actually heard that phrase I had a dream
to design cars yep
real cars I think I heard twice the
persons that told me give up then the
excited you know the fact that I love
cars I really really really love to
prove people wrong I kind of did few
times um I was thinking okay I want to
make my dream you know reality I don’t
want to say again I had a dream I want
to say I had I have and I will leave
this dream so this is it I’ve been
through all of them I didn’t put quite
all just the most important ones it was
easy
nope not even from my parents it’s not
easy to have automotive career in a
man’s world but they push me to a limit
that I can say without them I will not
be here today
after the University I was thinking okay
I have the bachelor in here in Romania
what do I do now I have no clue how to
build a car okay what do I do next and I
had the pleasure and luck and the
opportunity to choose if I want to
follow my career which I did and I flew
to
America where else for an automotive
industry you know Korea I did all these
in the meantime I actually said why not
and try the one that you see in the
corner Boeing is for a reason it’s
nakorn er I always thought that you know
everything that flies has to do with
rocking science not with the four-wheel
zona or some type of wheels on the
street I’ve been through going you know
for almost four years it was nice but
what I you know field inside is that I
needed real that the car gives you I put
quite a few people in here on two wheels
just to prove that I can do it and some
of them they know and as soon as another
opportunity for automotive industry came
up I jump on that’s my baby this the
other one i starving part of the core
team of Tesla since 2010 from the
beginning beginning um I think it was
the blessing of my entire career and
some moments that I will you know
cherish for my entire life you’re
thinking wow they must be like the most
brilliant people in the world doing that
yep but only 66 0 this is how many
people started designing this car we
didn’t have the outside when I started
we had kind of like the idea where the
wheels will be and they said you’re
really good to the interior and the
plastics you take on the module what are
the modules well the modules are those
you know beautiful you know pieces that
actually made mother less mother less
and like in the interview process I look
at them and I said are you guys kidding
I thought that you guys want to make
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trickle car I’m a mechanical engineer oh
it was not the case you’ll not believe
it but there are a lot more mechanical
parts in this car than electrical why
because the batteries are from Panasonic
no that’s not do not produce batteries
but why did I accept first the interview
because of this guy actually because of
these two I know a lot of you here
they know that Elon Musk is the brain of
Tesla which I really loved him he did a
lot of things for Tesla but the thing is
those two guys are actually the brain
that kind of you know in one point they
said we have to do something to change
the world’s idea about electric cars if
time does someone said electric cars
they are thinking about like golf car
and it’s true this is what it was up to
them those two and Elon kind of went
beyond and said no we will prove them
wrong trust me I know that each time
that we try to approach a supplier they
said can you spell that
das la oh it’s a Toyota thing
no it’s Tesla Motors in when we start
the battery and this is what you see in
here it’s kind of like you know the
chassis powertrain what Tesla represent
before we had Model S in and this is the
module that I was telling you about 16
of those may Model S Model S and trust
me after driving a Ferrari model s is
like 20 times better and the people that
actually owned one or if you drive in
one knows what I’m talking about the
excitement it’s amazing even from one
light to another and I’m not kidding
so when we start designing the battery
we didn’t had quite an idea
how the you know the car will look like
but we want to do something cool we you
know good we went back and forth so it
was not easy you know everything that
you know the press shows about Teslas it
shows just the end result we had like
months without you know breaks and which
were fun I know I’m crazy three months
without a Saturday and Sunday said this
girl is not with everything but after
you know a few almost a year we finally
had a prototype and we finally had a
chassis but we didn’t had a seat
so I said ok how we will actually know
tested we put a other battery on the
chassis and we put a good one on a what
type of seats something so someone could
easily sit down and that’s a moment that
I will never ever forget and all those
moments that the people in our saying
you’ll never end up you know really
designing cars are wrong it doesn’t
matter if you’re a woman a mom which I
am a wife I think we are really strong
and I believe it if I end up in here all
of you can and especially Romanians I
know that but I was really off and I was
really a tomboy and all the tests one
was it including Elon Musk but we don’t
get to that point right now and they may
be a surprise after the battery was done
and they engrave it my initials in all
the batteries around the world for Model
S and Model X
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so that moment for me meant something
every single one of you in here that
received that his Romanian or his
Romanian are wrong there are a lot of
