 from Houston, Texas, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering Grace Hopper's celebration of women in computing. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Jeff Frick. Okay, welcome back everybody. We're live here in Houston, Texas for Grace Hopper, celebration of women in computing. This is Silicon Angles, theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the event and extract the signal noise. We are covering the Grace Hopper in Houston for three days live wall-to-wall programming. Thanks for watching. I'm John Furrier, the founder of Silicon Angles. I'm my co-host, Jeff Frick, here for wrap-up of our first kind of little day. They kicked off today, keynote speech from GoDaddy, the CTO from the USA, Megan Smith, two great friends of ours on theCUBE. Jeff, what's your takeaway so far? I mean, so far it's been great. I mean, it's just a sea of women. The community is my big takeaway. The vibe and growth is significantly stronger in terms of heartbeat numbers, but it's a communal event. It's more community than I think I was expecting to see. It's very community, and again, I'm just constantly fascinated as people are walking by wearing their t-shirts. Gal just walked by wearing a ESPN technology shirt. Maybe we can get her to come on us with theCUBE. As I look past the camera, I see the NSA. So the variety in the spectrum is just massive. You could feel the energy. Like I said, we were lucky to get here last year for a quick drive-by. I did just hear that Satya has been here all day. He decided to be a listener. He's, like your mom used to say, you got two ears or one mouth. You should use them in that proportion. So he came and listened. So just for him to come here, he's not keynoting. He's here all day today, a little bit yesterday. So he is here. So it's just great energy. And I think what we talked about a little bit with August on our last segment is it's the right thing to do. And you asked him pointedly, what is the right thing to do? Well, there's the right thing that's what you should do. But oh, by the way, it's the right thing because you can get a lot more talent to help build your business. Oh, and it's the right thing because the diversity of a team approach attacking your problem is going to get a better outcome. I mean, it's right on so many levels, John. I mean, they're all in messaging mode now. They're trying to put it on the happy face. But here's the bottom line. Women are severely underpaid in tech. Period, hands down, full stop. If you're an engineer or you're in the entry level or mid-career, most likely you are being paid less than a man. That's just fact. That's just statistically proven. I've anecdotally had people come to me say, it's totally true. And there's kind of a chip on the shoulder. And I can't blame them, right? So that's the reality. The right thing to do, first thing, equalize the pay, number one. And then two is a little more softer, Jeff, in my opinion. That's the opportunities. And we were, people were commenting about here us not having any women on the Cube set. We want women to work for us. We need a women host if you're watching. We'd love to have some women producers as well. The bottom line is opportunity is critical. For future opportunity in tech right now is best it's ever been. Data science, developer, machine learning, technology is everywhere. It's pervasive. And if you're in any human being, the opportunities are great. So here I'm hearing that theme. That's the right thing to do is have those opportunities. And this event is fostering that showcase of, hey, this real community here. And it's half the talent pool, right? I mean, there's not enough great engineers. All these companies are growing rapidly. All companies are now software companies. You can't turn your back on half of the potential population by which you can hire and grow your team. And I thought it was interesting, again, August saying that again, what's a cool thing about this conference is companies sponsor college kids to come and how that helps them stay retained on their CS path. So I just think there's a lot going on here. And like I said, we're really excited to be here. USAA, GE, JPMorgan, it's great. But we're looking forward to two days. Is there anything that's knocked you off your chair so far here? What one thing that you could say that knocked you off your chair? I think it's just the realization in t-shirts that every company is a software company. The first one I saw when I got here was Macy's, which is ironic, because I was the first job I had out of college. Macy's is a technology company. And then I see Best Buy, and then I see Target. You know? Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs, I saw a shirt GS.com slash recruiting. And I'm like GS.com, is that Goldman Sachs? It was, so of course we expect to see Facebook's and Google's and kind of the powerhouses, Intel, Intuit, LinkedIn. But I guess I was a little bit surprised to see so many companies that, again, don't necessarily jump off the top of your list of technology companies, like USAA. Nationwide insurance. So it's really such a broad representation. I think that's probably what caught me the most. That and people going through the goodie bag and actually going through step by step because it's a big thing here. That's the best job. So the top trending hashtags right now are number one in the community, our CrowdChat community, you'll look at the numbers there. Number one, hashtag, our time to lead. And the people there that really rallying around our time to lead. And this was to my earlier point earlier as the intro is that we are seeing a radical shift in the computer business. Never seen before in my career. Amazon Web Services destroying the competition. EMC selling to Dell. The old way of doing things is completely dying. And this is an opportunity. And this is not a male gender role opportunity. The computer industry, let's be frank. It's been male driven, venture capital, male driven. That world is changing. If you believe that to be the case, you better get on board this new trend. Women make up 50% of social networks. They're online, they're growing, they're learning. So learning and leading, that's a big theme. Obviously women in tech spelled out women in tech is the second most popular hashtag. And Friday the 13th is interesting. And then Cisco is trending. Cisco GHC, Google faces in tech. Just a lot of great stuff going on here. And it's not one company, it's not one theme. It's all tied around technology and development. Yeah, it's a great event. We're looking forward to it. We've got two more days, John. So I think we're about ready to wrap for tonight. Let everybody get a good night's sleep because we're going to be busy for the next couple of days. SiliconANGLE.tv, go to crowdchat.net slash GHC 15. Join the conversation. All the videos going to go up on YouTube will be live for two more days, all day Thursday and half a day on Friday. Jeff will be carrying you on Friday. I'll be here with Jeff. Tomorrow, stay tuned, watch SiliconANGLE.tv, The Cube. We'll be right back tomorrow for all full day coverage. Stay tuned and see you tomorrow.