Show notesWatch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVy3mXHceQ Eva was our #WTMVIE keynote speaker in 2019 and one of the 2 co-founders of the Viennese community Women && Code.We talk to Eva about her experiences and her drive for getting more women into Tech. Mentioned resources: Women && Code: https://womenandcode.org/ Her keynote #WTM19: The peculiar life of a polymath by Eva Lettner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdlY8-oOSmk Connect with her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eva_trostlos Womentor: https://www.womentor.at/Transcript TIMEA: Hey Ramón! RAMÓN: Hey Timea! TIMEA: Let’s talk gender equality. RAMÓN: I love the idea. Gimme a second I just gotta grab my coffee, I hope you’ve got yours, too! TIMEA: Yep, right here. RAMÓN: Welcome to another episode of “Gender Equality over Coffee”! I am so excited to have the two of you here. We are joined today by Eva Lettner. TIMEA: Hi Eva! Hi everybody! RAMÓN: Eva is an incredible person, we are so happy to have you here today. Yeah I figured I won’t do the talking, Eva why don’t you tell us, do you have a fun nickname for us that you’d like to share? EVA: I don’t have a nickname since my name is so short, no, nobody’s ever bothered to make a nickname. When people call me a nickname they usually prolong my name, so yeah I’m just Eva. On the internet I’m @eva_trostlos which is a play on words for my husband’s last name. RAMÓN: Oh! I never knew that. Well, why don’t we start off, letting loose, why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself? Maybe some three random things about you? EVA: Some three random things… I make my own clothes! I collect fountain pens, this is my newest addition. I love it very much it’s very pretty. TIMEA: Wow yeah that’s cool. EVA: And I’m teaching myself to play the piano for two years now. RAMÓN: That’s awesome. I love it when people tell us about things that that that are outside of their regular things that you see them in. Timea, do you play any instruments? EVA: No I don’t but I was actually interested in piano a while ago so I got stuck on that point, but I never it never picked up I don’t have a keyboard at home so that kind of a keyboard but I gotta say I was thinking more about the collection like do I collect something. Do you collect something Ramón? RAMÓN: Do I collect something… I collect random things at home probably mostly Nintendo things it’s a bad habit of mine old Gameboys I really like old Gameboys TIMEA: I’ve seen some of you had some with some meetups and I was like wow I’ve never seen some stuff like this earlier and cute. RAMÓN: Yeah that’s a little bit of my background, yeah. So Eva you were keynoting at our Women Techmakers conference a few years ago I think it was 2017… TIMEA: 19! Not that far away EVA: Yeah but then 2020 took 38 years, so… RAMÓN: It just feels like a different amount of time! I’m curious what how did you get connected with Women Techmakers Vienna? EVA: Wow, that’s, actually I went to Women Techmakers conference ages ago, I don’t even remember if I was already working in tech or if I was just starting out but it was the first conference I ever went to. TIMEA: Oh yeah! I feel super, like, wow, okay, we were the first conference, cool! EVA: Yeah so it was either right after I started working in tech or just before. And it was just, it felt so great there were so many cool people there and I met people that I’m still friends with now, like Pilar, who is Ramón’s sister, I met her there and it was just a very nice atmosphere and I felt very empowered from all the speeches and it’s just it gave me the feeling that a woman can actually do things in tech and can be influential in a way and also this was when I saw myself first on stage, I saw those women sp