When the Forbes mag­a­zine pub­lished its rich­est self-made women un­der 40 in June a sur­prise name made the list.

Lucy Guo had not on­ly made her de­but on the list but she was ranked sec­ond on­ly to Kylie Jen­ner.

Guo’s net worth is val­ued at US$440 mil­lion.

“Guo de­buts thanks to a near­ly six per cent stake in ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence start­up Scale AI, which was val­ued by pri­vate in­vestors at US$7.3 bil­lion in 2021.

“She stud­ied com­put­er sci­ence at Carnegie Mel­lon but dropped out to be­come a Thiel Fel­low; while work­ing at ques­tion-and-an­swer web­site Quo­ra, she met Alexan­dr Wang, with whom she co­found­ed Scale AI,” Forbes stat­ed.

“The pair made the Forbes Un­der 30 list in 2018, the same year Guo left the com­pa­ny. She co­found­ed ear­ly stage ven­ture cap­i­tal firm Back­end Cap­i­tal in 2019 and in April this year launched Mo­ment, which she de­scribes as a ‘web3 plat­form for cre­ators to scale their con­tent’,” it stat­ed.

And as Tech­Beach Re­treat makes its valiant re­turn af­ter a near three-year ab­s­cence, Guo will be there, co-founder Kyle Mal­oney told Guardian Me­dia.

“This is a tes­ta­ment to the kinds of peo­ple that we at­tract to our brand and from there we have a ton of amaz­ing peo­ple with­in the tech­nol­o­gy space, ibestors, peo­ple rep­re­sent­ing glob­al brands, peo­ple com­ing from com­pa­nies like Meta, In­sta­gram, Youtube, Mi­crosoft, Ama­zon so a lot of the blue chip tech­nol­o­gy brands are rep­re­sent­ed, com­ing in for the event as well, Mal­oney said.

The Tech Beach Re­treat takes place De­cem­ber 8-10, 2022 at Iberostar Re­sort in Rose Hall, St James.

The re­treat is ex­pect­ed to re­ceive rep­re­sen­ta­tion from 15 coun­tries across rthe re­gion in­clud­ing a large con­tin­gent from T&T, Mal­oney said.

“What you can look for­ward to is this fu­sion of high qual­i­ty con­tent. We are talk­ing about top­ics that are trend­ing in the re­gion, so dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, the fu­ture of work, hy­brid, on premis­es or ful­ly re­mote led by ex­perts in the in­dus­try,” he said.

Mal­oney said there will be prac­ti­cal work­shops in­clud­ing a seg­ment for con­tent cre­ators.

“Suc­cess for us is al­ways the re­la­tion­ships that are built and the deals that are closed.

“What we cre­ate is an en­vi­ron­ment that al­lows peo­ple to con­nect with the re­moval of a hi­er­ar­chy and that is why we are in an all in­clu­sive re­sort on the beach in Ja­maica so that when peo­ple get in­to that en­vi­ron­ment they are con­nect­ing over their pas­sions ver­sus over their po­si­tions,” Mal­oney said.

Mal­oney said at­ten­dees are en­cour­aged to dress their brands at the event.

The re­turn of the con­fer­ence to Ja­maica fol­lows the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s first in-per­son stag­ing in the Unit­ed States at the Con­fi­dante Mi­a­mi Beach in Flori­da last month.

“We’ve built an ac­tive com­mu­ni­ty with Tech Beach Re­treat, pro­vid­ing a nexus for the glob­al tech ecosys­tem to con­nect the best com­pa­nies and minds in the world with undis­cov­ered tal­ent and op­por­tu­ni­ties, for a more in­clu­sive fu­ture.

“We are built on an in­clu­sive frame­work which has made our com­mu­ni­ty one of the most di­verse of any plat­form you will find, any­where.

“Our home base in the Caribbean forced us to reach well be­yond our ex­ist­ing ecosys­tem to con­nect peo­ple of vary­ing back­grounds through pur­pose and pas­sion. The end re­sult? Some of the most bril­liant minds in the world con­sid­er the Tech­Beach Com­mu­ni­ty as their fam­i­ly,” Tech­Beach states.

“Our mul­ti-medi­um plat­form bridges peo­ple and or­gan­i­sa­tions po­si­tion­ing to evolve through tech­nol­o­gy with the roadmap, re­sources and skills to help them ex­cel.

“We’re fo­cused on build­ing bridges that yield in­creased in­vest­ment, part­ner­ship and men­tor­ship spurring an en­tre­pre­neur­ship and in­no­va­tion rev­o­lu­tion. We’re merg­ing the as­sets of some of the world’s fore­most peo­ple and or­gan­i­sa­tions with the un­re­al­ized full po­ten­tial of peo­ple and or­gan­i­sa­tions poised for suc­cess,” it stat­ed.

Mal­oney said Tech­Beach’s goal is to un­lock the full eco­nom­ic po­ten­tial of the re­gion through iden­ti­fy­ing in­dus­tries ripe for prof­itable dis­rup­tion and em­pow­er­ing with the fu­el to scale.

Apart from Guo, the Tech­Beach Re­treat’s line­up of speak­ers reads like a who’s who in glob­al tech.

It in­cludes Nick Cald­well the gen­er­al man­ag­er of Twit­ter, Mar­cus Dan­tus of Shark Tank Mex­i­co, Julie We­nah the As­so­ciate Gen­er­al Coun­sel of Civ­il IRgth at Face­book and Jared Jor­dan the di­rec­tor of en­gi­neer­ing at YouTube.