OPEN Interactive · Convener of CGDPS '26
We convene the region to
position for what comes next.
OPEN Interactive is a Caribbean sovereign advisory and capital activation firm. Since 2009, we have worked with Caribbean governments at the regional level — converting heads-of-government access, multilateral alignment, and institutional capital into signed sovereign outcomes. CGDPS '26 is our answer to a world re-ordering faster than any single nation can absorb.
Why this moment
The global order is being rewritten in real time. The Caribbean either positions itself now, or is positioned by others.
Trade corridors are re-routing. Capital is being priced against jurisdictional standing. Climate exposure, digital sovereignty, and supply-chain security are moving from policy footnotes to core determinants of national viability — and the pace is accelerating.
Nominal GDP across the Eastern Caribbean is rebuilding, but external volatility is the new baseline. Debt ratios sit above the regional benchmark in several states; SIDS carry a climate risk they did not create; and every relationship the region has relied on for a generation is being renegotiated somewhere else, right now.
The strategic response is coordination — not another cycle of solo national plans. CGDPS '26 is the regional forum where the Caribbean's position on energy, industry and commerce, health and wellness, public works, the blue economy, housing, and digital infrastructure becomes signed, time-bound, and operational.
"Caribbean leaders must abandon reactive budgeting. Nation-building is a journey of courage, not comfort. We must move from vulnerability to a self-reliant, sustainable architecture."
Why now
Seven live urgencies.
01
The Twin-Pillar Problem — Tourism & Financial Services Under Scrutiny
Cruise arrivals hit historic highs, but the mandate has pivoted to carrying capacity and value-per-visitor. On the financial services side, June 2025 saw the BVI placed on the FATF Grey List despite 36-of-40 technical compliance — while Saint Lucia holds a five-year clean record. Compliance longevity is now a regional economic determinant.
02
Fiscal Space Is Being Unlocked — Not Borrowed
The BVI's Liquid Assets Ratio was successfully renegotiated from 25% to 20% — creating tens of millions of dollars in immediate fiscal space, activated for national infrastructure rather than sitting in inactive reserves. This is the 2026 headline that other OECS states are studying.
03
CBI Requires a Risk-Benefit Discipline
Citizenship by Investment funds schools, clinics, and diversification projects — but the IMF's warnings are precise: external imbalances from imported inputs, debt vulnerability above 60% GDP, and regulatory exposure to shifting visa/tax rules. CGDPS convenes the CBI risk-benefit conversation with the IMF, CDB, and regional CBI regulators in the room.
04
Diversification Must Move Beyond the Twin Pillars
Tourism and financial services carry the region, but Vision 2036 mandates diversification into energy, digital, food security, and blue economy. The BVI–Dominican Republic MOU on supply-chain resilience and the Solar Technology Energy Programme (STEP) are the operational proof points.
05
Climate Injustice Is a Fiscal Problem, Not an Environmental One
SIDS face a climate crisis they did not create, grappling with inadequate climate finance and rising coastal-reconstruction costs. Climate Change Trust Funds and Sargassum-management legislation are the sovereign fiscal instruments answering this — not aid asks.
06
Vision 2036 Insulates Development from Political Winds
Moving National Sustainable Development Plans into legislation ends the crisis-to-crisis management cycle. Simultaneously, the BVI is transitioning from Associate to Full Member status in CARICOM and OECS — a strategic imperative for equal regional decision-making.
07
Human Potential Is the Ultimate Asset
The RATED Programme for the underemployed and Let's Build VI — 81 fully funded scholarships across all nine BVI districts — are how the region prepares its workforce for a modern, diversified economy. Nation-building is a journey of courage, not comfort.
Founding Leadership
Led by the partners who built the practice.
Adam Anderson
Co-Founder · Executive Producer
Forty years of brand and communications discipline from Citigroup, Mayo Clinic, Disney, and 3M — applied to Caribbean sovereign mandates across the region since founding OPEN Interactive in 2009. Originator of the Caribbean Investment Summit franchise and now Executive Producer of CGDPS '26.
- OPEN Co-Founder (2009)
- Fortune 500: Citigroup · Mayo Clinic · Disney · 3M
- CIS Founder & Executive Producer
- CGDPS '26 Executive Producer
Stachio Williams
Co-Founder & CEO
National of St. Kitts & Nevis. CEO since 2014, when OPEN Interactive transferred its headquarters to the Caribbean. Carries executive responsibility for every sovereign mandate, every summit edition, and the firm's national eGovernment infrastructure delivery to the Government of SKN.
- OPEN Co-Founder & CEO (2014)
- National of St. Kitts & Nevis
- SKN eGovernment Delivery
- CGDPS '26 Organizational Lead
Institutional Partners & Endorsers
Convened with regional and multilateral partners.
A moment, not a meeting