Girl Geek Dinner Milano #29
On Friday evening I attended the wellknown GirlGeekDinner meeting- in Milan, Italy. GGD's are a bit everywhere and, from time to time, a meeting happens. At that point, if you are lucky and get sorted for the evening, you can attend the dinner. It was my case.
Full of expectations and a bit shy, I entered the zone. There is much to say about tech and girls; I like this kind of meetings because I can get in touch with a different reality - a bunch of girls that really are into any sort of stuff and grab the chance to see eachother. It indeed is a girl-oriented meeting, even if also guys are welcome (as guests only) and I totally see the point. It's a bit like highlander, or vampires. You know.
My first GGD has been very pleasant. First: stellar organization. Buffet has been provided by MiCasa and I have been happy to see that there was quite a variety of sandwiches and food. I had vegetarian rice and veg "slice of toasted bread with stuff"(can't remember sorry :P); it is not easy to find meat-free stuff when attending conferences, let alone ingredients written next to the food. Loved it. Bigtime. And it was delicious!
Second: girls were funny and awesome! Organizers were rockstars. The location (EarlyMorning) was awe and there also was a mobile arcade: videogames in their finest form... not to mention the drones (a parrot, a ladybug and couple more, brought there by Sarah Volpi).
We also got couple of gifts; a #ggd pin I love to pieces and a tripod stool we used when talk time has come; just opened it and sat on. The sponsor was Microsoft Onedrive :). Microsoft does support many events, kudos to them for this reason.
The evening has been mostly about networking and listening to lovely mini-5minutes-talks. Ten representative women had something to say, and here is the list of the speakers for the evening if you are curious. More an hint about the arguments than a real talk, and there was no really indepth tech talk (even if we got to see some code) but again: it was a friendly meeting, not a coding conference :). Ten people means ten different topics, and I loved the variety. If one wants to know more, either asking to the speaker or googling are an option :)
The result has been great. I left the location with sprinkles of unicorn happiness. Thank you GGD, see you next time!