.In May 2019, MTF ran a 3-day #MTFLabs in residence at one of Europe’s fastest-growing software unicorns: Croatian company Infobip. The creative innovators from the MTF community worked together with brilliant participants from a selection of the 64 Infobip offices all around the world to put creativity at the heart of innovation.

In addition to the Labs, MTF hosted exclusive events, including a live Moonbounce at the University of Pula, in which participants could send their voices to the moon and back, a synaesthesia concert by the BBC’s LJ Rich, and a Children’s Cymatics workshop, where Pula’s youngest inventors could record found sounds, feel their vibrations and learn about science and music.

This special edition of the MTF podcast takes you to #MTFPula at Infobip in Croatia. Meet the founders of Infobip, the creative innovators from the MTF community, the brilliant participants from Infobip offices all around the world and go behind the scenes of one our #MTFLabs events, where we put creativity at the heart of innovation.

#MTF Pula evolved the projects and ideas established at MTF Labs innovation events at KTH in Stockholm, ZKM in Karlsruhe and at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt. MTF experts brought the latest in Vocal AI, space data simulators, generative systems, and accessibility to the Infobip campus, together with an exclusive synaesthesia performance by LJ Rich.

#MTF Pula evolved the projects and ideas established at MTF Labs innovation events at KTH in Stockholm, ZKM in Karlsruhe and at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt. MTF experts brought the latest in Vocal AI, space data simulators, generative systems, and accessibility to the Infobip campus, together with an exclusive synaesthesia performance by LJ Rich.

The 3-day #MTF Labs @ Infobip brought some of the most brilliant and original minds from the 7000+ global MTF community to develop innovation projects that used the unique technology of Infobip’s mobile messaging and AI platforms in ways that developed creative thinking and practices among the engineers and other employees from Infobip. Staff from around the world entered a competition to participate and were flown to Pula for the unique residential event.

Creative thinking, technology and invention are at the heart of collaborations which focus on grand challenges. MTF Labs go beyond the traditional hackathon format with a curated selection of diverse experts, strong creative direction and a challenge that seeks not only to push the state of the art - but to create new and hybrid technologies that foster entirely new markets.

The 3-day #MTF Labs @ Infobip brought some of the most brilliant and original minds from the 7000+ global MTF community to develop innovation projects that used the unique technology of Infobip’s mobile messaging and AI platforms in ways that developed creative thinking and practices among the engineers and other employees from Infobip. Staff from around the world entered a competition to participate and were flown to Pula for the unique residential event.

Creative thinking, technology and invention are at the heart of collaborations which focus on grand challenges. MTF Labs go beyond the traditional hackathon format with a curated selection of diverse experts, strong creative direction and a challenge that seeks not only to push the state of the art - but to create new and hybrid technologies that foster entirely new markets.

#MTF Pula featured the SisterMoon project by renowned German artist and producer Martine-Nicole Rojina at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, where participants “spoke to the moon” in real time and listened live to echoes from the surface of the moon.

Martine-Nicole Rojina uses one of the world’s first radio astronomy antennas to record the human voice, music instruments and sound-art reflected off the surface of the moon in collaboration with the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope, Jan van Muijlwijk and Harry Keizer of CAMRAS.

Infobip’s founders, Silvio Kutić, Roberto Kutić and Izabel Jelenić seized the opportunity and spoke their motto “We are just starting!”. The words traveled through space at the speed of light reflected on the cratered surface and returned to them in 2.5 seconds.”

As part of MTF Pula, MTF, the University of Pula and Infobip arranged a morning workshop for Pula’s youngest innovators, collecting sound from around the marina and creating an experience that allowed the children to feel and see the sound through vibration. Led by Mordechai Braunstein, founder of Healing Music Israel, who brought his unique CyMagic project for the children to experience, and by London’s Tim Yates of Drake Music, #MTF Kids was a wonderful hands-on experience that allows children to experience the science and emotion of sound in creative and engaging new ways.

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