Hearing From Bill Gates Faith & Market Place Encouragement My childhood is filled with a desire to count numbers and solving mathematical problems; I often found myself sitting under the shade of an African Acacia tree surrounded by desert sand and collecting sticks to create mathematical fomulae and decode answers by counting the number of big sticks, small sticks, broken sticks and zero sticks with my childhood friends. Later in life, I watched the impact of a tropical disease called Malaria. When Her Majesty the Queen of England invited us to participate in a government leader’s advisory summit in April 2018, I met Bill Gates, yes! Having proximity with a tech genius that inspires my career as a woman in technology was quite emotional for me, the fact that he is also a fellow of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT just like myself and a handful of other fellows that champion ideas to inspire using technology for good makes me want to do more using the gifts and talents that God has given me. The patron of our society is HRH Prince Edward – The Duke of Kent.