you do not need to be a coder; you do not have attended the workshops or any WIT event previously; you do not need to take questions at the end of the presentation if you don’t want to; you can be at any level in industry (and we welcome a mix!); the presentation can be in whatever format, and as (in)formal as you like.

Nominate yourself to speak at the event here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_F4l6AD6DPUub6-8QhpmSix6k8Vkmc422DnUZdthKHk/edit

For reference; the following resources were shared after our 2018 events:

Idea Generation:

• Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_ajhMg4goGGfn_3OFGVv9QWzS5m_Mfiu
• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9pL85qp3Hg

Writing (Technical) Talks:
Blogs from panelists:

• https://hackernoon.com/writing-a-tech-talk-using-storytelling-techniques-ff116392b4d8
• https://njmcode.github.io/blog/2018/04/25/writing-tech-talks.html

Presentation Skills:

• Slides: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1injpb_oNSTKYmgI6z8MzTY7oFfHWMJZQ

Speakers:

• Ciara Magee
  "Mental Health in Tech" Looking after yourself and getting over a burnout

• Joanne Kenney
  "The use of neuroimaging technology in clinical use"

• Corinne Hanna
  "Doing it for the kids... the use educational technology in our schools" Inspiring developers and programmers to think about the digital natives of tomorrow

• Claire Wilgar
  "What are Web Components?"

• Kathy Ayers
  "How I went from being a seven-thumbed numpty to a rockstar-in-training. And You Can Too!"

• Important to know:
This free event is open to all. Code of Conduct can be found here: https://goo.gl/9W6xpP

Doors 18.00 for 18.30 start. Food will be provided. Gluten free, vegetarian and vegan options will be available.

Please note: This event is wheelchair-accessible and child-friendly. Whilst there won't be childcare available, your children are more than welcome to join you for the event (although there may be alcohol available). If you have any other accessibility needs or dietary requirements, please contact us so that we can accommodate