On the evening of the 14th September 2020, the women.code(be) community held their first online edition of their recurring TechTalks. For those who've missed it, don't fret, we've got you covered! Our guest blogger Silke has written a recap with her personal takeaways for each of the talks that were presented that evening.

Our newest interviewee, Griet Van Loo is a software developer who's trying to combine her work with running a household, a social life and keeping her cats alive. She keeps herself busy with putting things on her bucket list and trying to complete them, sadly not always at the same rate. She’ll jump into the mosh pit at Graspop in a pretty dress and heels or bake cookies to munch on while watching Guardians of the galaxy.

Our interviewee this month is Zeynep, a woman, mother, wife, teacher, refugee, student and developer. Always pushing the boundaries to be the best version of herself.

Elke Heymans is a front-end developer with a strong interest in a variety of web technologies and who's currently focusing on everything Vue related. In her spare time, you can find her taking photographs at events, training for half marathons, or enjoying music by collecting records and attending concerts when there's no pandemic.

For this month's issue we had the chance to interview a special type of programmer. Meet Janine George, a computational chemist using code and supercomputers as part of her research.

Meet Silke, our newest spotlight member, She's a Java/.NET developer and the co-founder/organiser of the newly-born Antwerp Java User Group. Besides being an all round geek, you can probably catch her playing Guild Wars 2 and reading fantasy novels.

For this month we had the pleasure to interview Janique-ka, who moved all the way from St. Vincent and Grenadines! She is a software engineer at MEDIAGENIX and founder of the Women in Tech Caribbean community.

A new month and a new interviewee! Meet Ksenia, a front-end developer at Euricom and she also happens to be part of the NG-BE conference core team! When she's not working you can probably find her hanging out with her two pet guinea pigs or reading comic books like "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi, watching tv-shows such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine and playing FFXIV online.

Meet our very first spotlight member, Veerle! Veerle works as freelance web developer for Con Impeto, doing mostly custom WordPress and front-end development. She is also one of the co-organisers of WordPress Meetup Antwerp and WordCamp Antwerp.

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