 Hi, welcome to theCUBE. I'm your host, Lisa Martin, and tonight we are on the ground at Google with CloudNow, which is a great nonprofit organization founded by women supporting women who are innovators in cloud computing and converging technologies. We're here tonight with CloudNow because it's their fifth annual top women in cloud innovation awards event, and we're very fortunate to be joined by one of the award winners, Monique Morrow, CTO of New Frontiers Engineering and Cisco Monique, welcome to theCUBE. Well, it's a pleasure to be here. Welcome back, I should say. I know you're an alumna. Yes. So talk to us about what you're doing with Cisco that is clearly award-winning and being recognized by CloudNow tonight. All right, well first of all, my day job is around looking at the intersectionality between new technology, economics, and research to something that could be new portfolio for the company. But why I'm here tonight is because of something that is so passionate for a group of us in the industry, and that is providing identity to 1.5 billion people who do not have it, and its identity as a service through the eyes of a refugee. And so this is really the work that is nice and in progress. And I'm very, very excited and passionate about this work and the potential to change the world. And I mean that the potential to change the world in this space. That's incredible, and that's really kind of the spirit of the CloudNow Awards is female leaders who are doing incredible things to impact the community and what an incredible thing that you're leading. I'd love to understand from your perspective your, I know you're based in Switzerland. What has your career path been to get to become a female CTO? Did you know when you were a kid that's what you wanted to do or was it sort of this sort of path? It was very zigzaggy. I mean I would say I'm an accidental engineer. I've always been curious about technology. In fact at age six I had a chemistry set and I ended up burning almost the kitchen. Wow. But my parents actually encouraged me to go through technology. I ended up having the love for it and being encouraged by men to say you can do something in this field even though I have a very eclectic educational background. I have an undergraduate in French and geography. French and geography? Went off to get a master of science degree and information technology or telecommunications management and the rest is history. I just loved it. But it sounds like you had support really kind of from the beginning. I did. Which is so key. I did, I did. I had not only family support but I had tremendous, and I have to say this because I know this is celebrating women in cloud computing but it's also had tremendous mentors and coaches and men. Absolutely. Because I think it's really really important to have men in the conversation and they were really encouraged me to actually pursue this, the direction in this career. I will tell you this, your career, my career and I believe other folks' career will be very, very zigzaggy. It's not going to be a linear and with that is total excitement in what we can do. And I think having the power to be able to work collaboratively with people in the industry to change things is really what excites me about technology and particularly cloud. Fantastic. And I'm sure you would, you look back at your career. You wouldn't change a thing. I do, we only have a couple of minutes left but I know that you just wrote and published a book that's on Amazon, The Internet of Women. Can you share with us in just a couple of minutes what that's all about? It sounds fantastic. Sure. I co-adjusted a book of Monks along with three other co-editors called The Internet of Women, Accelerating Culture Change. It was just published on September 9th of 2016, this past year. And it's about narratives of wonderful women in 30 countries including social scientists about these women not only creating technology but also looking at technologies to develop new entrepreneurial opportunities. And the narratives are designed to inspire and including in this book are men who are behind women because behind every powerful woman could be a man. Absolutely. And so we're very, very excited about the impact that this book has rather than just talking about dire statistics. We believe women are doing fantastic things globally throughout the world. Absolutely. And I'm glad that you brought that up. And you know, kind of last thing here is that there are a lot of statistics about women in technology, women in sciences but what I love that you've said co-edited thank you for correcting me on that is these are narratives that are designed to be inspirational. And I have to say I find you very inspirational. Congratulations on the award. Can't wait to see what you do and the massive impact that you make. Great pleasure. Thank you very much. Thank you for joining us and thank you for watching theCUBE. If you also have a rock star of female technology leader like Monique that you think should be filmed in our Palo Alto studios, tweet us at theCUBE. Use the hashtag women in tech. I'm Lisa Martin. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time.