 Hi, you're watching theCUBE, I'm Lisa Martin, and tonight we are on the ground at Google with CloudNow, which is a fantastic nonprofit organization that really helps to mentor women to also honor women who are innovators in cloud computing and converging technologies. Tonight, CloudNow is celebrating their fifth annual top women in cloud innovations award, and we are so excited to be joined by the CEO and co-founder of CloudNow, Jocelyn DeGance Graham, Jocelyn, welcome. Thank you so much. It's such an honor to be here. We love theCUBE, we follow you, and it's wonderful that you're able to join us here tonight and to cover the event. We're thrilled to be here. We've talked to so many inspiring women who had messages of diverse backgrounds, but talk to us about the genesis of CloudNow. What were some of those drivers that you said, you know what, we've got to do something here. So, CloudNow, it stands for Cloud Network of Women. And several years ago, when I was just getting started in cloud, when it was very nascent emerging technology, I had gone to a number of cloud conferences and I would be the only person there, Lisa, and only female. And the idea really came to me as a way to understand how to connect and support other women that were in the industry. And I really felt like being able, by being able to form these connections, it could be something that would be beneficial for all of us. So I started the organization. It's a nonprofit. It's not affiliated or associated with any kind of vendor. And the mission is really simple. We're 501C3. We support women in cloud, period. We don't have an ulterior motive. And so I think that having that really pure intent has also contributed to so much of the success that we've seen to date. You've been able to focus, which is really key. Absolutely. So I've been stalking your website. We like that. And you want to say your website? Stalk away. Yeah, you can find us at cloud-now.org. Exactly. So you've had some amazing accomplishments in the five years since you started Cloud Now. Talk to us about some of the key things that have really led you to have all this buzz and noise in the background that we're hearing tonight. I think instrumental was in the very first few months that we launched. We did get a grant from IBM. So IBM gave us a multi-year, three-year grant that really launched the success of Cloud Now. And so I consider that to be the foundational piece. Without that grant, we wouldn't be sitting here today. Another key milestone was the launch of the Top Women in Cloud Award. So the first year that we formed the organization, we decided that we would really shine light on the women in the field who were doing amazing things. And that first year, we got so many talented women applying that it was absolutely shocked me. So we went from an organization that nobody had heard of to being respected in the field for being able to have this recognition award. So I would say that was another key milestone. And the third, I think, key milestone is actually tonight, really having Google host this award and being a partner to us in this event. You've got some great sponsors, like you said, Google being one of them and just hearing the buzz behind us. You've done so much to honor some incredible females who are, we talked to a lot of them tonight. I found incredibly inspiring on many levels. These are women who didn't necessarily have interest in STEM when they were small, some that did. I think a great message to get out there. And thanks to you, that message is getting out there. And I think that's incredibly important. Well, I certainly hope so. I think there's many ways now, the timing is right. There's many ways now that the message is getting out. One of the things Cloud Now is going to be doing is forming a scholarship fund. So we're really interested in being able to identify this next generation of women who want to study STEM and be able to empower them to do that. And we're trying to do this through our partner, Holburton School. And so Holburton spoke tonight. We had some of their students come and they offer a two-year program, an accelerated degree versus a traditional four-year computer sciences degree. They're doing a two-year supplied hands-on. And so we're really trying to figure out how to make sure that those women that are attending that school have the support they need to be successful. That's fantastic. So that's going to be next phase of this organization's life. Excellent, that was good. Took a question right out of my mouth. This is absolutely where we want to be headed. Excellent. Well, we've been congratulating a lot of award winners tonight, but we want to congratulate you. Thank you. On the incredible success that you've really generated over the last five years. You've talked about the future direction and that's probably Jocelyn, just the tip of the iceberg, I imagine. There's a tip of the iceberg, but I'm also the tip of the organization and I have had so many people who have been supportive. This is not a solo act by any means. And so I really thank you for being able to be here tonight and really demonstrate the types of activities that are happening in the industry. And it's really been our pleasure. So for Jocelyn DeGance Graham, the co-founder and CEO of CloudNow, I'm Lisa Martin. If you have a top rock star female in tech that you think should be filmed in our Palo Alto studios, please tweet us at the cube, hashtag women in tech. Thanks for watching.