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Caribbean Dragons, Port of Spain (2026)

20/04/2026

Join us this Friday!
Register at
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26/03/2026

Our webinar with the incomparable Jenny Lindblad was a huge success. Thank you to the 50+ of you who spent your lunch break with us! We're really proud that we could bring such a valuable learning session to you.

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19/03/2026

Our 2026 kick-off event!
Description: A great company is not enough, you need a pitch that makes people get it fast.
Learn how to make your pitch clear,
memorable, and impossible to iqnore
Discover the kev elements behind pitches that build trust and spark interest.
Walk away with practical tools to
strengthen your story, structure, and
deliver!

Featured Speaker: Jenny Lindblad is a
Stockholm-based Investor Pitch Coach
working globally with Pre-Seed to Series A founders.
She has coached 1,400+ startups across
Europe, North America, and emerging
ecosystems worldwide, helping founders sharpen their investor pitch and fundraising strategy.
With more than 5,000 presentations
delivered herself, Jenny brings deep
experience in high-stakes communication.
Her Perfect Pitch'M framework focuses on structure, claritv, and decision-driven
storytelling - enabling founders to deliver powerful investor pitches that resonate with venture capital investors.
Jenny is also an angel investor, LP, and
former Chief Storvteller at AirForestry,
combining operational experience with
investor insiqht.
Her mission is simple:
To empower founders and unlock the
capital that moves ideas forward,

To register, join our community platform:
https://dragons.group.app/

16/11/2025

🌍 Introducing the Caribbean Dragons Keystone Ambassadors Program

Every ecosystem needs connectors - people who see possibility where others see distance.

Help us welcome our Keystone Ambassadors! Donald Harmitt Júlia Goldman Vel Lejbman Travis Miller Bianca Welds Rosalee Gordon Damian McIntyre Chelsea Elli Nandlal

The Caribbean Dragons Keystone Ambassadors Program is our way of building those connections across the Caribbean and Latin America. These Ambassadors are innovators, investors, and ecosystem builders who embody our shared mission: to strengthen collaboration, open new pathways for founders, and champion the Caribbean’s creative and entrepreneurial potential.

Together, this inaugural cohort will help:
✨ Link emerging startup ecosystems with regional and global networks.
✨ Facilitate collaboration between public, private, and academic sectors.
✨ Spotlight Caribbean innovation stories on international stages.
✨ Support founders, partners, and investors in accessing new opportunities.

From Port of Spain to São Paulo, Kingston to Bridgetown, our Keystone Ambassadors represent the next phase of growth for Caribbean Dragons; a living network of trust, talent, and transformation.

This is how we expand the frontier of innovation together.

15/11/2025

From Rhythm to Revenue: Unlocking the Caribbean’s Creative Economy

At IGNITE 2025, the Creative Economy panel pulsed with one unifying belief - the Caribbean’s creativity is not just culture; it’s capital.

Stephen Hadeed Jr., Carla Parris, Bascombe and Nigel Thompson explored how the region can turn its artistic brilliance into structured, export-ready industries.

Their experiences - from shooting for BET and producing law-meets-culture web series, to touring globally and managing intellectual property - painted a shared truth: the Caribbean doesn’t lack creativity; it lacks systems to make creativity scalable.

Core insights from the discussion:
🌟 Creativity is enterprise. Caribbean creators must see themselves as entrepreneurs. Success comes when artistry meets business acumen - clear contracts, ownership, and global distribution strategies.

🌟 Data is our missing infrastructure. Without reliable metrics on the creative sector’s contribution to GDP, it’s nearly impossible to attract financing or investment. Measuring creative output is the first step to legitimizing it.

🌟 Regional collaboration is key. From co-production treaties to inter-island distribution networks, creatives must move from working in isolation to building shared platforms that can export film, music, and digital content at scale.

🌟 Export strategy matters. True visibility comes not from virality but from strategy - understanding markets, forming partnerships, and positioning Caribbean culture for both diaspora and global audiences.

🌟 Education drives equity. As one panelist put it, “We celebrate talent, but we rarely teach ownership.” Creative education must include IP, publishing, and financing to turn passion into protection.

The session closed with a call for action - a Creative Economy Fund and a regional data dashboard to track growth, build investor confidence, and move beyond anecdote.

The Caribbean doesn’t need to prove its creativity - it needs to own, fund, and distribute it.

14/11/2025

From Soil to System: Rethinking Caribbean Agriculture Through Innovation

At IGNITE 2025, the Agriculture Innovation panel grounded the conversation in both realism and hope - exploring how the Caribbean can modernize its food systems through technology, education, and circular thinking.

Dr Ronald Roopnarine and Christian Young Sing discussed the challenges of small island farming - from complex topography to cultural perceptions - and the need for a new generation of agri-innovators who see the sector not as “back-breaking work,” but as system design.

Key insights emerged:
🌟 Topography demands technology. With 122 soil types in Trinidad alone, uniform farming methods don’t work. Precision agriculture, hydroponics, and localized data can make cultivation more efficient and climate-resilient.
🌟 We must rebrand agriculture. The old imagery of boots and pitchforks won’t attract young people. Agriculture must be presented as a field of science, entrepreneurship, and sustainability - where data, design, and creativity matter as much as muscle.
🌟 Circular models can feed resilience. A standout initiative from UWI and FAO uses black soldier fly larvae to convert organic waste into protein-rich animal feed - turning food waste into feed and fertilizer. It’s an elegant loop of circular economy and food security in action.
🌟 Education needs depth, not shortcuts. The region is producing too many “generalists” and too few specialists. As one panelist put it, “You can’t take a six-month course and call yourself a climate expert.” The future of agriculture depends on deeper scientific and technical learning.
🌟 Regional collaboration is essential. No single island can solve food security alone. Shared agricultural districts, common infrastructure, and coordinated value chains can help the region produce strategically and sustainably.

