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hi everyone my name is Elijah my twitter
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handle is just my name and today I just
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realized that I'm actually
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is so I got shut that out so I created
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tech ladies and today I'm going to share
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more about it with you so technologies
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is a community for a woman to connect
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learn and advance as programmers so we
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focus on teaching programming to woman
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without attack background and we aim to
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bring more women into the industry so
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before I begin since we're talking about
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how we build technologies in Singapore I
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need to edit my title and second of all
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I want to clarify something it's really
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subtle and I don't think that you could
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see it unless I point it out to you but
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I have to be honest that the mustache is
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a lie I'm just really trying to come
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across as non-threatening an awkward
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joke so in this talk what I wanted to
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share with you more about is that what
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tech ladies it's about what we do and
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also the lessons learned along the way
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this is not a lie but before I start I
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want to share why gender diversity is
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important to me and why I believe in the
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work that we do so we have all benefited
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from a community like this right now
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even from a bunch of online tutorials
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free tools or just getting help from one
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another
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we have all gained something from this
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community so I feel really strongly
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about this like why should anyone feel
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that programming is not for them because
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they don't look like a programmer right
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I believe that everyone should be able
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to learn programming without feeling
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like they don't belong in the community
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and I'm not just talking about woman
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it could be know people from all kinds
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of backgrounds races nationalities or
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physical abilities so gender diversity
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was simply the area I choose to focus on
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because it's what's something that
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resonated to me most because I'm not a
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software engineer so technologies is my
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passion project and I have a day job in
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MNC working on developer programs some
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Niner developer an hour program or just
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developer programs and the story my
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story of creating technology is started
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in 2011 when I picked up rails because I
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couldn't find a tech co-founder for my
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now date startup so that's when I was
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exposed to the developer community and a
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wonderful programming which I'm sure all
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of you agree that writing code is
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amazing although occasionally you feel
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like sleeping a laptop so
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my programming allow us to express
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ourselves to communicate an idea with
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the software instead of words and the
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things that we create can really help
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ourselves or someone else and the people
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here are amazing initially I felt out of
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place attacked me nuts because I don't
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dress the same I don't talk the same I
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cry funny jokes so but as I get to know
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more people here I realized that the
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community is really helpful and you know
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that they let me to think that
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understand that programming is meant to
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be accessible by all so we're on a woman
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is it not interesting for them or this
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actually some other issues stopping
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women from learning how to code I didn't
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know how to solve this problem until a
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friend asked me to help him at a real
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skills session in 2014 so rosca it's a
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global not-for-profit community that
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teaches woman how to cope with meals so
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it was through the experience of
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interacting with other woman then
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discover that there's a joy in teaching
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people how to code and you know it's
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very exciting when you see their eyes
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light up when they realize that oh this
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is programming this is so easy I can do
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this so that's why when I was in-between
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jobs I wanted to build something that
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can bring more women into the industry
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through education that's how we created
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tech babies which is again a community
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for women to connect learn and advance
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as programmers so we do three things
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community education and opportunity
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we're trying to reach women who are
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Kimmy and learning about the tech
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industry all the way to as a sting
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programmers and I'll share what each of
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this means so we want to bring a place
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where women can find and learn from one
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another we also want to teach women
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basic programming skills and lastly we
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want to help women who wants to enter
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the tech industry to make the switch so
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under these three pillars are six
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programs so I'm gonna share about what
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each program does so feel free to steal
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or copy any of this you see here
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implementing your workplace our
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community so I often get asked if I'm
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worried about competition amongst women
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groups in
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so I don't believe in competition
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because we're all working towards the
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same goal and I think that the sooner
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never reach the goal
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the sooner we can go Soph another social
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problem which is great so feel free to
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steal copy anything here so I start
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talking more about the boot camp under
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the opportunity pillar fancy transition
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so the boot camp the tag ladies boot
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camp is a part-time accelerated learning
