On Wednesday, February 4th, we are organizing a new meetup starting at 6 PM at Startit’s Belgrade AI Hub. This event is part of a series of 100+ AI Hub events in 2026 that are helping the IT community successfully adapt to the AI transformation.
The guest of the evening is Nikola Kolevski — Head of Engineering at the domestic fintech company Solflare, and the topic is: what makes engineers good in the AI era, how to recognize it in an interview, with a discussion on the application of AI in a mature yet still ambitious technology organization.
As Nikola tells us, reasoning models became serious in mid-2025. Since then, technology teams can no longer ignore the question of whether we are using AI, and consequently, how this is reflected in the selection process.
He and his team went through this process firsthand. Nikola will share concrete experiences: what worked, what didn’t, what lessons they learned, and what we still know and don’t know when it comes to AI in production, both literally and metaphorically.
Tentative agenda:
Format: ~60 minutes of discussion + Q&A
Language: English
On Wednesday, January 28, we’re hosting a new edition from the series 100+ free AI events in 2026, starting at 18:00 at Startit’s AI Hub in Novi Sad.
The main topic of the evening is how DevOps is changing AI today, how it will do so in the coming years, and we’ll also touch on how to build an AI-first startup.
Our guest is engineer and entrepreneur Darko Fabijan, founder of the new startup SuperPlane. Darko has deep experience in this space as the founder of Semaphore, a DevOps company that has been operating for 15 years.
We’ll discuss the following topics:
As always, we’ll leave a large portion of the time for questions and discussion with the audience.
Format: ~60 minutes of conversation and Q&A + 60 minutes of networking Language: English
Participation is free, but registration is required. We’ll publish the registration link soon.
On Wednesday, January 21, we’re hosting a new AI Hub meetup starting at 6pm at Startit’s AI Hub in Novi Sad.
Our guest is Stefan Trkulja — a designer from the “full-stack” school with ~25 years of experience. The topic: the present and future of the design role in the context of AI-driven transformation.
Over the last three years, design work has fundamentally changed: the tools we use, the speed of decision-making, and the expectations teams and organizations place on design roles — all of it shifted at once.
We’ll unpack that with Stefan, grounded in his experience working at an AI startup based in San Francisco — the place where many of these role shifts happen first, and then eventually reach the rest of us.
Rough agenda:
Format: ~60 minutes conversation + Q&A.
This event is for designers who work (or want to work) in the IT industry — and for anyone who wants to collaborate with designers more effectively or hire them.
Participation is [FREE / REGISTRATION REQUIRED].
On Wednesday, January 14th, we’re hosting the first AI Hub event of 2026, starting at 18:00 at Startit’s Belgrade AI Hub.
The topic is one of the most in‑demand roles in tech right now — Agentic engineer.
With Dragan Spiridonov, the Agentics Foundation representative in Serbia, we’ll discuss what this role entails and the discipline in general.
Who is this for
- Architects,
- full‑stack engineers,
- technical QA engineers,
and other IT professionals (frontend, product, devops) who want to upskill in line with new market expectations in the AI era.
The goal is for you to leave better prepared to use AI tools and a new way of thinking, so you can build more competitive products or become more valuable to your employer.
The problem we’re tackling is simple: old software and old development processes are becoming uncompetitive.
We already feel it, and soon we expect even more of the market’s money to move toward AI software and professionals who know how to build it.
No matter which recruiter you speak to or which research you read, you’ll see that new and still loosely defined roles like AI engineer are among the most in‑demand in 2026.
With Dragan Spiridonov we’ll discuss the Agentic Engineer role as defined by the Agentics Foundation — what it is, why it’s useful, and how
it can be learned.
Dragan has 30 years of experience in IT, has organized and spoken at QA conferences, and we’ll roughly follow this agenda:
As with our other events, we’ll leave plenty of time for audience Q&A.
Thanks to Solflare, a top fintech team in Serbia, this and other AI Hub events are free to the public.
Just register via the form below and we’ll see you on Wednesday.
