Events – Page 3

2 September 201615 April 2020

Move It Forward for Women Refugees

On 15-16 October, in celebration of Code Week Europe 2016, the Digital Leadership Institute and its partners will organise the second FREE Move It Forward – female digital starters weekend bringing 100 teen and adult women* together from greater Brussels to develop digital projects that support women refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe. This initiative, part of the DLI inQube female digital accelerator, is supported by top technology companies, and youth and women’s networks and communities. Its objective is to give beginner girls and women the skills to drive positive change and enable them to become digital entrepreneurs and leaders.

Participants: If you are a teen or adult woman* interested in building your tech and startup skills for the benefit of women asylum-seekers and refugees in Europe, please apply to attend this FREE event at the following link: http://bit.ly/mifbru16oct

Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis and effort will be made to accommodate everyone who applies.

Supporters: Please see a list of our Move It Forward partners and sponsors below, and kindly contact us if you would like more information on how to support this event. Opportunities exist for Move It Forward volunteers, interpreters, coaches, jury members, content and media partners, prize contributors and sponsors.

*anyone who identifies as a woman

Draft Programme:

Day One – 15 October (Saturday):

8:00-8:30 – Registration & Coffee
8:30-9:30 – Opening Plenary: Inspiring talks by Move It Forward Partners
- Welcome & Keynote Presentations:
- Keynote: Ms. Yara Al-Adib – Service & UX Consultant/Deloitte Digital
9:30-11:30 – Workshop 1: Web Development with WordPress (TBC)
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 – Workshop 2: Grow Your Business with Salesforce.org (TBC)
15:30-18:00 – Brainstorming, Proposals, Idea Selection, Team Grouping & Project Work
18:00-19:00 – Dinner
19:00-22:00 – Project Work with Coaches

Day Two – 16 October (Sunday):

8:00-8:30 – Coffee & Danishes
8:30-10:30 – Workshop 3: Smartphone App Development with MIT App Inventor for Android (TBC)
10:30-12:30 – Workshop 4: Launching Your Project in the Cloud with Amazon Web Services (TBC)
12:30-13:30 – Lunch Break
13:30-16:00 – Project Work with Coaches
16:00-17:00 – Presentation Preparation
17:00-19:00 – Closing Plenary: Project Presentations & Judging
18:30 – Keynote Presentation: TBA
19:00-21:00 – Awards Dinner & Networking

Awards:

Prizes will be awarded for top three projects presented on Sunday afternoon:

Overall Best: 6-month inQubation at DLI; 10 Hours one-to-one inQube Startup Coaching; Other TBC
Biggest Challenge: 4-month inQubation at DLI; 8 Hours one-to-one inQube Startup Coaching; Other TBC
Best Technical Solution: 4-month inQubation at DLI; 8 Hours one-to-one inQube Startup Coaching; Other TBC

Sponsors & Partners:
Thank you to the individuals and organisations who are making this event possib

1 February 201615 April 2020

Brussels Women Move It Forward

On 23-24 January, forty teen and adult women gathered at DLI’s inQube space in Brussels to develop websites and smartphone applications, and to launch their own enterprises to tackle cyberviolence and promote online safety for girls and women. Participants of the first-ever Move It Forward Brussels female digital starter weekend — organised by DLI and subsidised by the Brussels Capital Region — came from across Brussels and around the world, to improve their tech skills and try their hand at entrepreneurship.

Says Bianca Debaets, Brussels Minister for Equal Opportunity and Digitalisation, and supporter of the Move It Forward initiative: “When women take up an active role in the ICT and business worlds, they are stronger. And that should reduce cyberviolence against women too. In that way, Move It Forward serves a dual purpose: It makes more women entrepreneurs and it empowers them digitally.” (Read a full press release about the Move It Forward event in Dutch here: Move It Forward Persbericht 2016.)

Attendees of Move It Forward Brussels, from 14 to 54 in age and representing upwards of twenty-two nationalities, dedicated an entire weekend to learning digital and entrepreneurial skills taught by DLI and its worldclass technology partners, including Tableau Software, Amazon Web Services, WordPress and AppInventor. With the help of a dedicated and talented team of coaches, participants developed innovative projects that they presented to a jury on Sunday evening for top honors. Jury-members included Ms. Maité Morren, Councilmember for Ixelles responsible for ICT, and representatives from European Schoolnet, Child Focus Belgium, DLI and AWS.

