Program in St. Lucia
Wednesday August 14th 2019
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About The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN Global) The Global Entrepreneurship Network operates a platform of projects and
programs in 170 countries aimed at making it easier for anyone, anywhere to start
and scale a business. By fostering deeper cross border collaboration and initiatives between entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, policymakers and entrepreneurial support organizations, GEN works to fuel healthier start and scale ecosystems that create more jobs, educate individuals, accelerate innovation and strengthen economic growth. GEN helps celebrate, understand, support and connect entrepreneurs and those who champion them. https://genglobal.org/content/programs
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 crowdsource 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. Blog site - https://startuphuddlestlucia.wordpress.com Event website - https://startuphuddlestluc.wixsite.com/shsl
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About The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Program The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) builds linkages between young leaders across the hemisphere. YLAI addresses the opportunity gap for youth, especially women, by empowering business and social entrepreneurs with the training, tools, networks and resources they need to transform their societies and contribute more fully to economic development and prosperity, security, human rights and good governance in the hemisphere. Some of the Entrepreneurs who present at Startup Huddle St. Lucia may be eligible to participate in this program. See link below for eligibility requirements. https://ylai.state.gov/about-ylai
About SLUDTERA Host of the Startup Huddle St. Lucia Program - 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. SLUDTERA will accomplish this goal by working in collaboration with businesses,units of government, educational institutions, labor and community-based organizations. Michelle merges the missions of GEN and YLAI and bring them to light for the St. Lucian Entrepreneurial community with Startup Huddle St. Lucia. https://sludtera.wordpress.com
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August 14th 2019 Agenda 9:30 am to 9:40 am 9:30 am to 9:40 am 9:45 am to 9:50 am 9:55 am to 10:01 am 10:05 am to 10:15 am 10:15 am to 10:20 am 10:25 am to 10:35 am 10:35 am to 10:41 am 10:45 am to 10:55 am 10:55 am to 11:05 am
Prayer & Welcome and Meet our Organizers Introductions - Meet the Expert Panel Papillon Handmade – Founder, Vernesa St. Marie Q&A with the Expert panel Q&A with the Audience Announcements Exotic Cuisine SLU – Founder, Trudy Popo-Leonce Q&A with the Expert panel Q&A with the Audience
11:10 am to 11:20 am Speaker - Michelle N. Samuel, YLAI Ambassador 11:25 am to 11:45 am items 11:45 am to 12:00 pm
Networking and refreshments/purchase display
Media interviews
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About the Startups
Entrepreneur: Vernesa St. Marie
Company: Papillon Handmade
We produce uniquely handcrafted handbags and accessories. Handcrafted in St Lucia.
Entrepreneur: Trudy Popo-Leonce
Company: Exotic Cuisine SLU
Exotic Cuisine Slu is solving the factor of healthy eating use to bland now that is no more with our line of products. further persons with chronic diseases can now consume tasty meals and snacks with no health risk.
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About the Speaker Michelle N. Samuel, Entrepreneur/Missionary/Visionary Meet
SLUDTERA’s
Founder
and
President
Michelle N. Samuel. M ichelle is a woman of faith, a devoted mother and an advocate for change. She grew up in a single-parent home raised by her mother, a skilled and educated teacher. Growing
up
into
adulthood,
Michelle
constantly saw things which needed to be mended, fixed, adjusted and changed. She was not a woman who stand idly by, and see someone fail, while others simply stood around muttering under bated breath awaiting disaster. There was always a compel to do more. As an Entrepreneur, Michelle’s quest for wanting to evoke change didn’t waver. In 2017 with strength the Lord provided, Michelle founded SLUDTERA, a platform of programs and initiatives created by Michelle, and communities that source, connect and empower youth, the unemployed, and Entrepreneurs. What did she see that needed to change? The high unemployment rate, particularly among young people, the unemployed and Entrepreneurs. Michelle was also on a mission, to let these individuals know that they were not alone, and by God’s grace and with their trust in Him, they could make a change in their lives.
