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We're at Smart City Expo Poland - Targi Technologii Miejskich in Warsaw - two days of municipal leaders, urban planners, and technology providers comparing notes on what's actually working in mobility, energy, and city infrastructure. Swing by the Smart City Poznan (#PoznańCityLab) stand to talk to our CEO Marcin Staszak and Client Partner Michał 'Mike' Lisewski - we've got plenty to talk about. And while you're there, catch a live demo of the app we built for the East Hall at Poznań International Fair. We've just published the full project as a case study (link in comment).

Next week Warsaw hosts Smart City Expo Poland - Targi Technologii Miejskich (16-17 September) - the only trade fair in the country fully dedicated to urban technology, and one of the fastest-growing events of its kind in Central-Eastern Europe. Municipal leaders, urban planners, and technology providers working across mobility, energy, and city infrastructure will be there comparing notes on what's actually working. Come find us at the Poznań City Lab stand, where you can catch our CEO Marcin Staszak and Client Partner Michał 'Mike' Lisewski. We've got plenty to talk about: we're currently deep in building the IoT platform for the East Hall at Poznań International Fair, and on the other side of the world, we've built the web platform and mobile app behind Expo City Dubai. Learn more about the event 👉 https://smartcityexpo.pl/

More sensors and AI don't automatically mean better decisions - someone still has to connect the dots. Our Head of Technology, Miłosz Kusiciel 🔥 makes the case for a different approach: software that does that work for the operator, instead of just handing them more data to sort through. He uses the live model we built for the East Hall at Poznań International Fair as an example. See the full post below ⤵️

Every growing company eventually hits the same wall: the website stops being a website and turns into an ecosystem of tech platforms. That's exactly where Sensirion found itself, and the brief they brought us started there too: relaunch the main site and subdomains, restructure the information and data setup behind them, and stand up a new backend and frontend ready for whatever came next. A UX/UI audit and ongoing feature work followed. Performance is up 46%, latency dropped from 2.5 seconds to 0.5, and the first two months ran with zero downtime. Their new Clutch review keeps coming back to the outcome: web platforms supporting the technical range the business needs, with an editing and maintenance experience their own team actually enjoys day to day. They also point to the collaboration itself: professional, friendly, and quick to find a solution whenever one's needed. Watch the clip for the details, and read the full review on Clutch 👇 https://lnkd.in/d27XKzHV

We're glad to have people on board who don't keep what they've learned to themselves, and we back them when they take that knowledge outside the office. This Thursday, Marta Mielcarek ✨, one of our designers, is speaking at ProductTank 3City in Gdynia. Four years of selling to US startups gave her a perspective that shaped how she approaches design work: on that market, deals get closed on the strength of the relationship long before anyone looks closely at the product. Thirteen years running large-scale IT projects where design has to answer to business goals, plus eight years lecturing in Poland and Sweden, and she still frames the work around people first. If you're anywhere near Gdynia, come listen - entry is free, you just need to register: https://tally.so/r/LZBkEp 📅 August 13, 18:00 📍 PPNT, Aleja Zwycięstwa 96/98, bld. IV, room A001, Gdynia The event will be held in Polish.

"It still works" is one of the most expensive sentences in enterprise technology. Legacy systems aren't inherently bad. Many are stable, battle-tested, and still power core operations for some of the largest organizations in the world. The problem starts when "still works" becomes the main argument for not touching anything. At some point, a system built to support the business starts to slow it down instead. And most organizations keep running legacy longer than they planned to, for reasons that make complete sense: the system is business-critical, migrations are risky, teams are stretched. We wrote about the full picture - what legacy systems are, why organizations keep them, and how to think through the decision between modernizing and replacing. If "we'll deal with it later" is starting to feel less convincing, this is a good place to start 👇 https://lnkd.in/ddrXN6kX

In the secondary retail market, price is rarely the only thing that wins. A clean, intuitive buying experience can be just as decisive - and for a business like Triangle Liquidators, the right platform could do more than that. Reduce friction for buyers, yes, but also position them as a data layer between consumers and upstream vendors, opening doors that a white-label solution never would. That's part of the thinking Robert Estes brought to Poznań when he came to kick off the project with us. Why does he believe an in-person kickoff changes the quality of collaboration? What made him look for a new software partner in the first place? Why does it matter to him that the team on the other side is made up of real people - not just "one person and a bunch of AI"? And what surprised him most about Poznań? Watch the video to hear it directly from Robert 👇

Data only matters if it matches how people actually work. That's the gap we sat down with Grupa MTP to close last week - we planned to talk about one hall, and left with four or five new areas to explore. The occasion was a workshop with the team that runs the East Hall of the Poznań International Fair day to day, part of our ongoing work with #PoznańCityLab Smart City Poznan. We walked them through how the system works now - the sensors, the data they generate - and listened to how that data fits into their actual routines: what they check, what they ignore, what would genuinely save them time. That conversation is what's shaping the next version of the user-facing app: something built around what facility staff actually need to act on, not another set of charts. It's also clear the scope is bigger than one venue. MTP manages far more than the East Hall, and the same approach could extend across other spaces they run. Watch the video to see the session and hear more about what comes next. If your team is sitting on sensor data that nobody on the ground can actually use - here's how we approach it with a user-facing app: https://lnkd.in/ddz2khtJ

We know GITEX from Dubai - the scale, the energy, the density of conversations it generates in a short time. The European edition in Berlin is building its own version of that, and this year we're joining it. GITEX AI EUROPE - Europe's Leading Tech & AI Event takes place June 30-July 1 at Messe Berlin. Europe's largest enterprise tech event, bringing together companies, startups, investors, and public-sector leaders around AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital infrastructure - with a very European question running through all of it: how does the continent build on its own terms? Our Client Partners - Michał 'Mike' Lisewski, Sławomir Wilczyński, and Michał Bień - will be around the Messe Berlin area. The conversations they're most interested in: making digital feel less mechanical, using AI in ways that actually reduce friction instead of creating it, and what proper discovery looks like before development starts. If any of this sounds familiar from your own work - find them at Messe Berlin next week.

Remote work is the default for most of us and for most of our clients too. That's not changing. But it doesn't mean we stopped making room for in-person time. Something shifts when you're actually in the same space, and sometimes doing things in person brings an added layer that's hard to replicate otherwise. The workshop that finally clicks when you can sketch on a whiteboard together. The client visit that turns a professional relationship into something more like a real partnership. The conversation that happens between meetings and doesn't fit into any agenda. For some of our people, the office also serves a different purpose - a clean boundary between work mode and home mode, something that's harder to draw when both happen in the same apartment. What the right balance looks like will probably keep shifting, but we're glad to have that choice for our people and for our clients.