Infobip Brings Chinese Enterprises and Organizations to a Global Arena

Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Infobip, leading communications platform company for businesses, providing Chinese enterprises, financial institutions and organizations mobile messaging solutions, will showcase how any Chinese entity can reach and support its global market at MWC Shanghai from June 27th to June 29th, 2018.

By using Infobip’s OMNI solution, Chinese businesses can choose the optimal communication channels when reaching their international customers and clients, including SMS, number of chat app messages, email, voice, in-app push messages and Rich Communications Services (RCS).

Xiaomi, a leading global internet company with smartphones and smart hardware connected by an IoT platform at its core, uses Infobip’s Application Program Interface (API) in multiple ways. Services utilized include One Time Password (OTP) communications for account registrations, and 2-Way SMS allowing for added engagement with the company’s global customers. According to the analyst consulting firm PwC, China’s online retail sales reached 1.4 trillion Yuan, approximately 218,2 billion USD in the first quarter of 2017. A striking 32.1 percent higher than just one year ago.

 

China, the largest eCommerce market in the world is setting the benchmark for present and future global retailing. The movement is driven by its’ mobile-first consumer behavior where mobile marketing is more important than ever before. Infobip’s multichannel OMNI solution, along with our global MNO network including over 800 carriers, couldn’t be better equipped to meet the momentum of the Chinese online retail market.

Silvio Kutic – CEO of Infobip

To schedule an interview with Infobip at booth N1.C70 at MWC Shanghai please email us at: [email protected]

About Infobip 

Founded over a decade ago by two young developers Infobip grew into an international business with offices on six continents offering proprietary, in-house developed messaging platform with the capacity to reach over six billion mobile devices connected to over 800 telecoms networks.

Infobip innovates at the intersection of Internet and telecoms technologies, creating new ways and opportunities for businesses and their end users to interact over mobile devices. The company serves and partners with leading mobile operators, OTTs, banks, social networks, tech companies and aggregators.

About Xiaomi 

Xiaomi is an internet company with smartphones and smart hardware connected by an IoT platform at its core. Xiaomi was founded in 2010 by visionary entrepreneur Lei Jun and a group of accomplished engineers and designers, who believed that high-quality and well-designed technology products and services should be accessible to the world. The company’s mission is to relentlessly build amazing products with honest prices to let everyone in the world enjoy a better life through innovative technology. With presence in more than 70 markets worldwide, Xiaomi is a global player that has successfully achieved a foothold in key international markets.

Tina Loncaric – Global Public Relations Director

Phone: +385-99-4699-343

[email protected]

Jun 28th, 2018
2 min read
Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Infobip is the World’s #1 A2P SMS Vendor for 2018

Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Out of the leading A2P SMS Messaging Tier 1 Vendors in the latest annual ROCCO Performance Report, Infobip came out on top – as the #1 Tier One A2P SMS Provider – for the second year in a row. 

The ratings were very close this year, as there was much more competition across the board. With 52 vendors, and new elements including the Net Promoter Score® (NPS®), which measures customer experience and predicts business growth, Infobip has certainly earned its #1 global ranking,

Jason Bryan – CEO, ROCCO

Based exclusively on MNO feedback, the ROCCO report is an impartial assessment of vendor performance. The renowned ROCCO award has long been considered an industry benchmark – the only way a vendor can be declared a ‘Tier One’ is to reach 4-5 points out of 5 – across 35 performance and leadership categories, rated by 369 MNOs from 147 countries. 

Professional team with incredible talent and understanding of the industry. Always at the forefront of innovation and very progressive in creating solutions.

They are experts in their job and they also have customer interests at heart. They offer sound and beneficial advice on the possible options that a business can use both to protect the network as well as to monetize the options available.

Their uncompromising stance on quality and the drive to improve and expand their service quality and coverage is most impressive.

According to the report, Infobip was recognized as the global leader with an overall rating of 4.47 out of 5. In 2018, CEO Silvio Kutic announced that the company was just starting, and this year’s performance score is a testament to the philosophy of forward momentum. 

