March was quite the month!
The first quarter of 2021 has been full of twists and turns, to say the least so it was lovely to get some recognition in the form of the Northern Power Women Future List nomination.
Continue readingIt’s been an intense week! Yesterday, I was at three different events between 9:30am and 2pm, and they were all fantastic in their own way, especially the long awaited Fund Her North launch which I’m involved with. That was something special indeed.
I had an eye on the weather all day though as I knew I had Run #8 of my 10 x 10km challenge scheduled.
I’m thrilled to say I completed it – a little bleary-eyed as you can see from the ‘after’ video below.
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It’s been quite a while since I last updated this blog. We’re talking practically a year and a half! I do apologise, this tardiness in updating is highly embarrassing. So sorry…. yes, really. Can I go now??
Okay, mental slap on the wrist over, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been quiet for very good reason – I’ve been especially busy working on business development for Assenty, and contracting full-time as a software engineer!
Lots and lots has happened, there’s been much graft, prayers and tears in the background, and some really, really good developments, not least some of these:
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Each year Ada Lovelace Day takes place on the second Tuesday of October and sees hundreds of volunteers around the world organising their own independent events to celebrate, promote and support girls and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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Wow, what a night!
Yesterday’s Tech Nation on Tour event in Manchester, at the rather select settings of No. 1 Spinningfields was an absolute triumph!
Oversubscribed to the point that over two hundred more people were signed up for a venue that seated 300+, it engaged from the minute we walked in!
A few weeks ago, I was thrilled to take part in Afrotech Fest 2018 at Rich Mix in Shoreditch, London.
Billed as:
A two-day tech festival by and for black people of African and Caribbean heritage.
it was a rather different tech conference experience, and I absolutely loved it!
Image credit: Catherine Heath
What amazing times we live in. Here is a picture of the audience at the Ladies of Code Manchester event on 27 June where I got to share my journey in building Assenty, the real-time Q&A platform over at assenty.com.
Audience photo at @thoughtworks @ladiesofcode Times have changed, most were coders/developers/engineers! Viva la #womenintech pic.twitter.com/IvWNlERlh4
— Chi-chi Ekweozor (@thisischichi) June 27, 2017
It’s mostly developers and would-be developers interested in turning an idea into a product. And all ladies!
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At #UpFrontConf, @hereinthehive doing intros. "..there's no sure thing that we'll cover costs so always gratifying when people show up.." pic.twitter.com/7rHl4Hfnq7
— Chi-chi Ekweozor (@thisischichi) May 19, 2017
On Friday 19 May, I was thrilled to attend the UpFront Conf 2017 conference at the Bridgewater Hall where, as part of their Speaker Bursary scheme, I got to present a five minute lightning talk on Assenty, the real-time Q&A platform I’ve been building over at assenty.com. Continue reading
Last month when I blogged about listening to the speakers at trade organisation Manchester Digital’s eighth Startup Stories event little did I know that I would be speaking at the next.
Image credit: Ummi Jameel
Ladies that UX is an international community of UX designers, practitioners and experts. It started out as monthly meet up in Manchester in 2013, organised by Lizzie Dyson (@lizziedyson) and Georgie Bottomley (@bottomley_g), both User Experience (UX) professionals, to give, in their own words
“us women somewhere to have a community that understood our interests, work challenges and family commitments”.
It has since expanded into nearly 50 cities around the world and Ladies that UX groups now meet regularly in locations as far apart as Denver, Colorado, Cape Town, South Africa and Tokyo, Japan. There is also an international conference, TalkUX, taking place in its third outing in Taipei, Taiwan later this year.