Join us September 10: Toronto Girl Geek Dinner

Mark your calendars - the next Toronto Girl Geek Dinner is September 10 and our speaker is Sandi Jones, Director, Data Product Development for Rogers Cable. Girl Geek Dinners exist to make technology accessible and interesting to all age groups and all people, particularly women, and Sandi's talk will take a look at the technology trends that are changing the tech landscape.

We're heading back to Fionn MacCool's, a pub at University and Adelaide. We'll kick off with drinks and some nosh (cash and carry) at 7:00 p.m. and ask Sandi to start her talk around 7:30 p.m.

Here's some more about our speaker - Sandi is passionate about technology, not for its own sake, but for what it can enable people to do. She has broad technology expertise and from her vantage point leading both business and consumer product development at Rogers, she sees how the line between personal and work tools is blurring.

Sandi's career in IT and network technology began when she discovered her inner geek in the 90's and made a drastic career change from performing arts to technology. Within a few years, she was a recognized technical expert, leading teams that built what is now Allstream's nationwide Internet network. She also improved a large bank’s technology, and developed next generation IT services.

Sandi will talk about how businesses are adopting consumer technologies,reversing the historic trend of business technologies trickling down to consumers and how tools like instant messaging, social media, collaboration and user-generated content to bring the creativity of today’s tech-savvy consumers into the world of business.

Cruise on over to the Toronto Girl Geek Dinner wiki to sign up to participate on September 10. Don't forget to hit up our Facebook Group, give us some love on your blogs, post some tweets on Twitter and help us get the word out about the event on September 10.