I flew into Punta Cana expecting two days of connectivity policy. Useful context, adjacent to what I actually build. That was wrong. The Caribbean Digital Transformation Accelerator, hosted by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, turned out to be a compressed education in the machinery that decides whether an AI company in Georgetown can ever operate at regional scale. Cables, spectrum, procurement law, concessional finance, and the political economy binding them together.
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We cannot make more time. It is the one honest constraint every professional shares, no matter the field or the title. Yet over two Saturdays this July, more than one hundred professionals here in Guyana spent their mornings learning how to reclaim much of it. That was the whole idea behind The Intelligence Worker, the opening workshop in the national AI-Ready Professional series, which I designed and delivered. It was offered completely free to every participant, courtesy of the Industry and Innovation Unit of the Office of the Prime Minister.…
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A Treatise on the Secrets of True Power Download the printable PDF edition · Read the story behind it Preface These words were not written at a desk. They were spoken on a walk, between a father and his son, beneath the open sky of an ordinary morning that turned out to be anything but ordin...
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This morning I took a walk through the park with my son. Nothing unusual about that. We try to move our bodies most days, and the walking is usually when the real conversations happen. But somewhere along the path, between the trees and our own long shadows stretched out on the pavement, the talk turned to the things I most want him to carry through life. Power. Presence. Who we really are underneath the roles we play. I had my phone with me, so I pressed record. Just a father thinking out loud with his boy.
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I recently had the privilege of presenting at the WCCIG, WE3A Conference on a topic that is reshaping our world—AI in business. The theme, "Digital Intelligence Unlocked," couldn’t be more relevant as we witness AI's transformative impact across industries. Raising AI Awa...
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Apart from the brief remarks given in this micro-documentary about techpreneurship as part of the EU's push for Women in STEM, I'd like to highlight where it was shot and who was featured in this intriguing find from my recent past on YouTube. In 2016, I cofounded a coworking s...
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Today, I had the immense honor of sitting alongside key figures in industry and government: Allistair Routledge, President of ExxonMobil Guyana; Dr. Peter Ramsaroop, Chief Investment Officer of the Guyana Office for Investment; Hon. Vickram Bharrat, Minister of Natural Resources; and Kiana Wilburg,...
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This week I gave a THAG talk about practical applications of AI Agents in tourism and hospitality where I shared a demo of our agentive platform, TrueSelph. We now have the technology to enlist digital employees to address talent shortages, work 24/7, respond immediately on all digital com...
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If we can agree that our education system has traditionally aimed to produce those who can produce, then we must also recognize the inevitability of advancements in the tools that enhance their productivity. Today, we are witnessing the emergence of generative AI, a significant leap forward in t...
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The paramount goal of national or regional development in our age of artificial intelligence has to be the nurturing and retention of human capital. Regardless of how well thought out our plans for AI may be, we would be hard pressed to lift them off the ground without a thriving, local te...
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