Five-time EntreprenHer of the Year and winner of eight Webby awards, Deborah Smith has shattered the tech world’s glass ceiling and built a supreme motherboard out of the shards. As Founder of Girl Tech Brigade, she empowers thousands of women through online courses and the Girl Tech app.

A top honors graduate of Vision University Film School, Laura Bautista traveled across Central America and Southeast Asia to film “Break the Code.” This is her first documentary. Her animated short “Max the Dog” won the Jury Prize at the Barking Mad Film Festival in 2010.

Sarah Janus makes clothes out of leaves and twigs, finally making good on her high school yearbook’s prediction she was most likely to “Hug (and Kiss, and CoHab With) A Tree.” She is on the council for Greening Tech and on the advisory board for Eco Chic.

Sophie Kim ate a lot of cookies while leading 28 developers in the creation of the snack-sourcing app Cookie Beast. When she isn’t coding, you can find Kim skiing, gardening, and binge-watching crime dramas.