Caribbean Tech Maven | Digital Media Entrepreneur Scaling SiliconCaribe | Syndicated Tech Writer | 🎧 Podcaster | Tech Event Producer | Keynote Speaker |
Founder
Founder of SiliconCaribe Media
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Categories covered by Ingrid
About this Speaker
Ingrid is currently focused on scaling SiliconCaribe.com - which provides Caribbean Startup and Technology News, Insights & Business Intelligence to Entrepreneurs, Executives, Creatives, and Investors.
SiliconCaribe is the trailblazing brand, that kickstarted the Tech Startup Scene in Jamaica, and that’s been helping to build the Caribbean Tech Ecosystem and drive Digital Caribbean since 2007 via 300 Tech and Business events, across 10 Caribbean nations and Diaspora US & UK. This in addition to many tech entrepreneurship initiatives with governments, development agencies, and Caribbean Businesses
For her work, she received both the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) 50Under50 Business Leader + TechLink Game Changer Awards.
Ingrid is now focused on growing Rebel Grrl Media a house of digital media brands( including SiliconCaribe) that are reflective of the New Caribbean emerging – that’s going digital, becoming more inclusive, embracing its fringes like Cannabis, and falling in love with itself again. Our digital media brands and live events educate, ignite conversations, and disrupt old narratives by amplifying the riches in our Caribbean niches, that’s Beyond the Beach.
Ingrid is A big believer in #DigitalCaribbean and its limitless possibilities for the Region and has been featured in a SiliconValley TEDx Talk given by Futurist Gary Whitehill.
While leading SiliconCaribe, she has advised Government Ministers, Universities, and Development agencies on digital trends, tech startups, innovation programmes, and startup ecosystems. She also served as Board Chairman of StartupJamaica; she has advised two Jamaican Minister of Science, Energy, and Technology via the National ICT Advisory Council and has been an SXSW Startup Accelerator Event Board Member.
She is the co-founder of Caribbean Women in Tech - an initiative that’s building a community of professionals and entrepreneurs who are in tech and the digital economy - and is committed to raising visibility and changing the face of technology and business in the Caribbean and Diaspora.
Ingrid is also Deputy Chair of the Development Bank of Jamaica's Mentorship Council for their Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme.
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