24-25 June 2016

Applications are not available for this event.

Event Details

Sponsor host

The venue for Rails Girls London
24-25 June 2016
is kindly provided by
Funding Circle.
Venue address:
71 Queen Victoria St, London, EC4V 4AY

About the workshop

Want to learn to code? We can teach you, and we do this for free πŸ˜ƒ
All, to make technology more approachable for women.

How it works:

Rails Girls London is an event (well actually it's a hands on workshop!), that runs over a day and a half, Friday evening, from 18:30 (we finish around 21:30) and Saturday from 9:00 to 18:00. To understand how we split the time of the event you can see the timetable below.

We are now expanded to 300 people per event! That is around 110 coaches and 190 students ( you can imagine how much networking one can do with that πŸ˜‰ ).
Students come from all kinds of professions, backgrounds and even countries, yes, amazingly people fly over to UK just for our event (a lot of times we even get coaches coming from different countries just for this, we love you guys!).

Our coaches, are all volunteers, in their day to day jobs they are all software engineers, working hard on making all that awesomeness you see online. You can see list of coaches are coming to the event below. We are adding new ones every day, so check again after. Some of our coaches have attended Rails Girls London as students at some point, since then they got a job as a developer, and now they come back to teach others πŸ˜ƒ

At the event, we put students in pairs, and assign them a coach. Dont panic, we make sure that the two students in a pair are of the same level. And no, you dont need to have any previous knowledge of programming. Your coach will explain everything starting from the basics. By the end of the workshop you will have your own website online (and you will have that proud feeling of achievement probably as well) πŸ˜ƒ

And to make this all is even more awesome, we have amazing support from our sponsors! Thanks to them, we can make this all happen, and have beautiful comfortable venues, full catering and the cool goodies (you'll see what we mean). You can see the list of our sponsors below, and talk to them all at the event, they are incredible!

Got a question?

We are always happy to answer it!
We have multiple channels and many awesome people to help you.

Join Rails Girls London on:

Friday - Installation Party

18:30 - 21:15 Installing Ruby on Rails & Dinner

The goal of this evening is to install Ruby on Rails for you, and get you fully prepared for the next day workshop.
We call Friday evening a party because its going to be fun, there will be loads of networking, getting to know your fellow students and coaches, sharing pizza and drinks, and of course a DJ, you'll regret it if you miss it!
Bring your laptop!

Please note: We kindly ask you to be present both days.

Saturday - Workshop

9:00 - 9:45 Registration & Coffee

Saturday is the hands on workshop day.
We kick off in the morning by having a breakfast and loads of coffee (you will need it, it's gonna be a lot of brain work on this day πŸ˜ƒ)
Light breakfast - (we cater for all dietary restrictions, just make sure to tell us what you don't eat in the application form)

9:45 - 11:00 Welcome & Sponsor presentations

We'll let you know the schedule for the day.
Our sponsors will introduce themselves and do brief presentations for the attendees.
We will then split everyone into pairs and assign you a coach to proceed with the workshop.

11:00 - 12:30 Introduction to Ruby on Rails.

Practise coding with ruby.github.io/TryRuby Kickstart your first web application on Rails with guides.railsgirls.com/app

12:30 - 13:10 Lightning Talks

Our coaches, will do a set of presentations on their experiences and knowledge in the software engineering world. We make sure this is a great mix of people with various knowledge and expertise in development, so you will hear a range short and exciting talks from juniors to seniors.

13:10 - 14:30 Lunch

We cater for all needs, please don't forget to mention your dietary restrictions in the application form.

14:30 - 17:45 Extend your website

Continue working on your application with your coach. We set aside this time to really get your head around how to code and make your app what you want. Takes a lot of concentration, but it's super fun, and we provide sugar and coffee to help you power through that (obviously πŸ˜ƒ )

17:45 - late Afterparty

Mingling with all the participants. We go for drinks at a local pub to celebrate the successful learning day :)

Our Sponsors

Organisers & Coaches

Charlie Allen
Nuno Costa
Cristina Acquani
James Thompson
George Good
Tatiana Monteiro Bernardo
Chris Radford
Anna Yanova
Paula Stepinska
Kinga Koren
Jan Chmelíček
David Aldridge
Clair Griffiths
Jake Elder
Ken Lee
Shanthi Pendleton
Dan Webb
Daniel Cooper
Sam Levy
Vasil Nunev
Van Le
James Rose
Alexis Poirier
Lance Paine
Nicola Hughes
Alex Jahraus
Sebastian Urban
Ketan Patel
Kriselda Rabino
Elizabeth Larcombe
Chi-Ting Leung
Elliott Hilaire
Mara Wanot
Stelios Modes
Jasbir Singh
Mazin Power
Steve Lorek
Jairo Diaz
Viacheslav Botchenko
Alexei Emam
Federico Rebora
Ricardo Perez
Clive Capisano
Sergei Sapoznikov
David Santoro
Lorenz Puskas
Zack Xu
Syeef Karim
Maria Khait
Raul Gracia Lario
Maloney Liu
Tony Marklove
Christopher Hooks
Francesco Grammatico
David Boulderstone
Mark Taylor
Robert Cambridge
Fernando Diaz
Gustavo Lobo
Jonathan Adshead
Ben Lovell
John Small
Louis Pilfold
Bilawal Hameed
Dominik Stodolny
Emma Barnes
Kai Chan Vong
Zoe Nolan
Barbara Slawinska
Vicky Gray
Phil Lee
Alex Malik
Gareth Pendleton
Vladislav Sarunov
Iulia Ionita
Ken Alex Fassone
Timothy Scott
Fell Sunderland
AndrΓ© Barbosa
Amy Hilaire
Dennis Ideler
Natalia Oskina
Juri Kalinin
Vincent Bonmalais
Stephen Lloyd