With even more competition this year, we’re proud to achieve the highest NPS average grade and be rated number one among the Tier One vendors, for the second time running. Being recognized in the industry for growing our A2P business in an organic way is a significant achievement and reflects our proactive approach to satisfying the needs of our customers and partners,

Silvio Kutic – CEO, Infobip

Jun 19th, 2018
2 min read
Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Infobip Rated as the #1 Tier One Vendor by ROCCO A2P SMS Messaging Report 2018

Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

London, United Kingdom – 19/06/2018 – Infobip, a global communications platform for businesses, has been recognized as the global leader and the top-ranked A2P SMS Tier One provider in the annual ROCCO A2P SMS messaging vendor survey.

The independent survey, which evaluates brand perception, customer experience and competitiveness, recognized Infobip as the top vendor in the sector, with an average score of 4.47.

369 Mobile Network Operators (MNO) across 147 countries were asked to grade vendors on more than 35 performance and leadership categories, and only those providers that reached 4-5 points out of 5 across all categories were awarded Tier One status.

The ratings were very close this year, as there was much more competition across the board. With 52 vendors, and new elements including the Net Promoter Score® (NPS®), which measures customer experience and predicts business growth, Infobip has certainly earned its #1 global ranking,

Jason Bryan – CEO, ROCCO

Participation and support for this year’s survey demonstrate that A2P SMS clearly remains an important and effective way to send transactional or marketing SMS globally, which the whole industry is in support of.”

With even more competition this year, we’re proud to achieve the highest NPS average grade and be rated number one among the Tier One vendors, for the second time running. Being recognized in the industry for growing our A2P business in an organic way is a significant achievement and reflects our proactive approach to satisfying the needs of our customers and partners,

Silvio Kutic – CEO, Infobip

ROCCO has been providing independent and unsponsored research in the specific niche area of Roaming and Interconnect since 2012. This year’s survey featured the greatest number of mobile operator respondents thus far, making it the most comprehensive industry survey of its kind.

About Infobip

Founded over a decade ago by two young developers, Infobip grew into an international business with offices on six continents offering proprietary, in-house developed messaging platform with the capacity to reach over six billion mobile devices connected to over 800 telecoms networks.

Infobip innovates at the intersection of Internet and telecoms technologies, creating new ways and opportunities for businesses and their end users to interact over mobile devices. The company serves and partners with leading mobile operators, OTTs, banks, social networks, tech companies and aggregators.

About ROCCO

ROCCO is the Roaming Consulting Company and produces annually its A2P SMS Vendor Performance reports as well as Market Intelligence Reports into A2P SMS and Firewalls. ROCCO has been providing independent and unsponsored research in the specific niche area of Roaming and Interconnect since 2012. ROCCO provides unique neutral data into the A2P SMS Market as well as many other areas. ROCCO also provides reports in roaming.

Tina Loncaric – Global Public Relations Director

[email protected]

Oct 27th, 2022
2 min read
Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Infobip helps Consumers pay their Bills with prompt Voice Technology

Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Bogota, Colombia – 5/21/2018 –  Infobip, global communication platform for businesses, is leading the way in helping consumers pay their bills on time with the support of voice messaging alerts. Consumers are, through voice reminder messages, alerted by their financial institution about balance and payment obligations prior to its due date.

Financial institutions can, through Infobip’s OMNI solution, utilize a multitude of communications channels over one, single platform. Voice is one effective way of alerting their customers, chat app messages, SMS and in-app push messages are other ways to optimize messaging, payment confirmations and personal account data with their customers and clients.

Personal debt in Colombia is increasing. According to the Financial Superintendence of Colombia, the nation’s household debt reached 62.9 billion USD in Jan 2018, a significant increase since 2016 where the household debt was less than 43 billion USD.

Financial institutions and collection agencies in Colombia are pleased with how the reminder voice technology help their customers and clients. Financial institutions such as Mensajes de Voz and Coprocenva Financiera have experienced a more efficient payment process using voice messaging alerts. 

