The lifestyle-led
career mapping app

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From Concept to Collaborative Design

FutureMe Cayman is a dynamic career pathways app, originally conceived by Cayman Enterprise City's CEO Charlie Kirkconnell, to rethink how Caymanians explore career opportunities and make decisions about their futures. The idea originated from a simple observation: traditional career planning typically asks individuals to choose a profession first and then determine whether the lifestyle that comes with it meets their aspirations. 

The CEC Team subsequently brought the concept forward as a challenge for the 2025 Tech Futures Week Hackathon, creating an opportunity to move the idea from concept toward a working digital product. The hackathon, co-hosted by Enterprise Cayman, the Cayman Islands Computer Science Society (CICSS), and the WORC Labour Market Demand Unit, provided the platform to prototype and further develop the concept.

FutureMe Cayman

Designed primarily for young adults aged 18–25 and Caymanian career changers, FutureMe Cayman starts with what matters most: their ambitions for the future. Rather than asking users to choose a career first and hope the lifestyle follows, the platform flips the traditional career-planning model.

By combining local labour-market data, cost-of-living insights and economic trends, FutureMe Cayman provides a simple, personalised way for users to explore career opportunities, understand the qualifications and skills required, and consider the potential lifestyle and quality-of-life outcomes associated with different pathways.

This is the future of career discovery: personal, intuitive and built to empower Caymanian talent.

FutureMe Cayman

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The Challenge

Eight teams consisting of volunteer members of the public were tasked to design and prototype a digital platform that connected lifestyle aspirations with real life career opportunities and financial realities in the Cayman Islands. 

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The Vision

To empower Cayman's workforce of today and tomorrow with a tool that helps to answer life's big questions: Can I afford the lifestyle I want with this career? What jobs match my goals and interests? What salary do I need to reach my dream lifestyle? 

The Results

A lifestyle led career mapping platform, called FutureMe Cayman, launched 9 December 2025 just two months following the Tech Futures Week Hackathon. www.futureme.ky
Built for Cayman's people by Cayman's Innovators to inspire action, opportunity and growth now and into the future. 

Project Partners

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 Project Management & Growth 

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Product Developers

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Project Partner & Leadership 

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The Team

Baltasar Aroso

 CICSS Committee Member
Co-Founder & Lead Engineer, Web3 . R&D . Blockchain

Ashema Edwards CEC HEADSHOT

Ashema Edwards

 WORC Industry Partnership Analyst

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Kaitlyn Elphinstone

Enterprise Cayman Board Member

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Reinaldo Fletcher

 Labour Market Demand Manager WORC

Charlie Kirkconnell

 CICSS Committee Member
Chief Executive Officer, Cayman Enterprise City & Chairman, Enterprise Cayman

Anton Livaja

CICSS Committee Member
Co-Founder & CEO at Caution SEZC

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Alyssa Manderson

Enterprise Cayman Programme Manager

David Manouchehri

 CICSS Committee Member
Director @ ai.moda

Stuart Reavley

 CICSS Committee Member
Managing Director at Juneau Technologies SEZC

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Saschelle Ricketts

 Labour Market Analyst, WORC

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Jaxon Stewart

 IT Specialist Cayman Enterprise City  

Stephen Ta'Bois

 CICSS Committee Member
STEM Specialist, Department of Education Services (DES)

The 2025 Hackathon Winners!

Mary Davies

Tech Futures 2025 Hackathon Challenge Winner

Shannon Williams

Tech Futures 2025 Hackathon Challenge Winner

FutureMe Cayman Phase I Contributors: Saaleha Aafreen, Mary Davies, Emanuela Passanti, Wellington Reneau, Micah Stephenson, Jordan Watler, Shannon Williams, and Sharon Williams.
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Having clear, data driven career insight available to Caymanians is essential to helping people make choices that genuinely support the lives they want to lead. This platform shows what’s possible when you start with personal goals and match them with real opportunities, giving young people and career changers a better understanding of where each pathway might take them.

Our aim is to empower Caymanians with tools that encourage confident, informed decisions about their future. By connecting lifestyle ambitions with training, careers, and tangible next steps, this platform supports a stronger, more adaptable workforce and helps Caymanians take the lead in sectors that continue to shape our islands’ long term prosperity.

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Charlie Kirkconnell CEO of Cayman Enterprise City and Chairman of Enterprise Cayman
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