When I was in high school,
I was hanging around with a lot of people
who were talking about becoming engineers.
And so I thought engineering,
that's going to be pretty straightforward.
I loved medicine, and I loved engineering.
And so when it was time to apply for university,
computer science was really starting,
but it was not the it thing to go and do.
So I became an electrical engineer.
It was programming from the very beginning
and a lot of physics, I loved physics.
That's how it started and that's how it stayed.
I love technology for two really important reasons.
Number one, it is never the same two days in a row.
There just is nothing but variety.
And there's nothing but change.
And the second thing is
technology is changing our personal lives,
it changes our work life,
it changes our social beings.
I love it for the change rapidity in society,
as well as variety.
Let me tell you the three things that I know for sure
about diverse teams.
Number one, they're more courageous.
And I'm not talking about when you have a team
where there is one woman, or there is one Latino,
or there is one LGBT.
I'm saying when you have a diverse team
of ways of thinking, of experiences,
they are more courageous,
they are definitely more productive,
and from a personal point of view, way more fun.
Digital transformation is ripping apart the entire fabric
of fortune 10,000 companies,
you just look at that across the board.
What businesses have got to get right in transformation
is that they have to realise it's a business issue,
not a technology issue.
Risk is what makes the world go round in success.
If you ask me, every single time my career lurched,
or my opinion of my success went ahead,
it was because I did something
that was completely unknowable of what the result could be,
and I did it anyways.
Women in technology need network and cohort
because it's still hard.
There's still less than one third of the population
of women in technology,
and I just don't see that that's going to change a lot
in the foreseeable future.
So if I had one big learning about women in technology,
it's that we need each other in a cohort
to help each other in safe spaces find our voices
in a not yet equal landscape of technologists.
As you get towards the end,
I know I'm going to stand and look back and say,
"Why didn't I please myself?"
Because the best things I ever did,
the best choices I ever made came
when I was working on pleasing myself,
finding the thing that would really make me feel like me.
(lighthearted music)