Month: May 2011

The fith GeekGirlMeetup conferance with the theme GameOn was wonderful, and as the theme suggests playfull. An ode to the teams pulling this of, we wouldnt have done this without you!

The program team:
Miriam Ohlsson @miriamolsson
Maria Sjöber @nefalia

The streaming team:
Lead Streamer, Emma Koszinowski
Natalia Medina (thanks for graphics)
Ingela Hjulfors Berg
Anna VGA
Lisa Carlbom
Agnes Attling
Ingrid Karin Holmberg
Jenna Jonsson
Maria Ekman
Monika
Joana
Ida Pettersson
Karolina Brantås

The Organizational team
Chief organizer, Maria Söderberg @mariasoderberg
Lead Designer, Natasha Ehlen @natasha_sthlm
Koordniator and PR, Josefin Nässil @josefinnassil
Afterparty eventorganizer, Jeanin Day @jeaninday
Co-founder and Sponsorships, Heidi Harman (thats me) @heidiharman

I was sick during the whole thing, with 39° but it was ok. I summed up our history during theese two and half years in a talk, trying as well as possible to mirror our development, aim, results, wishes and dreams. We also had  Malmö´s founder Anna Oscarsson up on stage. The Danish founder Henriette Weber, and Mexicos Oyuki Matsumoto joined in by Skype.

Twingly liveboard day one!

Twingly live board a week after:

Henrik Berggren, giving a talk at SSES.

StartupDay 2011, hosted by SSES was eminent, more writes about that at NyaAffärer where i write more frequently (in Swedish).

Media – the beat goes on.

• Henriette Weber, writes a list (English)of 13 start-up women in Scandinavia. 13 Start-up kvinnor som visar vägen (Swedish).
• Lina Thomgård från Rättvisaförmedlingen starts the Yes Campaign to make more women say yes, when they are asked to participate in interviews and paneldebates, etc. Nina Åkestam tells us the story of why and how at her blog.
• Developer Angelika Olsson from 42Ducks gives an interview about the clever way of working with Scrum at AgileLeadership.
• IDG –  Konsten att göra världen bättre, an article from this Spring.

Keep an eye on:
This is stuff that i would look into if im intrested in preparing to work in a startup or start one myself.

Ungas innovationskraft – aktuell utlysning
Tillväxtverket och VINNOVA söker organisationer/företag/ideella föreningar som önskar ta fram eller vidareutveckla befintliga modeller, metoder eller koncept för att tillvarata och utveckla ungas innovationskraft.
Medel kan sökas för att genomföra aktiviteter som riktar sig till personer (18-30 år) för att stimulera, utveckla och kommersialisera ungas idéer. Sista ansökningsdag är 2011-05-06 kl 14.
Läs mer om utlysningen på VINNOVAs webbplats