 Hi, and welcome to theCUBE. I'm your host, Lisa Martin, and we are on the ground at Google with CloudNow, which is a nonprofit organization with leading women in cloud and converging technologies. We're here tonight because it's their fifth annual top women in cloud innovation awards, and we are so thrilled to be joined by one of the keynotes tonight. We have Julie Hanna here. Julie, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, it's great to be with you. Julie, you are quite the inspiration. You are a chairwoman at kiva.org. You are a board member at Mozilla, and also something that is extremely impressive. In 2015, President Obama appointed you as presidential ambassador for global entrepreneurs to help develop the next generation of entrepreneurs. Wow, that's amazing. I'd love to understand a little bit more about that. What have you been able to achieve in that role, that presidential appointed role in the last year or so, and what are some of the things that you're the most proud of? Yeah, it's been a real wonderful honor to really export the entrepreneurship, kind of my own journey and down premium models in Silicon Valley to other parts of the country, other parts of the world, and essentially the role was born out of President Obama's insight that entrepreneurship, the way that we celebrate and support it here in the U.S. may be the thing that we're most universally admired for, that if we can export that to places that could really be uplifted economically to parts of the country, parts of the world, then ultimately that can play a very important role in peace building because you can't have nation stability without economic stability, and particularly in parts of the world where you have high youth unemployment with low prospect for jobs, if we can ignite sort of the possibility in that path of entrepreneurship for young people around the world, like places in my homeland, Egypt, then that can really play a powerful role in terms of the next generation of young people. That's fascinating. How did you get appointed to that role? Was that something that you really wanted to be in consideration for, or was it based on this incredible experience that you've developed? So the, I don't know what the process was. I was appointed, people are selected for it, and so I don't know what the methodology was, but I do know that the goal was to identify American entrepreneurs, US-based entrepreneurs, to serve as role models, and to really sort of help the president advance entrepreneurship in parts of the world where entrepreneurship has become sort of played an important part of the foreign and economic policy agenda, a place like Africa, place like Cuba, where I've had the honor and pleasure to accompany him and support the work there. You talk about role models. Talk to us a little bit about your career path. We mentioned some of the things that you're doing. Who were some of the most influential role models to you from the time you were a young girl to what you're doing now? You know, it's a great question. In many ways, they were people that I read about at distance who were thinking about big global problems and were innovating their way to solve them. I also, because of having born into a kind of war conditions and fleeing war, I have drawn great inspiration from people like Nelson Mandela and Gandhi and finding kind of a different path to peace and stability and uniting kind of us at our humanity using technology and business to do that in ways that really sort of help unlock human potential. So people like that have been a source of inspiration for me. Once I arrived in Silicon Valley, I've had the pleasure and privilege to work with remarkable people who have always been a source of inspiration for me up close and personal as well. That's fantastic. I love what you talked about unlocking potential. Give us a little bit of your history with CloudNow. Obviously, we mentioned that you're a keynote at the CloudNow event tonight. How long have you been involved in CloudNow and what was it about this organization for women leaders in technology that made you want to, yeah, I want to be involved in this? Well, I recently learned about CloudNow. So I'm still discovering kind of the breadth and depth of their work. I find their work and mission so vitally important and inspiring because I believe, Maya Angelou said, I believe that we model ourselves after the heroes and sheroes that we honor. And I've come to believe that one of the most important and powerful ways of advancing women in technology is in the way that we amplify and celebrate them and CloudNow's work in doing that is really, really important part of that mix. Absolutely. And something that you and I were talking about off your Silicon angle, which is our media company, the Cube is the flagship show. We've been focused on for the last several years and really helping to do that, amplify the voices of women technologists from big companies to small nonprofit organizations like this, really recognizing, hey, Houston, we have a problem. I'd love to get your perspective on, I love what you talked about with role models. We look at some of the statistics of women in tech. Some of them are bleak, but I believe that there's a tremendous amount of opportunity. That's one of the reasons CloudNow is a manifestation of one of those opportunities. What, give us a little bit of insight as to what your keynote message was to help inspire current women in tech and those that are some of our future technology leaders. I think one of the things that is insights about what draws women to technology is to sort of connecting the dots on the power of technology to do meaningful things rather than technology for its own sake. So how can it be applied in very meaningful ways with a deep sense of purpose to change the world, to unlock our potentials, human beings, to connect us? And so that's really been the red thread in my work is viewing technology as the most democratizing force in the history of humankind, its capacity to connect us, to allow us to recognize how interdependent we are on a global scale, democratizing access to communication and information and with Kiva access to capital, that's really been what's driven me. Its capacity to enable fair access on a mass scale is unprecedented. And when you think about all the ways that that can be applied, we've just barely started to scratch the surface. So I talked a lot about dreams because I believe that one dream can transform a million realities and if we, dreams aren't something that is sort of the domain of young children and frivolous ideas, moonshots are dreams. I think one of the reasons that we draw such great inspiration from the idea of moonshots, our moonshots are dreams trying to become reality. So really, if we give ourselves permission to dream and imagine all the ways that technology can solve our greatest challenges as human beings, this is a crucially important time to do that because we're faced with existential threats and technology and business uniquely qualified to solve many or most of them. I love that, the democracies, we often talk in the tech world about democratizing data and things, but democratization of technology and communication so articulately put. Julie Hanna, keynote at Cloud Now's awards ceremony tonight. Thank you so much for stopping by theCUBE. It's great to be with you, thank you. And if you know a woman in tech who should be featured in our Palo Alto studios, tweet us at theCUBE, hashtag women in tech. I'm your host Lisa Martin, CUBE on the ground at Google with Cloud Now. We'll see you next time.