Startup Weekend Barbados

A 3-day event comprised of workshops, mentoring, start up business support and a software hackathon, where individuals and teams of entrepreneurs, innovators and software developers will be coached through the start-up of a new business enterprise and respond to the needs of local & regional businesses by developing a software solution that solves a problem identified by the participating business enterprises.

The focus of this event will be the encouragement of innovation and entrepreneurship using ICT leading to the establishment of new business enterprises and creation and testing of software applications with demonstrable commercial appeal.

The Hackathon will seek to address national challenges by solving problems across a range of industry sectors including:

• Tourism
• Education
• Healthcare
• Government
• Cultural Industries