We should, as a nation, improve the management of household debt with effective methods and incentives supporting the challenges of people’s everyday personal finances. A voice message can with ease be delivered to the customer. It’s a prompt message, a quick reminder, essentially a call to action resulting in payment delivery in a more urgent manner. We are avoiding lowering credit scores and helping future investments,

Andrés Sánchez – Director de Crédito y Cartera de Coprocenva Financiera

Silvio Kutic, CEO of Infobip foresees positive long-term effects of voice messaging technology used by financial institutions in Colombia.

The reminder letters and personal phone calls are time consuming and labor heavy efforts for a collection agency or a bank. We are helping consumers manage their household debt with the power of voice messaging technology before the bills are in fact due preventing decreased credit scores so important for future key purchases, mortgage loans and personal investments,

Silvio Kutic – CEO, Infobip

According to the association Invest in Bogota, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Call Centers are growing rapidly in Colombia. Over 330 Contact Centers are employing more than 35 percent of the workforce in the sector.

More statistics on Colombia’s household debt can be found here

About Infobip

Founded over a decade ago by two young developers, Infobip grew into an international business with offices on six continents offering proprietary, in-house developed messaging platform with the capacity to reach over six billion mobile devices connected to over 800 telecoms networks.

Infobip innovates at the intersection of Internet and telecoms technologies, creating new ways and opportunities for businesses and their end users to interact over mobile devices. The company serves and partners with leading mobile operators, OTTs, banks, social networks, tech companies and aggregators.

Tina Loncaric – Global Public Relations Director

Phone: +385-99-4699-343

[email protected]

May 20th, 2018
3 min read
Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Infobip recruits Key Executives as the Company continues its Global Expansion

Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Vodnjan, Croatia – 5/14/2018 – Infobip, global communications platform for businesses, has recruited instrumental executives in leadership positions for Infobip’s Marketing, Engineering and Product Development divisions as part of the company’s global expansion strategy.   

Ms. Sanja Buterin is Infobip’s new Marketing Director, heading up the Marketing department including more than 40 employees. Ms. Buterin, a business graduate from Zagreb University, is a marketing veteran with more than 20 years of industry experience in technology, tourism and the automotive sector. Sanja holds an extensive career including positions such as Head of Channel Retail Marketing at Nokia, Director of Marketing for Valvoline and Executive Director for Atlas Travel. She also worked as Managing Director for the Croatian division of the global agency network Dentsu Aegis Network.

With her immense passion for technology, Ms. Buterin also initiated and established one of the first app developer meet-ups enabling cutting-edge digital and mobile solutions in Central Eastern Europe.

I am thrilled to start the position of Marketing Director at Infobip. Infobip’s expansion from a Croatian start-up to a major, global company is an incredible journey where international marketing is more important than ever, defining the Infobip image and awareness on a global scale

SANJA BUTERIN – Marketing Director, Infobip

Infobip is also honored to expand its Engineering department with the recruitment of Mr. Damir Prusac who will be leading Infobip’s prominent development teams.

Mr. Prusac, a B.sc graduate from University of Split with a major in Telecommunications, holds over 22 years of experience in the IT industry leading software development teams. He had a stellar career from Ericsson where he held positions including ICT Systems Development and Operations Manager, Head of Feature Development Center and a decade of solid experience as Software Developer and System Developer so important leading up to his recent leadership roles within Ericsson. Mr. Prusac is a published author of the book On the Trace of Agile Leadership. He is also in the process of completing his executive MBA from University College Algebra.

Coming from a long, solid career with Ericsson to Infobip, one of the fastest growing companies in South East Europe, it’s very exciting to take on the role as Director of Engineering tailoring and leading Infobip’s platform and API development to an even more competitive position globally

Damir Prusac – Director of Engineering, Infobip

Infobip’s Product Development department is also gaining a great addition to the team. Ms. Ana Zrno who will be working as Growth Program Manager for Infobip. 

