This week’s guest is Riya Karumanchi, a 17-year-old high school student from Burlington, Ontario. Riya is an entrepreneur and CEO of SmartCane and is extremely passionate about harnessing technology to better people’s lives.

Riya shares her insight into overcoming the obstacles of being a young woman in tech, how women and girls can become engaged in technology at a younger age, and what direction tech companies should go, in order to become more welcoming to women in the industry.