Apart from swimming and basketball, Bosnians can boast of success in some other spheres recently.
One of those we should be proud of is Sead Ahmetovic from Odzak, who heads WeAreDevelopers, the largest conference of software developers in Europe. This year it gathered more than 10.000 developers in Berlin.
Organizing such events is an incredible challenge, and Sead did it in an excellent way with the help of his team.
He was born in Odzak in 1988, and although he lives in Vienna, he spends a lot of time in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). He finished his schooling in Austria and was always interested in the innovative technologies of the future, so he started his career as a developer in an Austrian startup company.
In a few years, he went through leading IT positions in various innovative and international companies. In 2008, he met Benjamin Ruschin, with whom he founded WeAreDevelopers in 2015.
Sead and Benjamin noticed that there was no conference in Europe that would bring together all IT experts and developers in one place and in style. Back then, there were a large number of smaller events, such as specialized or local conferences, meetups and the like, but nothing in a large international format.
Then, in 2015, they decided to organize the first edition of the WeAreDevelopers conference with several hundred participants in a medieval castle near Vienna.
This year, the conference attracted more than 10.000 developers and IT experts from all continents. Due to the large growth and huge organizational challenge, they founded a special company for the conference with co-founders Thomas Pamminger, who has been advising the global brand Gucci in digitization for ten years, and Markus Wagner, a serial investor from Silicon Valley.
WeAreDevelopers World Congress partners with more than 100 leading technology companies, including Volkswagen, Microsoft, Accenture, Tezos, Stripe, IKEA, Amazon Web Services, check24, Rapyd, Trade Republic, IBM, Dynatrace, Delivery Hero, Eurowings, ING, GoStudent, and many others.
WeAreDevelopers has also become Europe’s leading platform for tech talent (wearedevelopers.com) and provides employers with a platform to recruit and connect with top tech talent from around the world.
Sead is a great friend of BiH and every year offers hundreds of free tickets to young people and friends in BiH.
He has big plans to bring a mega technological event to BiH in the near future, Radio Sarajevo writes.
E.Dz.
