The Peruvian Women’s Heroes at Tec LATAM

Techie Brains is an entity that believes that children’s education should promote steam learning. Through a method that encourages curiosity, logical thinking and artistic inspiration, The main objective of this project is to bring children closer to digital transformation and make it part of their daily lives.,

“We launched Techie Minds because we wanted to bridge the digital knowledge gap, and I speak in the plural because my daughter Ariana is the CEO of Techie and I am the president,” she says. “My three children were studying in Australia for 4 years and they would bring me a 3D printed project to work on. DeadpointThey had become very familiar with the technology and when we returned to Peru we could not find a place for them to continue developing these skills.

However, Daly and Ariana, who are now 22 years old and about to complete their business studies in England, wanted to democratize the education of STEAM subjects, so they always envisioned the project with an NGO.

,In this year and a half we have been able to benefit more than 5,000 students and with our team we are clear that this is only the beginning,

The start-up nomination was the second Giuliana Huaman received in less than two weeks for her work on Mia, so I felt good and I was not wrong,

In the words of its founder, Mia was born as an educational platform on sexuality, but the desire to create a more innovative project inspired the team to develop an artificial intelligence. That it is an ally to prevent sexual health problems and a platform that connects thousands of women with experts in sexuality.

“My goal was to impress Spanish-speaking women because no EPS in Spain or Latin America provides health services focused on sexuality,” says Huaman. ,With Mía in the palm of your hand she is a sex coach for 20 soles a month,

So far, more than 100,000 women have benefited from this platform and the road has not been easy. “We are the first sex tech in Peru and since most of the investors are men, we had several challenges to show us how important it was to address this problem.”

The team’s next goal is to develop Empresas Mía, a program that works with various organizations to implement labor policies focused on sexual well-being, “How much can we talk about fairness if a woman struggles with period pain at work because she’s embarrassed to talk about it? Or if she doesn’t say she’s going through menopause then she won’t be treated any differently? We talk about equal pay and employment, but not about sexual health.

Mariana Costa Checa stands out in the field of innovation not only in Peru but in the world. She was distinguished by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as one of the most innovative people under 35, she was selected by the BBC as one of the 9 Latin American women in the 2016 100 Women and Even Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg have praised his work.

“I can be representative, but that is the merit of my team and the community of Laboratoria, our students and graduates,” Costa Checa said about his nomination for the Greater Impact Initiative.

Laboratoria is a social impact organization that, through a training ground The six-month intensive develops the technical skills of women who are not yet in a position to start a professional career. “When we started, the conversation about diversity in technology was very early, but now we are part of the wave that has grown so much.”

Born with the mission of transforming the lives of thousands of women, the project began in 2014 with a pilot project of 15 students and Today it has trained more than 2,700 women from Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

,We have a lot of work to do on the gender gap in the technology sector. That is why I work at Laboratoria Plus, a platform that seeks to accelerate the professional careers of our graduates, and in S Hoy, an initiative of 60 leaders from the private sector in which I am in charge of promoting the development of digital talent in Peru”, he concluded.