November meetup @ KDG - Campus Hoboken

📣 Our fantastic speakers for this month:

• Brent Roose
• Elian Van Cutsem

📍 Location: KDG Campus Hoboken - Salesianenlaan 90, 2660 Antwerpen

SCHEDULE

• 19:00 Doors Open
• 20:00 Brent Roose - Things I wish I knew
• 20:45 Pit stop (short break)
• 21:00 Elian Van Cutsem - Beyond Boring: Unlocking the Web’s Wild Side
• 21:30 Socialising & networking
• 22:?? That's all folks

Brent Roose - Things I wish I knew

I fell in love with code when I was twelve. Looking back, young me didn't know many things about programming, and there were many struggles to wade through during the first years of my professional career. A year or two ago I got confronted with what felt like yet another new reality: the rise of AI, and especially my struggles with it. In this talk, I look back at the things I wish I knew fifteen years ago and how that knowledge can help me (and hopefully you) find stability in what feels like a new era of programming.

Elian Van Cutsem - Beyond Boring: Unlocking the Web’s Wild Side

Get ready for a fresh spin on frontend creativity! In this session, Elian will introduce some cutting-edge web APIs and showcase live demos that push the boundaries of what’s possible in the browser. From playful, interactive experiments to genuinely useful features you can use today, join us for a hands-on journey and get inspired to make the web a little weirder (and a lot more fun).

Elian Van Cutsem or "ElianCodes" is a full-stack developer, creative technologist, and all-around internet troublemaker based in Belgium. He’s the CTO at Vulpo and works in Developer Relations at React Bricks, focusing on developer experience, documentation, and education. Previously, he was a Software Engineer and core maintainer at Astro. Elian is also a co-organizer of several major JavaScript communities and events, including BeJS, React Paris, React Brussels, and React Africa. Alongside his professional work, he creates provocative and experimental AI projects, designed to challenge our assumptions about ethics, automation, and human behavior. His work blends code and commentary, often in ways that are both hilarious and uncomfortably real. Elian is known for his passion, puns, and offbeat sense of humor. His talks combine technical insight with a strong dose of creative chaos—guaranteed fun on stage.

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Our meetups are sponsored by Take The Lead

Take The Lead is a Belgian e-commerce agency that helps companies launch, optimize, and scale their online business. We combine strategic consulting with deep technical expertise to build powerful webshops and composable commerce architectures — always providing the right guidance and support along the way. www.takethelead.be