The two-day Move It Forward Brussels initiative kicked off on Saturday morning with a keynote presentation by Ms. Ellen Van den Berghe, 2015 Young ICT Lady of the Year in Belgium, and closed with an inspiring talk by Ms. Terry Reintke, Member of European Parliament who recently authored a report on Women and the Digital Society.

Top awards for the weekend were presented to ENAC, Detrolled and iCompassion-Ubuntu, each promoting a unique approach for addressing cyberviolence against girls and women. All winning teams receive several months’ inQubation and startup coaching at DLI and free membership for one year on the Amazon Web Service platform. Each member of the Overall Best project team also received Amazon Fire tablets. In addition, several follow-up workshops are already planned to allow inQube community members to further develop the digital and entrepreneurship skills they started learning at Move It Forward Brussels.

Organisations across Europe have expressed interest in organising Move It Forward events in their own cities, and future plans for the Brussels inQube community include taking on additional challenges faced by Europe’s girls and women, including immigration and asylum-seeking, health and nutrition, media portrayal, etc. Please contact us if you would like to learn more about the Move It Forward initiative, to partner with DLI/inQube, and/or to organise a Move It Forward event in your city!

15 November 2015

How can I add a layer of security to my online identity?

Hi,

This will be a busy week! On Wednesday, we will have the last of the Cyberviolence workshops we have been running since September. It will be a very interesting and informative event. One of the speakers will be an expert from the European Schoolnet who will speak about the inSafe network, a Europe-wide program to empower children and young people to use the internet, as well as all forms of mobile technology, positively, safely and effectively.

Our second speaker is a cybersecurity expert who will explain how we can add a layer of security to our internet usage, to protect our online identity. He has been giving workshops to journalists and human rights activists on how to make their online correspondences more secure and hacker-resistant. (Register here: http://bit.ly/15inqube14) Expect to take a lot of notes!

For those curious about cloud computing technology, you are all welcome to our Bluemix Girls’ Night on Thursday. There will be an interesting panel of women entrepreneurs and cloud computing experts who will talk about how (would-be) entrepreneurs could use this new technology in setting up a sustainable business with the same scalability as big tech companies. Register here!

Have a great week ahead!

Rosanna

11 November 2015

Bluemix Girls’ Night: why should boys have all the fun?

Hi tech-savvy ladies!

Have you ever had a great idea for an app? Did you ever wonder how you could sell things online, or start a business with an awesome scalable digital presence? Are you curious about cloud computing technology, and would like to meet other like-minded ladies, or maybe you would just like to have an interesting evening that might spark some inspiration and unleash some wacky and original ideas in you?

Come and find out! IBM’s Bluemix Cloud Platform, together with the Digital Leadership Institute, is hosting a Bluemix Girls’ Night on November 19. We will be hearing women tech entrepreneurs talk about their start-up experiences, and how a cloud computing platform can help all entrepreneurs have the same scalability opportunities of big tech companies.

There will be a demo of apps built by young women developers for Oxfam, and everybody will have the opportunity to ask questions, find out how cloud computing works and why women entrepreneurs (and would-be entrepreneurs) should make use of this technology.

Looking forward to seeing all of you there!

Stay tech-savvy,

Rosanna 🙂

21 May 2015

Need a career boost? inQube has you covered!

How to: Motivate people without money? Be excited by your work but not consumed by it? Be confident when speaking in front of a group? Find out all the answers to these questions this month at inQube!

Here are three awesome ladies who will share their skills and knowledge with you:

Voice Coach Sonja Rauchenberger will help you get heard in meetings, nail your next job interview and give presentations like a pro. And you’ll get to practice of course. Join us on June 2.
Joyce Bertram is a 26 year old TEDx speaker who teaches her seniors how to manage people! On 8 June you can learn from her how to motivate & inspire others to work for you – even without financial reward.
Sophie Triollet is a digital marketing maven who’s worked from LA to Paris with major music, tech & fashion players. On 25 June, she’ll open her startup “compact case” and share her own tools for effectively managing projects & enterprise. Sign up here!

See you soon!

The inQube Team 🙂