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Ep. 141 - Codeland - Interview with NYC's first CTO (Minerva Tantoco)

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4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Minerva Tantoco, NYC's first-ever CTO, shares how she started her long, impressive tech career, what programming looked like back her coding days, and how she hopes tech will transform cities for the better.

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0:00.0

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0:01.6

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0:28.2

go to amazon.com.uk.U.K. slash prime. Welcome back to the Codenabi podcast. I'm your host, Sauron, and we are continuing our mini-series on Codeland, bringing you awesome talks from our first Code Newby conference.

0:50.1

Last episode, we featured our final talk on gaming, and then we started a new topic, cities.

0:55.0

Today, we have a very special interview on our newest topic.

0:59.0

We have the chance to sit down with New York City's first CTO, Minerva Tantoko.

1:04.0

This Colgland miniseries is brought to you by a few of our incredible sponsors.

1:20.6

Minerva was appointed as New York City's first ever chief technology officer in 2014 by Mayor de Blasio. It was part of his efforts to make tech a key part of the city's future.

1:24.8

Minerva is someone who comes to this with the things we were looking for.

1:30.3

That's the mayor announcing Minerva's appointment at the New York Tech meetup.

1:33.3

We wanted great technologists. We want someone with a lot of experience, but we want someone

1:37.3

with a lot of energy and ability to create from scratch.

1:42.3

And we wanted a true New Yorker. We found all of them in Minerva Tantoko.

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