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Speakers
President St. Maarten Hospitality & Trade Association (SHTA)
President The St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Project Manager Business matchmaking SXM Project advisor SDG7 RVO
Founder, Antonio Media | Co-Organizer SMILE
Co-Founder, Chief of Strategy & Ops
Executive Director at SHTA | St. Maarten Hospitality & Trade Association
SMILE Sint Maarten
The St. Maarten Innovation, Initiatives & Industries Link-up Event (SMILE) took place for the first time in 2018. The event is about innovation, sustainability, networking, informing and cooperation. It is a platform to get inspired and do business – in the most inspiring environs of the world, the Caribbean. Since hurricane Irma in 2017, St. Maarten had to be rebuilt. SMILE 2018 was an opportunity to find new partners, get business updates and find out more about funding and the still ongoing World Bank Tenders. It was a way to think how St. Maarten could do better after Irma in an innovative and sustainable way. SMILE wants to be instrumental in connecting people from the well over 32 countries in the Caribbean basin, and inspiring professionals with new concepts in innovation and sustainability. From the perspective of the "triple helix" theory, it tries to bring together businesses, NGO’s government entities and ideas, in order to mutually inspire.