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Miami<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe first event on our tour was held in Miami on November 2. Generally, Miami in the past couple of years has become a global tech hub. Lots of tech events are organized there, especially during the Miami Tech Month happening in April. We are happy that Infobip is also taking part in building a tech community in Miami. Earlier this year, in May, we organized there our first Shift Conference<\/a> outside of Croatia. You can read about the event and the amazing line-up we were lucky to attract in this blog post<\/a> (spoiler alert! The Doom creator, John Romero was one of them). Prior to the Shifrt Miami, we <\/ins>also organized an Infobip Connect meetup in Fort Lauderdale this April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.infobip.com\/developers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2-1024x719.jpg\")
Chad Metcalf presenting at Infobip Connect meetup in Miami<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nNow back to our meetup. The event took place in The Lab Miami<\/a>, located in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami, known for its vibrant tech community. We kicked off our event with a fireside chat with Allan Tito<\/a>, Founder at Grammerhub. Allan is a passionate tech community builder and it was great to hear his insights and reflections about the fast-growing Miami tech ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAfter chatting with Allan followed the keynote presentation from Priscilla Parodi<\/a>, Principal Developer Advocate at Elastic. Priscilla become our regular speaker in Miami since she spoke at our previous meetup in Fort Lauderdale and also at the Shift Miami Conference. It’s always a pleasure to hear from Priscilla about innovative solutions from Elastic. We wrapped our meetup in Miami with Chad Metcalf<\/a>, Head of Strategy at Daytona. This startup co-founded by Ivan Burazin<\/a>, ex Chief of the Developer Experience Department at Infobip, has recenty raised $2 million in pre-seed funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.infobip.com\/developers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/3-1024x683.jpg\")
Shift Miami organizers & volunteers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWe are very happy that our volunteers from the Shift Conference attended and actively participated in the meetup. Dania Hernandez<\/a>, Kiyanna Gayle<\/a>, Kris McNair<\/a>, Christian Ocampo<\/a> you rock! \ud83d\ude42 During the meetup, Nikola Radisic<\/a> on behalf of the Shift Team announced the second edition of the Shift Miami Conference which will be held on April 23, 2024. We can’t wait for that!<\/p>\n\n\n\nNew York City<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nThe second stop on our North America tour this November was the Big Apple. Nice co-working and events venue – The Farm Soho<\/a> was a place for our meetup held on November 7. The turnout at this meetup was amazing! The venue was too small for all the attendees and even some people had to stand during the event. But it was for sure worth it since we had an amazing speaker line-up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.infobip.com\/developers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/4-1024x768.jpg\")
Full house at Infobip Connect meetup in New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWe kicked off with the panel with Beth Ferreira<\/a>, Venture Investor, formerly a General Partner at FirstMark Capital, Patrick McGinnis<\/a>, International Venture Capitalist, Creator and host of FOMO Sapiens, and Filip Sasic<\/a>, CEO and Founder of Entrepreneurs for Global Change. The panel was about opportunities and challenges in the New York & US startup ecosystem. Renowned and experienced speakers shared tips for startups on how to improve their businesses and how to reach investors. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe panel was followed by an interesting keynote presentation from Adam Thomas<\/a>, Principal at Approaching One & Product Management Coach. Adam’s keynote with the intriguing title \u201eThe 5 Deadly Sins of Strategy\u201c was very insightful and engaging. In this keynote, Adam put the accent on how quality strategy can guide a team to better decisions at their work. He concluded that those deadly sins that he spoke about are actually making strategies just pieces of paper. The final keynote of the day was delivered Mike Elsmore<\/a>, Senior Developer Advocate at Infobip, who had an interesting talk about Conversational<\/ins> UI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.infobip.com\/developers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5-1024x768.jpg\")
Panel with Beth Ferreira, Patrick McGinnis and Filip Sasis at meetup in New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nMany thanks to everyone who took part in promoting our meetup in NYC, especially Filip Sasic, Iva Vukina<\/a>, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs & ACAP<\/a> – Association of Croatian American professionals in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.infobip.com\/developers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/6-1024x768.jpg\")
Members of the ACAP New York City with the Infobip crew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nToronto<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nWe wrapped our meetup tour in Toronto two days after the event in NYC. Our meetup there was hosted in the vibrant Clubhouse Toronto<\/a>. On this meetup, we had also amazing turnout with a packed house!<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.infobip.com\/developers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7-1024x768.jpg\")
