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On todayʻs show we have Janice Gin, lecturer at UH Manoa, Dept of Journalism and former News Director at KITV, and Perry Arrasmith, President at the Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs and they are here to talk about the news desert project.
On todayʻs show we have Ian Scheuring, Deputy Communications Director and Nancy Vo, Division Chief from the Department of Information Technology at the City and County of Honolulu and they’re both here to provide an update on new HNL311 app. You can find instructions to download the app here.
On todayʻs show we have Brian Moon, CEO of the Pacific Telecommunications Council here to talk about the upcoming PTC’26 conference on January 18-20, 2026.
During this edition of Bytemarks Cafe, we have a couple of our favorite tech geeks, James Pakele, community organizer, jack of all trades and Ian Kitajima, tech sherpa at PICHTR here to tell us about their favorite tech in 2025. We talk about everything from how to be a road warrior to what AI tools to use. Here’s a sample of James tinkering while on the show.
On todayʻs show we have Natalie Perez from Aula Fellowship, co-author of Levers of Power in the Field of AI and Andres Ramirez from the AI Safety Awareness Project, here to talk about AI Safety and governance.
On todayʻs show we have Katy Hintzen, Coastal Resilience Specialist at Sea Grant and Olivia Carbi, NOAA Coastal Resilience Fellow who join us to talk about Pili na Moku and the Community Funding Hub Program.
On todayʻs show Shifted Energy joins us with Forest Frizzell, Co-founder and CEO, along with Olin Lagon, Co-founder and CTO. We talk about startup life, getting acquired by Resource Innovations, and a new book on innovation by Olin Lagon.
On todayʻs show we have Astrobiologist, Dr. Karen Meech, Faculty Chair at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii and she is here to give us an update on the comet 3I/ATLAS. As a result of our discussion, the IfA launched this informational website about 3I/ATLAS.
On todayʻs show we have Pohai Panoke who is with Purple Maia and is the Managing Director of the Purple Prize and is here to talk about Hulihia Lab.
On todayʻs show we have Meli James co-founder of ManaUp, Keiko Napier, founder of Aloha Spice Company, and Amanda Richards, founder of Paper Crane Soaps, here to talk about the upcoming Mana Up Showcase.