Dethe Elza is a geek dad and aesthetic programmer working for Awesense.com to help reduce the world's carbon footprint. He has previously worked for Mozilla (Lightbeam add-on) and for several Vancouver startups. Dethe has mentored through Ladies Learning Code, Software Carpentry, Webmaker workshops, and a course he co-created at Emily Carr University. Dethe is an organizer of the Mozilla Hive Learning Network Vancouver and is on the board of the Maker Foundation. He created the Waterbear visual programming toolkit (waterbearlang.com) to make it easier for others to learn to code. He thinks libraries are key to a future worth having.