Ana Zrno holds more than 18 years of experience in the telecom world. Ms. Zrno worked in different leadership roles for MNOs in Croatia including Tele2 and Vipnet. Electrical Engineer by education, she started as Software Developer at Siemens. At Tele2 she held positions such as Head of Business Process and Head of Product Management. At Vipnet her positions include Project and Product Manager and Value-Added Service Group Manager.

Ana is also in the final stages of completing her e-leadership MBA from University College Algebra.

I am very excited to be an official Bipper and honored to be a member of this great family of humble experts. As Growth Program Manager where growth is my foremost focus, I will encourage my team to put themselves in the customer’s shoes creating innovative products with superior customer experience. I’m looking forward contributing to Infobip’s achievements and success

ANA ZRNO – Growth Program Manager, infobip

About Infobip

Founded over a decade ago by two young developers, Infobip grew into an international business with offices on six continents offering proprietary, in-house developed messaging platform with the capacity to reach over six billion mobile devices connected to over 800 telecoms networks.

Infobip innovates at the intersection of Internet and telecoms technologies, creating new ways and opportunities for businesses and their end users to interact over mobile devices. The company serves and partners with leading mobile operators, OTTs, banks, social networks, tech companies and aggregators.

For more information, please contact:

Tina Loncaric

Global Public Relations Director

[email protected]

+385 99 4699 343

May 16th, 2018
3 min read
Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

People API: Easier Targeting and Communication

Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

We’re constantly striving to provide the best communication solutions. This is why we’re introducing the latest update to the Infobip API – People. This new update lets you automatically connect a client database with the Target module in the Infobip Portal by using Infobip’s API.

What does the People API do?

Previously you had to manually extract data from your database and upload it. This usually resulted in large amounts of time being wasted, instead of being invested into more meaningful and profitable tasks. In addition to this, it also increased the chance of a likely human error.

The new API will make a lot of manual work unnecessary. The People API will connect your website, CRM, or application with the Infobip Portal and enable you to automatically gain consent and collect user information.

Check out a basic example of how the process can look like now:

1.   The user signs up and gives his contact details.

2.   The user is then automatically added to People, and optionally tagged with a specific Tag.

3.   You can create a new communication with the information gathered from the signup, or the user can automatically be added to a preexisting communication.

What are the benefits?

The People API gives you a new set of tools designed to ease your communication organization and also help you with reaching the right persons over the right channels – right now.

In addition to saving costs and work hours with automation, you can now segment your users with more efficiency. By using the People API you can add a description in the Infobip Portal for a certain event by creating a tag which will gather all of the users that meet the specific criteria under the desired tag.

For example, you can include all of the users who have abandoned their shopping cart under an “Abandoned Cart“ tag, then all of them can receive an SMS inquiring why they didn’t finalize the purchase, or you can communicate a completely different, enticing message to them.Infobip Portal People preview

 

Preferred channel of communications is another focal point of the People update. Using your user’s channel of choice helps in creating the best user engagement possible. By asking users what their desired channel is during the signup process this information is automatically added to People in the Portal and a unique user profile is created, thus simplifying your campaign planning and segmentation.

Visit our Infobip API Developer Hub to learn more about how your communication with users can benefit from the People API.

May 2nd, 2018
2 min read
Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Infobip and Rakuten Viber enable Businesses and Banks to reach millions of Customers in Nepal

Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Kathmandu, Nepal – 4/24/2018 – Infobip, the global communications platform company for businesses strengthens its presence in Nepal, offering Viber messaging campaigns for the region’s financial institutions, enterprises and organizations.

By using Infobip’s OMNI solution, businesses and banks can choose the optimal communication channels for specific types of messages including SMS, number of chat app messages, email, voice and in-app push messages. Any financial institution, eCommerce or brick-and-mortar store can conveniently promote their offers to over one billion users and prospective customers in 193 countries worldwide.

59 percent of South East Asia’s smartphone users have Viber installed. In Nepal close to five million people have Viber installed.

Viber brings people together through personal connections, common passions and interests and Nepal is a key market for Viber. Using Infobip’s OMNI solution creates a frictionless experience for both consumers and partners, and one where we see significant results especially in the e-commerce space.

