Bytemarks Cafe

First up, we have Sandy Park from HTDC here to tell us about the upcoming Holiday Tech and Manufacturing Job Fair. Then we are joined by James Pakele from Puʻuhonua o Waiʻanae, Brandon Makaawaawa and John Garcia from the Nation of Hawaii and Puʻuhonua o Waimanalo, here to tell us about community networks, the Internet, … Continue reading "Episode 590: Community Networks and Building a Digital Nation – Dec 18, 2019"

During this special edition, we feature a couple of our favorite gadget geeks, Ricky Li, independent IT consultant and Ian Kitajima, tech sherpa at Oceanit here to tell us about new tech gadgets that they either bought or highly desire. We stick to several topics like travel tech, wifi mesh networks and streaming services. Stream … Continue reading "Episode 589: Annual Gadget Show – Dec 11, 2019"

First up, we have Trinity Asing here to tell us about the Mauka Market pop up in Kailua taking place on Dec 14. Then, we are joined by Celeste Connors and Chelsea Harder from Hawaii Green Growth who tell us about the Local 2030 Hub and progress with the Aloha+ Challenge across the state. Stream … Continue reading "Episode 588: Mauka Market + Local 2030 Hub – Dec 4, 2019"

First up, we have Kareem Elassy and Arif Rahman here to tell us about their company Hawaii Innovation Lab and the recent UH PACE Breakthrough Innovation Challenge. Then, we are joined by Dr. Isar Mostafanezhad and Dr. Rob Fish (on the phone) to tell us about IEEE and their activities in Hawaii including GlobeCom 2019 … Continue reading "Episode 587: UH Breakthrough Innovation + IEEE in Hawaii – Nov 27, 2019"

On today’s episode of Bytemarks Cafe, we welcome State CIO Doug Murdock, Chelsea Harder from Hawaii Green Growth and HACC organizer, Thelma Alane, to the HPR studios to share their experiences with the 2019 Hawaii Annual Code Challenge, talk about the winners of this year’s HACC and the future of the demoed prototypes. Stream MP3 | Subscribe … Continue reading "Episode 586: 2019 Hawaii Annual Code Challenge Winners – Nov 20, 2019"

Today we are onsite in Hilo at Haleʻōlelo, the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo’s Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻe likōlani College of Hawaiian Language. First up, we are joined by Matt Rantanen from the Southern California Tribal Digital Village and Mariel Triggs from Muralnet, to talk about the Internet Society and the 2019 Indigenous Connectivity … Continue reading "Episode 585: Internet Society Indigenous Connectivity Summit #2019ics – Nov 13, 2019"

First up, we have Ren Neill here to tell us about the recent Climathon and team Get Zero Wasted who won top honors. Then, we are joined by Yvonne Chan and Eric Tong from ʻIolani School to tell us about a data driven citizen science project called ʻĀina Informatics that studies genomics and biodiversity. Stream … Continue reading "Episode 584: Get Zero Wasted + ʻĀina Informatics – Nov 6, 2019"

First up, we have Tarik Sultan from XLR8HI here to tell us about the upcoming 2019 McDonalds Education Workshop. Then, we are joined by Karl Chang from Waysine and Roger Morton from the City’s Oahu Transit Services to tell us about creating digital signage at Honolulu bus stops. Stream MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes

First off, I want to let you know this Friday, October 25th, HVCA will have its next Breakfast Panel called Hawaii’s Investments in Venture Capital. The panel consists of fund managers from the HiTIP II Fund, Hawaii Employees Retirement System’s venture capital focused fund, who will discuss what new technologies they are investing in and … Continue reading "Episode 582: Climathon + Education Bridge – Oct 23, 2019"

First up, Dr. Rick Spinrad, President of the Marine Technology Society, will be in Honolulu this Thursday and Friday 10/17 &10/18. MTS is an international, not-for-profit, community of ocean engineers, technologists, policymakers and educators. The former Chief Scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, will be speaking at a dinner meeting at … Continue reading "Episode 581: NCSAM + Hydrogen Cars – Oct 16, 2019"