Great to be invited to chat on the @Google - @YouTube panel to discuss #Ethical #Design with @jlovattyoung @CapitalOneUK @LolaOye hosted by Edyta Jaworek @Google @UXlivelondon

https://dorkbotlondon.org/

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When:  19:30-22:30, Wed Sep 18 2019
Where: The Boxing Club, Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, E14 7HA
       (directions below)

Free entry, no registration required, bring your own refreshments. Talks start
7.30pm, doors from 6.45pm.

Overview of my talk

A case study - The rollercoaster of creating of a multisensory VR-haptic wearable story using a considered eco-ethical design approach.

Hobs 3D Unit 3, 3-4 East Bay Lane, London E20 3BS

18:35 - Overview - Visiting Academic - Dr Shira de Bourbon Parme, Architect and Anthropologist

18:40 - Panel Discussion, Paris Selinas, Burberry Materials, Nick Newman, Extinction Rebellion, Bushra Burge, BB Studios, Catherine Williams, FutureFootWare

19:30 - Closing statements from all panelists - on What is Sustainable, Ethical, Innovation ?

“Creation of an integrated multisensory wearable story (costume embedded haptics-vr) using considered eco-ethical design approach”

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fashion-as-a-walking-artform-tickets-61872345852

Fashion as a Walking Artform

by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries

https://digileaders.com/events/discussion-bame-women-in-cybersecurity/

Being a woman is difficult and being a woman of colour only adds more barriers to attaining senior positions, especially in the cybersecurity field in which 20% of its labour force are women.

Seidea, in collaboration with Digital Leaders, will host a number of panellists to empower females of BAME backgrounds and debunk the myths around cybersecurity. They aim to do this by creating a platform in which participants can learn and be inspired by women who have against all odds accomplished great career goals within the cybersecurity field.

Attend this event to learn from BAME women in Cybersecurity who have broken these barriers to achieve great career goals.

Agenda:

• 18:00-18:20 Arrival and registration

• 18:30-18:40 Welcome Talk (Seidea Advisory Board Rep)

• 18:40-19:40 Panelist Discussion and Q&A

• 19:40-20:00 Closing Remarks (Founder Speech)

• 20:00-21:00 Drinks and Networking

The discussion is hosted by Miriam Quansah, Digital Lead at BBC Africa. With over ten years experience in journalism and public relations, Miriam Quansah has worked for noted broadcasters including MTV, Fox News New York and the BBC World Service.

Panellists include:

• Miriam Quansah, BBC Presenter: Moderator

• Fola Akinfe, Senior Director, Operational Resilience, Visa

• Ibukun Emmanuel-Adebayo, Vice President, Functional Cybersecurity, Societe Generale

• Monica Mahay, Head of Cybersecurity, Data and Privacy, Intel

This is a free event, however, registration is essential to ensure your place.

109-177 Middlesex St, Spitafields, London, E1 7JF

Join Tiger Heart & Digital Jam Limited for ‘Creative Futures 5’, a discussion about the current relationship between technology and the new digital consumer. This will be held on Friday 18th February 2019 at Engage Works in East London.

Our guest speakers this season include:
Leanne Elliott from Commune
Sila Nur Isik from Mind The Ad
Kat Banas
Adam Peacock from The Validation Junky
Bushra Burge from Bushra Burge Studio

Guest allocations for this event are very tight so please RSVP to info@tigerheartlondon.com to secure your place.

HTTPS://BRIGHTONDIGITALFESTIVAL.CO.UK/EVENTS/NOOSPHERE-MINDFULNESS-HYPER-CONNECTED-WORLD-TOMTECH

Bozar: Centre for Fine Arts

https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-London/

Details

On Thursday, November 8, we shall be back at Deloitte Digital! Sign up early to this event, as it was very full last time we had an event there. We will have talks on Cybersecurity, VR, Machine Learning.

ROUGH SCHEDULE >>
6:00 - 6:45pm - Arrival / Food / Drinks / Networking
6:45 - 6:50 pm - Welcome/Intro
6:50 - 8:30pm - Talks
8:30 - 9:00pm - Networking / Food / Drinks

TALK 1 - DataOps: How to make Machine Learning production ready by Bianca Furtuna

New state-of-the-art Machine Learning models are developed every day that surpass human ability in one area or another. Many of them involve a data scientist or a machine learning researcher experimenting with new ideas or neural network architectures in an iterative manner. As more and more companies and individuals are experimenting with machine learning in their own domains, operationalising machine learning models and monitoring data pipelines are becoming critical. In this talk, we are going to explore the fundamentals of building a production-ready machine learning model and the steps needed to operationalising it.

