Friday 11 October 2024

Attendees:

• Vincent
• Godfrey
• Elisa
• Marton
• Agam
• Anastasia
• Cat
• Lucas
• Fergus
• Pierre
• Stan
• Chris
• Tomas
• Lewis

1. Promotions This Weekend

• Scheduled to be released on sunday
• Deadline is end of today to be added to the post
• The media used will be Discord and Instagram
• We would like to humanities student for the future social media team

2. Sponsor Update

• We have the following sponsors:
  • Optiver (Gold)
  • Qube Research and Technologies (Gold)
  • LLoyds (Silver)
  • G-Research (Silver)
  • Viridien (Silver)
  • Jane Street (Bronze)
  • Addepar (Silver not signed)
  • BlackRock (Silver not signed)
  • Neuphonic (Still talking)
• In summary, 2 Gold and 5 Silver so far

3. InfBall

• Will be held in April, same time as last year
• Pierre and Stan have volunteered to lead InfBall, with Marton and the first year rep as well
• They will talk to the previous organisers for discussion
• We do not want to use The Caves again, since it was hard for the Ceilidh
• Balmoral is preferred and larger, and Neil would help to book it through him
• Balmoral is expensive so price and budget is very important
• There is the possibility to increase the price of tickets

4. Banking

• We are currently switching bank accounts from Santander to Bank of Scotland
• This is still in process
• We will get 3 debit cards from Bank of Scotland
• Currently we still have a PayPal card
• Idea to use sub accounts for each SIG once switched to Bank of Scotland

5. PhysSoc Halloween Party

• PhysSoc have not replied to Anastasia about the event
• Event will be on the 29th of October
• Desired attendance is 50
• We will promote it as soon as possible especially since it is a ticketed event

6. AdaHack Discussion

• £30 Amazon gift vouchers per person as prizes
• We need 1/2 people throughout the event, and 2/3 people for judging at the end
• Fergus, Tomas and Elisa volunteered

7. Hoppers

• Hoppers expressed an interest to collaborate more with CompSoc
• Hoppers and CompSoc combined hava a lot of reach
• They want 2 events, one social and one technical workshop
• We can both advertise these events to maximise attendance

8. Neuphonic

• They do not get an STMU or HTB
• They are not interested in the Expo
• They woul like to run a Conversational AI themed Hackathon
• They will handle the challenges, prizes and such, but would like CompSoc to do logistics

10. Action items

• Find someone to run the Neuphonic event