From September to November 2010 we ran three weekend residential workshops at the luxury Barcelo Stirling Highland Hotel. These were very much hands-on events that helped our participants work on and develop skills and techniques to explore and expand their business ideas. Applications were competitive.
Girl Geek Scotland hosted a series of workshops to complement our Speaker Series 2010 on ‘Creativity, Computing and Entrepreneurialism’. The workshops, which were aimed at women who are thinking about starting, or have recently started, a Scottish business, will work around themes that will target what we believe are existing weaknesses in female business culture, namely: Negotiation, Funding Strategies, and Creativity in Business.
These workshops were aimed at women with an interest in technology- background was less important than enthusiasm and a desire to follow a tech/creative project through. A diverse range of people attended, from crafts practitioners to programmers to hardware developers to geneticists. A common theme united them: the desire to build a business that could help or provide a service to, and to become financially independent. Each of our participants brought an idea or exisiting project with them. Through the use of skills and techniques introduced throughtout each workshop these ideas had the potential to grow and develop into viable businesses.
These events were fully funded by Informatics Ventures based at the University of Edinburgh, and all costs for those meeting the funding criteria were met.
Cast:Girl Geeks
Tags:Workshops, Enterprise and Women
