Outride: COVID 19 Business Threat Seminar

utride covid 19 business seminar free

“Embracing risk for driving vision and growth”.

Join us for this diaspora business and non-profit leaders’ event.

Tell a friend, let’s gather in the thousands or hundreds of thousands!

Up to 1000 places reserved for entrepreneurs from mainstream majority groups              [Entrepreneurs with no Caribbean roots, Africans in Africa, all ethnicities, speaks and understand English]

Thursday, April 16, 2020 | 2:00 PM Eastern

Registration fee: Free

Speaker Sneak Preview

Mark Brown                                                                                                         Jamaica’s World Champion of Public Speaking, International Keynoter

Professor Amit Kapoor                                                                                     President & CEO of India Council on Competitiveness, Honorary Chairman at Institute for Competitiveness.

Victor Tembo                                                                                                  Head of Procurement, Green Climate Fund

Meegan Scott                                                                                                      Owner and Strategic Management Consultant at Managing Director of Magate Wildhorse Consulting, Founder of The Community of Practice for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Networking Session                                                                                 Orville Patrick with Music by Big 7 Promotions                                     Bring your water or champagne in your glasses and your snack of choice.       smileyred lipstick No eating of your snack before the time we remember this happening to some in 2018,                    

Moderator and convener: Meegan Scott

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Normality risk intellligence by Meegan ScottOutride is a series of 5 stand-alone seminars and action research designed to bring diaspora and Caribbean entrepreneurs across all continents together to:

  • share experiences
  • learn how to leverage risks intelligence for driving their business vision and growth during COVID 19 and beyond
  • execute actions for driving your business forward on spot through our built-in market meeting events
  • have fun, build real networks

Event features: Motivational talk, panel discussion, COVID 19 business community experiences (open mic―diaspora and in Caribbean segment), Elevator pitches (The first 20 registered to per series), one-on-one global matchmaking sessions, mainstream and diaspora entrepreneurs networking session

Series focus:                                                                                                              April 16, 2020                                                                                                              Series 1:  Risk Intelligence

Featured sessions:

Motivational Talk for COVID 19, with Mark Brown, World Public Speaking Champion

Risk Intellgience for Outriding COVID 19, focus on Business Models, Supply Change, Customers, the raise of Authoritarian States, Future Growth, Capital, Humanity and Nature, with Professor Amit Kapoor, Institute of Competitiveness India

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April 23, 2020                                                                                                          Series 2: Strategy planning for Outriding COVID 19

Featured Session                                                                                                Agribusiness Sector — Market Intelligence Planning & Response to COVID 19

COVID 19 Risk Intelligence: Are Your Legal Rights Protected in This Time of Uncertainty?

April 30, 2020                                                                                                           Series 3: Customer Service, Value & Sales

Featured session                                                                                                  Boosting Sales & Marketing with Social Marketing

May 7, 2020                                                                                                                Series 4: Nonprofit Governance and Response

Featured session                                                                                                  Risk Intelligence for Outriding COVID 19 — Key Questions,                                Practical Responses for SMEs

May 14, 2020                                                                                                            Series 5: Diaspora Supply Chain― Who’s Who

      Featured sessions

  • Disaster Risk Financing: CCRIF, Climate Risks and COVID-19
  • Digital Transformation – Process Pivots for COVID 19 and Beyond
  • Supply Chain― Diaspora Who’s Who for Outriding COVID 19
  • Diaspora entrepreneurs and wholistic sustainable economic recovery and development – A Governance Model.

May 21, 2020

Series 6: Trade, Finance and Investment

Featured Sessions 

  • Banks, Trade Finance, SMEs & COVID 19
  • Trade, Finance & Investment Insights for Outriding COVID 19
  • Deep Dive into Core Periphery Governance Network w Market Mode

May 28, 2020  

Featured Sessions 

Series 7: Wealth and Community Impact—COVID 19 and Beyond

  • Diaspora Investment Opportunities: Rechanneling Remittances Towards Productive Capital & Climate Finance
  • Delivering Impact—Strategic Planning, Assessment and Community Involvement
  • Comments on MSMEs and Diaspora Direct Investment (Jamaica & the Caribbean)

June 4, 2020  

Featured Sessions 

Series 8: Outride: COVID 19 — Old Markets, New Markets, Different Results

  • Strategic Alliances between GI Producers & Diaspora
  • The Joy Spot Motivation Talk
  • COVID 19 and Beyond — The Food Trade (An Overview)
  • 10 Steps – to Resilience & Risk Intelligence Competent Assignment

June 11, 2020

Delivered June 12, 2020

Featured Sessions

Series: 9 COVID 19 Opportunities — SDGs, Evaluation, Performance & Your Pivot

  • The Decade of Evaluation for Action – What’s in It for Caribbean Communities
  • The Joy Spot Motivation Talk
  • A Moment with Miss Lou
  • COVID 19 Opportunities — SDGs, Evaluation, Performance & Your Pivot (For profits & Non-profits)
  • Getting Ready to for re-opening of COVID 19 Closed Economic Activities & Markets

June 18, 2020

Featured Sessions

Series 10: Outride COVID 19 — Can Your National Brand Attract the Big Spend?

