TEDx: Inspiring innovation and change
People of exceptional passion, motivation and achievement took the floor at this Saturday’s TEDx event in Pula, Croatia. Shaped around the topic “Istria yesterday, today and tomorrow”, TEDx revealed authentic projects, stories and individuals of great strength, approaching things from a different perspective.
What inspires change in a region or community? How to be a teacher in the digital age, with paradigms of knowledge and communication shifting every 5 years? Why working on a team and communicating efficiently is becoming the foundation of a successful individual?
Talks by innovators, authors, managers, athletes, and artists offered glimpses into the entrepreneurial, forward-thinking spirit that drives positive change.
The TEDx Program aims to help communities, organisations and individuals to spark conversation and connection through local TED-like experiences. A combination of live presentations and TED Talks videos, the Istrian edition was prepared by students, activists Larisa and Roberta Kontosic, Sandi Bozac, Denis Taletovic, Marijana Tadic, and Amel Hadzipasic.
Concept-wise, they said they wanted to reveal historical and present perspectives and business potential of the magical Istrian peninsula, the region where they live and work. Infobip was proud to support the event as a golden sponsor, alongside worthy regional institutions and companies Medea, Salvela, Fusio, Brioni, Pula Film Festival, Pula University Student Council, Luce association, and Valli cinema.
Join us at the Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong
From 16-17 November, we will be exhibiting at GSMA’s Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong.
This prestigious event is the key mobile industry conference in Asia, gathering all the major mobile players from the APAC region and the world, from operators and network infrastructure vendors, to service providers and consumer electronics makers.
Exhibiting for the third consecutive year, our high-level team will be happy to welcome you at stand C24 to discuss mobile messaging and make new partnerships and business deals.
Contact us today to schedule a meeting in advance. We’re looking forward to seeing you in Hong Kong!
October: See you at GSMA events around the globe
A2P monetisation, fraud prevention and messaging ecosystem opportunities are some of the topics of GSMA events taking place in October around the world. As long-time GSMA partners, we are sponsoring, exhibiting and speaking in three of the meetings.
Hosted by Claro, the BARG Latin America Meeting is taking place 6-7 October in Antigua, Guatemala. Our VP Massimo Cristini’s speech will focus on Business-as-a-Service – a new model enabling MNOs to run a technically superb and profitable A2P SMS business, with no investment or risk. The model eliminates total cost of ownership and enables fastest possible time to market, in the rapidly changing environment that prompt telecoms to change their messaging business strategy and approach.
Our telecoms team will also be there to share industry insight and discuss business opportunities – you can arrange to meet them by clicking here.
About the same time, 6-8 October, GSMA’s Fraud and Security Group will meet in Casablanca, Morocco. With messaging security in spotlight, our telco specialist Makeda Antoine will present a successful SMS firewall (sGate) implementation, with positive results and benefits for a large network spanning several years. To meet our team in Morocco, and discuss security and monetisation in the A2P SMS space of today, get in touch now. You’ll find them at the exhibition table No 1.Finally, 19-22 October we’re exhibiting at WAS Networking and Information Sharing event in Bangkok, Thailand, taking place on the 4th floor of the Intercontinental Conference Centre. Schedule your meeting with our team at the Pinnacle Hall – looking forward to seeing you there!
Get ready for a great Hackathon!
Join us for a huge Hackathon in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina this October! Individual coders and teams are equally welcome to apply and submit their project that will compete with all the others. The best project will win, but the key goal is to have fun hacking away!
Following two very successful Hackathons recently held in our R&D centres in Zagreb and Belgrade, the third one will take place at Infobip’s Sarajevo office (another office of great developers!) and will be open to the public.
Individual coders and teams are equally welcome to apply and submit their project that will compete with all the others in the Infobip Hackathon. The best project will win, but the key goal is to have fun hacking away.
Applications are open until 30 September, and the event itself will take place 16-18 October in our Sarajevo offices.
With developers at the core of our company, each hackathon is a platform for them to meet, exchange ideas and work on exciting projects.
We hope to see you there!
Infobip at the forefront of digital banking at Juniper’s Future Digital Awards
Infobip’s efforts in powering messaging security and automation for financial institutions have been credited by Juniper Research, commending our outstanding contribution to Digital Banking as part of the Future Digital Awards 2015.
Future Digital Awards are presented to companies that Juniper sees as having made significant progress within their sector during the previous year, and are poised to make considerable impact in the future. The modular messaging gateway mGate, currently deployed in over 100 financial institutions across the globe, manages messaging automation and security – our primary drivers of innovation in financial communications.
The solution integrates with large-scale enterprise databases, bringing banks and other financial institutions security and extensive customer messaging automation. End-to-end security is achieved through VPN tunnelling, strong encryption and IPsec standards that help protect your traffic and confidential consumer data. Our robust modular architecture is paired with specialised 24/7 support for effective delivery of critical client communications.
With certifications for Global Quality Management (ISO 9001), Information Security (ISO 27001) for messaging, Infobip services used by the financial sector hold up to highest industry standards. The platform itself is PCI DSS compliant, capable of handling sensitive cardholder data as required by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
In recent years, a number of banks we’ve been working with have used us as a professional SMS channel to facilitate adoption of their newly launched banking apps for smartphones.
