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ICTP 289: Akata Farms, AgTech and why passion doesn’t sell, with Bevon Chadel Charles

Posted by Michele Marius | 14 Feb 2024 | Podcast Episodes

How long could our countries feed themselves if they were cut off from the rest of the world and could only depend on the resources currently within their domain? It is a question more countries are grappling with when addressing matters related to food security and sustainable agriculture. In this podcast episode, we circle back to Bevon Chadel Charles and Akata Farms in Grenada to find out, among other things: how the farm has been doing since our first conversation in 2021; what Bevon thinks about the ‘new’ focus on AgTech and the challenges of that space that people don’t talk about; and why passion doesn’t sell.

ICTP 288: AI insights and takeaways from the World Economic Forum at Davos, with Joel Dean

Posted by Michele Marius | 7 Feb 2024 | Podcast Episodes

Without a doubt, many conversations are being had globally on artificial intelligence (AI), and one of the most important occurred during the recently held Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Software Architect and Tech Entrepreneur, Joel Dean, who attended the meeting, joins us on this episode and shares with us: the AI-related issues that were discussed at Davos; important takeaways he had from those discussions; and how we, in the Caribbean (and perhaps more broadly developing countries), should be positioning ourselves for AI and the future of tech.

ICTP 287: Becoming a robotics powerhouse, with Professor Ricardo Neil of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Robotics Association

Posted by Michele Marius | 31 Jan 2024 | Podcast Episodes

The robotics programme in Saint Kitts and Nevis has been growing from strength to strength since we last spoke to Dr. Ricardo Neil in late 2018 and even has expanded to other Caribbean countries. Now the Chairman and Founder of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Robotics Association, Professor Neil discusses, among other things: how the Saint Kitts and Nevis robotics space has evolved; Caribbean-wide trends that might be emerging; some of the challenges or opportunities specific to the region that we ought to consider; and how we could better build a thriving robotics ecosystem in the Caribbean.

ICTP 286: e-Commerce, internet resilience, and the Caribbean brain drain in the remote work era

Posted by Michele Marius | 24 Jan 2024 | Podcast Episodes

In our January 2024 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Esmeralda Levens of BearingPoint Caribbean in Curaçao, and Technology Architect and Digital Transformation Consultant , Garfield Gordon, of Jamaica, the panel discusses: e-commerce in the Caribbean; the resilience of our internet infrastructure; and the Caribbean brain drain in the remote work era.

ICTP 285: What we should want from the Internet in 2024 and beyond, with Shernon Osepa

Posted by Michele Marius | 17 Jan 2024 | Podcast Episodes

Is the internet we should want in 2024 different from the internet we wanted in 2014? The internet of 2014 has evolved considerably, but have our expectations of the internet and the ways we could be using it, kept up with the developments that have occurred? With Telecommunications/Internet Operations and Policy Strategist, Shernon Osepa, we discuss the current state of the internet in the Caribbean region and how we could be better leveraging it in 2024 and beyond.

Category: Podcast Episodes

ICTP 288: AI insights and takeaways from the World Economic Forum at Davos, with Joel Dean

ICTP 287: Becoming a robotics powerhouse, with Professor Ricardo Neil of the Saint Kitts and Nevis Robotics Association

ICTP 286: e-Commerce, internet resilience, and the Caribbean brain drain in the remote work era

ICTP 285: What we should want from the Internet in 2024 and beyond, with Shernon Osepa

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