This October, we brought together clients, partners, and dev community members in New York for our first NYC Developer Community Meet-Up.

The afternoon focused on what it takes to build, run, and scale modern financial desktops, from improving the developer experience and creating reliable io.Connect applications to observability and lessons from real-world AI implementations.

Through main-stage sessions and smaller breakouts, attendees had the opportunity to dig into practical examples, ask questions, share feedback, and hear what’s next across io.Connect, io.Intelligence, and the broader interop.io product suite.

Topics covered included:

• The latest updates to the interop.io developer experience, including the io.Connect Desktop seed project and developer skills for your IDE
• Building and testing reliable io.Connect applications with automated testing and CI/CD
• Moving beyond health checks and log files with observability, dashboards, metrics, and traces
• Lessons from real-world AI implementations and what happens when AI moves from demos into production
• How interop.io engineers are using AI in development while balancing speed and quality
• The interop.io product roadmap and what’s next across io.Connect and io.Intelligence