 Hi everyone, I'm Sam Cahane and you're watching The Cube on the Ground from the IBM Data First launch party. I just ran into one of my really good friends, Carmen Leong. So great to have you on by the way. It is also her birthday so everyone wish her a happy birthday. Thank you. So we used to work together at IBM and I've been following you on social media and a lot of excitement. You are now the co-founder of Women in Big Data. Yes, I'm one of the 18 founders and we started the group about a year and three months ago. It's called Women in Big Data and I just looked at our numbers. Right now we're at 1,300 members so it's fantastic. Fantastic and it's great to have you on. We've had some of your other founders on The Cube before. Yeah for sure. And you know the Cube loves covering women in tech. Yeah, yeah and thank you for doing it. We've been promoting it everywhere. We have a strata and a tube conference going on right now as well and we're having a networking lunch tomorrow. Okay. So we're going to have a few under women getting together and it's going to be a great event. Fantastic. Could you tell the viewers a little bit more about your company? Yeah for sure. So Women in Big Data, I'm just one of the 18, 20 members who started initially. We started in June of last year and basically our mission is to get together as a group of women and create a more embracing and inclusive environment for women in tech because one of the things we realized is that a lot of the women who were initially in the field got very quickly discouraged by how male dominated it is and it's very much a gentleman's club as of today still and we wanted to change that. We want them to feel welcomed in the field. We want them to know that they're not alone and so we started this initiative along with Intel, SAP, Cloudera, Hortonworks and I'm personally from IBM and so it's a bunch of companies coming together agreeing on the same goal and mission and objective and wanting to give women this more welcoming and embracing environment for them so it's been great and right now like I said we're at 1300 members and we're going to keep increasing that membership. We have a huge presence mostly on West Coast because a lot of companies are founded in California but we're trying to migrate that over to East Coast and we're opening up more communities in New York and New Jersey and Boston as well so very exciting stuff coming up. Fantastic and we're with you we have the same mission we would love to see that as well. Yeah absolutely. So Carmen happy birthday we don't want to keep you too long thanks so much for coming on today. Thanks for having me. Stay tuned we have more coming on the Cube from the IBM Data First launch party. Great thank you guys.