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On June 6, DEVEXPO 2026 marked a pivotal shift in Haiti’s innovation ecosystem, demonstrating how artificial intelligence and digital connectivity could accelerate inclusive economic transformation. With its fifth edition reaching all ten departments for the first time, the initiative signaled a new phase in decentralizing opportunity and embedding technology into the national development framework.

At the core of this transformation is a critical insight: innovation alone is not enough. The President and Chairman of Groupe Profin , Robert Jr. Paret highlighted a significant problem that Haiti’s progress depends equally on building modern financial systems that can support and scale innovation because traditional financing models remain largely inaccessible to young entrepreneurs, particularly in emerging sectors like AI, where risk is high and returns are long-term. This creates a structural gap between talent and capital.

According to him Haiti must develop new financing mechanisms to be adapted to innovation, such as venture capital, investment funds, and specialized support programs. His remarks highlighted the need to create an environment capable of supporting young entrepreneurs and developers so they can transform their ideas into viable, bankable, and value-creating businesses.

Through this reflection, Robert Jr. Paret emphasized that the future of Haiti’s digital economy will depend not only on the talent of its innovators, but also on the country’s ability to establish financial tools that can adapt to the realities of innovation to help it derisk capital and investment to compete with other countries in the region and globally. Watch video by Robert Jr here ...

DEVEXPO, The Ultimate Technology Event to Empower More Sectors & Industries in Haiti.

DEVEXPO provides a platform to address this gap by fostering a new ecosystem that connects developers, investors, policymakers, and cultural actors. Through its expansion across all 10 departments enabled by AI tools and internet connectivity showed how it has begun to democratize access to knowledge, networks, and opportunity. This geographic inclusion is essential for Haiti where economic activity has historically been concentrated in Port-au-Prince.

Artificial intelligence, in this context, is not just a technological tool, but a development accelerator to democratize access and opportunities in other regions in Haiti. It can help solve structural and socioeconomic challenges in Haiti, including financial exclusion, inefficiencies in public services, agricultural productivity, and access to education. For example, during the even, The Minister of Commerce and Industry, James Monazart brought as a demo of advances in tech with Ticket Guichet, a new service to speed up business registration. This AI-powered regulatory help on business development and can also empower financial platforms to assess creditworthiness using alternative data, enabling micro-entrepreneurs and informal workers to access financing for the first time. This directly contributes to derisking investment by improving data-driven decision-making for lenders and investors.

DEVEXPO’s role is to catalyze these innovations by creating visibility and validation. By showcasing Haitian startups and developers working on AI-driven solutions, the platform attracts potential diaspora and foreign investors and partners while also encouraging local talent to engage in high-impact problem-solving and create bankable projects and businesses.

However, scaling this momentum requires deliberate policy and financial innovation. Haiti must invest in venture capital structures, blended finance mechanisms, and innovation funds tailored to local realities. Public-private partnerships and diaspora engagement can also play a significant role in mobilizing capital and expertise. DEVEXPO can serve as the convening hub where these financial instruments are designed, tested, and promoted.

DEVEXPO and Haiti’s AI Future Could Foster a New Digital Economy for Inclusion.

DEVEXPO 2026 shows how a tech platform can do more than host conferences: it can help spread AI literacy, expand digital opportunity, and strengthen Haiti’s economic resilience. This year’s edition reached all ten departments for the first time and also extended online, a major step toward making innovation more geographically inclusive across the country.

That scale matters because Haiti’s development challenge is not only about having talented developers; it is about building systems that allow those talents to become enterprises, jobs, and public value. DEVEXPO helps create that bridge by connecting developers, startups, investors, institutions, and the diaspora around practical AI use cases in education, health, agriculture, governance, financial inclusion, and the environment.

AI can play a significant role in reducing socioeconomic inequities in Haiti when it is applied to real problems. It can improve access to services, support more efficient decision-making, and help design better financial products for small businesses and informal workers. It can also lower risk for investors by improving data quality, strengthening due diligence, and making it easier to identify promising ventures in underserved regions.

