Corinne vigreux biography examples
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Women in Tech Series: Pioneers of ‘Coding for Everyone’ Movement
Despite women being severely underrepresented in the world of technology and science when we were choosing to write about female leaders, we realized that there were too many of them to fit into one article, such as this. So with great difficulty, we’ve singled out the TOP 5 amazing women in technology who were promoting coding education to girls and minorities and decided to share their empowering stories. If you find the series worth continuing, we’d share even more encouraging stories that would galvanize even the most insensitive and unimpressionable readers.
We can, in turn, throw in some depressingly morbid statistics, but what’s the point, if it’s pretty obvious that women, especially women of color, occupy a tiny fraction of available computing jobs. It’s clear that the technology world would benefit from embracing more women, thus bringing different opinions and diverse solutions to businesses. Having understood the need to bring more girls into technology, many high-tech companies have started initiatives to promote programming to underrepresented population and created new opportunities which specifically target minorities.
Apple, for examples, has recently launched a pr
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CORINNE VIGREUX
Co-Founder and Founder
TomTom and Codam
CORINNE VIGREUX
Co-Founder and Founder
TomTom and Codam
Corinne Vigreux is co-founder of TomTom, a location technology specialist on a mission to create the most innovative technologies to help shape tomorrow’s mobility and create a safe, connected, autonomous world free of congestion and emissions.
Voted one of the top 50 most inspirational women in European tech, Corinne champions women in the workforce and advocates passionately for improved social mobility through education. In 2018, she launched CODAM, a tuition-free, nonprofit coding college in Amsterdam, because she believes coding is the engine for innovation that is driving the world forward faster than ever before. CODAM’s learning system is designed to unleash talent and open doors to new opportunities, and its mission is to help a new generation shape the future. Corinne is passionate about education, maximizing young people’s potential and social mobility.
Additionally, Corinne is a member of the supervisory board of takeaway.com NV and Groupe ILIAD, a member of the supervisory board of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet and an advisor to the Amsterdam Economic Board. She was made Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 2012 and Offic
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