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program to help women with basic
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programming skills to become
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professional programmers so the
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participants are guided by industry
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experts to create products for
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nonprofits so this actually products
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that being used in a while so if you
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notice this photo they are men here so
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it shouldn't be so that's another thing
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right like we are for a woman but we are
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not NT men so we recognize that men has
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something to play to so and since we
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start the tech ladies last January we so
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far so far we have about three we have
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three batches on boot camp
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29 woman have graduated from the program
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there a stewardess gymnastics teacher
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customer service rep photographer and a
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bunch of non tech gross before the boot
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camp and seven of these ladies currently
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hold a technical role with more being in
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the tech industry as non engineering
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roles I think we can cut today thank you
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so during the boot camp we have helped
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nine nonprofits to solve their pain
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points we have technology some of the
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examples where creator include a film
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submission at an adoption and a
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classroom management app in a donor
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management app so this is typically
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replace this email paper or Excel I hope
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you know Microsoft people here we're
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good cool so and it's not just about
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teaching them technical skills right we
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also help the boot camp participants
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waive exposure by publishing articles
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about them and pushing them to do talks
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so I want to share the stories of two
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ladies in particular first is Clara on
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the left so she found her love for
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develop a web development when she was a
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teen but she could not pursue a CS
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degree because she did badly for a
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levels and that started up unfulfilled
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in career and something that she's not
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keen in before she decided to do a
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fashion
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business so fashion was something she
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could do
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but it was not something that she could
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see herself doing for the rest of her
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life so that's when she decided that she
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wanted to get back into tech but she was
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struggling with the learning how to code
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on her own before she joined a boot camp
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and today her coach at the boot camp
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actually gave her an internship where
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she then converted into a junior role
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and she has since returned to
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technologies as one of our speaker it's
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pretty amazing the other story I want to
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highlight sinking she's right there
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so sinking was that kicked out of
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master's program in chemistry so which
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led her to start a customer service
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officer career when a friend of her told
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her about programming and that intrigued
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her got her started in interest in in
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tech so I remember how Cynthia would
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sometimes stay there like 1:00 a.m.
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every night after a full-time job to
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learn how to code and today so she's a
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developer today she's a developer at a
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startup she has spoken at our DRC in
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front of Matt and she has also come back
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to Malaysia to organize a tech lady's
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workshop it's amazing to see how people
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come back to pay it forward and come
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back to contribute back after receiving
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help from the community so a few lessons
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learned first of all I honestly didn't
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expect it to work maybe it's kind of
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weird to say it now but you know finding
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educating and curating non NGOs we're
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not technical getting developers with
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full-time jobs to do to volunteer at
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least 100 hours interesting beginners to
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create a product for with a real word
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purpose sounded crazy which I which I'm
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very happy that in practical you work
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better than on paper second thing I
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learned is that having an NGO in mind is
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really helpful for beginners because it
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keeps them motivated to create something
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complete next thing I learned is that
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people really want to help even if the
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ask is really big but I need some
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direction on how and what to help on and
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also marketing is important it's not
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just about technical skills but it's
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also marketing in highlighting woman and
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also bringing them into the industry so
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you know I think a secret sauce here
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on how our graduates could compete with
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people who are who are CS grads or
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graduates a full-time boot camp is that
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we provide a learning objective we give
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people a structure to learn and we have
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the community to provide references and
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upon charity which i think is a
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recurring term that we've seen in the
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tops of today there's a lot of community
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in there
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so really amazing the next thing I want
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to talk about is the Tech Talks so the
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Tech Talks was created by getting one of
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the bootcamp graduate so in this tech
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talk we feature two the three female
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beginners giving technical talks so by
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putting this beginners on station to
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share it helps them build our confidence
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and inspire other woman in the any
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audience that programming is possible
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for them so Jean see who you're here
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tomorrow she gave her first public talk
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and our Tech Talk event and she has seen
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done like amazing joint public speaking
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I'm really excited for a talk no