This is where DEVEXPO becomes strategically important. By showcasing Haitian-built AI solutions and supporting collaboration across regions, it helps move innovation away from a Port-au-Prince-only model and toward a more distributed national ecosystem. That kind of decentralization is essential if economic development is to reach communities that have historically been left out of digital growth.

The DevExpo Challenge 2026 makes that mission concrete. Organized by Banj in partnership with the Digicel Foundation, it invites developers, AI specialists, students, entrepreneurs, and diaspora talent to build AI solutions for social impact, with a focus on sectors that directly affect livelihoods and public welfare. The initiative includes training, mentorship, incubation, and a final pitch session, along with over 5 million gourdes in innovation funding for selected teams.

Banj is the institutional engine behind DEVEXPO. It is Haiti’s largest coworking space and a leading entrepreneurial hub, with a mission centered on creativity, collaboration, and economic growth through innovation. Banj says it has connected more than 100,000 individuals, organized over 500 events, distributed $500,000 in innovation funding, supported 122 projects, and contributed to 300 direct jobs and 5,000 indirect jobs.

That matters because DEVEXPO is more than an annual showcase; it is part of a larger ecosystem-building strategy led by Ecosystem builder, Marc Alain Boucicault and His team. Banj’s role helps explain why the event can move from inspiration to implementation, linking public visibility, startup support, and sector partnerships in one platform.

In practical terms, Banj gives Haitian innovation a home, a network, and a public stage. DEVEXPO then turns that ecosystem into a national conversation about what digital transformation should look like in Haitian conditions by infusing the culture with its signature closing ceremony, DEVFEST.

DevFest further reinforces this ecosystem by merging technology with culture, making innovation accessible, aspirational, and socially embedded. DevFest, organized as part of DevExpo 2026, is much more than just closing ceremony event. It's the ultimate celebration of innovation, technology, and Haitian culture. After a full day of conferences, workshops, and exhibitions focused on Haitian tech startups, DevFest transforms the space into a grand experience with sound, lighting, animations, and live performances.

The public materials available in the sources highlight Patrick Attié as the official keynote speaker for DEVEXPO 2026, where he framed AI and the Haitian economy as a call to action rather than a topic for endless discussion. The same materials also indicate that the event included a panel introduced by the UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Haiti, centered on the future of AI in the country’s economy.

Robert Jr. Paret’s intervention adds a crucial policy and finance dimension: innovation will not scale without financing tools built for innovation itself. His remarks point toward venture capital, specialized funds, and support programs as necessary instruments for turning ideas into viable businesses.

Together, these voices suggest a shared message: AI in Haiti must be linked to execution, financing, and institution-building, not just technical enthusiasm. The Haitian government must actualize the policy frameworks like the Dominican Republic for systemizing investment to build tech and innovation hubs in Haiti. They must use DEVEXPO as a national platform to accelerate AI adoption for inclusive economic development, financial inclusion, and regional opportunity. According the Patrick Attie, Haiti has more 600 developers and has the a deep talent pool to build better models, yet the roadmap and government regulatory is the most important piece of AI development strategy to help investors bet on new tech solutions. Haiti's main problems is actionable and trusted leadership to derisk investments and funding.

Haiti has talent, but it lacks enough financing structures, incubation pipelines, and regionally distributed support systems to convert innovation into scalable economic value. However, there is a clear strategy to strenghten to how they can truly build their projects and products to massive scale that Haiti Executive Board is pleased to share.

Strategies to Implement The Funding And Investment In Haiti Tech & Innovation Ecosystem.