Cristina Constandache – VP Global Partnerships, Viber

Rastriya Banijya Bank Limited, Nepal’s largest commercial bank, recently learned more about the impactful integration of Viber and Infobip.

We have taken part in some of the amazing ideas shared by the Infobip team. We are positive about the OMNI Channel solution and the go-green concept truly looks promising. For a bank like ours, with such a large customer base in Nepal, the Infobip and Viber integrated platform could become a great asset and channel for several departments within our bank.

Riko Sthapit – Head E-Banking department, Rastriya Banijya Bank Limited

The Infobip portal offers a user-friendly web interface helping any business to easily organize its messaging campaigns. The portal provides detailed, real-time campaign reports including message delivery confirmation allowing the company to effectively monitor the progress of the campaign.

Nepal is a growing market for Infobip where especially the fintech market is expanding and advancing with impressive pace. Viber’s impactful presence in the nation enhances our partnership and platform integration where financial institutions and businesses of Nepal can reach its’ instrumental customers and clients with great measures.

Silvio Kutic – CEO, Infobip

About Infobip

Founded over a decade ago by two young developers, Infobip grew into an international business with offices on six continents offering proprietary, in-house developed messaging platform with the capacity to reach over six billion mobile devices connected to over 800 telecoms networks.

Infobip innovates at the intersection of Internet and telecoms technologies, creating new ways and opportunities for businesses and their end users to interact over mobile devices. The company serves and partners with leading mobile operators, OTTs, banks, social networks, tech companies and aggregators.

Tina Loncaric – Global Public Relations Director

Phone: +385-99-4699-343

[email protected]

About Rakuten Viber

At Rakuten Viber, we connect people. No matter who they are, or where they are from. Our global user base has access to a range of features like one-on-one chats, video calls, group messaging, and updates and discussions with their favorite brands and celebrities. We ensure our users have a secure and free environment to share their emotions. Join Viber today and enjoy the world’s best communication experience.

Apr 24th, 2018
3 min read
Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Infobip and Viber Enhance Market Presence in Philippines

Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Manila, Philippines, 3/27/2018 – Global communications platform company Infobip, strengthens its presence and market in Manila offering Viber enterprise messaging campaigns for the region’s businesses and organizations.

By using Infobip’s OMNI solution, businesses can choose the optimal communication channels for specific types of messages including SMS, number of chat app messages, email, voice, and in-app push messages. Any eCommerce or brick-and-mortar store can conveniently promote their offers to as many as 900 million users and prospective customers in 193 countries worldwide.

Bank of the Philippine Islands is planning to utilize Viber and Infobip to enhance the customer experience for their cardholders.

We are very excited to begin working with Viber and Infobip. There is significant value to explore how we can utilize Viber as a new tool in reaching out to our clients, our BPI cardholders. Viber will serve as a relevant new channel for our bank where we can further our customer engagement.

Monica Vergara – Head of Marketing and Media Solutions at BPI Cards

59 percent of the South East Asia’s smartphone users have Viber installed.

Viber is all about bringing people together through personal connections, common passions, and interests and the Philippines is a key market for Viber. Using Infobip’s OMNI solution creates a frictionless experience for both consumers and partners, and one where we see significant results especially in the e-commerce space.

Christina Constandache – VP Global Partnerships, Viber

The Infobip portal offers a user-friendly web interface helping any business to easily organize its messaging campaigns. The portal provides detailed, real-time campaign reports including message delivery confirmation allowing the company to effectively monitor the progress of the campaign.

The Philippines is an instrumental market for Infobip where our client base is evolving quickly. Viber’s impressive presence in the region will, through our partnership and platform integration, enable any business superior, direct marketing outreach.

Silvio Kutic – CEO, Infobip

About Infobip

Founded over a decade ago by two young developers, Infobip grew into an international business with offices on six continents offering proprietary, in-house developed messaging platform with the capacity to reach over six billion mobile devices connected to over 800 telecoms networks.

