So my name is Gloria.

I'm a Mexican suffer engineer currently working for MPM.

So a little bit of context.

I'm actually from this city called Monterey Mexico.

And in case you don't know where that is, that's actually just in the north of Mexico, very near the States s o.

What was happening in my life in 2014?

So in two toes over thing I was getting my degree in computer science and being out of school, I asked myself, How can I continue learning?

So that's when I actually came across conference stocks online.

So this really spiked my interest in tech meet ups in my local area.

The thing is that I realized they were not local meetups happening at all.

Actually, there was only one.

So in 2015 I gave my first talk ever in this very, very small meet up in Monterey Gold, JavaScript, Monterey And you might notice it was a small It was normally 10 to 15 people.

This made me realize something very important.

I was musing out Ah, lot off things, Um but why?

Um and I really, really want to highlight three reasons why I believe he was very inconvenient for me to stay in this city in Monterey.

So the first reason is this one low community involvement.

So this is a graph of all the conferences that are more or less happening in 2018 and 10 2020.

And the graph it speaks by itself.

There are way more conferences happen in Europe in the US than the rest of the world.

This is Jace Jace.

Gastric conference is happening.

So the second reason is non competitive salaries in Latin America.

So the average monthly salary in Mexico is $745.

This is what I what I was actually making in my first job.

And these are very eye opener tweet by Grandpa Laurie Tyga.

He's one of the leaders of the Colombian community, and he says, Ah, 100 ticket $100 ticket is a 10% of a Colombian developers monthly income, sometimes even more sponsors really helping developing nations events.

So in that fashion, $100 ticket is 13% off Mexican developers monthly income.

So I already mentioned that they are not a lot of things happening in Latin America.

So in top off that if you want actually go to a conference, you have to pay accommodation.

You have to pay the ticket and you have to be the flights.

So you know we don't have a lot of options and the thorough on it's expensive infrastructure in Latin America.

So long story short.

Basically, what this means is that we're paying more for slower service is so now that we have this three reasons.

In 2015 I decided to move from Mexico, and in 2015 I moved to Paris and the great evil thing that happened once I moved to Europe, its diversity scholarships.

So in 2015 I got a scholarship for Jase.

Come to Europe, and this is a quote that I really, really love from UNA that says scholarships are in just about increasing diversity numbers or financial assistance.

They can change an attending life.

They do.

They change mine.

So in Jessica Europe 2015 I met an amazing human being that really inspired me and really motivated me to pursue my public speaking dreams.

So these letters to this into thousands of state 16 I gave my first international talk Js combo typist and shut out to the day of Skunk organizer because they believe in me.

I love them.

So funny story is, Well, um, the addition after the one in which I was in for sweet a scholarship, I came back as a speaker this time.

So it was a mind blowing experience to be sharing the same stage with the same person that the previous year actually inspired me to be in the States in the first place.

Amazing experience and the rest.

The rest is history.

After this opportunity that I got with Js come Europe, I attended more meet ups and stuff.

But all of these wouldn't have been possible without the help of that community without the meet ups that I attend That in the conference is that I've been to.

So what I really, really just want to ask to you is to help create these communities for people that aren't as lucky as I was to literally switch countries to sort of search for these opportunities.

So what can we actually do?

We cannot change internal Beals.

We cannot change salaries, but we can help organizing and funding meet ups and conferences around the world.

So please get involved A tender local meetups help there tonight, sirs, give back to the community.

And this is just one of examples.

This is Lima Js You can actually sponsor the Meetup.

Lima is incredible.

One of the South American meet ups and, um, spread the word help all their communities be built.

And with that being said, I wantto make an announcement.

Um, I want to announce a new member of the Js Go family Js comes Mexico, fourth and fifth of May sink Omar, your next year Mexico City You're all welcome to go.

Please.

I really, really want to see you all there.

And with that being said, thank you very much.