Located in the heart of the art, design and technology district of the vibrant city of Miami, Wynwood, stands a building of ten thousand square meters full of dreams and hope for the new generations of this city.
A box of surprises that brings together the motivations of millennials with the great desire to offer the world a better city, seeking balance and opening opportunities for all. The story of a friendship of two young Cuban-Americans looking for a space to build ideas at a high level of collaboration, escalated to become a center of social innovation in the form of a high-impact co-working space.
The LAB Miami, which stands for Learn, Act, Build, opened its doors in February 2013 to become the hub of Miami’s technology and innovation community. Around ninety companies and non-profit organizations operate at a high level of collaboration with companies such as Square, Wix, American Airlines, PayPal and Discovery Channel among others, which have occupied the space and developed events for young people. Entrepreneurs, programmers who seek social good and solutions to urban problems that the city faces.
The LAB and its team of dreamers with experience in different fields of knowledge, has managed to attract talent from the best universities in the United States such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Penn and Columbia to correspond to the demand of young people seeking support and mentorship, while meeting senior executives in the technology sector of the United States and Latin America as a meeting point. Also, it is space for programs such as Wyncode, which offers young people a bootcamp of nine weeks of programming that allows these young people to enter the workforce filling the need of large companies to hire the right talent; the Miami Mini Maker Faire that last year brought together about one thousand seven hundred people among children from all over the county and their parents to forge creativity and innovative mentality from childhood; the Wynwood maker camp brought together more than sixty children during the summer period to learn to program, design on three-dimensional printers and build entrepreneurial-minded legos from an early age; Learner Nation and Kairos, companies that have received more than two million dollars of funding for their development as an e-learning platform and facial recognition technology respectively; Momentum International, an organization that exposes and promotes the impact of social entrepreneurs to highlight the importance of building companies that solve urban, social and environmental problems such as the well-known Uber that offers a mobility solution in cities around the world.
Investors, idea incubators and business accelerators have come to assist this ecosystem that becomes a replicable model of economic development to build community and talent development. The LAB Miami is part of the new awakening of this city, its director Tamara Wendt knows it and is committed to climbing the best levels of sustainability and strengthening female leadership from the exotic city of Miami in the economy of the XXI century.
Source:https://mprende.co/
