Episode 761: East Meets West + Oceanit’s Blast Ninja – Mar 29, 2023

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Chenoa Farnsworth, Matt Sullivan

First up, we’ll talk to Chenoa Farnsworth from Blue Startups about the upcoming East Meets West conference coming up in May.

Then, we are joined by Matt Sullivan, Director of Product at Oceanit to talk about their latest invention called the Blast Ninja and the product’s recent acquisition by Kennametal.

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Episode 761: East Meets West + Oceanit’s Blast Ninja – Mar 29, 2023

Episode 760: Tech Days of Spring + XLR8HI preX – March 22, 2023

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, (top) Keala Peters, Alan Ito, Omar Sultan, (bottom) Joy Bitonio, Courtney Nunokawa, Jeni Kaohelaulii

First up, we’ll talk to Keala Peters, Executive Vice President of Education and Workforce Development for the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce and Alan Ito, IT Workforce Development Lead at UH, about the series of events for Tech Days of Spring aimed at all those students interested in a career in IT.

Then, we are joined by Omar Sultan from XLR8HI along with preX graduates Joy Bitonio owner and founder of KOMO Studio, Courtnee Nunokawa founder of Balanced Brain and Jeni Kaohelaulii from Work It Out. We talk about the preX program and what it takes to advance your business to the next level.

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Episode 760: Tech Days of Spring + XLR8HI preX – March 22, 2023

Episode 759: Design Thinking Bootcamp + Startup Oahu/Thrive HI- March 15, 2023

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Ian Kitajima, Sonia Romero, Ben Weinberg

First up, we’ll talk to Ian Kitajima from Design Thinking Hawaii to tell us about the next Design Thinking bootcamp. We also talk about Ian’s new job at PICHTR.

Then, we are joined by Ben Weinberg from Startup Oahu and Sonia Romero from Thrive HI to talk about networking the startup ecosystem and meeting new entrepreneurs.

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Episode 759: Design Thinking Bootcamp + Startup Oahu/Thrive HI- March 15, 2023

Episode 758: Hawaii’s Undersea Fiber Backbone Redux – March 8, 2023

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Cliff Miyake

This week we reprise our conversation about what enables the Internet in Hawaii. I welcome from Cliff Miyake, VP of Business Development from Ocean Networks, here to talk about a recent contract to design key strategic infrastructure for enabling Hawaii’s internet.

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Episode 758: Hawaii’s Undersea Fiber Backbone Redux – March 8, 2023

Episode 757: Maui Economic Development Board Redux – March 1, 2023

Photo (l:r) Burt Lum, Leslie Wilkins

This week we reprise our conversation with Leslie Wilkins, Executive Director of the Maui Economic Development Board and find out about their recent SBA Community Navigator award, as well as STEMworksCode.org and the aerospace industry on Maui.

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Episode 757: Maui Economic Development Board Redux – March 1, 2023