🌸 Coding Grace March & April Newsletter 🌸
Coding Grace March and April Newsletter with news, events, CFPs and opportunities from around Ireland and Northern Ireland.
It was sad to hear Her+Data winding down late last month, but we all grow and bloom from where seeds are planted, so huge thanks to Karen Church and her team for all the work to make their events inclusive and safe for the data community, and best of luck to her new endeavours.
And this leads on to the month of March, as UN's International Women's Day is on March 8th, these events are even more meaningful and important for everyone around the world. The theme from UN's IWD 2025 is:
Check out the busy month of March for IWD events and here are some highlights:
- Mar 6: TechFoundHer: Entrepreneurship as Activism @ Huckletree
- Mar 6: Women in AI Ireland: Accelerating Action: Driving Inclusion, Empowering Women Through Technology
- Mar 8: PyLadies Dublin Tea & Coffee Social @ KC Peaches Dame St
- Mar 8: National Women’s Council: “Break the Silence” – Women’s Stories of Health, Empowerment and Resilience
- Mar 8: First-ever All-Island International Women’s Day celebration @ Croke Park
- Mar 8: Women Techmakers (WTM) Belfast 2025
- Mar 25: Women Techmakers Dublin: Redefine Possible - International Women's Day 2025 @ Workday
💖 In other news, a reminder that Django Girls Dublin workshop is back and hosted by DjangoCon Europe at Talbot Stillorgan Hotel on Sat Apr 26. Places are limited. The free workshop will be facilitated by Vicky Twomey-Lee with help from amazing coaches on the day.
Any questions, please email: dublin@djangogirls.org.
🐍 And it's wonderful to have another amazing European Python conference fome to Dublin this year, DjangoCon Europe is a 3-day conference and a 2-day sprint taking place The Talbot Stillorgan Hotel on Apr 23 - 27. More details >>
Bryan Duggan
👾🎲 Last month Dublin GameCraft ran its comeback game-making event at St Laurence's Church (TU Dublin, Grangegorman) after a hiatus since 2019! Eight games were made on the day, and you can play some of them on itch.io. You can read all about it via Vicky's writeup.
Cáit Ní Cheallacháin
🐍👩💻 PyLadies Dublin was hosted by JP Morgan for a fun coding quiz challenge evening recently. Everyone had such a good time coming up with solutions in their teams and presenting their solutions. Here's a writeup of the evening.
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🌈 A special shout out to Romero Games for their donation.
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🎤 Ladies that UX Dublin - Call for Speakers
Ladies That UX - Dublin
🎤 GDG Portlaoise - Call for Speakers
Google Developer Group Portlaoise
🎤 Serverless Days Belfast - Call for Speakers
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📅 Submission Deadline: 24 March 2025 @ 23:59 GMT
🎤 Wexford Tech Meetup: Call for Speakers
🎤 Xcake! Mobile app development with an Appley flavour - Call for Speakers
Topics talk related to Apple or mobile development are welcome including:
- SwiftUI App Architectures: It can be a broad comparison of popular approaches or a deep dive into one specific pattern. I'd especially love to hear a talk on TCA.
- VisionOS Development: It might not be as hot as last year, but it would be amazing if someone could bring a device to show it off.
- AI Tools for iOS Development: With Apple recently open-sourcing Swift Build, this could really boost third-party IDE support for native Apple development.
- Cross-Platform Apps with Kotlin Multiplatform: KMP has been around for a while, and it seems the adoption is growing. It'd be great to see it in action
- App Development Stories: My personal favourite - real-life experiences about building apps.
- Your Ideas: Got another interesting topic? Whether it’s technical or inspirational, suggestions welcomed.
📢 Call for Female-Led Irish Businesses
Hannah Wrixon 🎓 FAIBF
We're creating the KELLA Directory because there's a critical visibility gap for female-led businesses in Ireland. While 64% of Irish consumers want to support women-led businesses, 82% cannot name more than three in Ireland. The directory will serve as a centralised resource that connects consumers and businesses directly with women entrepreneurs across all sectors.
📢 Fierce: Tech Talent | Are you hiring?
If you are hiring tech talent, you can access a database of 150+ engineers who are interested in working with startup.
📢 Female Founder Office Hours on Thursday 3rd April 2025 with Alison McMurtrie
Alison McMurtrie
I’m excited to be participating in Europe-wide Female Founder Office Hours on April 3rd, 2025, hosted by @PlayfairCapital, alongside 190 VCs from leading funds.
If you’re a female founder and would like the opportunity to meet investors for pitching or mentoring
(In-Person) International Women's Day Event: Accelerate Your Influence @ Udemy
Wed Mar 5, 2025 (09:30)
(In-Person) Ladies that UX Belfast: AI and Using It More Effectively @ ESO
Wed Mar 5, 2025 (18:00)
(In-Person) TechFoundHer: Entrepreneurship as Activism @ HuckleTree
Thu Mar 6, 2025 (11:00)
(In-Person) Women in AI Ireland: Accelerating Action: Driving Inclusion, Empowering Women Through Technology
Thu Mar 6, 2025 (18:00)
(In-Person) TechIreland Female Founder Funding Review 2025 Launch @ 2 Charlemont Square. D2
Fri Mar 7, 2025 (09:30)
(In-Person) CHAT@Disrupt-The Role of Assistive Technology in Art: Empowering Creativity @ Project Arts Centre
Fri Mar 7, 2025 (14:00)
(In-Person) Women TechMakers Belfast
Sat Mar 8, 2025 (09:00)
(In-Person) Coding Workshop for Females @ Beyond Inc. (Sligo)
Sat Mar 8, 2025 (09:30)
(In-Person) Network Ireland: All Island International Women's Day 2025 @ Croke Park
Sat Mar 8, 2025 (12:00)
(In-Person) ☕️ PyLadies Dublin Tea & Coffee Social @ KC Peaches (Dame St, Upstairs) ☕️
Sat Mar 8, 2025 (15:00)
(In-Person) Women in STEM @ Croke Park
Thu Mar 13, 2025 (08:30)
(In-Person) Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam @ Queens Univeresity
Sat Mar 15, 2025 (13:00)
(In-Person) HER-STEM: Breaking Barriers, Building Futures @ Ulster University
Wed Mar 19, 2025 (17:00)
(In-Person) Techstars Startup Weekend Women Dublin
Fri Mar 21, 2025 (17:30) - Sun Mar 23, 2025 (19:00)
(In-Person) Women Techmakers Dublin: Redefine Possible - International Women's Day 2025 @ Workday
Tue Mar 25, 2025 (18:00)
(In-Person) Women in eDiscovery Dublin - Future-Proofing Discovery in Ireland
Thu Mar 27, 2025 (08:30)
AWS - Spring Technology Insight Day
Thu Apr 24, 2025 (08:00)
Django Girls Dublin Workshop @ DjangoCon Europe @ Talbot Stillorgan Hotel
Sat Apr 26, 2025 (09:30)
⏭️ Our next bi-monthly newsletter will be in May 2025, if you have announcements, events, opportunities for our May-June Newsletter, drop us an email at contact@codinggrace.com.
Cheers,
/// Vicky 🐱🏳️🌈🦄