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pressure so because of the nature of
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these events what I learned is that it's
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very important to communicate the right
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expectations to the audience because
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they're not sure to listen to experts
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and so so that's the that's the main
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sort of lion thing that you have to be
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clear about and they need to know that
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we're here because we're part of a
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supportive community and to provide peer
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learning another thing that we hear from
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our community when they see this tech
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industry they don't know like what is it
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like what a different roles in there so
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we decided to create this new series of
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events called office visits which link
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over there has took on the role in
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organizing so in this see in this series
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we bring our community the different
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companies to hear about here from the
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stories of the female employees working
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there so this this photo is pretty
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interesting because this was after the
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official panel discussion so people were
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just mingling with each other and all of
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a sudden there is yet another informal
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panel discussion going on
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so the next thing I want to talk about
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is the programs under the education
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pillars that thing from the coding
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weekend which is pretty straightforward
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this is a according weekend so it's
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initiated by Sinkin and it's a two-day
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workshop where women learn about basic
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Ruby Ruby on Rails and CSS HTML so it's
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usually conducted outside of Singapore
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because we have a lot of groups serving
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woman and Singapore but the same can be
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said in other places when you go out of
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the country so this photo was taken
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earlier this year resilient organized
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the coding weekend here in Kuala Lumpur
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for 80 woman so some of our assistant
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coaches also here as well I wanna give a
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shout out to Zuri and Xue and Greek so
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the curriculum that we use is available
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on our github also let me know if you
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want to bring it to your city now one
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thing we learned that doing a workshop
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overseas is that working with someone
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local it's extremely important to help
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us with good venue partnership and
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marketing so under their workshops we
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also run study groups this is a self
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reliant study group for beginners where
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we just meet at a cafe to learn and
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practice computer science with one or
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two mentors joining us to answer
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technical questions so it's really easy
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to get started but honestly it's
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difficult to maintain momentum because
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people come and go so the last programs
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that I want to share the tech ladies go
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and eat go eat so thank this go is
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basically as sharing events that other
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people are organizing so that woman can
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find my another to attend together so I
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remember once I saw my people but I
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remember once when I shared about a
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hackathon
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in our tech ladies group and woman were
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actually asking if they couldn't go they
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were asking like Oh am I good enough to
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go I'm not right technical but can I go
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but what happened is that the ended up
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encouraging one another and forming
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teams so that they are not alone and for
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many or then this was their first
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hackathon and ever attended so it
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basically is a get-together for the
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community because we love tech and we
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love food just an excuse to get out
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so I hope this overview of what we do at
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Tec ladies was helpful in getting you to
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start thinking about how you can make
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the Ruby community even more awesome and
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now in the switch gears in talking about
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what I've learned starting an initiative
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like tech ladies so starting a passion
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project has a lot of benefit the main
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benefit is that you can choose what you
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want to do and how you want to do it and
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that music is good all the kids you want
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in your presentation and this is my best
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slide so take photo please okay moving
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on and and and I think what's more is
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that it's extremely rewarding to see the
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impact of your work and something so
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small something so small like teaching
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them how to code can you can really have
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a very lasting impact in your lives
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and second of all you don't need
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permission on skills you want again like
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if you want to lead people go ahead if
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you want to try new ideas go ahead you
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don't need someone to give you a
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permission to do it and what I realized
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that in doing that it actually came back
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and benefited my career because the
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skills that I gained in tech ladies
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helped with my full time job an
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employer's want to know what you're
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passionate about and your site projects
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show it
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lastly you don't care about
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profitability or business model and of
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course this is definitely rewarding to
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see when you meet and work with people
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who share the same beliefs but my
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biggest lesson I've learned is this I
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don't need to get to a specific level of
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skills or be good enough before I am
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able to start contributing meaningfully
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so before I started helping out at
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events I thought the only way to
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contribute back to the community was by
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contributing the repos and I felt really
