Regional tech firm Cloud Carib is deepening its presence in Barbados alongside its partners Dell Technologies and IMC with its latest event on secure AI Adoption for businesses.
The companies brought regional voices together at “Future-Proofing Barbados: From AI Ambition to National Readiness,” an executive Power Breakfast held at the Marriott this week, focused on moving organisations from AI experimentation to responsible, measurable adoption.
The discussion comes as AI use accelerates exponentially across industries, while many organisations are still working to establish the governance, infrastructure and skills needed to use it effectively.
For Cloud Carib, this creates an opportunity for Barbados and the wider Caribbean to take a more deliberate path to AI adoption and the security needed to operate it, one built around local infrastructure, true data sovereignty and strong governance.
“AI is already changing how organisations operate, make decisions and deliver services. But the conversation can’t only be about ‘what’ AI can do; it has also to address what ‘needs’ to be in place to adopt it responsibly, securely and successfully,” said Sr Director of Public Sector, Eamonn Sheehy.
The session focused on four foundations for successful AI adoption: identifying a genuine business problem, preparing and governing the data, determining where AI workloads and sensitive information will reside, and establishing accountability before scaling.
The framework presented to attendees was simple: Ground it. Feed it. Run it. Govern it.
IMC guest speaker Engels Jarvin, alongside DELL expert Julio Vazquez, discussed the growing risk of “shadow AI,” where employees use public AI tools to process sensitive company or customer information before organisations have established approved platforms, policies, or controls.
That concern is closely tied to Cloud Carib’s wider focus on digital sovereignty. The company operates regional cloud infrastructure, including in Barbados, designed to help Caribbean organisations keep sensitive data within the region while accessing enterprise-grade cloud, cybersecurity and emerging AI capabilities.
“Cloud Carib isn’t a small cloud provider, we’re becoming a real partner in the Caribbean’s fight for digital sovereignty,” said Sadia Small, Partner Success Associate at
Cloud Carib in Barbados. “This partnership with Dell Technologies and IMC strengthens our ability to provide real regional expertise and infrastructure capabilities
that many will need to move AI projects from pilot to production.”
The event featured perspectives not only from its technology partners but also local voices like Bartlett Morgan of Chancery Advocates and host Julius Gittens, bringing together infrastructure, cloud, governance and legal expertise for those in attendance.
Rather than encouraging organisations to launch large-scale AI programmes immediately, attendees were challenged to begin with one practical use case and a measurable business outcome.
Cloud Carib outlined a 90-day approach: choose one problem, identify and assess the data required, run a controlled proof of concept on regional infrastructure, then measure the results before deciding whether to scale.