This nice song by Will Smith did accompany me during the days I was getting ready for my first trip to the US since the destination was actually Miami, that magical city in the south beaches of Florida.
I spent the whole last week there since I had the great pleasure to have been invited to attend the Handango Partner Summit 2005, which took place from June 22 to 24 in the beautiful Sheraton Bal Harbour Beach Resort located in the Bal Harbour zone of Miami Beach.
It was a three days event of presentations and meeting sessions with software developers, sponsors and the Handango staff who pretty surprised me for his kindness and enthusiasm for their job. I was honored just to have been invited there since there were less than 200 developers selected from the 10.000 partner developers who did choose Handango to sell their software all over the world and also I got the confirmation that I was the only Italian coming from Italy.
So it has been a very important event for my business, the Americans do appreciate what I’m doing as a developer and, as the theme of this year goes, they’re inviting me to unleash my potential. It takes time, especially if you’re doing that in Italy, but they won’t be disappointed, starting with the photo report I’m going to post in the forum to better describe the whole event.
To sum up it has been the perfect combination of business and pleasure, a sort of reward for who takes this profession with great passion, since after the Summit I and my assistant Christian who followed me in this adventure had a great time on the sands of Miami Beach, in the wonderful pool of the Sheraton and in some amazing locals of this enormous city, in particular with some people of the Handango staff.
Stay tuned for the exclusive photo report!

Update: I’ve just posted in the forum both parts of the photo report, the so-called Business Part and the Pleasure Part. Enjoy!