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When I was in high school,

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I was hanging around with a lot of people

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who were talking about becoming engineers.

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And so I thought engineering,

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that's going to be pretty straightforward.

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I loved medicine, and I loved engineering.

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And so when it was time to apply for university,

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computer science was really starting,

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but it was not the it thing to go and do.

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So I became an electrical engineer.

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It was programming from the very beginning

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and a lot of physics, I loved physics.

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That's how it started and that's how it stayed.

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I love technology for two really important reasons.

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Number one, it is never the same two days in a row.

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There just is nothing but variety.

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And there's nothing but change.

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And the second thing is

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technology is changing our personal lives,

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it changes our work life,

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it changes our social beings.

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I love it for the change rapidity in society,

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as well as variety.

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Let me tell you the three things that I know for sure

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about diverse teams.

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Number one, they're more courageous.

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And I'm not talking about when you have a team

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where there is one woman, or there is one Latino,

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or there is one LGBT.

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I'm saying when you have a diverse team

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of ways of thinking, of experiences,

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they are more courageous,

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they are definitely more productive,

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and from a personal point of view, way more fun.

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Digital transformation is ripping apart the entire fabric

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of fortune 10,000 companies,

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you just look at that across the board.

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What businesses have got to get right in transformation

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is that they have to realise it's a business issue,

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not a technology issue.

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Risk is what makes the world go round in success.

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If you ask me, every single time my career lurched,

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or my opinion of my success went ahead,

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it was because I did something

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that was completely unknowable of what the result could be,

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and I did it anyways.

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Women in technology need network and cohort

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because it's still hard.

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There's still less than one third of the population

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of women in technology,

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and I just don't see that that's going to change a lot

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in the foreseeable future.

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So if I had one big learning about women in technology,

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it's that we need each other in a cohort

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to help each other in safe spaces find our voices

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in a not yet equal landscape of technologists.

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As you get towards the end,

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I know I'm going to stand and look back and say,

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"Why didn't I please myself?"

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Because the best things I ever did,

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the best choices I ever made came

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when I was working on pleasing myself,

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finding the thing that would really make me feel like me.

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(lighthearted music)