About Us

Cardiff Girl Geek Dinners is part of a community that originated in London and has since evolved to cover the world.

While there are a few regular digital media related events and meet-ups held in Cardiff, there is nothing dedicated to bringing together all the ladies who work in the industry.

The idea of Girl Geek Dinners is to create an environment in which we can chat, relax, eat and drink. Our goal is to enable like minded women to connect and share ideas, views and experiences.

Whilst this is not intended to be a "networking" event, you may meet people who can benefit you professionally.

Men are welcome to join us, however they must be accompanied by a female in order to attend. The reason for this is to keep a good dynamic, which in our experience is hard to find in this industry

In the beginning . . .

The Girl Geek Dinners were founded on the 16th August 2005 as a result of one girl geek who got annoyed and frustrated about being one of the only females attending technical events. She was tired of being assumed to be marketing, tired of constantly having to prove herself and decided that she just wanted a change and to be treated just the same as any other geek out there, gender and age aside.

After all to be geeky is to be intelligent, have passion for a subject and to know that subject in depth. It’s not at all about being better than others, or about gender, race, religion or anything else. Those things just detract from the real fun stuff, the technology, the innovation and the spread of new ideas.

So what did this geeky girl do to change the world of geeks and girl geeks everywhere… well she got in touch

with a few well known bloggers, posted online about her idea of getting geeks to educate one another over

dinner and then arranged the first girl geek dinner event with a little help from her friends. The first event had 35 people at it all from London and the surrounding area, shortly after people started to hear about the events and companies started sponsoring them to cover the food and drinks cost.

Then they started popping up in other UK cities as she trained others up in how to run the events, spreading the formula for them… so they then started popping up in Europe… and shortly after that over in Canada… Now they are starting to pop up in New Zealand and Australia. 

The future . . .

"Girl Geek Dinners aims to change the world! No really! Honestly . . .  we really do . . . we want to make technology accessible and interesting to all age groups and all people . . . no matter what age or gender. We have grand plans for conferences, blogs and who knows what else . . . so watch this space!"

Sarah Blow, Girl Geeks Dinner founder.