Kate Gregory is in her fifth decade of being paid to program. Her firm, Gregory Consulting Limited, is based in rural Ontario and helps clients adopt new technologies and adjust to the changing business environment. Mentoring, technical writing, and technical speaking are her preferred ways of sharing wisdom with large groups of people. Kate is the author of over a dozen books and speaks at conferences around the world, with keynotes on 5 continents. Kate is a C++ MVP, develops courses (primarily on C++) for Pluralsight, and occasionally writes a new book. She is one of the founders of #include , includecpp.org, working to make C++ more welcoming and inclusive. Kate serves as one of the three leads on the Carbon Language project, https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang, an experimental successor language to C++.