"You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to..." — Megan Smith

People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.

There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.

We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.