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demoralized when I tried following the
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advice of getting started with
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documentation if you heard advice is
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terrible because to be good at
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documentation you need you need to be
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good at that that framework and
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length of spoken language which is very
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difficult so so when I I started to be
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able to contribute back when I stopped
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focusing on what I don't know how to do
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and start focusing on what I know how to
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do and could do and I realized that
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that's actually a lot of things so
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before we and I want to share some easy
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ideas for you to start thinking about
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contributing back so first of all
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organizing things so events and
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conferences need someone to organize
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bring people together or the food
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sponsorship and a lot of emailing so
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this might not sound exciting but you
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really never know the real impact of the
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event so Gabriel was not here by will be
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here tomorrow speaking as well she
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learned about the tech industry at a
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tech ladies event and that's when she
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found her passion in tech so much so
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that she postponed her college to start
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her career as a developer which is truly
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amazing you should talk to her about it
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when you see her tomorrow
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and if event organizing isn't your cup
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of tea you can also help out at events
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so there's a couple of ways that you can
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help out so you can design collateral
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like how Natalie was also here designed
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all the leader icons we used because
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she's she saw what I did and it was crap
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we both agree it's crap
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you could also source for vendors emcee
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at the event or talk to your manager
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about hosting or sponsoring a meet-up or
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you could share your knowledge so you
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don't need to know a lot in order to be
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able to share what you know so this is
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the workshop we ran for tech ladies for
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60 women learning CSS and one thing I
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learned is that the problems that
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they're running - actually not bugs most
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of the time they're just like this typo
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they forgot the closing tag or they're
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in the wrong wrong folder and this
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should not be difficult with for anyone
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with some basic programming skills to
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help you don't need to be at level 100
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to teach someone at level 0 you just
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need to be a level 2 or 3 to be good
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enough and if someone asks you a
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question that you don't know what do you
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do you Google right Google is always
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here for you
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and if teaching isn't your your thing
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you can also share what you have learned
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from events so a couple of our workshop
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attendees wrote notes about what they
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have learned and share it out to other
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newbies who they found to be really
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helpful all right you can do what
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Michael do he's also a Technium coach
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right there so here's creator and genius
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thought SG when his team would attend
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most of the tech meetups in Singapore
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filmed in and out of them onto this site
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it's extremely labor intensive but by
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doing that people can learn from events
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that they have missed or if you come
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across someone working on something
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interesting encourage them to present
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about it too many people think that they
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are not good enough and could really use
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the encouragement from you so I have
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received one such and comment
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encouragement myself so so I signed up
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to present a lightning talk a ruby Kylie
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after-party last year and I was really
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nervous about it because if there's one
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conference that you freaked out that
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it's a ruby Kylie certainly so I try
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wrote into the organizers organizers to
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see if I could give a talk and this was
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the reply and I eventually they give the
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talk because I do agree that yeah if
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there are Jung they probably wouldn't
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know if I messed up so it's kind good
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the last thing on my list is this like
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every little thing counts like helping
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out doesn't have to be a big event or
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like a passion project these are things
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like keeping up picking up the trash
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packing up chairs inviting women to
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attend all speaking events highlighting
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their accomplishment or just compliment
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someone for a job well done
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so Jimmy thank you for organizing this
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conference but yeah probably not here
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in a contributing to the tech community
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goes beyond just writing courts
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documentation fixing bugs it certainly
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does not have to be technical it's about
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creating ways for the community to get
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together share knowledge enabling -
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enabling others to teach more people or
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by making a community of anyplace for
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everyone and with that I hope this don't
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give you an idea on how you can start
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contributing right now this is the end
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of my talk thank you for listening and
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thank you for your contribution to the
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community thank you thank you so much
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for your talking your contribution for
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coming down here okay you had to come
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all the way forward down from Singapore
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anybody have a question that you'd like
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to ask about community building about
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contributing back to community oh sure
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Nick
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how can be about phase that comes
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later
