Girl Geeks launches in Edinburgh
Girl Geek Scotland, a networking community for technically minded women. was significantly strengthened with the launch of Girl Geeks Edinburgh at an informal dinner last week.
Geeks Girls in Scotland originally emerged in Dundee with a trio of women involved in working on the interface between technology, smart materials and interactive media. They wanted to give women in Scotland the room to network and develop their inner *geekness* with support from a wide community of professionals and like-minded peers. They tapped into the Girl Geek dinners which were already taking place in London. Now there’s a network throughout the UK and Europe, where Jan Van Mol's cross-over creative cross-over Addict Creative Lab, with more than 4,000 registered creatives from all over the world and from 32 disciplines (fashion, photography, architecture, cooking, design, textile, music, advertising, branding....) might be considered a creative Geek sparking point.


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