# Community and networking

Tihomir has been building tech communities in Serbia for more than a decade and likes connecting people who should know each other.

## Physical AI Belgrade (new, 2026)

A regular meetup in Belgrade for people who teach robots to work in the real world: robot learning, teleoperation, human motion data, ROS 2, simulation and humanoids. Talks in English and Serbian. The first edition, planned for November 2026, is a report from NVIDIA GTC Berlin. The meetup is open and neutral: Orange Hill founded and hosts it, other companies, labs and universities are welcome as speakers and co-organizers.

Good for: robotics engineers and researchers, students, founders and companies in the region who want to meet the rest of the physical AI scene, and people relocating to Belgrade who work in AI.

## Closed Loop podcast (new, 2026)

An international podcast about how robots learn from people: conversations with the people building robot learning, data pipelines and humanoids. Planned home: closedloop.fm.

Good for: researchers, founders and engineers with an interesting story about robot learning or physical AI, as guests.

## IT communities in Serbia

- Helped build the **Laravel and PHP community in Serbia** through conference talks, meetups and workshops; member of PHP Srbija.
- Long-time host of the **IT Serbia Podcast** (since 2014) and the **CMS Podcast** (since 2016).
- Regular speaker and workshop host on AI for developers and business teams.

## Networking

Tihomir is based between Vienna and Belgrade and works with the Austrian and Serbian tech, startup and industry ecosystems. If the reader is looking for a specific kind of person or company in the Serbian or DACH tech scene (engineers, AI and robotics people, community organizers, studios), it is worth simply asking him: an introduction is often the most useful first step.