Future Caribbean‘s Global AI Movement Accelerates with Inaugural Agentic AI Assembly, Recruitment Continues Worldwide
BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS – July 13 – Future Caribbean hosted its inaugural Agentic AI Assembly from July 10–12 in Barbados, bringing together leading Agentic AI builders, founders, investors, and researchers for three days of hands-on collaboration focused on the future of open-source Agentic AI. The event was also live streamed, allowing a global audience to participate virtually, with satellite events held throughout the region.
The Assembly marked the next milestone for Future Caribbean, which had rapidly grown into a global AI initiative in just six weeks. Since launching its Global Open-Source Agentic AI Buildathon, the initiative had attracted nearly 700 builders, founders, investors, advisors, judges, and ecosystem partners from around the world, with applications and participant recruitment continuing as judging took place on a rolling basis.
Future Caribbean continued to welcome founders, developers, engineers, advisors, judges, and partners from around the world to join the initiative, collaborate with the growing global community, and apply to build the next generation of open-source Agentic AI companies with real-world impact.
Hosted at the Inter-American Development Bank Barbados Country Office, the Assembly featured technical workshops, live demonstrations, collaborative build sessions, and discussions focused on deploying AI agents to solve real-world challenges across industries including finance, energy, healthcare, tourism, and climate resilience.
The event was led by Lily Dash, Founder of Future Caribbean and Co-Founder of ACTAI Advisors, alongside Steven Echtman, Founder of ClawCamp, with special guest Ajay Yadav, Founder of The Vibe on Instagram.
“In just a matter of weeks, we’ve seen incredible momentum from builders and partners who share the vision of creating the next generation of AI-native companies for and from distributed markets,” said Lily Dash. “The Assembly was about turning that momentum into collaboration while continuing to grow a global community of builders. We continued to actively recruit participants from around the world, and by live streaming the Assembly and hosting satellite locations around the region, it became easier than ever for innovators everywhere to get involved.”
The technology was designed for distributed markets, and the Caribbean served as a strong example of such a market, with multiple currencies, legal systems, languages, and regulations. The initiative focused on coordinating technologies around that distribution. If the model worked in the Caribbean—a complex distributed market and one of the best deployment environments for companies—it had the potential to scale globally across other distributed environments. The Caribbean was not unique in its distributed nature, as much of the world operates as a distributed market.
Future Caribbean brought together an international network of partners including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), IDB Invest, ACTAI Global, ACTAI Advisors, Cayman Enterprise City, Export Barbados, ClawCamp, Highrise AI, MiniMax, OWC, The OECS, DMZ, and numerous global private sector, regional technology, and government organizations.
The Assembly built on the ongoing Global Open-Source Agentic AI Buildathon, where applications from around the world continued to be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis ahead of the finals at the New York Stock Exchange later this year.
By connecting world-class builders, investors, and institutions, both in person and online, Future Caribbean aimed to establish the Caribbean as a launchpad for the next generation of open-source Agentic AI companies with global impact.
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