Infobip innovates at the intersection of Internet and telecoms technologies, creating new ways and opportunities for businesses and their end users to interact over mobile devices. The company serves and partners with leading mobile operators, OTTs, banks, social networks, tech companies and aggregators.

Tina Loncaric – Global Public Relations Director

Phone: +385-99-4699-343

[email protected]

About Rakuten Viber

At Rakuten Viber, we connect people. No matter who they are, or where they are from. Our global user base has access to a range of features like one-on-one chats, video calls, group messaging, and updates and discussions with their favorite brands and celebrities. We ensure our users have a secure and free environment to share their emotions. Join Viber today and enjoy the world’s best communication experience.

Mar 27th, 2018
3 min read
Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Infobip bolsters its Omni-channel Marketing Technology with Viber in Bulgaria

Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Sofia, Bulgaria – March 13, 2018 – Global cloud communications company, Infobip, is expanding its wide client base for commercial campaigns in Bulgaria with Viber.

By using Infobip’s OMNI solution, businesses can choose the optimal communication channels for specific types of message including SMS, number of chat app messages, email, voice, and in-app push messages. Any eCommerce or brick-and-mortar store can easily promote their offers to as many as 900 million users and prospective customers in 193 countries worldwide.

One of Southeast Europe’s leading retailers, MyMall, has used Viber to directly communicate with their targeted customers in Bulgaria notifying their broad audience about upcoming sales, offers, doorbusters, and seasonal campaigns.

MyMall is always looking to reach customers in new, tailored ways. Disseminating an alert about an item on sale, or a code promotion on Viber straight to our target through omni-channel marketing is a very direct, impactful way of getting our message across. We have not only enhanced our brand awareness and customer engagement, but also acquired new, loyal customers.

Datsko Datsev – Chief Marketing Officer, MyMall

The Infobip portal offers a user-friendly web interface helping any business to easily organize its messaging campaigns. The portal provides detailed, real-time campaign reports including message delivery confirmation allowing the company to effectively monitor the progress of the campaign.

The Bulgarian retail market is expanding, advancing and maturing. As more eCommerce companies enter the market, it becomes even more important to stand out with efficient messaging. Infobip’s OMNI solution and Viber’s prevailing presence in Bulgaria enable the most fruitful integration of technologies helping all businesses out there.

Silvio Kutic – CEO, Infobip

Viber is all about bringing people together through personal connections, common passions, and interests and Bulgaria is a key market for Viber. Using Infobip’s OMNI solution creates a frictionless experience for both consumers and partners, and one where we see significant results especially in the e-commerce space.

Cristina Constandache – VP Global Partnerships, Viber

About Infobip

Founded over a decade ago by two young developers, Infobip grew into an international business with offices on six continents offering proprietary, in-house developed messaging platform with the capacity to reach over six billion mobile devices connected to over 800 telecoms networks.

Infobip innovates at the intersection of Internet and telecoms technologies, creating new ways and opportunities for businesses and their end users to interact over mobile devices. The company serves and partners with leading mobile operators, OTTs, banks, social networks, tech companies and aggregators.

Tina Loncaric – Global Public Relations Director

Phone: +385-99-4699-343

[email protected]

 

About Rakuten Viber

At Rakuten Viber, we connect people. No matter who they are, or where they are from. Our global user base has access to a range of features like one-on-one chats, video calls, group messaging, and updates and discussions with their favorite brands and celebrities. We ensure our users have a secure and free environment to share their emotions. Join Viber today and enjoy the world’s best communication experience.

Mar 13th, 2018
3 min read
Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Celebrating International Women’s Day at Infobip

Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA

Vodnjan, Croatia – March 12, 2018 – On International Women’s Day, global clouds communications company Infobip celebrated the women of technology inspiring more women to enter the world of ICT. The Infobip engineers shared their career story with several incredible Infobip women at a discussion panel at the company’s HQ Campus Pangea in Vodjan in Istria.