good and bright engineers in the US and
in Canada which I was so I’m sure the
99% of you guys are the same when they
show me that thing it was not easy they
said is something wrong with the battery
can you fix it I hear right there were
seven more than 7000 part in that room I
couldn’t fix something so when they show
me this I cries for the first time I say
haha you are a woman it’s like yeah
finally you know because I was doing so
well for Model S I designed the the next
challenge for Tesla which was the ref
for Toyota said hmm
a bunch of crazy guys really succeeded
but not quite him can you prove it and
we proved it with rav4 after that method
is you know said ah Tata had them how
about we you know challenge them and
make the big class I did that too with
an amazing team of engineers which we
sleep more in the half is done at home
and my husband actually knows that and
I’m happy that I have anyway but this is
what happened
after we released model X I said I think
I want to do something for myself
something that I dream all my life and
have my own design house of course I had
the same you know ideas then reaction
from people I don’t think you’re doing
the right thing right now and I said
well I think after cars the one that I
loved the most it proved you wrong and
by kind of deep because I right now I’m
an advisor for four different disrupting
new startups and I know that a lot of a
lot of you guys love the words is
rapping and I will go to something that
I wanna patent right now what you’ve
seen here it’s a idea that I had during
Tesla time they end up not implementing
it in there and it’s about the wind she
you’re thinking so in shell it’s
actually a film that instead of being
you know saying some really nice words
because of your Sun Visor which was
invented in 1931 by the way I created
this film that that this idea for
automotive is not mine but in automotive
never had idea to actually implement it
and you just touch your glass and
everything becomes black this black
after you touch it again it become clear
like you don’t even know that it’s here
it’s not ready yet but it’s in the
moment another with this one someone
told me if you show this one to Elon
first we will get in trouble or you’ll
get fired I didn’t get fired
he actually said Wow you have my full
attention which doesn’t happen too often
and that’s after I show him they
actually how does it work another
project that I have is this beauty you
think it’s a car I think what the heck
it doesn’t have just three wheels it’s
not a car it’s a bike it’s a bike for
who for the guys in Canada they are four
brilliant engineers they came to me and
said we cannot pay you but we really
really need you and I said okay let’s
make it happen so we did it it’s now an
obsession in Canada you can bike like I
said or you can drive it it doesn’t go
more than 35 kilometers but trust me the
girls
they love it this is hot look so you
don’t have pedals you have just you know
not the normal pedals about the bike
ones and I believe that it’ll be a the
connects disrupting thing in Canada
alone not not just Canada alone it fits
in bikes places it yeah it actually does
is really spacious the beauty is that
each thing that you open the door
everybody’s like ocean oh it’s something
everybody will say what the heck is this
well I love this project more than Tesla
why because I can put all that I learn
all the passion that I receive from here
from Romania all the humanity that it’s
in this country and I’m helping the Red
Cross and the company that in section in
Detroit and the border with Doctors
Without Borders to build drones to help
people that actually need technology not
just want it and I want to emphasize it
need not one it what you seen here it’s
actually a real prototype that Rio did
it’s in Madagascar he flew just one way
it’s a prototype with vaccines blood
supply and medical devices so it will
help straight village that you cannot
get they are Justin just with the with
foot it’s saved a lot of people right
now it’s actually asking us to send it
to Brazil full of mosquitoes no I didn’t
made a mistake full of mosquitoes to
fight with the bed mosquitoes that has
the Zika virus so as you can see
innovation
and passion and the guts to try and
follow your dreams it can become reality
a lot of people from China from Germany
from all the no company that I they want
you know my services right now they ask
me where do you think the next big
disrupted thing will know what country
it will come up and I said in this
moment because Tesla did something else
besides electrical cars he actually
opened the gates for all of us to dream
big those three people that start Tesla
dreamed big those 16 engineers the
design something that we never thought
that it will up to end up in here they
dream big it’s up to us not to live your
dream go away I know in here and nothing
here but in Europe it’s a be different
from from us and from Canada North
America but I beg you don’t let your
dream go away as someone told me you’re
you’re a woman and a mom the wife and
the engineer that did this all and to
answer where the next big thing will
come up from from all the countries that
I’ve been through and all the people
that I interact I think if we change
just a few things and we start believing
in yourself and the people behind you
the people in front of you and the
colleague of work we can be the next
Silicon Valley thank
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you [Applause]