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PROTOTYPE YOUR FUTURE | Sara Alvarellos | TEDxEAEBusinessSchool


When I was little, it was with my father

to a bike shop we need

fix one of the rims by bicycle

and my father started talking to me

owner of the store and they started

discuss about whether the young and we are going to

change the world to improve our

our present or not or on the contrary

for nothing my father argued that yes

that he was investing in us

our education so that

let’s build a better world

the owner of the store said that

not that I did not think it would be very

difficult that you want to change the world that

we should and effectively do not have to

changing the world is very complicated by

where we started, I ‘ll tell you

some prototypes and some projects

what do I really think they have

impact that have had impact the first

project to talk about has a relationship

with air quality seven years ago

when nobody talked about Internet of the

things or connected objects

we embarked on a project to

design a device that could

carry in my hand and give me the

air quality what we develop it

in network with other teams that were in

new york and in amsterdam and the great

learning the great discovery of

this project was to understand that I was

a citizen of the world that my

interests and my my problems were the

same as the people with whom

we are working in new york and in

Amsterdam and best of all that the

product the prototype that we develop

could not be better was a pass from

how well it worked because we are

taking into account a whole diversity

of opinions and experiences of very

different and that was the great learning

of this first prototype the diversity

it is a value and also within this

process

another of the things that struck me the most

was the power that we have

people when we are together

working on the same objective

common and the importance of

of the leadership transmitting those those

objectives to join forces in this

project in madrid and at that time

I’m talking about 2010 2011

there were no spaces we realized that

to do this kind of projects of

prototype product transformers in

complex network

we need an infrastructure one

space in which we can meet

prototype with different tools

digital as 3d printing for

materialize our ideas and and put in

march these products that really

we think they can change the world

so we got together several people

with common interests in madrid and

we promoted the grace of a space maker

and this space consists of a workshop and

a workshop in which anyone can

aim and come to develop your

projects that now takes more than

five years running and in which

we have laser cutters 3d printers and

different prototyping tools

quick so that any inventor or

person who has an idea can

materialize we have as I said

3d printers and especially again

people a community of super people

involved inventors of creators who

they dedicate their time to this space

exist and two years ago when this one

I had been working for a while and now

we are more

We were more than 70 out of 70 people

we are part of this community that

users space maker reflection

about what kind of people were going

space not and well we were only two

women

so good not a step back I said

what is happening that is happening

all this that my first one already learned

prototype of the importance of

diversity and everything there was

learned working with different people

what’s going on here I did not start

research

effectively in the technology sector

in the digital sector in the sector and you

the presence of women is very low

then just for remembering it in the

We are women 50% of the population

we are in 50 percent of the talent

global and this sector

as we discussed before the technology

impacts our lives and technology

changes and grows exponentially

then I would like the

next technological revolution

the leader in diverse teams the leader

in teams that represent this society

and that there are women in their teams and

see this situation and with all the

previous learning we decided that it was

moment together with other people who

they thought as I ride a

organization and start working for

change this situation because really

services and products

technologies will be at the service of the

society and are designed by by

diverse equipment and takes into account all

the realities and experiences of each

one of us in our diversity and

so we started working in several

programs one of the programs that

We have been working to promote

scientific vocations and girls among

girls between 8 and 12 years old what we do

They are workshops with which we try to

change a little and clothes with the

prejudices that they have about about this

about what they do not think is a thing

just geeks thing

another of the projects we carry out are

design event formats

situations in which it gives more

visibility women of the sector

technological and digital so that

we invite the girls that this

university and they are starting

thereto is not lower carriage to

continue to let them see that there are women

like them who are in positions of

career and advanced and that have

maintained in the sector and others of the

most beautiful cam events

illusion makes me count

It was this one that we did in space

I want to tell you before I did not

we went from a photo in which

there were practically only guys like

commented users to design several

formats work communication and

find us with this situation with

a much more inclusive environment and with a

environment where all people are

welcome to discover the potential

of these technologies and and materialize

your ideas and turn your projects into

reality then to finish me

I would like to influence my learning

that has basically been learning

doing test

do it with others discover and learn from

your limitations learn from the

experiences of the people with whom

with which he will work and I would encourage

that I took and all the ideas that

You have now all the projects

mergers going on or dared is to

change the world and that and that we can go

to talk to him with the owner of the

shop in my neighborhood of the vitis workshop

and tell him we’re not here

that is wrong that we are here to

change the world and that we have a

lots of ideas and projects that go

to leave the world society much better

of what is

thank you very much

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