First out was Anja Hula. During her teenage years, Anja was a gamer, a computer lover and the go-to girl to install Windows on her friends PCs. She majored in Math and Software Engineering and Information Systems. After graduating she joined the “super tech team” at Infobip and advanced into a Team Leader, one of the very few women in her department.

Despite the society’s aim to bring more women into IT and science there are still too few women entering the field. As the global education efforts are steering more towards STEM initiatives and especially coding for girls there are still plenty of efforts needed in order for women to gain a career like Anja’s.

If I hadn’t been proactive, and if my teacher didn’t have the ambitious approach and additional resources available, I would never have learned how to code.

ANJA HULA – Team Leader, Infobip

Family support is key when choosing a career in engineering. The perception of more women entering management positions in the field is naturally a way to attract more women to the tech world.

Nina Knezevic  is Director of Telecom Solutions at Infobip and feels that knowledge and talent should always speak for itself.

I’ve been working in the mobile industry for several years now, and it is still uncommon to witness a woman carrying out negotiations or discussing large business deals. On a global level, I am mostly working with men. For me, the most important thing is to be an expert in my field, meet deadlines and deliver stellar results. Weather you are a woman or a man shouldn’t really make a difference.

Nina Knezevic – Director of Telecom Solutions, Infobip

We are delighted to present an increasing number of women joining Infobip. The global STEM programs are essential cornerstones of furthering women’s interest in IT. As an international company we also support initiatives such as Girls Who Code making coding a natural part of education.

Silvio Kutic – CEO, Infobip

Leda Link is a specialist in software testing. She believes IT and coding should be taught already in elementary school.

Girls and boys could gain an understanding of ICT from a younger age. It would place our next generation in a better position, making them more curious about engineering and IT.

Leda Link – Teal Leader, Infobip

Jasna Jaklin Majetic, President of Regional Chamber of Economy in Pula, believes that bringing key female executives together in open discussions is key to attract more women to ICT.

Snijezana Matejcic, female rights activist and journalist, stressed the importance of directing specific actions reaching women on both a grassroot level and through international initiatives.

It was inspiring to listen to these outstanding women in ICT, to witness their positive attitudes and strength.

Tamara Kirsic – Head of Business incubator at the Istrian Development Agency (IDA)

IDA supports nine new companies at their incubator in Pula. More than half of these companies have female founders.

It appears like new generations are rejecting stereotypes and boundaries that previous generations were raised in. They are breaking the trend with such dedication and I’m very optimistic about what can be accomplished in the future.

Nada Rokov –

35 percent of Infobip’s 1200 employees are women, above industry average, but still lower than the company’s gender goal. Last week’s discussion panel, held at Pangea tech campus in Vodnjan, was part of a series of activities held around the International Women’s Day.

An exhibition was prepared in honour of Ada Lovelace, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Margaret Heafield Hamilton and Kimberly Bryant, powerful women in tech in the 19th, 20th and 21th centuries. Their initiatives and groundbreaking achievements paved the way for change in ICT. In Vodnjan, Zagreb and Rijeka offices, donations were raised for SOS Rijeka, a non-profit organization focusing on education, awareness and support programs.

In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Infobip’s office joined forces with the UN-supported initiative IT Girls, hosting a panel on women in ICT. Female engineers took the floor to share their personal and professional stories, and spoke about challenges and the rewards of working at a global IT company. The Zagreb office opened its doors to “Zenska Soba”, a center for sexual rights.

About Infobip

Founded over a decade ago by two young developers, Infobip grew into an international business with offices on six continents, offering a proprietary, in-house developed messaging platform with the capacity to reach six billion mobile devices connected to over 800 telecoms networks.

Infobip innovates at the intersection of Internet and telecoms technologies, creating new ways and opportunities for businesses and their end users to interact over mobile devices. The company serves and partners with leading mobile operators, OTTs, banks, social networks, tech companies and aggregators.

Tina Loncaric – Global Public Relations Director

Phone: +385-99-4699-343

[email protected]

Mar 12th, 2018
4 min read
Director of Marketing EMEA

Zoha Tapia

Director of Marketing EMEA