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we want to eat
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at the other end of that pipeline
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give us freebies I think my god other
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than that give us jobs this has the best
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thing ever
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I think it's about telling letting us
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know I think before that I guess I even
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before that making sure that your
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environment is conducive for a woman and
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also for learning because a lot of woman
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especially for that the the community
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that that ladies these are people who
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have missed the opportunity to be
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formally educated in CS so a lot of
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times they call in do boot camp and you
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know like I don't I don't think that
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three months boot camp when you stuck it
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out with a CS grad they are at a
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disadvantage they need to catch up a lot
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which is why I think having a conducive
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environment the focuses along teaching
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and empowering junior developers would
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be like the most important step and of
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course then you know giving giving
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internships junior roles sweat
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mentorship know those basic stuff I
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think that will that help to about
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that's the most important thing is the
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right learning environment that's also
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yep any other question goes oh yeah go
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ahead Alex of course Alex
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the problem is humor how we as a
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community can identify the toxic
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environment
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these are welcome always in the
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community
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diversity
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the experience so so so the question is
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about how can we make sure that the
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environment is not toxic for women who
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are thinking of entering the industry
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taking into consideration what has
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happened over and also a Google right
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okay so it's it's definitely a very
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tough question and at the same time I
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was saying two things first of all
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listen for a woman who are already and
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then that she listen to them because I
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feel that a lot of times even even if
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you are well intended you have very good
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intentions sometimes you don't know
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what's the best way to help and I think
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asking your your teammates is a good
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start
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and for getting more women into the
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industry what I learn is that because
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this woman these people they are not
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from the industry yet so a lot of times
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they don't know what's happening within
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our industry it's great we can track
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them now so so I would say I would say
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you know don't focus so much on telling
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people that the sexism in my industry
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you know you're gonna watch but I'm here
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for you
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they'll probably freak them out it's not
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that the biggest problem that they want
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to data facing now
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the kind of problems that I face it's
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more of like I don't know what to learn
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and when I have a problem I don't know
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where I can go one of the different
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roles in the industry it was good for me
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this um this arm or am I good enough
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that's the thing that they they always
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ask me the whole hackathon thing I don't
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get it because my people are asking me
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if I could if they could attend a
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hackathon I'm like I'm a Josh I don't
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even know what I'm doing there so yeah
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why not so the confidence thing is is a
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common theme that I see across which I
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don't know is it a woman thing or you
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just like a beginner thing I don't know
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about it's a thing
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I'm sorry but I want to stand up and of
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course with it you still like that it's
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really important for us as a community
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absolutely as a deaf people people so I
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also have my boot camp coaches gin C and
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Michael's right yeah this year we've
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like we've had a lot more women speakers
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in comparison to last year which is
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amazing and has actually drawn a lot
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more women attendees so this has been a
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great plus for all of us any any final
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questions
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that
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wandering forward
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yeah so you'll be amazed like how early
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gender stereotypes begin so my colleague
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was telling me that this little like her
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daughter two or three she wanted a
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spider-man tattoo stick-on tattoo of
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course no I'm saying that but you know
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another girl who's about six year old
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told her that that's not for girls so
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ugly and then she the mom made my
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coworker was really shocked at how early
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things start so I don't really have like
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I think it's very culturally specific it
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depends on the culture that you are from
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and also the the market some social
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values in general but I do think that
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having role models seeing that someone
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with similar background can do it means
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that it can be done that's one the
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second thing is opportunity and in
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workshops online resources support for
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people to get exposed to this kind of
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stuff
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bb2 does that answer the question
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cool very cool if that's all the
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questions we have we've got to take a
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short break but before that one more our
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applause thanks so much Elijah really
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appreciate it
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okie dose just interrupt like so I just
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asked any a lot of artists because I
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have stickers so it's coming yep no
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they're just showing
