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JAMPRO- Jamaica’s Trade and Investment Agency signs on as Gold Sponsor for Kingston BETA 2013 event series
Apr 18th
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.
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Gleaner Online signs on as Gold Sponsor for Kingston BETA 2013 event series
Apr 18th
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. diGJamaica will be presenting on big data and Gleaner Online will be presenting its products, its position as the online market leader for news content and the various tech platforms that make data available across various platforms at the next Kingston BETA event on Thursday April 25th, 2013 at JAMPRO’s New Kingston Offices, 6:30pm, $500jm.
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SAVE THE DATE: The First Kingston BETA for 2013 will be on Thursday April 25, 2013
Mar 12th
The first in the series of four Kingston BETA events will be on Thursday, April 25th, 2013 6:30pm at the JAMPRO Offices in New Kingston. It’s a special edition that will have a panel discussion is STARTUP CITY: KINGSTON – How to make the city a hub for tech entrepreneurship and innovation. There will be as usual tech entrepreneurs pitching their ideas and will be judged by a panel of successful entrepreneurs who are also Kingston BETA alumni. Entry Contribution: JMD$500 |USD$5.
Do you want to pitch your idea or startup at this event whether you are in Kingston or from Kingston living the region or Diaspora. Send in your name, idea in a single paragraph with a link if relevant in an email to ingrid@connectimass.com.
If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact Ingrid Riley ingrid@connectimass.com | 1 876 864 2440.
The Kingston BETA event series is brought to you by now award-winning media organisation ConnectiMass that offers content, community and events for aspiring and current Caribbean entrepreneurs in technology. ConnectiMass is a mission to drive tech entrepreneurship and innovation in the Caribbean.
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Kingston BETA – it gets even better in 2013!
Jan 8th
This year we celebrate 6 years of Kingston BETA and we’re happy to be part of what’s helping to grow the Jamaican/Caribbean Tech Community. In 2013 it gets better. We will see more and a greater diversity of startup pitches from across the Caribbean and Diaspora; very interesting and inspiring guest speakers and a more diverse and energetic crowd of people attending.
We resume our event series in February 2013. Watch this space for details.
Get ready to be even more informed, inspired and connected because of our Kingston BETA events and being part of the community. Remember to join the community online at Facebook and on Twitter.
The team at ConnectiMass is looking forward to it all.
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Who is a Tech Entrepreneur? Gordon Swaby #cbeta2012
Nov 1st
Who is a Tech Entrepreneur? Typically defined, a tech entrepreneur is a woman or man who applies their ideas using technology. Over the years the technologies being used have primarily been the Internet and the mobile phone/device. So if you surf online or use a mobile phone chances are you are using a product or service – such as an app, a website, a game, a social network that was created by a tech entrepreneur. Inspired?! You can be one too.
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KeyStone Augusta – gives $500,000 to become a Diamond Sponsor of Caribbean BETA
Oct 8th
L-R: Bianca Welds, Special Projects Manager ( Keystone AUgusta), David Mullings, Managing partner ( Keystone Augusta) and Ingrid RIley, Founder of ConnectiMass
At Kingston BETA last Thursday, David Mullings, Managing Partner of KeyStone Augusta presented Ingrid Riley, Founder of ConnectiMass, the social venture that stages Kingston BETA bimonthly meetups and Caribbean BETA- The annual Tech Entrepreneurship Conference -with a cheque for $500,000jmd. Keystone Augusta continues to be a great supporter of the Jamaican tech Community and this is the second time they are sponsoring the conference.
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Creating the e-nabling environment to maximise growth in the ICT sector
Oct 8th
Julian Robinson, State Minister in Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining spoke to the Tech Community at Kingston BETA, October 4th, 2012. This is his slide deck. He was very well received and gave the community alot of think about, question, position for and be happy about.( video coming)
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The next Kingston BETA is on Thursday October 4th 6:30pm at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel
Sep 23rd
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The next Kingston BETA will be on Thursday October 4th, 2012, 6:30pm at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, Talk of the Town 17th Floor.
This is the last Kingston BETA event for 2012 as we end of the year as usual with our annual Tech Entrepreneurship Conference – Caribbean BETA slated for Friday November 16th, 2012.
You have to attend this edition.
- Speaking – Hon. Julian J. Robinson is the Minister of State Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining who wants to speak to and get feedback from the tech community about coming developments from the government.
- Launching-Jamaica Yellow Pages. They will be launching their Blackberry mobile App.
- Launching – Here more about who’s speaking, what are the topics, who’s sponsoring Caribbean BETA 2012
- Pitching – As usual we’ll have aspiring and current entrepreneurs
-Connecting – The Community of current and aspiring entrepreneurs, developers, designers, professionals in the tech industry always attend to network, share ideas and what they are working on.
When: Thursday Oct 4th, 2012
Where: The Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston. 17th Floor
Time: 6:30-9:00pm
How Much: $500 contribution to tech community development
We live tweet all the events. Follow @kingstonbeta and the hashtag #kgnbeta
This Kingston BETA event is brought to you by Sponsor Jamaica Yellow Pages
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What I learnt from attending #TechHUbTuesday Demo Night in London
Aug 15th
TechHubTuesday
by Ingrid Riley
I went off on holidays for 3 weeks in London and with newly made relationships in the London/EU Tech Scene I decided to attend London’s leading tech community meetup and demo night. It’s called #TechHubTuesday and it’s based at the Google Campus. It was held on August 7.
Billed to be 2 hours long including networking and solely demos/pitches as we at Kingston BETA also call it. It was £6 to get in for TechHub members and those who follow them on Twitter and £9 for those are not members and are not Twitter followers. So that’s $828jm and $1,242. They use eventbrite.com for you to register, pay by credit card/paypal and check in to attend the event, you print your ticket, present it at welcome desk, you are given roll of name tags to write your name, tag yourself and you’re in.
The room is set up theatre style with the TechHub and Google branding with a small at the back of the room bar serving Stella Artois beer, white and red wine and chips, or what the Brits call Crisps. People network before, while others connect to the WIFI to start tweeting using tech hashtag #techhubtuesday.
The Setup
The host is a woman and there is another young woman who is the volunteer floor runner who helps in getting the wireless mic to attendees with questions is Bailey @baileytalks. She welcomes everyone to #TechHUbTuesday Demo Night, states that there will be six demos/pitches tonight, how long each entrepreneurs is allowed to pitch – 3 mins and then more minutes of questions there after. And they pretty much stick with that plan.
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The Panel of Speakers at Kingston BETA June 21 Edition ( Pic)
Jun 24th
Photo: L- R: Matthew McNaughton, Co-founder Slashroots Developers Community; Khary Sharpe, Ceo of Bakari Digital; Ingrid Riley, Co-Founder/Host of Kingston BETA; Bevil Wooding, Internet Strategist/Founder of Bright Path Foundation ( Trinidad) ; Rodney Browne, Ceo of eCaribbean Ltd ( St Kitts) and Tony Eliasz, Head of Mobile Innovation and Entrepreneurship at InfoDev, World Bank.
It was a pretty robust and interactive panel discussion at the last Kingston BETA held on Thursday June 21, 2012 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. The topic was “Apps Caribe – How will/can Mobile Apps transform the Caribbean.”
