ALD News: New indie events, ALD in Stylist
Plus livestreaming start times, Maths4Girls school event offer, and more!
Hi there,
We have just two weeks to go until Ada Lovelace Day, and I hope you’re all as excited as we are!
If you haven’t already got your tickets for Ada Lovelace Day Live at the Royal Institution, then order them now! Theatre tickets start at a very affordable £17.03, with discounts for concessions, and Ri Members and Ri Patrons. Tickets for the livestream are provided on a ‘pay what you can’ basis, with the cheapest tier being £5.73. And you can find out all about our speaker and their talks on our website.
When does ALD Live start?
If you’re thinking about buying a livestreaming ticket, but you’re not sure when to tune in, we’ve compiled this handy guide to global start times:
Wednesday 11 October
Sydney, Australia: 05:30
Auckland, NZ: 07:30
Mumbai, India: 00:00
Tuesday 10 October
Bucharest, Romania: 21:30
Paris, France: 20:30
London, UK: 19:30
Reykjavik, Iceland: 18:30
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 15:30
New York, USA: 14:30
San Francisco, USA: 11:30
Anchorage, USA: 10:30
Honolulu, USA: 08:30
ALD events around the world
We have had a lot more events listed on our map, so take a look and see if there’s anything near you:
Austria, Vienna: Celebrating Women and Gender Minorities in Physics, incl. keynotes, a panel discussion, a poster session to showcase works led or strongly shaped by women, and time for networking, 10 Oct 3pm - 8pm
France, Avignon: Ada Lovelace Day 2023 in Avignon, film and debate on inclusion and discrimination in STEM, 10 Oct 4pm - 8pm, free
Norway, Oslo: AdaCon Norway 2023, celebrating the diversity of the Norwegian tech scene, 10 Oct 8:30am - 6pm
Spain, Madrid: Ada Lovelace – mother of the Computer Program(me), an evening with Angela Hill discussing her book on Ada Lovelace, 30 Sep 8pm - 10pm, free
UK, Abingdon: WiRE UK & WiN UK Field Trip: Discovering Fusion Energy, visit to the UK Atomic Energy Authority Culham Science Centre to learn about fusion energy, 10 Oct 10:30am - 3:30pm, free
UK, Bletchley: Digital Future Days: Ada Lovelace Day (11-16 years) with talks, hands-on workshop and networking 9 Oct 9:30am - 4pm
UK, Coventry: Warwick’s Ada Lovelace Day celebration, celebration in Warwick Mathematics Department, 19 Oct
UK, Didcot: Digital Future Days: Ada Lovelace Day (11-16 years), series of educational events designed exclusively for school and home-educator groups, 9 Oct 9:30am - 4pm
[HYBRID], UK, Edinburgh: Ada Lovelace Day 2023: Celebrating Women in STEM, help us add more notable women in STEM to Wikipedia, 10 Oct 2pm - 5pm, free
UK, London: Ada Lovelace Day at Google HQ (Maths4Girls), launch of a major campaign for Maths4Girls. 10 Oct 5:30pm - 7:30pm.
UK, Manchester: Digital Her Inspiration Breakfast, four role models will give 6-minute lightning talks on inspiration, with discussion and refreshments, 10 Oct 9am - 10:30am, free
UK, Manchester: Digital Her Inspiration Afternoon, an afternoon of talks, opportunities to connect with industry role models and activities, 10 Oct 1:30pm - 3:30pm, free
UK, Manchester: Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day, an Ada Lovelace Day Live watch party, 10 Oct, from 5pm, free.
UK, Stokesley: Women in STEM – Science Cabaret, evening of short talks with five inspiring female speakers, music and entertainment, 12 Oct 6pm - 9pm
ONLINE, UK: Women in Games Annual Global Conference, celebration of women the games industry, 10 Oct, £30
USA, Champaign, IL: Women in Tech Celebrates Ada Lovelace Day, talks, lunch and networking, 11 Oct 11:45am - 1:15pm, free
USA, Princeton, NJ: Ada Lovelace Day Graduate Mixer, come raise a glass to Ada Lovelace, 11 Oct 5pm - 7pm
USA, Sparta, TN: N4A Ada Lovelace Day Ham Radio Special Event, Special Event Amateur Radio Station N4A will operate on October 10, 2023 to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 10 Oct, free
USA, St Louis, MO: Ada Lovelace with Accenture Federal Services and Women C.A.N., 10 October 2pm - 4pm, free
If you want to organise your own Ada Lovelace Day event, it’s not too late! Just remember to add it to our map.
Our hashtag for this year is #ALD23, so please use that on any social media posts so we can all see the exciting things that are happening!
Maths4Girls offers ALD events to schools
Maths4Girls is a charity program dedicated to inspiring more girls to study maths beyond GCSE and closing the gender gap in STEM. In celebration of Ada Lovelace day on 10th October, Maths4Girls are partnering with schools around the country to bring in female role models to speak about women in STEM as well as their own careers in STEM and how they use maths in their careers. Maths opens up choices and opportunities for all individuals, and we encourage you to take action today to inspire your students to choose this valuable tool for their lives.
Maths4Girls invite you to join them, so book a role-model speaker to host an online webinar for your classroom:
Choose up to 3 speakers.
Choose the time and day that suits you best, we suggest this is either on October 10th (Ada Lovelace Day) or as close as possible to that date.
Maths4Girls confirm your booking within 72 hours. They will share the login details for the online webinar.
Ada Lovelace Day in Stylist
Find out what our founder, Suw Charman-Anderson, had to say about Ada Lovelace Day Live in this article from our media partner, Stylist.
Help us to promote Ada Lovelace Day Live and our indie events!
Please help us to get the word out about Ada Lovelace Day live, and all our indie events around the world by resharing some of our social media posts. Every share is important, especially on Twitter where, like many other organisations, our reach has collapsed. So please click and share wherever (and whenever) you can!
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That’s it for now! We hope that you’re looking forward to Ada Lovelace Day as much as we are!
All the best,
Suw & the ALD team