 from Palo Alto, it's theCUBE. Covering Women Transforming Technology 2017, brought to you by VMware. The CUBE's coverage of women transforming technology held at VMware's campus here in Palo Alto, California. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, joined by Jeff Frick. We are here at the conference, starts today. It's at the one day event. And we just heard Cara Swisher, who is a journalistic hero of mine, and she gave a great, rousing, funny, timely, topical, political keynote. What'd you think? She's been covering for so long. I read AOL.com way back when, and I actually did an internship at AOL, I think in 96, back in the days when they were shipping CDs. So it's so fun to put her together with kind of that similar moment. She's a veteran, exactly. She's terrific. She followed the characteristics that she outlined in her keynote, which is be true to yourself. And don't be an asshole, but don't really care what other people think. Be true to yourself. And she was that through and through. It's the first time I've actually ever seen her speak. It was a lot of fun. She's a great, really dynamic, funny, self-deprecating, but also a bit of an ego herself. Oh, absolutely. I enjoyed, particularly, as a fellow journalist, how she took Silicon Valley to task a few times, just talking a little bit about the naval gazing that Silicon Valley does. How badly they want to talk about the products and the process when really the end users pretty much just care about, does it work? What's it going to do? Right. And two, it's kind of good news, bad news with Trump is it's a never-ending source of good content for journalists. Never have to wake up in the morning and think of a hard story to cover. And then, and now it's going on, unfortunately, with Uber, which, as she said, it's like somebody falling down a flight of stairs and they just keep falling and falling and falling. Big post that came out last week on LinkedIn got pretty viral, widespread, and then apparently another one Lord knows, I'm sure there's plenty more to go. And she really called out, she's trying to make people take a stand, publicly, against things that are not right and to really take a position. Use your position of power to try to, as she said, help people with afflictions and afflict people that don't need them. Yeah, comfort those afflictions. And afflict the comfortable. The comfortable. No, I think it's a great point in terms of, here, you Silicon Valley captains of industry, you are powerful people, you run powerful companies, act like it, act like it. And take up these causes that Trump is certainly taking up. And particularly, since they are so core to the values of Silicon Valley, these are gender issues, immigration, gay, transgender, and start taking a stance and stand up. Right, and so we're excited to be here. This is, I guess the second time they've had the Women Transforming Technology Conference. We actually covered a VM women at a VM wear show a couple of years ago and the Clayman Institute was there. So we're excited to be back. A full day of interviews. Really glad to have you out. And again, welcome to Cal. I think just welcome to California. Thank you so much. I'm thrilled to be here. But it's a full lineup. We're going wall to wall and ending the day with, I know, someone that you're really looking forward to. A feminist icon, Gloria Steinem. And I also think that kudos to VMware and to the other sponsors of this conference for choosing her. I mean, she's not an obvious choice for a Women Transforming Technology Conference closing address, but she really is going to take on so many of these important issues of the day. Okay, so any particular guests that you're most excited about today? I mean, there's so many. I am excited to talk to the women at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Yeah, Lori's fantastic. Yeah, Lori is going to be fantastic. Yon Bin Lee, she looks really interesting and a dynamic speaker. I know she's been on the queue before. Right, many times. Yeah. All right, super. Well, I think they are just about ready to get out of the keynote. So we should probably get ready for our first guest. Thank you so much. All right. We'll see you back here soon.