CMIP “Global Tech Trends” Webinar

The Caribbean Mobile Innovation Project, coordinated by the University of the West Indies (UWI), cordially invites you to the Caribbean Mobile Innovation Project’s (CMIP) “Global Tech Trends” Webinar on Thursday, February 26, 2015 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm EST. The speaker will be Mr. Soji Ojugbele, Product Specialist with Android Wear at Google Inc. Soji has been involved with wearables for 2 years now, starting with the launch of Google Glass. He now works on the Android Wear team at Google, evangelizing the products, providing useful demonstrations and supporting the platform.

The CMIP is an integral part of the Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean (EPIC ), a US $20M program funded by the Government of Canada and executed by infoDev/World Bank. The CMIP is thrilled to welcome Soji as this webinar falls in line with its mandate to strengthen the Caribbean mobile innovation ecosystem.

As stakeholders in this ecosystem, we should all be keenly aware of tech trends representing intelligence on the edge, to ensure we capacitate ourselves to allow innovation to flourish. Soji’s webinar will aid in keeping you at the forefront of today’s paradigm of innovative technology trends.

A major aspect of strengthening the Caribbean mobile innovation ecosystem is ensuring all players have a pulse of the nature of activity taking place in the region. This will reduce the probability of duplication of efforts and will allow for the strengthening of connections between the members of the ecosystem, fostering greater sustainability of the community. To this end, the webinar is being staged to both share knowledge critical to those who are committed to remaining on the edge of innovation and bring together key players to foster the growth of the ecosystem. A key tool is being developed by the CMIP to map the ecosystem.

The main objective for the development of this tool is to provide crowd-sourced information to foster interaction and development of the mobile innovation ecosystem, especially among CARICOM members. The map will represent an interactive data visualization of the full universe of Caribbean mobile innovation stakeholders, and as such will undoubtedly become a useful reference.

The agenda for the Feb 26, 2015 Global Tech Trends webinar is as follows:

1:30 – 1:35 pm  –  Introduction and putting the Webinar in context – Ayanna Samuels

1:35 – 2:05 pm  –  Today’s Global Tech Trends                                       – Soji Ojugbele

2:05 – 2:20 pm  –  Wrap up and Forward Charge/Next Steps             – Angelique Mannella

2:20 – 2:30 pm  –  Questions

We’d be delighted if you would join us to help to move the Caribbean mobile innovation space forward. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cmip-global-tech-trends-webinar-tickets-15765656503 by Tue Feb 24, 2015. The URL for the webinar will be shared in reminder notifications. Questions may be addressed to Mr. Robert Whitehorne at Robert.whitehorne@uwiconsulting.com