There are a number of events planned on and around Ada Lovelace Day 2010. If you have an event you’d like me to add to this list, please email me or leave a comment with details. Please remember to include the location, time and date, description, ticket price and a URL with further information.
So far we have events in Copenhagen, Dresden and Montreal, as well as the London event.
Copenhagen
Title: Ada Lovelace Day Cocktail Party
Date: Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 20:00 – 23:00
Tickets:
Location: The Union Bar, St. Strandstræde 16, Copenhagen, Denmark
More information: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=327685443892&ref=mf
Networking event- and YOU are in invited.
24 march 2010- Ada Lovelace Day celebrates women in science and technology. Ada Lovelace was herself the first female programmer. Read more about her and Ada Lovelace Day and how you can support the day on your own blog if you have one 
www.findingada.com
You are now invited to join a networking event in Copenhagen on this particular day. Bring other cool tech lady supporters (women or men) and relax with a cocktail in very fine company.
Follow the UK based Ada Lovelace Day initiator on twitter @findingada If you write on twitter use #ald10Copenhagen
If you blog remember to put a link up on the Elektronista Facebook group.
Hope to see you for Ada Lovelace Day!
P.S The Union Bar is an exclusive and “secret” hidden bar. Can be hard to find, but wort it. Look for black door. Ring the bell.
Dresden
Title: Calling Hedy Lamarr – Film, talk and get-together
Date: Thursday, April 1st 2010, 8.00 pm
Tickets: No need to book tickets in advance. Regular entrance fee for the cinema is 4.50€.
Location: Filmtheater Casablanca, Friedensstr. 23, Dresden-Neustadt, http://www.casablanca-dresden.com/
More information: http://www.kunsthausdresden.de/?lang=en
A film about Hedy Lamarr (alias: Hedwig Maria Kiessler), legendary Hollywood diva and so-called “most beautiful woman of the world”. What most people don’t know is that that the famous actress was also a visionary inventor. Hollywood didn’t provide opportunities for smart women and so her invention was kept as a military secret. Her electronic technology enabled allied torpedoes in WW II to hardly ever be detected and is still used today. While her patent on frequency hopping is also the basis of all modern mobile communication, Hedy Lamarr never made a single penny with this mindbreaking technology.
- introduction to Hedy Lamarrs biography and invention
- Calling Hedy Lammar – movie screening
- more inspiring and surprising women in tech stories
The Hedy Lamarr evening takes part in the course of the exhibition “The world in your hand” – Contemporary art, films, discussions – on the everyday global culture of the mobile phone”, Kunsthaus Dresden, Public Centre for Contemporary Art.
London
Title: Savoy Place Open Day
Date: Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 09:00 – 17:00
Free Event
Location: 2 Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL
More information: www.savoyplace.co.uk
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) will support the aims of Ada Lovelace Day on Wednesday March 24 2010 with the release of a video report explaining the contribution and importance of the Countess of Lovelace in the field of engineering; and an open day at Savoy Place, the London home of the IET – where some of the original correspondence between Lovelace, Charles Babbage and Michael Faraday will be on display.
The original correspondence between Lovelace, Michael Faraday and Charles Babbage will be on display at the library at Savoy Place between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm.
To commemorate Ada Lovelace Day E&T Magazine, published by The IET, has produced a video report to explain who Ada Lovelace was; and her contribution to the field of engineering and computing. The video report will be available on our site and Youtube for pasting into blog posts from Monday, 22 March 2010.
www.youtube.com/engtechmag
kn.theiet.org/magazine/videos
Montreal
Title: Girl Geek Dinner
Date: March 23rd, 6-8pm (roughly)
Tickets: Free
Location: Brutopia, 1219 Crescent St (lower floor) http://www.brutopia.net/
More information: http://montrealadanight.eventbrite.com/
How did you end up being a woman in tech? Did you meet a woman who inspired you, who became your role model, or mentor?
Come and share your story about your heroine at March Girl Geek’s Dinner on March 23rd at Brutopia, where we’ll have an informal, and intimate, round-table discussion in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc) drawing attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.
This event will be “unconference-styled” meaning ladies have 3-4 minutes to share their stories. Get to know the other girl geeks in the Montreal community. Network. Learn about someone new.
Sheffield
Title: Ada Lovelace Day (Midlands & North England)
Date: 24 March 2010 4pm-8pm
Tickets: Free
Location: Showroom Café, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX
More info: http://adalovelaceday-fab.eventbrite.com
Take part in:
- Drop-in Bloggers Surgery: one-to-one help to find out everything you want to know out about blogging but were afraid to ask.
- Reader’s Corner: get inspiration from last year’s Ada Lovelace Day blogging entries
- Film Club: screenings of short films celebrating women in technology
- Spread the Love: for those of you who don’t want to set up a blog but would still like to share your stories, we’ll help you to easily publish your inspirations on The GIST Hub.
- Networking Social: meet other women in technology, find or be a mentor and discover new role models and collaborators
If you’d like to share your stories or be inspired by others, we’d love you to join us.
If you can’t make it, but want to find out more or to leave a contribution by proxy, please get in touch with ada@thegisthub.net.
Brazil
BR.ADA: Celebrating Ada
For the first time in Brazil, such event will leave the network and internet scopes and engages in the real world with the exhibition BR.ADA: Celebrating ADA. We invite cyborgs, geeks, programmers, artists and similar types to submit their works in the exhibit About Technology and Gender that will happen at the online gallery Blanktape next 24th of March. The exhibit is a global celebration of Ada Lovelace Day. Paulo Mendel e BR.ADA will do the selection of works.
More info
BR.ADA blog
BR.ADA on Twitter
