April 2020 – Bytemarks Cafe

Episode 609: XLR8HI preX and Safe2 App – April 29, 2020

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Omar Sultan, Mitra Ardron, Eric Jones

First off, don’t forget, applications to the Blue Startups Cohort #12 accelerator program closes tomorrow, Thursday, April 30th. The new start date for the program is to be determined. Stay tuned for more updates and in the meantime, check out what it means to be part of the Blue Startups accelerator program by going to Blue Startups.com.

Then, Omar Sultan from XLR8HI and Sultan Ventures joins us to tell us about the preX program. Deadline to apply is May 8, 2020.

Then we welcome Mitra Ardron and Eric Jones to the show. Mitra is a serial social entrepreneur & innovator, working in the fields of technology for good, most recently at the Internet Archives. Meanwhile, Eric Jones is a seasoned disaster planner, exercise conductor, crisis manager and recently with the American Red Cross. We talk about contact tracing, Apple/Google API and the Safe2 app.

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Episode 608: UH Startup Accelerator & 3D Printing PPE – April 22, 2020

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Steve Auerbach, Tim Cottrell, Rodrigo Romo

Thanks to HTDC, on Tuesday, April 28th Eric Heenan, President of Alaka’i Executive Search, will hold a complimentary webinar on strategies to make your LinkedIn profile stand out and get noticed by recruiters and hiring managers. Please register by Monday, April 27 at 12pm. After registration closes, they will send a Zoom link to all registered participants.

Steve Auerbach, Director of the Office of Innovation and Commercialization at UH, joins us to tell us about a webinar on innovating new economic sectors in Hawaii.

Then we’re joined by Tim Cottrell, Head of School at Iolani School and Rodrigo Romo, Program Manager at Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems to talk about activating their makerspaces to help meet the demand for Personal Protective Equipment.

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Episode 607: Google Analytics & HSTE Virtual Office Hours – April 15, 2020

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Daniel Liu, Cecilia Chung, Shane Asselstine

Blue Startups Cohort #12 application deadline has been Extended. They said, “In light of the COVID-19 crisis, we have decided to extend our application deadline for Cohort #12 until April 30. The new start date for the program is to be determined as well. Stay tuned for more updates! For more information you can go to BlueStartups.com

First up we have Daniel Liu from Google who joins us to talk about the upcoming HACC 2020 Google Analytics Workshop.

Then we’re joined by Cecilia Chung and Shane Asselstine from the Hawaii Society for Technology in Education to talk about supporting teachers through their virtual office hours.

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Episode 606: TCC 2020 & Securing your Remote Workforce – April 8, 2020

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Bert Kimura, Jodi Ito, Ryan Field

First up, if you’re interested or are curious about artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Aloha AI training is just for you. Here is a series of 3 one hour workshops.

Workshop 1 – April 9, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Workshop 2 – April 17, 9:30am to 10:30pm. Introduction to the Aloha AI Network
Workshop 3 – April 24, 9:30am to 10:30pm . Dashboard Training

To request an invite: info@oceanit.com

Then we have Bert Kimura from UH who joins us to talk about the online conference: Technology, Colleges and Community or TCC 2020.

Finally, we’re joined by Jodi Ito, Chief Information Security Officer from UH and Ryan Field, Chief Information Security Officer from American Savings Bank to talk about securing your workforce in this new reality of remote work and shelter in place. You can find security resources here: https://www.cyberhawaii.org/resources/

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Episode 605: COVID-19 Tracking and DOE Distance Learning – April 1, 2020

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Karl Kim, Leanna Agcaoili, Norman Sales

First up, the Hawaii Island Business Plan Competition (HIplan) for UH Hilo & Hawaii Community College Students is now a virtual event. It’s the Virtual Kilauea Eruption Recovery App Hackathon that will take place on April 4-5 on the BizzyB.com platform. Teams could Win up to $5000 in cash prizes. Student admission to the Hackathon is free, with signups available on a first-come fist serve basis. For information, visit https:// bizzyb.com/hiplan-hackathon-2020/.

Then we have Karl Kim from the NDPTC join us to talk about the COVID-19 tracking project.

Finally, we’re joined by Norman Sales of Farrington High School and Leanna Agcaoili of Fern Elementary School to talk about distance learning in the age of remote work and shelter in place. We also get to talk about the 808Unconference.

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