Startup Weekend 2014, which seeks to improve lives in T&T, takes place June 12-14 at One Woodbrook Place, Port-of-Spain.
Participants will have the opportunity to pitch their ideas, form teams, validate concepts, build a product, and present their work to a panel of well-qualified and experienced judges—all in just 54 hours! The event will be co-sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
The IDB—through the Demand Solutions Model—is seeking to foster a culture of innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean that will encourage new approaches to addressing development challenges, while generating an active dialogue on innovation, creativity, and calculated risk-taking.
The IDB’s Demand Solutions Model is based on Open Innovation and relies on using internal and external paths and ideas to develop new solutions.
The strategy is to connect every innovation activity into one participative model for all IDB components. The Demand Solutions model is designed to accelerate the process of improving lives.
The winning ideas will be awarded the opportunity of becoming part of the REACH Caribbean Innovation Competition (CIC), a regional contest and business start-up accelerator for innovative ideas with commercialisation potential. The CIC will be launched in the summer of 2015.
With financing from the IDB’s Regional Public Goods Initiative, the REACH Project aims to strengthen the business commercialisation capacity of competitively selected Caribbean entrepreneurs and firms and is being executed by the University of the West Indies in partnership with the World Intellectual Property Organization, Compete Caribbean, Caribbean Tales, and the Young Americas Business Trust.
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For more information on the agenda, speakers, mentors and the topics during Startup Weekend in T&T, check the Web site: http://www.startupweekendtt.com/