Eben Upton thanks community at ARM TechCon

Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading and co-founder of Raspberry Pi gave a speech at ARM TechCon 2016.

In his speech, Eben talked about the origin of the Raspberry Pi and how helpful the community was in making the Raspberry Pi a rip-roaring success.

"Raspberry Pi would be nothing if not for its community," said Eben. "Raspberry Pi exists to try to recreate a little bit of that excitement around computing that some of us had when we were children."

Eben thanks ARM and the Raspberry Pi community

Eben also thanked ARM for its support. "Code Club is one of our most impactful activities," he said. "It would not have got out the door and got to the scale that it was at the point where we merged with them without the extremely generous, and repeated, support of ARM."

"We've put a thousand teachers through our teacher training program. We've got over 7,000 code clubs in 80 countries," explained Eben.

"Code Club is targetted at nine to eleven-year-olds," he told the crowd. "Forty percent of people who go to code club are girls. The thirteen-year-olds who got involved with Raspberry Pi back in 2012 are about to start applying to college. In another three or four years, they're going to enter the workforce."

"If you're already doing your part for this then thank you very much. And there really is no better time to get involved than now."