Bianca Furtuna is an Applied Machine Learning Scientist and is a very active member and contributor for Women Who Code London. She is passionate about all things data and using new and emerging technologies to deliver data focused solutions with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Previously, Bianca was a Data Scientist at Elastacloud, where she built multiple machine learning models for forecasting tasks in the energy sector. At the start of her career, Bianca was a Technical Evangelist, working with various organisations to help them improve or architect their cloud solutions and support them in implementing Machine Learning and analytics services.

TALK 2 - Cyber Security and Herd Immunity by Wendy Ng

The dilemmas security professionals face and comparing it with the herd immunity, a form of indirect protection in infectious diseases.

Wendy has over seven years of technical consulting experience, beginning as a network engineer and infrastructure architect before transitioning into security architecture. She has been as a trusted advisor to clients as part of a vendor, a managed service provider and tier-one consultancies. She has worked with clients in telecommunications, financial services and defence, and was part of multi-million-pound transformation programmes for clients in aerospace, banking and shipping. She trained as a scientist and completed her doctoral studies in analytical medical genetics at the University of Oxford. A bit of a technophile and keen collaborator, Wendy also shares her experience online through blogging.

TALK 3 - VR integration with Wearable Tech, for Education, Science, Communication

Bushra Burge is the creative director of award winning creative technology studio BB Studio. With a background in science and sustainable design, Bushra cultivates innovation within her multi-disciplinary team. BB Studio's recent projects include immersive stories using VR.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/techknow-day-on-ada-lovelace-day-2018-tuesday-october-09-9am-to-5pm-tickets-49167878448

TECH(K)NOW DAY on ADA LOVELACE DAY 2018 - TUESDAY, OCTOBER 09, 9am to 5pm

Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in STEM.  Ada Lovelace Day is held every year on the second Tuesday of October.

 WHAT'S IN STORE?

HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS

Sold Out

Talk and Demo

Bushra Burge will giving a keynote speech. 

http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2018/9/18/Steamhack/

10am to 6pm

Steamhack #4 is part of a series of immersive, digitally-themed events organized by the Culture and Enterprise programme at Central Saint Martins. These events are intensive one-day hacks, which explore arts-based and creative responses to our digital futures. Expert guests lead workshops and communicate their views on the future of our post-digital world. All delegates contribute to the creative outcomes of the event.
 

Steamhack 4: The Brief
How do bodies and technologies interact? How will this relationship evolve? What influence can our life online have on our appearance and identity? This Steamhack will propose the idea of bodies as interfaces of our social lives, online and offline, and how bodies act as a space of both compliance and resistance to new technologies. We will look at how we perform technologies, and how these performances are often political. We will use Donna Haraway’s concept of cyborg bodies to interrogate identity and theory.

 

Location:

Room C202

Central Saint Martins, Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King's Cross

N1C 4AA

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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shesays-brighton-brighton-digital-festival-2018-special-tickets-48310206127

SheSays Brighton - Brighton Digital Festival 2018 - special

by Rifa Thorpe-Tracey

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SheSays Brighton - The Future Female 2018

a Brighton Digital Festival special
Friday 14 September 2018 from 6pm
at Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton BN2 0JY

Welcome to a massive SheSays evening of talks and networking with five fantastic speakers, talking about their extraordinary journeys in the digital world.

