Linda Liukas is the founder of the international Rails Girls community for girls and women who want to learn coding, the author of best-selling children’s book Hello Ruby and last spring she attended the TED conference Residency program and also won the largest design prize in China, the DIA Gold award.

Linda’s task is to increase the number of creators in the world by democratizing programming. Why learning coding is so important, and what is the role of programming in designing the future?