  • Doing Good, Doing Well: The Secret of National Image
  • The Joy Spot Motivation Talk
  • A Moment with Miss Lou
  • Jamaica Diaspora Week Salute
  • Tough Marketing for Tough Times
  • Cultural Sayings & Resilience Building Behaviours – Open Mic & Networking

Outride : COVID 19 Business Threat Seminar Series Extra

Series 11Citizen Generated Urban and Rural Data for Citizen-Centric Smart Sustainable Cities and Diaspora Change Makers

July 16, 2020

Email magate.wildhorse (at)gmail.com to be among the first to receive the link.

Embrace rIsks COVID 19 Too! by Meegan ScottExpress your interest in participating at: magate.wildhorse (at)gmail.com

Procurement officers and buyers in search of COVID 19 and other supplies are welcome to participate.

Outride: COVID 19 Business Threat Seminar is a global disapora entrepreneurs affair!                                                                                                                            Leaders of mainstream businesses with an interest in doing business with diaspora entrepreneurs are welcome to register for the match making and networking sessions.

Brought to you by Magate Wildhorse Consulting, 10 Times and The Community of Practise for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Home of BIDEM Conference & Trade Show)

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Outride: COVID 19 Business Threat Seminar

utride covid 19 business seminar free

“Embracing risk for driving vision and growth”.

Join us for this diaspora business and non-profit leaders’ event.

Tell a friend, let’s gather in the thousands or hundreds of thousands!

Up to 1000 places reserved for entrepreneurs from mainstream majority groups              [Entrepreneurs with no Caribbean roots, Africans in Africa, all ethnicities, speaks and understand English]

Thursday, April 16, 2020 | 2:00 PM Eastern

Registration fee: Free

Speaker Sneak Preview

Mark Brown                                                                                                         Jamaica’s World Champion of Public Speaking, International Keynoter

Professor Amit Kapoor                                                                                     President & CEO of India Council on Competitiveness, Honorary Chairman at Institute for Competitiveness.

Meegan Scott                                                                                                      Owner and Strategic Management Consultant at Managing Director of Magate Wildhorse Consulting, Founder of The Community of Practice for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Watch this space for updates!

Normality risk intellligence by Meegan ScottOutride is a series of 5 stand-alone seminars designed to bring diaspora and Caribbean entrepreneurs across all continents together to:

  • share experiences
  • learn how to leverage risks intelligence for driving their business vision and growth during COVID 19 and beyond
  • execute actions for driving your business forward on spot through our built-in market meeting events
  • have fun, build real networks

Event features: Motivational talk, panel discussion, COVID 19 business community experiences (open mic―diaspora and in Caribbean segment), Elevator pitches (The first 20 registered to per series), one-on-one global matchmaking sessions, mainstream and diaspora entrepreneurs networking session

Series focus:                                                                                                              April 16, 2020                                                                                                              Series 1:  Risk Intelligence

April 23, 2020                                                                                                           Series 2: Strategy planning for Outriding COVID 19

April 30, 2020                                                                                                           Series 3: Customer Service, Value & Sales

May 7, 2020                                                                                                                         Series 4: Nonprofit Governance and Response

May 14, 2020                                                                                                             Series 5: Diaspora Supply Chain― Who’s Who

Event registration link coming soon…

Embrace rIsks COVID 19 Too! by Meegan ScottExpress your interest in participating at : magate.wildhorse (at)gmail.com

Outride: COVID 19 Business Threat Seminar is a global disapora entrepreneurs affair!                                                                                                                            Leaders of mainstream businesses with an interest in doing business with diaspora entrepreneurs are welcome to register for the match making and networking sessions.

Brought to you by Magate Wildhorse Consulting, 10 Times and The Community of Practise for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Home of BIDEM Conference & Trade Show)

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Should Seeding Winners or Economic Inclusiveness be the Focus of Clusters?

Credit: TCI Network Source: https://www.tci2018.org

Credit: TCI Network
Source: https://www.tci2018.org

By Meegan Scott

Toronto, October 21, 2018 ― The 21st ‘TCI Network Global Conference’, the “leading global clusters event for government, business, and academic leaders” was held in Toronto October 16-18.

