Frustrated with how AI can improve your Business?
Not sure how to start?Join the AI FOR BUSINESS NIGHT
WED NOV 18th at Central Bank

Never used AI? Tried ChatGPT once and closed the tab? Good. This talk is made for you.

Richard Riedel is one of Curaçao’s AI trainers. He explains AI the way you explain WhatsApp to a friend: what it is, what it does for your business, and which button to press first. No tech words. No coding.

In two years he guided more than 200 people and organizations to start using AI in their daily work. Schools, companies, government teams and even parents in his AI workshops. Most of them started from zero.

On stage he shows you how to begin: how to ask an AI tool a good question, which everyday tasks AI takes off your hands, and how to keep your client data safe while you do it.

He helps teams write their own AI policy, spoke on the Gov2Biz panel of the Ministry of Economic Affairs about AI legislation, and in 2025 he travelled to Tech Sphere Colombia in Medellín to bring the newest AI practice home to Curaçao.

Director of TEQON and SnelleWeb. He returns to the Central Bank stage after speaking at the 2025 edition of Curaçao Tech Meetups.

Most entrepreneurs in Curaçao know the feeling. The business grows, the clients love you, and every single thing still lands on your own shoulders.

Veronique Toulon knows it from the inside. As a hairstylist she built Cherie into a salon voted number one on Curaçao multiple times. When she could not find enough qualified hairdressers on the island, she did not wait for anyone. She started her own academy, Cherie Certified, and trained the talent herself.

On the TEDxCuraçao stage she told the island to stop living inside other people’s boxes and to stop waiting for approval. That same energy runs through everything she builds.

After her talk at the 2025 edition she returns to the Central Bank stage. This time she speaks straight to the overwhelmed and successful entrepreneur: how to stop carrying everything yourself, build a team and a system around you, and grow without burning out. Stay until the end of her talk. She has an offer for the room you do not want to miss.

Most entrepreneurs start a business for freedom and end up with one that can’t run without them.

Aïsha Latina started her career in technology sales, then spent three years leading the delivery of AI systems. When she launched her own business, it grew quickly enough that she implemented AI herself to stay sane, scaling the business and generating more than $100,000 in revenue in 14 months.

Today, as founder of Dream Life Design Lab, she helps companies turn digital transformation ambitions into better ways of working, through process redesign, software implementation and responsible AI adoption.

She believes in life by design: being intentional about what you value and what you want your business to make possible. For her, technology should not just help a business grow; it should create more freedom, capacity and choice for the people running it.

At Curaçao Tech Meetups, she’ll show how entrepreneurs can put AI to work where it counts: their revenue-generating system.

Your business is doing well. Customers come in. Revenue comes in. And you are more tired than ever, because everything still runs through you.

Clayton Lasten has been exactly there. He started as the entrepreneur with a small team, wearing every hat himself. He grew his companies to more than 30 employees each. Busy every single day. Successful on paper. And stuck working in his business instead of on it.

Then he made a hard decision: stop doing it the old way. He changed how he ran his businesses, let AI take work off his own plate and off his team’s, and his revenue and margins went up.

No theory from a book. On stage he tells you the real story: what he struggled with, the choices he made, and exactly how he used AI to turn his businesses around. So you can do the same in yours.

At the AI FOR BUSINESS NIGHT, Adric Walter invites one or two volunteers from the audience onto the stage and builds a working app for their business live, in less than fifteen minutes.

Adric has been building digital systems for more than twenty years, starting with programming at age eleven in Curaçao. Today he builds and runs online businesses with AI and coding agents.

In plain language he walks everyone through where to start, which tools do the heavy lifting, and how a business owner with zero coding background can build a first app of their own. Every step happens on the big screen, so the whole audience sees exactly how it works.

Curaçao-born and based in both Rotterdam and Curaçao, Adric Walter created TECHMEETUPS.CW in 2018 with one speaker and 220 registrations. Eight years later the mission remains Building Curaçao's Tech and AI Ecosystem.

Seeing an app come to life for a real Curaçao business in fifteen minutes is a moment worth seeing live.