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Kimberly Bryant is a Biotechnology/Engineering professional who founded [http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ BlackGirlsCode] in 2011, to meet the needs of young women of color who are underrepresented in the currently exploding field of technology. Bryant received her first taste of computer programming when Fortran and Pascal were still the popular languages in the computing world and the 'Apple Macintosh' was the new kid on the block. Much has changed since those days and the mission of BlackGirlsCode is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders (girls aged 7 - 17) who will become the leaders and creators of tomorrow.
== Aaron Straup Cope ==
Aaron Straup Cope is a software developer who believes that "promise of the Internet is to be a bridge for cross-pollinating peoples, ideas and communities"[1] and his work shows it. Currently at [https://mapzen.com/ Mapzen] he is building a [http://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/ Who's On First], a gazetteer of places "each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location." Previously he designed and developed the much lauded [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org collections website] for the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work consistently focuses on publishing data to the web with stable identifiers, while eschewing much of the formality and overhead of "Linked Data", a point he made quite clearly in his talk [http://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/proposal/omgwtftgn/ "OMGWTFTGN"] at Museums and the Web 2015, where he asked if releasing a 17GB RDF dataset is really the best way to get data used by...anyone.
[1] [http://www.aaronstraupcope.com/resume/en/aaronstraupcope-resume-en.txt Aaron Straup Cope's resume]
== Maciej Cegłowski ==
