Miami Heat: Cocktails & Connections with FP Block
An afternoon on a Miami hotel rooftop for leaders of well-funded enterprises who've tried everything but can't seem to ship with the accuracy or velocity the market demands.
About the event
You've hired. You've restructured. You've brought in the consultancy. You've shuffled the roadmap. And somehow the next release is still slipping, and the market window is still closing.
This is the problem we work on.
For a few hours on a Miami rooftop during Consensus week, FP Block is bringing together the leaders of enterprises trying to ship serious products in sensitive environments — alongside the people who fund them and the people who advise them.
Who should come
If you're leading a well-funded enterprise who's tried everything but can't seem to ship with the accuracy or velocity that the market demands.
If you are the CEO, CTO, or VP Engineering of a team who:
Feels permanently behind schedule
Suffocated by managing external infrastructure and dependencies
Struggling with architecting around regulatory and compliance constraints
Can't seem to put your finger on what needs to happen next
You need to be in the room.
Aaron Contorer, and Wesley Crook are on hand to share decades of wisdom — to put your product on the right track for removing bottlenecks and scaling growth.
Speakers
Aaron Contorer — Founder and Chair of FP Block. Former Microsoft executive and lead of Microsoft Visual C++. Holder of 18 patents. Aaron has spent three decades building the engineering organisations and products that serious companies depend on.
Wes Crook — CEO of FP Block. Over 35 years in enterprise technology leadership, including roles at Capgemini and CGI. Forbes Technology Council member. Wes has led the delivery of more than 100 projects for enterprises whose execution couldn't fail.
David Norra-Winkels - leads Marketing at SODAX, the cross-network execution and liquidity infrastructure powering swaps, lending, borrowing, and settlement across 17+ networks including Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Base, Sui, and Stellar. SODAX partners include Houdini Swap, Amped Finance, Hana Wallet, LightLink, Balanced, and Sonic.
SODAX is infrastructure for modern money. Cross-network execution and liquidity for builders and networks, live across 17+ networks.
Jake Salerno - Jake leads Business Development at Zero Gravity Labs, where he built and oversees the team responsible for driving ecosystem integrations and strategic go-to-market execution. Since mid-2024, he has built and led a high-impact BD team while directly managing Tier 1 operational partners across the most critical verticals.
What you'll leave with
A clearer diagnosis of why execution fails. A framework for what serious companies do about it. A room with people who solve it for a living.
RSVP
Space is limited to 100. Priority goes to leaders of well-funded enterprises and principals from institutional investors.
About the hosts:
FP Block is engineering for enterprises who can't afford to miss. Our clients come to us when the stakes are high, the problem is hard, and the timeline is unforgiving. We've shipped enterprise systems for Standard Chartered, Best Buy, State Street, Amgen, and Medvantix — in the industries where failure has consequences. Led by Aaron Contorer (former Microsoft Executive and Technical Advisor to Bill Gates), Wes Crook (35 years in enterprise delivery), and Michael Snoyman (World-renowned Haskell Expert, and author of Yesod, Conduit, and Stackage)
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