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Where do women in technology go to geek out? Shelter Dubai on Thursday the night, of course.
This week, Shelter is hosting GeekaFest. That’s GeekFest, with a feminine twist. Featured speakers at the event will be a handful of women who are blazing the way in technology in the Middle East.
Also featured at the event – in addition to all the “usual” GeekFest attractions – will be workshops presented in conjunction with Shelter’s Online Business in the Middle East event. Mita Ray will run a workshop on “PR for start-ups.” PK Gulati will host a workshop on “everything a young start-up needs to know!”
The event runs 7:30pm – 10:30pm
“PR for start-ups” will run 8-8:30pm
“Everything a young start-up needs to know!” will run 9-9:30pm
See you there
-Mary
Warehouse 30, Al Serkal, Al Qouz
Phone: +04-380-9040
Fax: +04-380-9041
Mobile: +55-653-2084
Tags: GeekFest, Workshops
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The Last GeekFest Dubai
Well, the last one at the ‘old Shelter’ anyway… Yes! It’s GeekFest time again – next Thursday, the 28th April, at 7.30PM is to be our last, *sob* GeekFest at the place of its birth!
GeekFest Dubai – Goodbye, dear Old Shelter!
We’re bidding a fond farewell to ‘The Old Shelter’, the next GeekFest Dubai will be at the new, painfully funky venue the Shelter team is constructing elsewhere in Al Quoz – we’ll have details of the amazing ‘New Shelter’ to share on the night. Alongside the Shelter Update, GeekFest will feature a mobile applications showcase (well, why not?), some fabby GeekTalks and The Biggest Picture In The World. What more could you possibly want, folks?
GeekFest Mobile
We’re putting on a mobile showcase for app developers: we’ve invited some of the leading mobile applications developers in Dubai to showcase what they’re up to at GeekFest – including ishopaholic, CareZone, and more! They’ll be demoing apps as well as answering questions about platforms, markets, opportunities and whatever else you want to bug them about. !
Geek Talks
World Bloggers Day
What are we going to do about bloggers?
Ion Gonzaga is by passion and profession a web designer, as well as being a keen blogger and online socialite. He’s been tapped by World Bloggers Day to raise the word among the UAE’s bloggers. How do you want to mark World Bloggers Day? Any ideas? Ion’s looking for feedback and participation alike during this GeekTalk session! If you’re interested, you can check other countries’ agendas at www.worldbloggersday.org. There’s already a page created at www.worldbloggersday.org/dubai!
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The first GeekFest Dubai of the new year will tantalise your tastebuds and satisfy your senses on the 20th January 2011 – as usual, taking place at The Shelter in Al Quoz.
We’ve got some pretty special GeekTalks lined up as well as some other bits and bobs. One thing we’ll be getting up to is the source of considerable excitement and was born out of our efforts last time around to help little Ola Abu Jarmous.
I’m delighted to be able to tell you that the first GeekFest Ramallah is to take place at startup nurturing space place Bazinga! on the 16th February. I’m hoping (passport renewal notwithstanding) to be there, which is another adventure entirely. One thing we’ll be doing on the 20th is recording your messages from GeekFest Dubai to Ramallah.
Following on from the Palestine theme, the first GeekFest Dubai Geektalk on the 20th will be given by Steve Sosebee, the founder and CEO of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and we’re hoping to have a really useful debate about social activism and social media, especially following the success of Ola’s life-saving appeal.
He’ll be followed by Emirati animator and composer Mohammad Fikree, who’s going to be giving a sneak preview of his new (and literally, just finished) animated short ‘The Girl & It’. Mohammad’s animation work is as delightful as the soundtracks he creates are innovative – what’s more, they’re catchy as hell!
We’re going to be welcoming Eros Group, the uber-retailers of electrical trickery and gadgetry, who will be holding a TechnoCase of superlative things that go tinkle, blip and boink. You can follow them on Twitter at @erosgroup or find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/erosgroup.
As before, back by popular demand in fact, nosh will be provided by The Lime Tree Café.
GeekFest2011 takes place at The Shelter in Al Quoz from 7.30pm on Thursday the 20th January 2011. There is no registration, no formality, no requirement of you other than to turn up and even that’s optional. Other GeekFests have taken place in Cairo, Alexandria, Amman, Beirut and Damascus and there’s talk of GeekFests to come in Doha and Abu Dhabi.
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We’re rolling it back a little this GeekFest and not having so much stuff going on. You can try too hard, you know and I, for one, had stopped enjoying it because of the pressure to make all the new stuff happen. The whole idea is that stuff happens because it happens so we’re going back to that a little.
It nearly didn’t happen at all – Saadia Zahid has left The Shelter and I realised that the event was more about working with Saadia than it was working with The Shelter. Her successor, Oliver, has been great but it was with Saadia that the whole scheme was co-conceived and it just seems odd without her.
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GeekFest 5.0 is taking place at Shelter on Thursday 24th June from around about 7.30pm. It should be quite a lot of fun.
SAMSUNG will be presenting the Galaxy S the Android-powered Smart Phone in our TechnoCases
The Android-powered Galaxy S incorporates a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen and a 1 GHz application processor that enables vibrant HD videos, rich augmented reality content through Layar Reality Browser.
The ‘Social Hub’ provides always-on social networks connectivity allowing users to enjoy communications with their friends, colleagues, and families whenever they want and wherever they are. Social Hub which allows the consumers to efficiently manage their communication needs by providing intuitive and unified access to emails, IMs and Social Networking Sites (SNS). The benefits of Social Hub are further enhanced by the Wave’s TouchWiz 3.0 UI, delivering superb user experience. Availability of Social Hub can be decided by market demands.
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