Future Caribbean

19/10/2026

Join Future Caribbean for Conecta Caribbean: Understanding the Prototype Grant Competition, featuring Audrey Joachim, Program Director at Conecta Caribbean and Bridge for Billions.

Discover how the Prototype Grant Competition supports entrepreneurs in transforming innovative ideas into viable business ventures. Learn more about the programme, its opportunities for Caribbean founders, and how early-stage entrepreneurs can take steps toward developing and validating their business concepts.

Conecta Caribbean, is an initiative of CARIBEquity, a Facility co-funded by the European Union and IDB Lab and implemented by Bridge for Billions

Date: Tuesday 20th October
Time: 1PM AST
Location: Virtual
Register: https://luma.com/sdyzne16 (link in bio)

18/10/2026

A movie 🎥 Straight through 🎬

Great memories, thank you Olympus Theatres Supernova Lab Export Barbados (BIDC) Bookit.com | Next-Gen Booking & Rewards

11/10/2026

08/10/2026

Demo Day - The full Run of Show is here! With 12 hours of programming across a range of industries, you can drop in for the sessions and tracks that interest you most.

Explore innovation across Tourism & Transportation, Energy, Ocean Systems, Food Security, Climate Risk & Disaster, Finance & MSME Capital, Healthcare, Food Systems & Supply Chains, Real Estate, Music & Arts, Open Track, and more.

📅 Saturday, October 10
⏰ 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM AST
📍 The Penthouse, Limegrove, Barbados
📡 Live streamed

Whether you’re joining us for one track or staying for the full day, choose your sessions, follow your interests, and discover what Caribbean innovators are building.

🎟️ Register via the link in bio.

06/10/2026

A tidal wave of innovation has hit the Caribbean. Now it’s showtime.

All summer, builders from across the Caribbean and around the world, spanning 39 countries, have been building Caribbean-relevant agentic AI solutions across disaster management, healthcare, finance, real estate, tourism, the blue economy, energy, food systems, arts and our open track.

This weekend, we bring it all together for the Future Caribbean Final Showcase.

Friday evening: Product Premiere at Olympus Theatres.
Saturday: Demo Day at Limegrove, live in Barbados and virtually around the world.

Come see what’s been built.

The future is being built here.

03/10/2026

Jamaica, thank you for showing up. 🇯🇲

Such a good evening with the Future Caribbean community in Kingston. Very Strong builder energy 🔋

Next stop: Demo Weekend in Barbados. 🌊

03/10/2026

I was in Kingston in 2023 when the idea to purchase FutureCaribbean.com came about, and the domain was bought.

The region needed an interoperability layer.

I was working with Orphaned Starfish Foundation and Other World Computing 🚀OWC🚀, introduced through , to outfit children’s homes in the region with computer labs.

As a lawyer, I knew how tough it was for fintechs to enter through multiple regulators, currencies and skepticism. Then I saw how tough it was even for free education resources to move island by island: donated Apple computers, technology and tutorships for kids.

I realized it wasn’t just resistance to fintech. It was a capacity issue. Too many balls to juggle and not enough hands. We needed an automated ball catcher for the region.

Investment and philanthropic capital would love to enter the region. The Caribbean is trending globally. But fragmentation makes it harder for resources to enter and for people inside the Caribbean to access resources and capital outside it.

Global capital needs scale. The Caribbean has scale but not one by one across 31 territories.

We needed a fabric that could API resources, knowledge, technology and capital into the region while giving the Caribbean a more unified interface with the world.

Then in February 2026, the world was hit by the agentic AI tsunami. 🌊 A wave made for us.

If you want to catch a wave, you have to be in the sea, not on the beach. So we’ve been wholesale building boards.

Connecting builders, advisors, global compute infrastructure, governments, corporations, capital and global networks to connect the region to each other and the world at the speed of ONE through agentic AI.

This week I’ve been back in Kingston, meeting with leaders across business and government, listening, learning and continuing to refine the philosophy behind Future Caribbean. Jamaica’s support has been incredible.

From our first meetup in Barbados, our almost 700-member Future Caribbean WhatsApp community was asking: “When Jamaica?”

Thank you to everyone who came out, opened doors and messaged and facilitated.

If solutions can work here, they can scale globally.

Built for the Caribbean. Built for the world

02/10/2026

We’re proud to spotlight our new partner, DropTV supporting the builders shaping what’s next.

Drop Tv is a media and entertainment platform bringing fresh entertainment, lifestyle content, and original programming to audiences.

We’re excited to have them alongside us as we celebrate innovation, creativity, and the people building the future of the Caribbean.

Welcome to the Future Caribbean community! 🌴🚀

02/10/2026

Join us in Barbados for Future Caribbean Demo Day, a 12-hour showcase of new products built by Caribbean innovators.!

Discover new products and solutions for the first time, meet the founders building them, explore potential partnerships, and get an early look at emerging investment opportunities.

Saturday, October 10, 2026
9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
The Penthouse, Limegrove, Barbados
Register: https://luma.com/9zn1h646 (link in bio)

Discover what’s being built for the Caribbean — and what comes next.

The event will also be live streamed, so you can follow the demos and showcase from wherever you are.

Book your stay in Barbados at exclusive Future Caribbean rate with http://bookit.futurecaribbean.com/access, powered by Bookit.

Selected teams. 10 opportunity tracks. 21-day build sprint. Building deployable Agentic AI systems for the Caribbean and distributed markets worldwide.