When Minerva Tantoco was first offered the CTO position for New York City, she thought it was a prank. But in 2014, she became the city’s first Chief Technology Officer. She sits down with Codeland’s emcee, Nikhil Paul, to talk about 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. Show Links Square (sponsor) Flatiron School (sponsor) Red Hat (sponsor) Actualize (sponsor) Codeland 2019 Codeland Conf Codeland, CodeNewbie's conference - April 21 and 22 in NYC Mayor de Blasio’s announcement CodeNewbie YouTube channel