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Join us for the BIDEM Brawta (Extra) Trade Show, Bazaar, Match Making and Networking Session.

Nov. 19, 2020 – 11:15 AM – 4:00 PM EST

Showcase your services, Traditional Knowledge, Creative Industries  & High Value Manufacturing Solutions!

Agripreneurs and healthcare service providers welcomed.

For you if you are looking for investors, partners and collaborators, to grow sales locally or domestically or just to keep you brand top of mind.

Mainstream entrepreneurs, Caribbean business leaders [local and in the diaspora] and entrepreneurs of African descent are welcome.

No wirefence, if you are in business and want to do business with Caribbeans, come over.

11:15 – 12:00 PM – Revenue Protection & Assurance

12:00 – 1:00 PM   –  Medical Trials, Sports and IP

1:00 – 2:00 Networking

3:00 – 4:00 Match Making

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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.

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

Watch this space for updates!

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)

Advance or maintain the progress.

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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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Born Global & Born-Again Global Businesses:Pathways to Internationalization, Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs & Peer Entrepreneurs

Panel Title: Born Global & Born-Again Global Businesses: Pathways to Internationalization: Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs & Peer Entrepreneurs

Organizer: Meegan Scott & Magate Wildhorse Ltd on behalf of The Community of Practice for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Moderator: Meegan Scott, Magate Wildhorse Ltd
Panelists:
• Loretta Green-Williams, Caribeme Magazine
• Marguerite Orane, Free & Laughing
• Marva Hewitt, Food Hygiene Bureau
• Tamu Petra Browne, Innovative Education and Training Solutions
• Lester de Souza, Impact Galaxy


A Global Entrepreneurships Week (GEW 2018) Event!

Held: November 13, 2018

Findings from Panel Discussions

Born Global Panel Report Final

This the first public event hosted by The Community of Practice for Caribbean Immigrant Entrepreneurs.

All partner including South Florida

Benefitting from a Community of Practice

The Equalizing Community of Practice Has Arrived!

Recent studies show that the Caribbean immigrant in Canada and other OECD countries are among the least likely to start and grow a business. Many Caribbean immigrant businesses fall in the micro business category with incomes well below US $500,000 per annum.

On the other hand, immigrants from Europe and Asia form and grow businesses at a rate that leaves a huge gap between them and their Caribbean counterparts. Ironically, the Caribbean immigrant is more likely be a lower income earner who is underemployed or serving in a precarious job, irrespective of qualifications. Besides paying the bills there is a serious risk to the financial freedom and economic wellbeing of current and future generations of Caribbean immigrants.

But does it have to be this way?

I doubt that I am alone in thinking— absolutely not!

The social, economic, and ideological factors that were relevant in causing the belief that entrepreneurship was undesirable or impractical for the Caribbean immigrant has been dead for at least two decades. But like the proverbial frog the community did not feel the water change temperature and now we are almost cooked. This situation is one of those rare cases when “urgent” is “important”.

Entrepreneurship experience, knowledge and big business success are needed in order to make entrepreneurship which is vital to our survival desirable, financially viable and feasible. A community of practice (CoP) provides the perfect opportunity for coming together to tackle and solve the problem of missing high-performance businesses by Caribbean immigrants in Canada and the wider Caribbean diaspora.

A CoP is made up of individuals with a vested interest in a subject who engage in joint activities, share information, stories, discussion, and approaches in order to help each other while developing and gather best practices. The level of trust and quality of relationships that exist among members is of great importance to them. It is one of the factors that distinguishes a CoP from other social networks.

Being able to learn from each other through frequent and rich interactions is key to the effectiveness of a CoP (Dialogue and engagement is essential, it does not work like one of those Facebook Group where many members merely join but do not share and engage with each other). Good old fashion social skills beliefs and behaviours are essential if a CoP is to deliver impact. By impact we mean the desired change and results for having come together for solving the problem in the first place.

When you join a CoP pretend you have entered someone’s home or a social gathering to share and exchange (There must be greetings, questions, conversation and a commitment to sharing and learning whether meetings occur in a Facebook Group, a hotel meeting room or web site.). Shared interest and a willingness to share for helping each other is at the heart of a CoP. It could not be any other way since the purpose of the CoP in not just about social networking, it is about problem solving.

Among the outcomes of a CoP are a collection of shared stories, experiences, tools, resources and knowledge collaterals for solving challenges that are common and likely to happen again.

CoPs have been used for facilitating innovative learning in various fields including health care, knowledge management and ICT as well as by professional groups. It is now being applied to entrepreneurship.

The High-Performance Caribbean Entrepreneur’s Ring has been established for facilitating the kind of sharing, gap assessment, networks, markets and problem solving for ensuring Caribbean immigrants can be among the groups with the highest rates of starting and growing successful businesses.

It provides the perfect opportunity for research, action learning and discussions for generating needed knowledge and experience.

The solutions shared and provided by a CoP of Caribbean entrepreneur in diaspora markets who are concerned and passionate about growing successful businesses will deliver significant value while increasing the viability and desirability of owing a business.

Entrepreneurs and their families are not the only ones who will benefit from such a CoP, cities will benefit from economic growth and more rapid assimilation of immigrants. The Caribbean community at home and aboard will benefit from improved levels of economic wellbeing, financial freedom and the acquisition of productive assets. The reputation of the community will be enhanced and like other immigrant groups the culture of Caribbean entrepreneurship abroad will be distinct, rich and a source of pride. What’s more it can ensure inclusiveness in the representation of Caribbean immigrants not only in terms of ethnicity but also by race.

The majority of Caribbean immigrants speak English, are highly educated or skilled and possess significant cultural assets that can be developed into profitable solutions. They come with the grit necessary for excelling on the journey of entrepreneurship, and most are entrepreneurial.

Given, those attributes and the imminent threat associated with depending on a job for making a livelihood the time for growing more high-performing businesses is now. The need for a CoP was urgent and important a decade ago and more so today.

While we must not trivialize the need for — cash from ready jobs for paying the bills and for assisting families at home, like other groups we should also view it as a source of investment into starting a business. One Caribbean-Canadian financial expert highlighted our emphasis on the acquisition of non-productive assets for communicating image related messages and needs as a major handicap.

He attributes that condition to the legacy of slavery, but it is time to unshackle ourselves. If the Caribbean immigrant is to be a part of an inclusive landscape for entrepreneurship in Canada or elsewhere we have to play a role in making that happen. We cannot expect Cities and other government departments to do it all for us. Like other immigrant groups we must take the bull by the horn to make it happen for us in a manner that is relevant to our situation and which draws on our different capabilities (As well as our wants, needs, aspirations, preferences and obstacles).

We shouldn’t blame anyone for the once valid buy-in to the idea of “a solid education is a ticket to a great job and wealth”. That idea was relevant and applicable to many groups and nations worldwide, today a solid education is still necessary but is does not bar against poverty. Many who got that solid education along with some who ventured into business lacked the social network and social capital for opening the right doors that would help them to benefit from their education, expertise or business activities.

Coming together as a diaspora increases the diversity of human and financial capital (monies earned through supporting our markets) that is key to growing an entrepreneurial community. Capital has been a big hindrance to the Caribbean immigrant who is often more than three times more likely to be denied a loan for financing a business.

A CoP such as the High-Performance Caribbean Entrepreneur’s Ring can provide the essential network, markets and accelerated learning for helping us to grow bigger and stronger businesses.

The Equalizing Community of Practice Has Arrived!

Let’s do it! Share, research, learn and grow high performing Caribbean businesses in Canada and the diaspora.

By Meegan Scott

 

 

 

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