“We Support Youth Unleashing Ideas” Opening Program in St. Lucia November 13 & 14 2018
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About Startup Huddle St. Lucia Startup Huddle St. Lucia is a free, monthly program designed to Educate, Engage and
Connect Entrepreneurs. On the second
Wednesday of every month, Entrepreneurs come together to pitch their startup, reveal challenges and crowd-source solutions. It is
not a sales pitch, and it is not an investor pitch. When Entrepreneurs present, the goal is to have people understand what they do and some of the challenges and successes they have had in building their business. From local and regional founders, innovators, educators, and investors, to a global network of Entrepreneurial leaders, Startup Huddle St. Lucia provides a unique platform to strengthen the startup community.
About SLUDTERA SLUDTERA is a social enterprise with a mission to improve communities, provide people access to employment, and to help the environment through education, training, and entrepreneurship. The primary focus is on youth and marginalized individuals (stay-at-home moms, retirees, persons with disabilities, and ex-offenders). SLUDTERA will accomplish this goal by working in collaboration with businesses, units of government, educational institutions, labor and community-based organizations.
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Startup Huddle St. Lucia Launch Agenda November 13th 2018 - The Official Launch/Meet & Greet 6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Prayer, Opening Remarks, Introduction
6:40 pm - 6:45 pm
Special Guest Speaker.
-Co-Founder
of 1 Million Cups, Cameron Cushman
6:45 pm - 6:55 pm
Official Program launch Presentation.
-Team
Leader, Michelle N. Samuel
6:55 pm - 7:10 pm
Special Guest Speaker.
-Inventor & CEO of The Cut Buddy, Joshua Esnard 7:10 pm - 7:25 pm
Special Guest Speaker.
-Entrepreneur, Consultant, Trainer - Gregory Skeete 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Meet & Greet/Media and Press Interviews. -Live Performance, KL Productions
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November 14th 2018 - “We Support Youth Unleashing Ideas” Entrepreneur Presentations & Organizers’ Forum 9:30 am - 9:45 am
Prayer and Welcome.
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Special Guest Speaker.
-Entrepreneur, Inventor, Joshua Esnard 10:00 am - 10:52 am
“We Support Youth Unleashing Ideas”. Each founder presents for 6 minutes followed by 10 minutes Q&A with the expert panel and then 10 minutes Q&A with the audience.
Startup Presenter 1: KL Productions -Founder, Samuel Lubin &
Startup Presenter 2: Algas Organics -Founder, Johanan Dujon 10:52 am - 11:00 am
Announcements and Vote of Thanks.
11:00 am - 11:20 am
Networking. Refreshments sponsored by Melly’s Mix It Up. Live music by KL Productions.
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Organizers’ Lunch. (For Organizers, expert panel, guest speakers and presenters only.
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
The Organizers’ Forum. Featuring Organizers, the Expert Panel, Special Guest Speaker, and Key Stakeholders.
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Startup Huddle St. Lucia Startup Entrepreneur Presenter Biographies
Johanan Dujon Algas Organics. From St. Lucia. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Algas
Organics, the Caribbean's first indigenous agriculture biotechnology company. Algas Organics uses Caribbean plants to formulate environmentally-friendly agricultural inputs, which are designed to improve crop resilience and increase yields without harming their users or damaging the environment. He has a degree in Business Studies from Sir Arthur Lewis Community College.
Samuel Lubin KL Productions. From St. Lucia. Samuel K Lubrin is an amazing individual filled with potential
and has developed a love for music over the past year. The love of saxophone developed the passion towards playing it, likewise getting to write his own songs and poems. Deriving the inspiration from his mom, Samuel started his own music group KL Productions. Samuel graduated from the Clendon mason memorial secondary school then went on to study agriculture at SALCC. He has done a plethora of workshops, hosted five gospel concerts. He is a writer musician, event planner, technician and farmer.
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Startup Huddle St. Lucia Organizer Biographies
Michelle N. Samuel Head organizer. From St. Lucia. Founder &
CEO of SLUDTERA - a social enterprise with a mission to improve communities, provide
people access to employment, and to help the environment through education, training, and entrepreneurship. SLUDTERA will accomplish these goals by working in collaboration with businesses, units of government, educational institutions, labor and community-based organizations. Key Milestone projects include; The Entrepreneurship Readiness Program Inc, Startup Huddle St. Lucia, and The Next Big Inventor Pitch Competition.
Vanetta Phillip Regional Co-organizer. From St. Lucia, based in Trinidad & Tobago. Founder and CEO of Evolution Public Relations Management. To be the driving force behind our upcoming and established
artists, guiding them in proper methods of representation and to become the first choice for small business owners for all their public relations needs.
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Eber Ravariere Regional Co-organizer. From Dominica.
President of SOUL Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society Ltd. A Youth-Led Multi-Purpose Cooperative focused on utilizing unified funds and efforts to improve wellbeing through sustainable agriculture.
Marie Lestel Kelly Regional Co-organizer. From Nicaragua. Founder of
Transform your idea. A project that was formulated with the necessity to create a space where women victims of domestic violence will create their source of income, with small businesses from their space and be elements for the economy of their family and community.
Giesele Dolcy Local Co-organizer. From St. Lucia.
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Daniel Marcion Belle Portwe & Wedding Belle. Photographer. From St. Lucia. My work is who I am. It is an amazing feeling to capture people, nature, feelings and one’s surroundings into a single frame, which then tells a story of imagination, expression and life. It is my wish to share these visions with others through my photography, and to be able to showcase my talents to a wider audience. "I believe that criticism is necessary to nourish one’s growth and foster development of one’s talent"
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Startup Huddle St. Lucia Special Guest Speaker Biographies Cameron Cushman Entrepreneur, From Kansas City Missouri. Cameron worked at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City where he focused on strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Kansas City region. He also co-founded 1 Million Cups, a weekly educational program for startups that is now in over 150 US cities. In prior roles at the Kauffman Foundation, he directed efforts to educate policymakers about the importance of entrepreneurs as job creators and was involved in several efforts in Washington to improve the policy environment for entrepreneurs including the Startup Act of 2011, the Startup Act 2.0, and the JOBS Act. He was also an occasional contributor to entrepreneurship.org.
Gregory Skeete Entrepreneur, Consultant, Trainer From Barbados.
Gregory Skeete helps people and organisations of all types and stages achieve peak performance, via his unique combination of skills and experience. He is an engineering professional with industry experience in the areas of Manufacturing, Process Engineering and Operations Management from the Caribbean to Europe. One of his core strengths
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is the ability to simplify complexity when teaching or coaching and he specialises in the development of Human and Business Performance. This Entrepreneur and Award-winning Author is also the Founder of Life Engineer Inc. and The Pilly Pelican Company as well as a globally certified Coach, Trainer and Speaker with the John Maxwell Team, the world’s premier institute for leadership development.
Joshua Esnard Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker Coach. From St. Lucia, based in North Carolina. A native of the small Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Joshua Esnard is a classic example of the American Dream.After being featured in
Forbes, G Q, and B lack Enterprise and landing a deal with Daymond John on Shark Tank,
Esnard has become a highly sought after entrepreneurial, business, and motivational speaker and consultant. As a motivational speaker, Joshua's immigrant success story of childhood wonderment, innovation, determination, sacrifice, and perseverance as well as the entertaining and personable way he communicates it will inspire and motivate any audience.
Educate, Engage, Connect
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Startup Huddle St. Lucia Partners and Sponsors
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