Laura Rodr\u00edguez presenting at Infobip Connect meetup in Toronto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWe started our Toronto meetup with a keynote presentation from Laura Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>, Staff Software Engineer at Okta, Inc. Laura talked about developer experience, what is it, why it’s important, and what things you can do to improve developer satisfaction. Laura’s keynote was followed by a panel discussion with Yuri Navarro<\/a>, Managing Partner at Kanata Ventures Roy Pereira<\/a>, CEO and Co-founder at Unified, and Nikola Pavesic<\/a>, Director of Startup Ecosystem & Developer Experience at Infobip. Panelists gave to the audience insightful overviews of actual trends in the startup ecosystem in Toronto and Canada. Panelists also offered useful pieces of advice for the many startup founders who were present at the meetup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.infobip.com\/developers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-1024x768.jpg\")
Panel with Yuri Navarro, Roy Pereira and Nikola Pavesic in Toronto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPosts on social media are giving insights into how some of the members of the Toronto tech community experienced the meetup. \uf04a<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now back to our meetup. The event took place in The Lab Miami<\/a>, located in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami, known for its vibrant tech community. We kicked off our event with a fireside chat with Allan Tito<\/a>, Founder at Grammerhub. Allan is a passionate tech community builder and it was great to hear his insights and reflections about the fast-growing Miami tech ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After chatting with Allan followed the keynote presentation from Priscilla Parodi<\/a>, Principal Developer Advocate at Elastic. Priscilla become our regular speaker in Miami since she spoke at our previous meetup in Fort Lauderdale and also at the Shift Miami Conference. It’s always a pleasure to hear from Priscilla about innovative solutions from Elastic. We wrapped our meetup in Miami with Chad Metcalf<\/a>, Head of Strategy at Daytona. This startup co-founded by Ivan Burazin<\/a>, ex Chief of the Developer Experience Department at Infobip, has recenty raised $2 million in pre-seed funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are very happy that our volunteers from the Shift Conference attended and actively participated in the meetup. Dania Hernandez<\/a>, Kiyanna Gayle<\/a>, Kris McNair<\/a>, Christian Ocampo<\/a> you rock! \ud83d\ude42 During the meetup, Nikola Radisic<\/a> on behalf of the Shift Team announced the second edition of the Shift Miami Conference which will be held on April 23, 2024. We can’t wait for that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second stop on our North America tour this November was the Big Apple. Nice co-working and events venue – The Farm Soho<\/a> was a place for our meetup held on November 7. The turnout at this meetup was amazing! The venue was too small for all the attendees and even some people had to stand during the event. But it was for sure worth it since we had an amazing speaker line-up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We kicked off with the panel with Beth Ferreira<\/a>, Venture Investor, formerly a General Partner at FirstMark Capital, Patrick McGinnis<\/a>, International Venture Capitalist, Creator and host of FOMO Sapiens, and Filip Sasic<\/a>, CEO and Founder of Entrepreneurs for Global Change. The panel was about opportunities and challenges in the New York & US startup ecosystem. Renowned and experienced speakers shared tips for startups on how to improve their businesses and how to reach investors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The panel was followed by an interesting keynote presentation from Adam Thomas<\/a>, Principal at Approaching One & Product Management Coach. Adam’s keynote with the intriguing title \u201eThe 5 Deadly Sins of Strategy\u201c was very insightful and engaging. In this keynote, Adam put the accent on how quality strategy can guide a team to better decisions at their work. He concluded that those deadly sins that he spoke about are actually making strategies just pieces of paper. The final keynote of the day was delivered Mike Elsmore<\/a>, Senior Developer Advocate at Infobip, who had an interesting talk about Conversational<\/ins> UI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Many thanks to everyone who took part in promoting our meetup in NYC, especially Filip Sasic, Iva Vukina<\/a>, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs & ACAP<\/a> – Association of Croatian American professionals in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We wrapped our meetup tour in Toronto two days after the event in NYC. Our meetup there was hosted in the vibrant Clubhouse Toronto<\/a>. On this meetup, we had also amazing turnout with a packed house!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We started our Toronto meetup with a keynote presentation from Laura Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>, Staff Software Engineer at Okta, Inc. Laura talked about developer experience, what is it, why it’s important, and what things you can do to improve developer satisfaction. Laura’s keynote was followed by a panel discussion with Yuri Navarro<\/a>, Managing Partner at Kanata Ventures Roy Pereira<\/a>, CEO and Co-founder at Unified, and Nikola Pavesic<\/a>, Director of Startup Ecosystem & Developer Experience at Infobip. Panelists gave to the audience insightful overviews of actual trends in the startup ecosystem in Toronto and Canada. Panelists also offered useful pieces of advice for the many startup founders who were present at the meetup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Posts on social media are giving insights into how some of the members of the Toronto tech community experienced the meetup. \uf04a<\/p>\n\n\n\nNew York City<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Toronto<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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