London Asians & Gingers in Tech

🚢🍻 Asians & Gingers in Tech, The Ship, City of London

Fri, Oct 2 · 7:00 PM BST

The Ship, 3 Hart Street off Mark Lane London, EC3R 7NB, London, GB

🎉 Asians & Gingers in Tech — Friday 2nd October!

First of all, a big thank you to everyone who came to our last event! The turnout was far beyond my expectations, and I'm incredibly grateful for all the feedback and suggestions you've given me.

And welcome to our new home every month at The Ship in the City of London! 🍻

As promised, I've set up our WhatsApp group so we can keep the conversation going between events, share ideas, and organise things together.

👉 Please join the WhatsApp group here:
Join the Asians & Gingers in Tech WhatsApp group

I've already started putting your suggestions into action by speaking with the bar manager, and we're booked in for our next event on Friday 2nd October! 🎉
The relationship with the venue is only going to get better, and they've agreed to the suggestions you've made for our next event.

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## 🎲 WHAT'S HAPPENING?

We'll have both upstairs and downstairs, with different activities happening throughout the evening.

### 🎲 Board Games — Upstairs

YES! The staff will set up the tables at the far end of upstairs specifically for board games.
It would be great to plan ahead of time which games to bring and have someone teach our fellow community members how to play them.
This idea was suggested by 4 different members, so let's make it happen!

🙋 Any volunteers to lead the board games?
If you've got a favourite game you're willing to bring and teach, let us know!

### 🎯 Darts — Upstairs

YES! We'll also have darts upstairs, although we'll only use one of the two dart boards.
@Poonam, I think you could help lead this one! 😆
Would you be up for teaching everyone the rules, how to play darts, and maybe some throwing techniques? ;)
Let's see who secretly has professional-level darts skills.

### 💡 5-Minute Lightning Talks — Downstairs

YES! I'm thinking we'll do this downstairs before the karaoke.
A few of you mentioned that you'd like to have short talks for knowledge sharing, self-introductions, and networking.
I'm thinking around 45 minutes total, with roughly 5–6 talks.

Each talk is only 5 minutes, so there's no need for anything polished or overly serious. Just share something you think the community might find interesting or useful or intro what you do!

@Dinesh, may I ask you to help lead this on the day and encourage people to pre-sign up so you can put together a schedule beforehand?
Then we'll switch over to karaoke once we're a bit more merry from drinking haha. 😂🍻

### 🎤 Karaoke — Downstairs

YES! This was a big request from many of you, so we're making it happen!
The bar manager will help arrange in-house karaoke downstairs.
I'll need to go in beforehand and test the systems with the staff to get everything working properly before our next event.
So yes... karaoke is officially happening. 😂🎤

### 🍣 Sushi — For Everyone

YES! I'll make this happen!
Thanks again to everyone who bought me drinks last time. ❤️
I'll take care of the food arrangements again, so there'll be sushi available for everyone.
I will, however, need to remember to bring some paper plates and more cutlery this time! 😂

♻️ A quick note about food: I'll be arranging the food, but I unfortunately can't guarantee anything for allergies, vegetarian/vegan or halal requirements. If you have dietary restrictions, please don't rely on the food provided and make sure you bring or grab something that works for you.

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## 🍻 SUPPORT THE VENUE

They've given us this space on the proviso that we spend at the bar, so please support The Ship and our community by grabbing some drinks while you're there!
The relationship with the venue is important to me, and the more we support them, the more we can hopefully do together in the future.

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## 💡 THIS IS YOUR COMMUNITY

The original idea was simply to come along and socialise, but you've given me loads of suggestions for things you'd actually like to do.

So we're going to experiment!

Maybe the board games become a regular thing. Maybe darts gets ridiculously competitive. Maybe the lightning talks become a bigger part of the community. Maybe karaoke is an absolute disaster and we never speak of it again. 😂

We'll figure it out together.

I want this to be a community that you help shape, rather than something where I dictate what happens every month.
If there's something you'd like to see at future events — talks, workshops, hackathon-style challenges, team competitions, games, food, or something completely ridiculous — let me know!

And if you'd like to help lead something, even better. 🙌

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## 📸 A QUICK NOTE ABOUT PHOTOS & PRIVACY

As you may have noticed, I don't really like taking many photos and I value my privacy — and I'm sure many of you feel the same way.
I don't want photos from our events being used for marketing our community, so we're not going to make photography a big part of these events.

Instead, I'd love your help growing the community the old-fashioned way:
Word of mouth.

Invite your friends, colleagues and family who you think would enjoy meeting the community. ❤️
A small group of us did take a survivors' photo near the end of the last night with the bar staff after perhaps too many Baby Guinness shots... 😂🥃
But otherwise, let's keep the focus on actually being there, meeting people and having a good time, rather than documenting everything.

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## 👋 COME JOIN US!

You don't actually have to be South/South East Asian or Ginger to join.
The idea is simply to create a place where you can come and meet South/South East Asians and Gingers in tech.
You're always welcome, and please bring your friends too! The more the merrier. ❤️

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### 📅 FRIDAY 2ND OCTOBER

So, that's a long message — but hopefully worthy of reading all the way through! 😂

Two things to do:

1️⃣ Join our WhatsApp group:
Join the WhatsApp group

2️⃣ Click "Going" on this Meetup event and tell your friends and family to come along!

📅 Friday 2nd October
📍 The Ship, City of London
🎲 Board Games • 🎯 Darts • 💡 Lightning Talks • 🎤 Karaoke • 🍣 Sushi • 🍻 Drinks & Socialising

See you there! ❤️