Linda Liukas: Software & Storytelling, One Nordic Childhood

// Slush 2016 will take place in Helsinki, Finland on November 30–December 1 // Linda Liukas, Founder of Rails Girls and Hello Ruby: Software & Storytelling: One Nordic Childhood at Slush 2014. Linda Liukas, Founder of Rails Girls and Hello Ruby Linda is a programmer, storyteller and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. Her proposed children's book, Hello Ruby, is the most funded book on Kickstarter's children's book category with 380 000$ funding in total. Linda is a central figure in the world of programming and has worked on edutech already before it was called that. Linda is the founder of Rails Girls, a global phenomenon teaching the basics of programming for young women all over the world. She has previously worked at Codecademy, a programming education company in New York with over 5 million users all over the world. Further, she believes that code is the 21st century literacy and the need for people to speak the ABC of Programming is imminent. She believes our world is increasingly run by software and we need more diversity in the people who are building it. // Slush 2016 will take place in Helsinki, Finland on November 30th - December 1nd! // Slush 2015 in 100 Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushme... Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook:   / slushhq   Twitter:   / slushhq   Instagram:   / slushhq   Linkedin:   / slush   In 2015, Slush brought together 15.000 attendees, including 1.700 startups, 800 venture capital investors and 630 journalists from exactly 100 countries. People from more than half of the world’s countries traveled to the cold and dark Helsinki, with the ambition of taking their business to the next level. Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Although Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become one of the leading events of its kind in the world, the philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.