Event host, The Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity (ICP), and presenting organization, The Competitiveness Institute Network (TCI), made Toronto and Canada proud by delivering on the promise to explore thoughts, perspectives, best practices, and facilitate new connections in relation to clusters as vehicles for economic development and inclusive prosperity.

“Clusters are geographic concentrations of industries related by knowledge, skills, input, demand, and or other linkages” (The Journal of Economic Geography). Through co-location, shared learning, synergies, partnerships, and access to shared resources, clusters are designed to drive productivity, innovation, the formation of new businesses, and job creation.

However, the meeting of minds between, industry, academia, economics, and the social sector concluded with a challenge to the definition of clusters and their roles.  At the heart of the debate was the question of “what constitute a cluster in terms of― business mix and geographic location”.  And even more controversial was the debate surrounding whether “inclusiveness” should be a priority focus or an outcome for clusters. According to Margaret Campbell of the ICP, that institution has “advocated for the development of strong clusters in the province of Ontario as a medium through which to accelerate closing the prosperity gap between the province and its peer jurisdictions”.

That vision includes linking human capital and small businesses in inner city communities to more lucrative industry clusters.  But the traditional role of clusters was to seed and accelerate the growth of ambitious companies destined to win. Finding the middle ground between supporting born to win and finding the ambitious but weak and helping them to win was a challenge for the major stakeholders and leaders of the cluster sector.

Ifor Ffowcs-Williams led a powerful workshop on “Clusters and internationalization”, a session attended by Indera Sagewan of Trinidad and Tobago, the only Caribbean delegate in attendance at the event. Latin America and Europe, as well as global leaders in clustering were well represented among the 37 countries and 340 delegates in attendance. The Caribbean missed out on an opportunity that delivered 11 Greater Toronto area, cluster immersion experiences, and global matchmaking sessions with more than 70 participants.

For Indera the biggest take-away came from Conference Keynote Roger Martin, (Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management, and #1 Management thinker according to Thinkers50).  Her take-away― “Corporate Strategy is about choice: making the best choice.”  Mr. Martin shared an example of good and bad strategy “If the opposite of your strategy is stupid on its face it is not a good strategy―examples: a strategy aims at “maximizing customer strategy” the opposite would be “minimizing customer strategy” which is stupid.  He further pointed out that “the only thing important in strategy is what you do, not what you say”.

One of the inclusiveness strategies presented had to do with bringing businesses from one country eco-system to strengthen them for driving growth in addition, to sending businesses to the source eco-system.  Given, expected volatility and limited capacity of businesses (large and small) to bear the risks that is expected with advances in the adoption of Artificial Intelligence and robotics much of the global community is looking to clusters for additional capacity and for absorbing shock. The CARICOM Caribbean would be wise to partner with Latin America, Europe, and Canada for accelerating its current cluster development process.

“Absolutely yes!”, was Indera’s response to the suggestion above, she feels “cluster collaboration” was a missing link when comes to the CARICOM Caribbean and opportunities for accelerating business growth, competitiveness, and internationalization.

She noted that the term cluster is used loosely and incorrectly even among regional institutions with a mandate to promote business competitiveness”.  According to Indera, there is a need to “conduct cluster mapping exercises to identify those that are ready for expansion and growth”.  She believes the mapping should not be a purely top down process, but should include “bottom up involvement for identifying value chains, key players, institutional support and markets― so that gaps can be filled for driving growth”.

Indera, hopes to see policy level actions for cluster development as public and private partnerships, and incentive driven cluster development instead of fragmented development, driven by private sector entities”.

Finally, Ms. Sagewan is of the view that there is a need to develop regional clusters and supporting strategies for maximizing return to the Region. She believes “if economic development clusters are to drive growth and development in the region, there must be country specializations, competition, and collaboration among countries”.

Delegates at the conference were delighted to make the unexpected connections they did, as well as the possibilities for partnerships and collaborations they made, whether they attended the matchmaking events or not. There were plenty of opportunities for interaction and opening the conversation for future collaboration.

Photo Credit: Jenna Muirhead Source: https://www.tci2018.org

Photo Credit: Jenna Muirhead
Source: https://www.tci2018.org

Delegates from Latin America were expecting more opportunities to experience the workings and impacts of Industrial clusters in Canada, an area in which Canada is behind.  Canada past the flag to Belgium who will host next year’s Conference in Flanders.

About the author: Meegan Scott, B.Sc. Hons, MBA, ATM-B, CL, PMP., is Jamaica-born Strategic Management Consultant, at Magate Wildhorse Ltd in Toronto. This is a syndicated article.