Inaugural Edition · 2026
The Caribbean digital decade
starts here.
CADIS convenes heads of state, ministers, multilateral finance, and the operators building the region's digital backbone — under a single mandate to assert sovereignty over Caribbean compute, cables, and data.
The Mandate
One region.
One mandate.
The Caribbean basin is the most strategically connected, demographically dynamic, and digitally under-served region in the Western Hemisphere. CADIS advances a unified doctrine: that the nations of CARICOM and the wider Caribbean are not peripheral markets for AI infrastructure built elsewhere, but a sovereign digital bloc with the population, capital, and policy coordination to build and govern its own.
"The Caribbean will not be a data colony of the next decade. CADIS is where we decide what the alternative looks like — and we sign for it."
The 2026 Summit is the first in an annual regional convening. Future editions will rotate across CARICOM and OECS member states, anchoring Caribbean digital sovereignty as a shared regional project of governance, capital, and stewardship.
Why Now
The Caribbean's window
to lead is open.
Cable diversification is happening now. Sovereign cloud procurement is being structured now. Multilateral concessional facilities for digital infrastructure are being scoped now. The decisions made in the next ten years will set the region's terms of trade in AI for the next fifty.
44M
Caribbean population served by under-provisioned digital infrastructure
<1%
Of global AI compute located in the Caribbean basin today
15
CARICOM & associate states aligned on a regional digital agenda
10yr
Window to assert Caribbean data sovereignty before lock-in
The Four Pillars
Four pillars.
One Declaration.
CADIS is organized around four interlocking pillars. Every plenary, working session, and signed outcome of the summit advances one of them.
Pillar I
AI Sovereignty
Caribbean-controlled models, datasets, and compute — not extractive APIs rented from elsewhere.
Pillar II
Digital Infrastructure
Subsea cable diversification, regional data centers, IXPs, and an interconnect fabric built for the basin.
Pillar III
Data Governance
Confronting the Data Nullius problem. Caribbean data, governed by Caribbean institutions, under Caribbean law.
Pillar IV
Investment & Capital
The business case for Caribbean AI infrastructure at scale — bankable, blended, and sovereign-backed.
Who Convenes
The people who can collapse fragmented agendas into one investable region.
Sovereign & Multilateral
- Heads of Government, Cabinet Ministers, and Permanent Secretaries from CARICOM and OECS — Digital Transformation, Finance, Telecoms, Energy, Trade, and Foreign Affairs portfolios
- CARICOM Secretariat, OECS Commission, ECTEL, and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
- Multilateral finance — Caribbean Development Bank, IDB, World Bank / IFC, Green Climate Fund
- National telecommunications regulators, data protection commissioners, and competition authorities
- Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, financial-services commissions, and AI/data governance task forces
Private Capital & Industry
- Institutional investors, blended-finance vehicles, and infrastructure GPs active in digital and energy assets
- Subsea cable developers, tier-1 carriers, data center operators, and regional IXPs
- Hyperscalers and AI infrastructure operators engaging the Caribbean as both market and supply base
- Independent power producers and renewables developers co-locating with compute
- Diaspora family offices, Caribbean-rooted private wealth, and impact capital
- Legal, advisory, and engineering firms specializing in cross-border digital infrastructure
- Universities, AI labs, and applied-research institutes anchored in the region
Delegate Outcomes
Three mandates.
Three defensible outcomes.
For Governments & Multilaterals
A signed regional compact on Caribbean digital sovereignty — actionable, witnessed, time-bound.
For Investors & Financiers
A curated, government-endorsed pipeline of bankable Caribbean digital infrastructure projects.
For Operators, Developers & Industry
Site-specific clarity on terms, partners, and pathways to construction.
"Caribbean infrastructure does not need to be invented. It needs to be funded, built, and owned. CADIS is where the room agrees on which, by whom, and on what terms."
Accreditation now open