<span id="docs-internal-guid-9a8b129c-7fff-9ff9-4bbb-ccaba0e17713"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George is a 21 year-old Oakland native, computer programmer, CEO, motivational speaker, and mentor.</span></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">George has participated in various tech events beginning in the East Bay area and now across the world. At the age of 13, George began his love for coding at Qeyno Labs Hackathon, an Oakland California based tech company.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the age of 16 George had found his passion, combining social justice and technology. </span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">George then decided to start a tech company at 16 years old, in hopes to help other kids of color gain entry into the world of technology as innovators not just consumers. </span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-9a8b129c-7fff-9ff9-4bbb-ccaba0e17713">[https://www.georgehofstettertechnologies.com/ <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George Hofstetter Technologies Inc.</span>] <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">encourages people to help change the worlds perspective on race through technology.</span></span>