Renee Noble is the National Director of the Girls’ Programming Network (GPN) and a Software Developer at edtech Company Grok Learning.

Having had no exposure to programming until stumbling upon it while studying at Sydney University, she was quick to add a Computer Science major to her Chemical Engineering and Chemistry pursuits. Given this late introduction to tech, Renee’s passion is making coding education exciting and accessible to everyone. She strives to create scalable content and methods for including girls, women, and people from other underrepresented gender groups.

In her time at the helm of GPN Renee has taken what was a small single site operation, to providing 1400 girls a year with free programming workshops. Having already spread the program to six sites around Australia, more cities lining up to join the GPN community. The programs huge popularity and impact have seen Renee featured amongst the AFR’s 100 Women of Influence, Women’s Weekly’s “Women of the Future”, and Create magazine's “10 Emerging Women of Engineering”.