We offer you the second part of our interview with founder Darren Mark and COO Mike Walton of Humnet.live

You’ve heard the Innova802 crew speak to the idea that we give too much credence to the tech around our daily lives, surrendering a lot of our agency over how we control the use of tech for good, rather than engaging with it in truly useful and healthy ways. Often, it may be better if we turned the devices off and speak the truth TO  one another, ending the isolation we feel which can lead to any number of negative consequences to society.  

But what if someone turned that idea on its head to the benefit of people? What if focused at least in part on a way to make the tech work better for us in keeping people connected.   

Our guests for a two part podcast are working this right here, right now.  Darren Mark is the founder of humnet.live.  We spoke with Darren and COO and mentor Matt Walton about the path to building and funding humnet.live.  We spoke to the need for human connection and the consequences we’re experiencing due to increased isolation. 

It came to no surprise to some of the Innova802 crew Darren’s background as an artist, a writer for the screen.  For it is the artists that lead us into new territory, that address the most human and essential within us.  Asking the tough questions fearlessly.   

We hope you enjoy!

You’ve heard the Innova802 crew speak to the idea that we give too much credence to the tech around our daily lives, surrendering a lot of our agency over how we control the use of tech for good, rather than engaging with it in truly useful and healthy ways. Often, it may be better if we turned the devices off and speak the truth TO  one another, ending the isolation we feel which can lead to any number of negative consequences to society. 

But what if someone turned that idea on its head to the benefit of people? What if focused at least in part on a way to make the tech work better for us in keeping people connected.   

Our guests for a two part podcast are working this right here, right now.  Darren Mark is the founder of humnet.live.  We spoke with Darren and COO and mentor Matt Walton about the path to building and funding humnet.live.  We spoke to the need for human connection and the consequences we’re experiencing due to increased isolation. 

It came to no surprise to some of the Innova802 crew Darren’s background as an artist, a writer for the screen.  For it is the artists that lead us into new territory, that address the most human and essential within us.  Asking the tough questions fearlessly.  

We hope you enjoy!

Hosts Ryan Munn and Scott Graves are joined by Justin Loranger of web3iam in what we’re sure you’ll find to be an excellent primer on why blockchain is the key to transforming crypto into accepted currency, offering security and stability. Why should you anticipate the value of your name and that of your company in the digital realm? Lots to learn for building our rural economies (you don’t need to be in a city to leverage this tech to your benefit).  In collaboration with Interchain Live and M the Media Project. 

2025: Where Do We Go From Here?

The Innova802 Crew discuss their thoughts on 2024, the year that was and pontificate on 2025, a year already flooding the airwaves with contentious tech policy maneuvers, authoritarianism, crypto making headlines….tech is at the top of virtually every news cycle and the Innova802 crew is there to let you know how it affects our Vermont rural tech environment.

UVM student leader Henrik Van Tassel shares what projects are developing in the University’s Open Source Community including the Vermont Complex Systems Institute, the CS Crew student club and VERSO.  You may remember the latter organization's Director Kendall Fortney making an appearance in Season II of the Innova802 podcast.

It's a new legislative cycle in the state of Vermont.  Co-host Scott Graves participated along with other leaders including Attorney General Charity Clark on Monday January 27 in support of State Rep. Monique Priestley's efforts to pass data privacy legislation for Vermont.  

Innova802 shorts are a mid-week look at current events in rural tech. Find our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@interchainlive

We’re diving into Blockchain and Crypto as the new year comes into being. Innova802 co-host Ryan Munn is no stranger to how blockchain could transform the way we think of and transact money.  But our society has placed some significant barriers to accepting blockchain.  Why is this so?  Are we advocating for a bunch of cavalier tech-bros and their ponzi schemes or is there more substance to the idea that blockchain could create a more robust and secure financial environment for all of us.  

In Part II co-hosts Ryn Munn and Scott Graves discuss the technical side of blockchain and how it can be a benefit to stabilizing transactions while decentralizing the power behind our money and making investments.  

This is an ongoing study of blockchain and crypto currency, a collaborative project of Interchain Live & SMGraves Associates

Click for Youtube Live: Interchain Live PodcastSponsored by Vermont Tech Alliance(VTTA) & Black River Innovation Campus(BRIC)

Glavel is a construction materials company manufacturing foam glass gravel, or in company parlance GLAVEL.  CEO Rob Conboy sat down with the Innova802 crew to discuss what it took to bring this technology to market in the US.  How are they leading in recycling and carbon sequestration, excellence in innovative construction materials how they plan for growth and what effect they can have contributing to solve the housing crisis.  We recently toured their facility and give credit to the Glavel team for epitomizing what a Vermont rural innovation company should look like. 

Shout out to those mentioned who helped this team and many other Innova802 guests along the way including Flexible Capital Fund, Fresh Tracks Capital and 

Rural Works.

Stay on the line for host Scott M. Graves’s personal tribute to one of his inspirations, the legendary composer, arranger, producer and entrepreneur Quincy Jones.  Jones passed away at his home in Los Angeles on November 3 at the age of 91.

We joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based New Frameworks to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace.  New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration.  Innovation is expressed in their home construction products and processes, their sourcing of materials, for sure.  But it’s also in their employee-ownership model, their steadfast dedication to inclusion and more.  

Learn in two episodes their origin story, Ace’s thoughts on housing innovation, employee ownership and how to grow a company that consistently leads through example.

Plus in The Jazz Room we celebrate the Drummers!  Host Joan Watson-Jones dedication to drummers. Though she did not have the pleasure of interviewing the great Roy Haynes who passed away last week, we have many of his friends to celebrate in this episode.

We joined Ace McCarleton of Vermont-based New Frameworks to talk about their panelized building innovations for the housing marketplace.  New Frameworks practices high performance natural building towards the construction of climate justice and regeneration.  Innovation is expressed in their home construction products and processes, their sourcing of materials, for sure.  But it’s also in their employee-ownership model, their steadfast dedication to inclusion and more.  

Learn in two episodes their origin story, Ace’s thoughts on housing innovation, employee ownership and how to grow a company that consistently leads through example.

Listen to Part I, Episode 174

Explore New Frameworks

New Frameworks Beam Embodied Carbon Calculator tool 

Link to panels page

Link to the Casitas models 

And the The Jazz Room… We celebrate the Saxophonists!  Our episode includes the likes of Billy Pierce, Jackie MacLean, Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane.