University of Technology Jamaica

The Queen's School, Wolmer's HIgh School for Girls, University of Technology Jamaica

Ceo, Rebel Grrl Media Grp.  -  SiliconCaribe Tech Maven  -  Syndicated Blogger  -  Event Producer  -  🎧 Podcaster  -  Digital Nomad '07  -  Pro-CBD  - 

Caribbean Women in Tech is an organisation and community of executives, professionals and entrepreneurs who are in tech and the digital economy - committed to raising visibility and changing the face of technology and business in the Caribbean and Diaspora.

Caribbean Women in Tech

Executive Director and Co-founder

Kingston Beta is the hub of Jamaica’s Tech Scene and kickstarted Jamaica’s Tech Startup Community in 2007. It is also the Caribbean’s first and longest-running tech event and community.

Our Tech Events, Startup Stage, Office Hours, Workshops, Allstar Community, and Investor and Corporate Networks are fueling innovation, investments, and new business and helping to create a thriving tech entrepreneurial community. 🚀💡 

We’ve helped entrepreneurs, upskill, hire talent, connect to investors, get ecosystem player support, be accepted into global accelerators, and get millions of USD in investment deals.

We relish our role as a vital ecosystem builder and a driving force behind the development of the tech entrepreneurial and startup community.

Kingston Beta

Founder 

SiliconCaribe is a peer-to-peer, community-driven network committed to educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs and creatives. Our mission is to empower individuals by providing the support and excitement needed to launch and scale digital businesses, driving innovation, investments, and business across the Caribbean and its diaspora in New York, Miami, and London.

Through a dynamic and consistent roster of meetups, workshops, conferences, investor dinners, and various community activities, we bring together entrepreneurs of all kinds, C-suite executives, investors, non-profits, and government agencies. These events foster impactful knowledge exchanges, forge valuable connections, and create powerful stories that reposition the Caribbean as a hub where entrepreneurship, innovation, and excellence thrive—beyond the beach.

At SiliconCaribe, we believe in the power of community and connections. It is about who you know, and also who you want to know, that can truly propel your success.

SiliconCaribe helps:
- like-minded entrepreneurs connect with their peers working on their startups and digital businesses.
- entrepreneurs get upskilled, hire talent, get new business, get into accelerators, get funding
- entrepreneurs & CEOs to see the trends and business opportunities in tech and tech-enabled sectors.
investors to get leads

SiliconCaribe – Future-proofing the Caribbean since 2007. 
It was founded by Ingrid Riley.

EVENTS
Kingston BETA. Caribbean BETA. Startup Weekend Jamaica.  AgriHack. Fintech FWD. Fin4Ag. Digital Jam 2.0. Black Tech Week. SXSW Accelerator. Caribbean Bloggers Week. Caribbean Women in Tech.  Future of Caribbean Money. Beyond the Beach. TeenTechJa. Invest:Tech
Plus Investor Dinners. Entrepreneur SupperClubs. Impact Tours. Tech HappyHours. Workshops. Bootcamps.

IMPACT
We have helped entrepreneurs, learn, hire talent, connect to investors, get ecosystem player support, get into global accelerators, and US$Ms investment deals.

Silicon Caribe

Girls Who Venture is an organisation that explores and expands the knowledge of women entrepreneurship & the venture capital segment especially in emerging nations around the world.

Girls Who Venture

Board Member

This Week in Caribbean Tech Podcast gives you the information you need to make smart business decisions about how technology is changing the Future of Caribbean Business. 

With each episode, we give you an informative and irreverent take on the Caribbean Tech and Business News, Interviews, Trends and Opportunities, and the people and businesses driving it all.

This Week in Caribbean Tech - Is a Podcast from SiliconCaribe!

This Week in Caribbean Tech Podcast

Founder and Co-Host

As an appointed member of The Council’s Ingrid's main role is to assist in developing and executing the policies and practices of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Programme.  The Council also assists in selecting the Entrepreneurs and Programme Mentors participating each year. It shall also make recommendations to the Programme Manager to sustain and/or improve the execution of the entrepreneur development programme.

Development Bank of Jamaica Limited

Deputy Chair | Innovation & Entrepreneurship Programme

Strategic and Policy Direction plus the Promotion of Tech Entrepreneurship as Chairman of the Board of Startup JAMAICA. It is the Tech Startup Accelerator Programme that is a private public partnership between the Government of Jamaica, Jamaica National and FLOW.

Startup JAMAICA

Chairman

To drive the evolution of CaribbeanAxis.com into a one-stop resource for connecting to the Caribbean world, whether your interest is Caribbean lifestyle information, news, entertainment and more.

Caribbean Ideas Limited

Digital Content & Media Consultant

Online Advertising Network for the Caribbean

CaribClix

Co-founder and Director

We help Caribbean startups +  businesses leverage technology to innovate and prosper, by connecting them to the right people and information via our online media + event platforms.

Our flagship online media property is SiliconCaribe.com. Founded in 2007, it is the leading source for news, events and special reports on Caribbean technology innovation, startups and digital culture, for the over 20 million Caribbean and Diaspora entrepreneurs, executives, creatives and tech enthusiasts now online.

We are a big believer in the emerging #DigitalCaribbean and our inevitable success in the Global Digital Economy.

Additionally, we have STARTUP CARIBE is a regional community initiative with a mission to help Caribbean Tech entrepreneurs build great businesses and help grow the Caribbean Startup Ecosystem.  Since 2007, the programme has been connecting aspiring and current Caribbean entrepreneurs to each other, potential co-founders and funders via regular meetup and pitch events, educational events and online communities. Through the programme, we also keep the Caribbean Tech Community well information, through our Caribbean Tech blog and email newsletters. We’ve been priming the pipeline that’s leading to more Caribbean Startups.

Connectimass

Founder & CEO

getCONNECTiD is a boutique Digital Marketing company that helps your Caribbean Travel, Health + Wellness and Food + Beverage brand, to make sense of the Digital Space so that you win with customers and outrun the competition. 

We offer digital strategy, content and campaigns services that's steeped in customer insight and focused on helping you to become a Digital Success Story. Let us help you make the best marketing decisions  for your brand.

getCONNECTiD

Co-founder & Digital Strategist

A Digital Solutions Company.

I was responsible for the Company's Strategic Direction,Business Development and Project 	   Management

Key Accomplishments
: Led the Company to help over 40 businesses use the Internet as a marketing tool to 	    communicate with customers in fresh ways, build powerful brands and develop new markets.
: Hired,trained and led a cadre of programmers, graphic designers, writers to deliver high 
quality websites, identity development, online brand strategy and internet marketing 	   solutions  for small businesses as well as industry leaders in the financial, food and 	   beverage, arts and entertainment and telecom industries.
: Increased the company's annual revenues on an average of 15% annually for 2 years.
: Worked with some of the Caribbean biggest brands primarily in the Financial and Telecom industries.

Dutchpot Interactive

Co-founder

For this New York-based startup, I hired, trained and managed the content development team and the process in creating, aggregating and editing original text, audio, video and community web content;as well as produced interactive content tools for the best online user experience – all consistent with the company’s marketing, web site traffic and revenue goals. 

Worked closely with the marketing and the web development teams to ensure consistent communications across web sites. 

Key Accomplishments
 : Developed the web content prototype used to fast track the development of 9 of 50 	 planned 50 global HomeView sites.
: Negotiated contracts and signed high value independent content providers.
: Consulted with web content team leaders in Trinidad, Guyana, Ghana and Bangladesh.
: Designed and implemented an innovative web content production process and training manual.
: Recruited, trained and led a four-person content development team.

HomeView Media LLc

Chief Content Officer

Web publishing and Content Development Company

Key Accomplishments

Developed and co-edited the Caribbean’s first and only fully downloadable monthly magazine         that covers Caribbean Arts & Culture called Caribarts.
:  Caribgreetings.com – Web Content Development  for this the Caribbean’s first online greeting site. 
: Developed the first Internet Guide for Jamaica and the Caribbean ( iGuide) which won a National Press Association of Jamaica award for Innovation in Media.
:  Developed,produced and hosted a live weekly technology radio show called Tech Talk Live on
HOT 102FM of the CVM TV Communications Group.