PRESS: Helping Caribbean Entrepreneurs Get Down to Business
Increasing Support and we're very Happy. It's been a very good year so far for ConnectiMass and the Jamaican/Caribbean Tech Community it serves. We are attracting more sponsors and partners with ease than 18 months ago, our blog SiliconCaribe.com became a media sponsor of Trinidad Startup Weekend, we had Cayman (Interactive.ky) and a Barbadian group sending us good news about the development of meetups, coworking and accelerator initiatives happening in their countries so we could share it with our readers on SiliconCaribe. After sitting on ...
Join our BETA Talent Database for connections to Opportunities.
[caption id="attachment_2189" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="photo: bt.au.com"][/caption] Join The BETA Talent Database for connections to Opportunities. It's a database of the best and brightest in the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora who are seeking connections to opportunities. Are you a developer, designer, animator, project manager, etc? Are you looking for a job, projects, partnerships, funding? Then add yourself to our database, our mother organisation ConnectiMass gets asked regularly to recommend and connect individuals. Click here
Opinion: Jamaica – the hub of innovation and entrepreneurship in the Caribbean?
Our Founder Ingrid Riley was part of the delegation to Startup Chile. A 12-person delegation, headed by Julian Robinson, minister of state in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, has just returned from a four-day visit to Santiago, Chile, to see first-hand how that country is developing a robust ecosystem for entrepreneurship and innovation. The World Bank was the sponsor of the visit and was represented by Fabio Pittiluga, senior social development specialist in the Sustainable Development Department for Latin America and the Caribbean, and consultant ...
Kingston BETA featured in the May/June issue of Caribbean BEAT magazine
Thanks for Georgia Popplewell, Kingston BETA got featured in the May/June issue of Caribbean BEAT - The Inflight magazine of Caribbean Airlines. "Years before she launched Kingston Beta, Jamaican tech entrepreneur Ingrid Riley started hearing about techies holding these things called “meetups” in places like New York City and Silicon Valley. “When I went abroad,” Riley says. “I attended one or two, and realised it was basically a regular meeting for people in the industry, whether they’re designers, developers, entrepreneurs, or investors. It’s about being in the same space ...
SiliconCaribe readers Get Discount to Trinidad Startup Weekend with our promo code
Are you headed to Trinidad’s Startup Weekend like we are. Are you a reader of SiliconCaribe.com, then get a special discount on tickets with the siliconcaribe promo code when you sign up via this link. Regular tickets are (TT$550/US$86)US$86 dollars. Get it for TT$500/US$79.
ConnectiMass launches BETA HUB Newsletter
BETA HUB Newsletter is a a free monthly email of News, Opportunities and Events for the Caribbean Tech Industry. It is a hub of information on upcoming Meetups, Opportunities, Workshops, Classes, Competitions and Conferences, Deals and more for the aspiring or current Caribbean tech entrepreneur, developer, designer, investor, student, tech enthusiast or advocate. It keeps you on the pulse of the people and events that are making Entrepreneurship & Innovation happen in the Caribbean Tech Startup Scene. Then Join the BETA HUB Community. The BETA HUB Newsletter is published by ConnectiMass The Tech Entrepreneurship Foundation that's the parent of this blog and ...
Deputy Governor of the Bank of Jamaica Speaks on Mobile Money and Opportunities for Young Tech Entrepreneurs at Kingston BETA
Livingstone Morrison, Deputy Governor of Finance & Technology at Bank of Jamaica( BOJ) will be speaking on Mobile Money and the opportunities for young tech entrepreneurs at Kingston BETA, Jamaica’s tech community event to be held this Thursday April 25th, 2013 at JAMPRO’s headquarters at 6:30pm. It will be $500jmd/US$5 at the door. With the much anticipated electronic retail payments guidelines now finalized and published, there is now a need to further publicise and explain it to the influential audience ...
Our next KingstonBETA event is this Thursday, April 25th, 2013. Join us!
The next @KingstonBETA staged by Connectimass is this Thursday! To our Caribbean and global friends and colleagues We’ll be live tweeting as usual. Follow us @kingstonbeta and the hashtag #kgnbeta. Spread the message- We’re on a mission to help Caribbean young people and women become successful tech entrepreneurs!
Gleaner Online signs on as Gold Sponsor for Kingston BETA 2013 event series
ConnectiMass the nonprofit organisation that stages the most tech events for the Caribbean Tech Community has partnered with Gleaner Online who have signed on as Gold Sponsor for Kingston BETA 2013 event series. They will be presenting on big data, entrepreneurship at the next Kingston BETA event on Thursday April 25th, 2013 at JAMPRO's New Kingston Offices, 6:30pm, $500jm. Follow @gleaneronline, @jamprocorp, @kingstonbeta, @connectimass
JAMPRO- Jamaica’s Trade and Investment Agency signs on as Gold Sponsor for Kingston BETA 2013 event series
ConnectiMass the nonprofit organisation that stages the most tech events for the Caribbean Tech Community has partnered with JAMPRO- The Trade and Investment agency of Jamaica - who have signed on as Gold Sponsor for Kingston BETA 2013 event series. They will be hosting the first in the series on Thursday April 25th, 2013 at JAMPRO’s New Kingston Offices, 6:30pm, $500jm. Follow @gleaneronline, @jamprocorp, @kingstonbeta, @connectimass