Why the Caribbean, Why Now
Forty million people across fifteen jurisdictions. One coordination opportunity the rest of the world is about to face. This is where agentic AI gets tested against the real world.
The Caribbean is not a small market. It is a fragmented one — and fragmentation is the most expensive opportunity in the world.
The thesis
Forty million people. Fifteen jurisdictions. Shared geography, shared climate exposure, shared diaspora — and almost no shared infrastructure. Every regulator, every payments rail, every disaster-response playbook is rebuilt from scratch in each island.
Agentic AI is, at its core, a coordination technology. It compresses the cost of translating between systems that were never designed to talk to each other. That is exactly the opportunity the region has.
If you can build agents that move money, goods, energy, and people across fifteen jurisdictions, you can build them anywhere.
Why the buildathon
We selected 10 tracks because each one is a real, funded coordination failure — not a hackathon prompt. Teams ship against operators who already lose sleep over the opportunity.
Three weeks. H200-class compute. Live finale at the NYSE. Capital in the room.
The Caribbean isn't the easy mode. It's the forcing function.
Small States Cannot Stand Still
At The Possibilities Summit in Barbados, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley made one thing clear: for small states, standing still is the real risk. A dispatch on adaptation, urgency, and the Caribbean's next move.
Mark Hill: The Next Industrial Revolution Is the Industrialization of Intelligence
At The Possibilities Summit in Barbados, Export Barbados CEO Mark Hill argued the world is entering an era where intelligence itself is being industrialized — and small states with vision can punch far above their population size.