Michelle has since become as inspirational Entrepreneur, who was chosen to represent St. Lucia in a five-week Fellowship called the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Program (YLAI), which she
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that the light bulb it’s hovering around is the furthest it can get, only to discover how vastly unexplored its surroundings have been, and that the world’s biggest light source is the sun. “So in an ambitious effort of guts and grit, with faith, it ventures out to learn all it can in order to come back to the other moths desperately trying to get a turn to hover around the light bulb”. During and after a five-week Fellowship that she participated in, called the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Program (YLAI), Michelle was very busy associating herself with key stakeholders and making valuable connections.
Michelle worked closely with Daniel Smith, the Equal Opportunity Manager at the Full Employment Council (FEC) main office, in Kansas City, Missouri. Thanks to Daniel’s networking and outreach activities, Michelle’s resource pool grew by leaps and bounds. These connections would serve a very intrinsic purpose in her organization, and for the people that this organization exists to assist. Through the relationships created with these various local, regional and international organizations, Michelle will be able to forge those necessary and much-needed opportunities, that her customers and clients are searching for. Professional Accolades; ●
2017 Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Professional Fellow
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2018 Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Recruitment Ambassador to St. Lucia
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Member of The Royal Commonwealth Society International Network
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Fellow at Kauffman FastTrac
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Member of the Global Innovation Through Science and Technology Initiative (GIST Tech-I)
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Member at MIT Climate CoLab
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Member of the International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG)
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Member of the Entrepreneurship Campus Community (Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship)
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Member of the International Exchange Alumni (IEA)
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Community Member at 1 Million Cups Kansas City (#1MCKC)
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Member of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN Global)
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Member of the Microsoft Cloud Society
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Member of the YLAI Network
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International Visitor Leadership Program Fellow at the Full Employment Council (FEC)
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Member of the Youth Advisory Group at Youth Lead – Youth Power Learning
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Member of Youth Lead
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Judge for the 2018 Young Women Transform Grant Competition
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Junior Judge for the 2018 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition
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Promoter of the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition in St. Lucia
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Head Organizer of Startup Huddle St. Lucia
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Feature in the 2018/2019 St. Lucia Yello Telephone Directory
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Co-founder & Managing Partner of the Next Big Inventor Competition
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Informal Startup Huddle Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN)
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2019 Ecosystem Champion of the Year Nominee (Startup Huddle St. Lucia)
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Judge for Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) 2019
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Junior Judge for the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition
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Partner with Global Entrepreneurship Network for The Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC)
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Previous Startup Huddle St. Lucia Presenters KL Productions – The Band, ‘One Beat Ahead’, is a music catering company which offers great music and song writing services. We provide live performances at weddings, grand openings/launches, award ceremonies, small parties, fundraisers, and funeral services. We also provide song writing services in the genre of Gospel for well-known local artists. Algas Organics is a Caribbean manufacturer of natural agricultural & gardening inputs. We are currently based in Dennery St. Lucia. Synergistic Island Lifestyle Brand Curative Showcasing & Promoting Quality 100% Genuinely Authentic,Novelty Artisan St Lucian Products,Talents & Services. St. Lucia's Market place see products listed on EasyClickMarket.com and purchase them with your debit or credit card.
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Smith’s Agro and Packaging Supplies is a retailer for agriculture supplies and a distributor of bottles, Jars and pouches of various sizes and other packaging material in St. Lucia. SLUDTERA is a with a mission to improve communities, provide people access to employment, and to help the environment through education, training, and entrepreneurship. SLUDTERA will accomplish this goal by working in collaboration with business, units of government, educational institutions, labor and community-based organizations.
Open Opportunity - Become a Startup Huddle St. Lucia Ambassador! Want to find out more about Startup Huddle St. Lucia? Connect with an Ambassador near you; Castries - Kennedy Austin - kaustinshsl@gmail.com Soufriere - Jessica Alexander - jalexandershsl@gmail.com Babonneau - Trudy Popo-Leonce - tpopoleonceshsl@gmail.com Are you interested in becoming a Startup Huddle St. Lucia Ambassador? Apply today right here https://startuphuddlestlucia.wordpress.com/apply-to-be-an-organizer
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