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I need you to follow me on this game.

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It's called a career in technology.

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To win we have to collect 1000 points.

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If we succeed we might make millions.

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Let's start.

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Like all games, we have a character.

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Our character is a 17 year old girl.

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She's very curious and she's got[br]the best marks in her class.

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But you know what?

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In childhood she was given a little kitchen[br]and her brother, a computer.

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And at school she never learned

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that women could work on technology.

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You know what?

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That's why we start with -100 points[br]in technological skills

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and -100 in aspirations.

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It doesn't matter, we are a bit behind[br]but eager to continue.

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Here's our next mission:

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Make a group of people congratulate us

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because we decided to study[br]Systems Engineering.

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The game is taking us first[br]to her group of friends.

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Let's see what the group of friends says.

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"It is a career for guys,[br]it will sure be difficult."

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Let's go to the family,[br]they never let you down.

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Your mom says: "Why don't you play safe?[br]Lawyer or teacher."

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(Laughter)

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We've just lost another 70 points.

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Good news anyway, we begin college.

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Now our mission is to finish our studies.

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Let's see how this level goes.

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We attend classes on the fifth floor.

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But there's only one ladies room,[br]in the first floor.

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For showing up late to class[br]we lose another 50 points.

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How does this continue?

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We have the same teacher[br]in three subjects.

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Whenever a girl makes him a question,[br]he doesn't answer.

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For not being able to clarify our doubts[br]we lose another 30 points.

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Anyway, I want to tell you[br]that we still keep moving forward.

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We manage to get our degree.

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That year we are one of the few women[br]that graduated in that career.

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And we get a job.

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Although a couple of people tell us

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it's because there is a lot of demand[br]in this industry

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for this type of profiles;[br]not because of your marks.

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Now our next mission is to get a raise.

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We are the only female in a group.

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We work twice as much, we strive.

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On top of that, they give us[br]the most difficult projects.

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However, one day in the cafe,

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we find out that our male partners[br]earn more money.

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So we go talk with our boss[br]and he tells us:

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"It's your fault because you never[br]asked for a raise."

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This game is exhausting.

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And I imagine that you, just like me,[br]don't want to keep on playing.

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This is no longer a game.

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These are the phrases from testimonies[br]of the few women

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who work in technology in Argentina.

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Last year we ran an investigation[br]because we wanted to understand

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why with more technology,[br]less women want to study or create it.

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They told us that these were[br]some of the routes and trajectories

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they had to go through during their lives

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to be where they are today.

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There is no doubt that everything[br]we do today with technology

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sets the pace of our lives.

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From what we buy

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to meeting again with that group[br]of high school friends.

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89% of what we do on the Internet

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has to do with a mobile app.

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But only 6% were created by women.

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Neither Tik Tok, nor Instagram,[br]nor Facebook.

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Maybe that's why so recently

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a woman's emoji appeared with a computer.

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In Argentina in Computer Sciences,

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there are only 11% of women today.

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But this was not always so.

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50 years ago, if we visited a classroom[br]of this career we would've found out

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that 75% of people studying were female.

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Women were not only a majority,[br]they also stood out.

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In fact, thanks to them[br]everything we do on screens is possible.

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Starting with the first person[br]in history who programmed

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that was a woman, Ada Lovelace,

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to the one who invented what today[br]we use as Wi-Fi, Hedy Lamarr.

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Or check this out, the person who created

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the software that managed to take Man[br]to the moon was Margaret Hamilton,

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--quite ironic, right?--

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This is a subject that keeps me busy[br]and also worries me.

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Because it's not a territory[br]that women have to conquer.

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They are territories[br]we were in and we left.

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The more technology turned into

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a place for the distribution of wealth,

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of power, of creativity,[br]we stopped having access.

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Working on technology today[br]not only means earning 30% more

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than in any other industry.

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Working on technology today[br]is to create the architecture

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of what all the other systems do.

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Whatever we do, it will be there.

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The lack of diversity on that table

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where it's decided what we will do[br]with those screens

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brings consequences for all people.

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For example, let's take[br]the virtual assistant,

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that with a female voice asks us,

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"how can I help you?"

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And we tell them, in a moment of despair,

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"assistant, I want to kill myself",

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the assistant tells you the right line[br]for your country;

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the software locates where you are[br]and gives you that exact number.

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Now, until recently if we told them,

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"assistant, I was raped",

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your assistant would tell you[br]"I don't understand what you ask me."

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After many complaints

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now the assistant suggests a link,

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a website about domestic violence,

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but do you know where is it from?

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The US.

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That technology today[br]is defined by a single group

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brings consequences for all people.

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And that is something we have[br]to keep in mind

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because, again, we have to start to think

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that women need to be back[br]in that decision-making table.

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In 2015 a group of women[br]coming from different fields

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--but all crossed by technology--

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decided to create an organization[br]and be there where we have to be today.

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Motivating, training and accompanying

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the next generation of women[br]leaders in technology.

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We don't just teach them[br]technological skills,

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we also teach them different skills

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that have to do with entrepreneurship,

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with being able to develop[br]other strategies to lead.

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Because you know?

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When they make it, we don't want them[br]to be like Steve Jobs with a wig.

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When we started[br]this organization we realized

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that this was the easiest,[br]believe it or not.

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The most complex thing was to work[br]with schools, with universities,

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with companies,[br]

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so they begin to understand[br]and see them as leaders.

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But also to prepare[br]the space to receive them.

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On this journey we understood[br]that the first we had to do

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to measure impact was to have data.

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And we started looking for them.

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We started researching for how many women

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are there in technology today[br]in Argentina, for example.

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And that data did not exist.

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So, although that was not our craft,[br]we had to investigate.

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Today, for example, we know that[br]in the last five years

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out of every 100 people who[br]sign up for these careers,

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only 16 are women.

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And maybe you think, well, that fact

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only renders useful to the organization.

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The truth is, no.

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When we published it a lot of ministries[br]started writing to us

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even investment groups,

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to thank us and tell us[br]that they were using that data.

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Thanks to that now they could project.

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Because where you cannot[br]guarantee diversity

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innovation will not come to pass.

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And technology feeds on innovation.

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What we learned during this time

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is that it's not enough to teach girls[br]to get around these barriers.

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We have to understand[br]what they are made of,

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why they are there[br]and why they still persist.

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That's not only going to help them.

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It will also help other minority groups

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or those who don't have a seat[br]at the decision-making tables.

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It's key that women recover the place

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we used to have in technology.

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It's not merely our task alone.

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It's a collective responsibility.

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Because if we succeed

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it will no longer be just one group[br]designing the future,

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while the rest of us remain caught up[br]or out of the game.

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(Applause)