Kingston Beta - the hub of Jamaica’s Tech Scene and Startup Community since 2007. A Community of Digital Rockstars. Founded and Led by @IngridRiley
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Possession is available now on HBO Max in Jamaica, the Caribbean and Latin America. Over 300 Jamaican cast and crew behind it. Go watch.
#Possession #FilmJamaica #JAMPRO
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What does real innovation look like in small island nations?
It isn't about copying Silicon Valley—it’s about engineering homegrown tech solutions to solve local, complex problems.
bit.ly/4zONY0R
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The average age of people who founded high-growth startups is actually 45. s.hbr.org/4sUSSW5
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@biancawelds and I point this out to people so often and yet they find it hard to believe.
By the time you are 45 you have decades of real-world experience, have built up a strong professional network of collaborators, people who facilitate introductions and understand what it takes to manage people.
The young founders who do well get the limelight because they are outliers and outliers always get the spotlight.
The many many failed young entrepreneurs do not get highlighted and so our perception of founders gets skewed.
The average age of people who founded high-growth startups is actually 45. s.hbr.org/4sUSSW5
"Caribbean Tech Week is that one signature week a year where Caribbean innovators, startups, companies, organisations and governments raise their hands to say this who I am, where I am, what I am building, investing in and I am ready to collaborate and do business with you and the world on a whole different level. It’s about our global Caribbean Innovation economy and how we’re positioning ourselves on our terms."
⁃ Ingrid Riley
Founder of SiliconCaribe + Caribbean Tech Week
Feb 28-March 6, 2027 | CaribbeanTechWeek.com
#CaribbeanTechWeek
Why these 8 Industries and 50 Caribbean Companies are One Startup and One Ai Tool Away From Disruption. siliconcaribe.com/2026/03/19…
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"...lower compute costs, and reduce energy consumption, bringing intelligence to a broader population at a lower price and making large models truly accessible to all."
"Do good together with the many; share skill so that the many may be skilled."
Most important lab on the planet.
🚀 Introducing DeepInfer, our in-house inference framework, now fully open source!
Powering DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at scale with high throughput and low latency. We’re sharing our production stack to help the community lower compute costs, reduce energy use, and make AI more affordable.
🔗 github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepI…
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Just 3 weeks after our first call for events, Caribbean Tech Week 2027 has surpassed Year 1: nearly 20 events + 3 new countries!
Connecting Caribbean tech, founders, investors, and innovators across the region and diaspora.
And we're just getting started! 🚀
#CaribbeanTechWeek
🌍 CARIBBEAN INNOVATION HAS NO BORDERS.
Our talent is global. Our ambition is limitless.
Caribbean Tech Week 2027 is connecting people, ideas, and opportunities across borders.
Feb 28–Mar 6, 2027
Host an event. Become a partner.
🔗 CaribbeanTechWeek.com
#CaribbeanTechWee #CTW2027
Caribbean Tech Week- A global Caribbean technology and innovation platform.
#CaribbeanTechWeek
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The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.
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Universal Cart 🛒 is rolling out in the U.S across Google Search and the Gemini app. It’s giving everyone an intelligent shopping cart and a new hub for shopping on Google.
Shopping rarely happens in one sitting. Universal Cart puts you in control: it helps you save items you love from multiple retailers across the web, make sure you never miss a deal, and enjoy effortless checkout powered by UCP.
It's time to catch up and meet up!
We're doing a Kingston BETA pop-up meetup with @thejtda in two weeks.
For fresh connections, the best conversations, and a community of Digital Rockstars. Join us!
Wednesday, October 28th, 2026. 6:30 pm- 9:30 pm, AC HOTEL Poolside Bar.
HOSTS
-Ingrid Riley, Founder of SiliconCaribe and Kingston BETA
-Raquel Seville, President of JTDA and CEO of Dataffluent
See you there!!
"You win at life by doing hard things enough times that you become the person who does hard things."
- Mark Manson
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Being called delusional is part of the price of achieving outsized success.
You cannot become an outlier if you allow other people to define your maximum elevation.
One day they will say that they always believed in you even though they doubted you the whole time.
You are responsible for staying motivated. No one owes you anything.
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ICTP 421: Social media bans, digital literacy versus digital natives, and balancing technology use and social development bit.ly/3W7gYSJ
#podcast #ICT #Caribbean #youth #socialmedia #digitalliteracy
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Part of the reason debt repayment is so high as a % for low-income countries is because multilaterals repeatedly forced them to borrow at high interest rates while cutting investment in things that would grow their economies, like education, healthcare and local industry.
The film “Life and Debt” offers a great breakdown of how that was done to Jamaica.
Money spent on interest is money that can't go to public investment, social spending, or support during downturns. In low-income countries, interest payments today consume over 15% of tax revenues. Read more in the latest Fiscal Monitor blog: imf.org/en/blogs/articles/20…
We Did It in 2026. Now We're Going Bigger!
Year one of Caribbean Tech Week taught me something I’ve believed for 19 years: when you give Caribbean people a reason to gather, they show up.
In February 2026, we launched Caribbean Tech Week with a 40-day run-up. No big budget. No guarantees. Just a simple idea to test: one week, many cities, one connected digital Caribbean.
Here’s what our community built in that first week:
→ 14 events
→ 10 cities across the Caribbean and the diaspora
→ 35+ speakers
→ 500,000+ reach
Founders, investors, developers, creators, companies, organisations, policymakers and students came together from Kingston to Port of Spain, Curaçao to Newark, St. Lucia to South Florida, in person and online.
None of it happens without our hosts and partners.
Thank you to Kingston BETA, Orbtronics, The Worx, RevUp Caribbean, Mscale, =SPACE, Founder Institute Caribbean, Haitians in Tech, Islandpreneur, Jersey Tech + Innovation, JTDA, Kolektivo and every organisation that put their name on the line in year one.
Now we’re going bigger.
Caribbean Tech Week 2027 runs February 28 – March 6, with more cities, more events and more ways to connect the global Caribbean innovation economy.
If you’re a founder, company, creator, community, university, investor, or government that wants to put your city on the map, submissions are open.
And if your brand wants to stand behind the rise of the digital Caribbean, let’s talk about partnership.
👉 caribbeantechweek.com
#CaribbeanTechWeek #CTW2027 #CaribbeanTech #DigitalCaribbean #Startups #Innovation #Diaspora
CARIBBEAN TECH WEEK IS BACK!
One Week. Many Cities. One Connected Digital Caribbean.
February 28 – March 6, 2027.
After a first proof-of-concept year that brought together 14 events across 10 cities, with 35+ speakers and a reach of 500,000+, we're coming back for year two.
And we're building something bigger.
Caribbean Tech Week is a global, multi-city gathering connecting the founders, creators, investors, business leaders, companies, and communities shaping what's next in Caribbean technology, business, and digital culture.
From the Caribbean to our Diaspora hubs around the world, we're bringing people together to discover ideas, share knowledge, build partnerships, do business, and unlock new opportunities.
And here's the thing: you can help build it.
🌎 Bring an event to your city.
🎤 Share your expertise as a speaker.
🤝 Partner with us to activate a city, theme, or region.
🚀 Be part of a connected global Caribbean innovation economy.
The official website is live.
Applications and expressions of interest are open. We already have NY, Miami, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago applications rolling in.
Explore how to get involved:
make year two extraordinary.
A SiliconCaribe Event
#CaribbeanTechWeek #CTW2027 #CaribbeanTech
#DigitalCaribbean #SiliconCaribe
