Girl Geek Scotland (GGS) is a Scottish volunteer group that promotes women's engagement in the information technology industry.
[5][6][4] GGS held its first Girl Geek Dinner in Dundee in February 2009, with a group being established in Edinburgh shortly after.
[7] GGS has received funding from the UKRC, Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance, and WYLLN, among other groups.
[citation needed] In late 2009, Girl Geek Scotland won funding from Informatic Ventures in Edinburgh,[citation needed] to develop three intensive residential workshops for 2010 on the subjects of 'Creativity into business', 'Developing a Funding Strategy' and 'Negotiation Strategies and Techniques'.
In 2010, the Speaker Series was launched[8] in Dundee Contemporary Arts by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Shanna Tellerman, who at the time was the CEO of Wildpockets, a spin-out company from Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.