The Caribbean doesn’t need to feed the world - it needs to feed itself intelligently.

13/11/2025

Turning Waste into Wealth: Climate Finance and Innovation in the Caribbean

The IGNITE 2025 Climate Finance panel challenged one of the region’s most persistent myths - that climate action is a cost. In truth, it’s a market waiting to be built.

Fern Gray and Tobias Schulze Frenking explored how the Caribbean can move from awareness to enterprise, using climate finance and innovation to unlock growth, resilience, and circular opportunity.

Here’s what stood out:
🌟 Adaptation is our business model. While the Caribbean contributes only 0.2% of global emissions, it bears the brunt of climate impacts - from floods to heatwaves. The real opportunity lies in adaptation technologies: solutions that help communities survive and thrive in a changing climate.
🌟 Finance follows clarity. Climate finance is donor-driven, but success depends on showing clear climate rationale - how a project mitigates emissions or adapts to risk. Entrepreneurs must translate their innovation into impact metrics that financiers can recognize.
🌟 Circular economies can power growth. From waste-to-energy systems to recyclable packaging, rethinking byproducts as inputs opens new industries. As Fern noted, “We can’t treat waste as waste in islands this small.”

Panelists agreed: the next frontier of Caribbean innovation will not be digital alone - it will be climate-smart, locally engineered, and globally investable.

The question is no longer whether climate change will affect us - it’s how creatively we choose to respond.

12/11/2025

Reimagining Health: Building the Caribbean’s Next Wave of Health Tech Innovation

The IGNITE 2025 Health Tech panel pulled no punches: if the Caribbean is to lead in healthcare innovation, it must start by solving its own fragmentation.

Chris Morris and Gerard Thomas explored how the region could turn its unique demographic, talent, and diaspora into an advantage rather than a constraint.
They painted a compelling vision - one built on connection, data, and courage to experiment.

What we learned:
🌟 Fragmentation is the first disease to treat. Data silos, paper-based systems, and disconnected pharmacies create friction that stifles innovation. A shared data infrastructure and health “sandbox” model could let startups test and pilot solutions safely while maintaining oversight.

🌟 Preventative care must become the new default. The Caribbean can learn from Asia and the UK, where insurers and employers invest in wellness and chronic disease prevention. Preventing illness is both a public good and an economic strategy.

🌟 Think regional, act global. With 50 million people of Caribbean descent worldwide, the diaspora is not just a market - it’s a network. Health tech solutions built here can scale across Latin America and into the global South, particularly in chronic disease management and wellness tourism.

🌟 Build locally, test regionally, scale globally. Starting with pilot programs in islands like Barbados or Trinidad, innovators can design context-specific tools - then expand to broader markets with real evidence of impact.

🌟 Health tech could become a foreign exchange earner for the region, as medical tourism, wellness services, and AI-powered diagnostics attract global demand.

The Caribbean’s next health revolution won’t begin in hospitals - it will begin in data, design, and the belief that we can heal our systems as boldly as we heal ourselves.

11/11/2025

Beyond Access: Rethinking Financial Inclusion in the Caribbean FinTech Landscape

At IGNITE 2025, the FinTech panel John Outridge Annie Bertrand and Anthony Zamore cut through buzzwords and got real about what inclusion actually means in a region still dominated by cash and cautious regulation.

The conversation moved from policy to practicality - exploring how risk-based approaches, regulatory technology, and new financial tools could finally unlock capital for MSMEs that have long been left out of the formal system.

Three big truths emerged:
🌟 Inclusion requires differentiation. One-size-fits-all regulation excludes thousands of small entrepreneurs. A risk-based approach - supported by RegTech - can make onboarding MSMEs affordable while maintaining integrity.

🌟 Digital finance must meet people where they are. From credit unions to mobile money, the Caribbean’s financial landscape is fragmented but full of opportunity. With 70% of transactions still done in cash, the challenge isn’t access to tech - it’s trust, usability, and literacy.

🌟 The future is interoperability and collaboration. Regional integration of instant payment systems (IPS) could transform trade and empower small fintechs to operate across borders. As one panelist put it, “If we integrate finance, we integrate the region.”

The group also tackled the rise of stablecoins and virtual assets, seeing potential for faster payments, cross-border trade, and diaspora investment - while stressing the need for strong consumer protection and national readiness.

Their vision for 2030?
A financially inclusive Caribbean where MSMEs can scale without friction, digital transactions flow across islands, and regulation evolves in step with innovation - not behind it.

If the next decade belongs to ecosystems, financial inclusion is where our ecosystem begins.

10/11/2025

Learning by Doing: Natalia Jiménez on Building Exponential Organizations

At IGNITE 2025, Colombian entrepreneur Natalia brought contagious energy to a simple but transformative idea: “Every exponential organization starts with a why.”

Drawing from her journey at Lulo Bank, Latin America’s first carbon-neutral financial app - which raised over US $200 million and planted 80,000 trees through its impact program - she challenged founders to think beyond growth charts and into purpose-driven design.

To build exponentially, she said, requires a different kind of DNA - one that measures learning velocity instead of vanity metrics, and scales trust before headcount.

Her core lessons for founders:
Build with curiosity, not certainty.
Ask better questions.
Learn by doing.
Scale trust, not control.
Exponential organizations thrive on community and connection, not hierarchy.
Measure learning, not noise.
Results speak louder than roadmaps - what matters is progress built on insight.

Jiménez reminded the audience that behind every exponential curve is a team that stayed when it was easier to quit.

The next decade won’t belong to industries - it will belong to ecosystems that collaborate.

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