Jen Looper is a creative technologist and educator with over 25 years’ experience as a web and mobile developer and Developer Advocate at companies including Microsoft and AWS, specializing in creating cross-platform mobile and web apps and applied machine learning. A published author, Jen has written Computer Science for Kids, a textbook aligned to CSTA standards for grades 6-8, as well as The Illustrated AWS Cloud, both published by Wiley. She’s a multilingual multiculturalist with a passion for web technologies, applied machine learning and AI and discovering new things every day. With a PhD in medieval French literature, Jen’s area of focus is curriculum development and the application of sound pedagogy to technical topics. Visit Jen’s personal site at https://www.jenlooper.com.