We're honoured to hear from Gen Ashley, founder of TECH(K)NOW Day conference for women in tech. She's also director of Women Who Code London, lead for Google Women Techmakers London, NASA Space Apps Challenge London, Twitter Developer Community London and Google Developer Groups London. Gen is on the leadership committee for Ada's List and co-organiser of COED:CODE, OpenTechSchool London and London Game Developers. Gen was instrumental in delivering the first 1 day Grace Hopper Conference in Europe (GHC/1 now called HopperX1) and was recently awarded as MVP (Most Valuable Professional) by Microsoft. @coderinheels

We're excited to hear from Bushra Burge, owner and creative director of award winning creative technology studio BB Studio. With a background in science and sustainable design, Bushra cultivates innovation within her multi-disciplinary team. BB Studio's recent projects include immersive stories using VR integrated with wearable tech, for education, science, communication, fashion marketing and user-centred R&D. @bushraburge

Be inspired by Liz Harrison-Flynn - group director digital services at Legal & General. Liz is an accomplished senior business leader with extensive experience in digital technical delivery within the Financial Services and Telecoms Industries. She has a great reputation for delivering major change and business profitability with energy and success. Liz's areas of expertise include agile development, analytics, UX, channel sales, product development, brand transformation and quality management in addition to retail business set-up, operations and people management.

Be dazzled by Ruth Oliver, communications manager at Lighthouse, Brighton's interdisciplinary organisation for contemporary digital culture. Ruth was head of marketing at Brilliant Noise working with brands including Diageo, Adidas and Universal Pictures and she curated and produced the annual Dots conference, bringing together perspectives from the marketing and digital industries with those from wider culture. Ruth is on the board of Brighton Digital Festival and has an MA in Cultural and Critical Theory. @ruthabi

And a very warm welcome to Mariam Crichton who has been a leader, an innovator and an implementor as a digital changemaker throughout her career- which requires both creativity and strategic thinking. She has deep expertise in GIS (global information systems), a keen eye for business opportunities in the technology space and a particular passion for leveraging technology for social change in emerging markets. Working with start-ups, which have all gone on to achieve great success, has given Mariam considerable experience in leading all aspects of early stage business growth.

Many thanks to Legal & General, University of Brighton, Madgex, ProdPad and American Express for their generous sponsorship.

Thank you to http://wavvves.co.uk for the awesome new image!

We can't wait to see you there!

Rifa and the SheSays Brighton team

This event is part of Brighton Digital Festival and open to all backgrounds, ages and genders. Trans and non-binary people are very welcome at all our events.

DATE AND TIME

Fri 14 September 2018

18:00 – 20:30 BST

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LOCATION

Sallis Benney Theatre

58-67 Grand Parade

Brighton

BN2 0JY

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Open Senses Symposium

• Friday, May 19, 2017

• 3:00pm 9:00pm

• Institute of Philosophy

A night dedicated to the cornucopia of sensory practice in London. 

The Open Senses Symposium brings together an interdisciplinary collection of practitioners and artists exploring sensory practice. The event offers stalls, panel discussions, pop-up talks and experiences all curated to unfold throughout the day.

It will showcase the breadth of sensory practice in London and include practitioners worldwide. The content will challenge, demonstrate and interrogate how sensory practice is capable of building greater connection to the world, our environment, the people around us and ourselves.

The evening showcases work in academia, inclusive practice, scent, food, medicine, theatre, music, law, restaurants, typography, dance … and more

• Institute of PhilosophyUniversity of London, Senate House, Malet StreetLondon WC1E 7HU United Kingdom

Workshop will include

1. introductory lectures about space influencing fashion ideas

2. speculating and brainstorming the design possibilities

3. references to science fiction fashion in popular culture particularly film

4. guidance on illustrations designing a fashion future garment or accessory

Please note within this 3 hour introductory course there will be no production of garments or electronics, however we can give guidance on next steps. 5 - 10 students only.

Workshop Tutors

Farid Akmal

Farid Akmal is currently a wearable technology tutor at Ravensbourne Art College. Developing creative and technological solutions for fashion design and wearables.

Couture in Orbit with the European Space Agency, the Science Museum and Ravensbourne.

MA Wearable Futures

BA Fashion Design and Marketing

http://www.faridakmal.com/

Bushra Burge

Bushra Burge creates immersive wearable science fiction stories through fashion. She is an exhibiting artist as well as a consultant and speaker in wearable technology. She explores the intersection of different disciplines.

Fashion in Orbit course with the European Space Agency and the Politecnico di Milano.

MA Applied Imagination (distinction) Central Saint Martins

BA(Hons) Fashion Design from London College of Fashion

BSc(Hons) Biochemistry with Management Imperial College. 

http://www.bushraburge.com/

Please register on https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-faction-fashion-speculative-design-workshop-tickets-34078633109