Miami Professional Networking gathered members at Cerveceria La Tropical in Wynwood for its monthly social. The evening paired open conversation with short TED-style talks, and Shablé was invited to give one. Guests had come to meet each other, so the talk needed to earn its place in a room already full of conversation.
A camera went around the room during the networking hour. It caught the handshakes, the laughter, and the pauses between introductions. Those photographs were siimultaneously uploaded into Shablé’s slides the same night, so when she took the stage, the room watched itself appear on screen.
"I opened with a question: What if I told you that you’re already an artist, a technologist, and a community builder? One thread ran through the three parts that followed. Art is our first language, older than speech, and the camera in the room was the proof. Community is a story in motion, passed hand to hand, and the night’s photographs were its evidence. Technology is the pen that keeps rewriting how we tell our stories, and it carried the evening’s images past the evening itself."
The host called this intimate networking night “one for the books,” with “incredible people, powerful connections, and a few new favorite local businesses.”