Mini-GeekDinner with James Gardner

It’s been a bit quiet here lately, but we’ve got another interesting mini GeekDinner lined up for you all. To mix things up a little bit, we’re joining forces this time with the OpenFinanceCoffeeClub, a small meetup event for finance/tech people. 

Joining us is James Gardner, the Head of Innovation and Research at Lloyds TSB. He will talk a bit about the book he has got coming out soon and tell us some amusing anecdotes about medieval banking datacentres and internal bureaucracy. 

Because we are hosting this together with the OpenFinanceCoffeeClub, the number of places will be split evenly between the two. This means 15 spots available for GeekDinner people, 15 for OpenFinanceCoffeeClub members.

Again the venue will be our regular Hummus Bros in Holborn at 18:30. Food will be on a get your own basis, so no need to pay online. If you’re running late and can’t find us at the Holborn place anymore, we’ve probably moved on to the pub down the street.

When:  Tuesday, November 18th 2008 18:30
Where: Hummus Bros in Holborn
Speaker: James Gardner
Cost: Food and drinks on buy your own basis

Please RSVP on our signup site if you are coming, there is only limited seating.

October 27, 2008 | Filed Under geekdinner, mini-dinner | Leave a Comment 

Pre-FOWA Mini-GeekDinner with Kevin Marks [Updated]

FOWA is just around the corner and we have found you a FOWA speaker interested in hanging out with us instead of with other FOWA speakers on Wednesday the 8th.

Joining us will be Kevin Marks who is author of the weblog Epeus Epigone and a software engineer at Google. He became principal engineer for Technorati after doing work for both Apple and the BBC. He is one of the founders of Microformats. In 2003, Marks was an early experimenter with and contributor to the technologies that became popular under the names podcasting and iPodder in 2004.

The venue will be our regular Hummus place in Holborn and the time will be from 7pm till late. Food will be on a get your own basis, so no need to pay online. If you run late and can’t find us at the Holborn place anymore, we’re probably moved on to the pub down the street.

Please RSVP on our signup site if you are coming, there is only limited seating.

October 4, 2008 | Filed Under geekdinner, mini-dinner | 2 Comments