2-Way SMS now available in Peru, Singapore, Macedonia
Peru, Singapore, and Macedonia increased the total number of countries that have our global 2-Way SMS coverage to 47.
Our advanced set of management and reporting tools, new SMS API, virtual long numbers, and short codes will enable you to create reliable, real-time communication between your business and consumers in no time.
Review the complete list of 47 countries covered at the moment and feel free to contact us for more information and in-depth consulting.
Connect 2015 hits stride
Historical Bradamante palace in Vodnjan is once again teeming with Infobippers from all over the world! Another edition of the annual Connect conference is in full swing – more than 150 people from regions, departments and teams from all the corners of the Infobip globe got together to plan, discuss and celebrate.
Pillars of our long-term strategy along with in-depth workshops and speed meetings are in store for the working week. Like every year, Saturday is a sports day, complete with tournaments and lots of Mediterranean beach time for everyone to enjoy.
All this will be culminating in our huge summer party, expected to gather over 450 people, partners and friends.
Use the offical hashtag #IBConnect15 or simply tweet to us @Infobip and stay tuned for more Connect 2015 news. Find us on Flickr, too.
Dev Days 2015: Infobip development
A global platform with 2 billion monthly transactions, geo-redundant infrastructure, connectivity to 800+ networks – all made possible by a veritable army of developers and technicians, working 24/7 to ensure peak efficiency, each and every minute, 365 days a year. Dev Days are the best forum to spark innovation and rethink the ever-evolving process of building great messaging technologies for clients around the world.
Organising Dev Days 2015 included a lot of talks, even more than organising such an event usually requires. Our plan was for the conference to be meaningful, provide real insight and share knowledge that can make a difference to businesses and developers.
For instance, Java is always on the menu at Infobip, but the focus should be on offering first-hand experiences in how agile development results in creating better products. As one of the powerhouses of the regional and global IT industry, we felt that our experiences, struggles and insight perfectly position us to showcase all what it takes to build technologies that solve real problems for clients. This was something to make this Dev Days unique and bring real value to the conference.
So, for the 5thyear in a row, our over 130 in-house developers, network admins and database specialists from 5 R&D centres spent the three days in conferences and workshops. The eclectic agenda covered every aspect of developer work at Infobip, but for a full experiences, we needed more.
The final number of developers attending reached an impressive 270 on Dev Days Open Day, when we could put finally put our plan in motion and it worked like a charm. The Open Day featured keynotes by Infobip lecturers, as well as a fully-stacked international lineup of programmers, coders, machine learning and soft skills presenters – names like Markus Winand, Jan Šnajder and Danilo Goliani engage the audience with SQL indexing conundrums, predictive learning models and interpersonal skills development.
The lineup was carefully crafted to bring the most to everyone in the audience. While Mr. Winand’s SQL lectures provided hands-on and immediately applicable advice, Mr. Šnajder’s machine learning provided a high-level overview of the practices and the trends in this increasingly important field.
It might not seem so at first, but Mr. Goliani’s lecture on interpersonal effectiveness actually had a lot in common with our own experiences with scrum agile methodology. To keep things in perspective and maintain efficiency, sometimes you need to say no, and sometimes it’s the hardest thing to do – and learn.
So, from Java and OOP best practices, web development and UX, to SQL, databases, internal tools and agile development – we’re proud to say that this year’s Infobip-hosted Dev Days were an inspiration to both young and experienced developers from the entire region! Thanks for being with us at the conference, and looking forward to seeing you next year!
Total Telecom Africa Awards: Infobip finalist in Best Enterprise Services
Infobip has been shortlisted in this year’s Total Telecom Africa Awards in the Best Enterprise service category for our end-to-end messaging solution launched in South Africa last year.
This comprehensive telecoms and IP system is designed to provide unsurpassed levels of quality and technical performance in enterprise messaging.
Resulting from Infobip’s 2-year long work in South Africa, it allows companies to open direct SMS communication with their end users, regardless of SMS volumes, recipient’s location or mobile phone type.
It relies on an in-house developed architecture, first of its kind in South Africa, and represents a unique technical concept on a global scale.
Other contenders for the Best Enterprise service include Huawei, MTN Nigeria and Orange Business Services.
The Africa Awards recognise outstanding performance and innovation from the companies and individuals driving the success of the African telecom industry. The winners will be announced on 26th of May, 2015.
Voice service launched
App developers and enterprises can now quickly and seamlessly add fully-featured Voice capability to their offerings and keep in touch with their clients in the simplest possible way.
This enterprise-grade suite of cloud-based voice apps helps companies build cloud-based telephony systems in minutes, through our advanced API-powered platform, without the need for high-end physical infrastructure and maintenance costs. With Infobip, partnering companies get top of the line 24/7 technical and integration support, maintenance, development and excellent commercial terms.The service harnesses Infobip’s worldwide connectivity to hundreds of mobile operators, and was developed using in-house expertise gained from our extensive experience in providing mobile services to the banking and IT sectors.
To find out more about Voice, simply visit the service page, the official press release or download our brochure.