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On todayʻs show we have Brandon Makaawaawa, Vice President of Nation of Hawaii and Leimomi Bong, full stack developer at Purple Maiʻa. Theyʻre both here to talk about a recent Purple Maia hackathon called Build4ʻAina.
On todayʻs show we have Jacqui Hoover, Chair of the Conference Program Committee for the Hawaii Energy Conference and Michael Colón, co-Chair and Director of the Energy Sector at Ulupono Initiative. We talk about the Hawaii Energy Conference happen on May 21-22, 2025 on Maui.
The Hawaii Energy Conference is presented by Maui Economic Development Board who are offering a special rate to Bytemarks Café listeners yet to register. Use code BYTEMARKS when you register at hawaiienergyconference dot com. That’s BYTEMARKS all upper-case for a 20% savings off the full one or two-day rate.
On todayʻs show we have Dr. Fengchuan Liu, Project Manager and Dr. Yuko Kakazu, Education and Outreach Manager from the Thirty Meter International Telescope and they’re here to give us the latest updates on the project.
On todayʻs show we have Johnny Chankhamany, Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Development at Builders VC, who is here to talk about the startup ecosystem and tech investing.