There needs to be a blended finance strategy with a clear agenda and vision to have more financial partners and venture capitalists to regroup and invest in the Haiti's Tech and Innovation Hubs and a documented paper to know these players and how much financial commitments they allocate from their balance sheet or total market capitalization on annual basis. The Haiti Central Bank ( Banque De la Republique d' Haiti) and The Minister of Economy and Finance will provide some guarantee to the financial insitutions in the ecosystem against tech investment losses upto 100 percent if they invest 1-2 percent of their balance sheet to derisk their investment in Haitian tech companies. To spread further the financial and investment risks, the Haiti Central Bank can start issuing new licensing to financial institutions and investment advisory firms to increase new financial products linked in investment in tech hubs , mergers and acquisitions, banking and fintech, commercial insurance to fully reform the financial industry in Haiti to spread risks across more financial partners ( Tier 1, Tier 2 , Tier 3 & Tier 4) to fully diversify risks and create more growth mechanisms to create new opportunities for scale and expansion.

From Projects to Products To Useful and Effective Brands To Attract More Investment ( Private Equity)

In regard to Robert Jr.'s concern, Haiti Executive Board also provides a three-step point guide to provide scalable solutions linked problem to help innovators build longterm and maasive solutionsto derisk investment and to help monetize their projects or products through building better product development, adoption, and dsitribution.

-On This first phase of Building Projects, Banj is making meaningful contributions and attracts partners ( Public-Private Partners= PPP) to support local and national projects with solutions-oriented on local communities with grants available to them.

On this Second of Building Products where private investment is limited to spreak risks among financial firms and investors .Innovators and builders need to increase their existing user base through better tech distribution among government agencies, local and national companies that need enterprise software. With right equity funding, they can provide better product development and distribution to have an upside potential as their product is commercially viable. At that point, public agencies will help accelerate users growth and increase their contractual agreements and commitment to use the new tech solutions as user testing( demo) is proven and that product is greatly improved to help solve institutional gaps and serve their local constituents more optimally. Only at that point, public funding ( Contracts) to these companies will be used to more public sector ( All goverment agencies ) as they are effective to solve local tech challenges.

-- On this third phase of Building Effective and Useful Brands is for companies that seek external funding for expansion to new markets and territories to gro their brands and their portfolios seeking capital from diaspora direct and foreign investors or governement independent agencies (regulatory frameworks is need to pass for this ). Then there must be new metrics of performance to these local and national companies to be validated to meet international metric stanadards to help them expand to seek external capital sources.

If Haiti wants AI to contribute to development, it must treat innovation as an economic infrastructure issue and spreak risks through institutional rigor among all investors and winners in the tech and innovation ecosystem. DEVEXPO shows how a convening platform can help build that infrastructure by combining visibility, training, financing pathways, and national reach.

Ultimately, the expansion of DEVEXPO across Haiti’s ten departments represents more than an event—it is a model for inclusive digital transformation. By combining AI, connectivity, cultural engagement, and financial innovation, it offers a pathway to reduce regional inequalities, empower youth, and build a resilient, future-ready economy.

In this vision, AI is not replacing human potential—it is amplifying it. And with the right financial tools and institutional support, Haiti’s innovators can move from ideas to scalable enterprises that drive sustainable economic development across the nation.Haitian greatness is expressed not only through celebrity, but through sustained service, patriotic spirit, civic leadership and representation, & the ability to inspire pride in our people whose influence reaches far beyond the island itself.

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Haiti Executive Board team is very excited and proud for being a media partner for this event and we congratulate the Banj Team and all the panelists for their engagement and presentations.

Many thanks to the panelists : Xavier Michon , Corinne Cathala, Patrick Attié, Robert Jr. Paret ,James Monazard, Didier Ganthier, Rémy Certil , Allen Bayard, William Boamson Brumaire, John Sterlin Duverseau, Juste-Coeur BEAUBRUN, Appolon Guy-alain, .

We want to thank also all 50+ Partners, sponsors and Media participated for making this event a huge success including Haiti Executive Board, Groupe ProFin , UNDP Haiti , Inter-American Development Bank and many more.

This was a huge success and let's farewell until next DevExpo 2027.

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