During this special fall membership drive, we have Cliff Miyake, Chief Strategy Officer at Ocean Networks, the company contract to build the Hawaiian Islands Fiber Link.
Episode 891: Hawaiian Islands Fiber Link Update – Sept 19, 2025
Author: Burt Lum
Episode 890: Digital Aloha and Broadband Hōʻike – Sept 12, 2025
On todayʻs show we have Constancio Paranal, the Innovation and Tech program manager at the City’s Office of Economic Revitalization and Jeremiah Jacinto, the Chair of the Hawaiʻi State Youth Commission and a senior at Baldwin High School on Maui. Jeremiah is here to tell us about Digital Aloha Month and Constancio will tell us about the Broadband Hōʻike.
Episode 889: Hawaii AI and Cloud Innovation Summit – Sept 5, 2025
On todayʻs show we have Christine Sakuda, State Chief Information Officer and Nicole Cacal, Executive Director of the TRUE Initiative here to talk about the Hawaii AI and Cloud Innovation Summit, happening on Sept. 10, 2025.
Episode 888: Hawaii Wave – Aug 29, 2025
On todayʻs show we have Ian Kitajima President of the Pacific International Center for High Tech Research here to talk about a new dual use incubator called Hawaii Wave. Applications for a spot in this first cohort are now open.
Episode 887: Internet Governance Forum – Aug 22, 2025
On todayʻs show we have Anja Gengo the Internet Governance Program Expert at the UN Secretariat for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and is here to talk about the IGF and the multi-stakeholder process.
Episode 886: World Summit on the Information Summit – Aug 15, 2025
On todayʻs show we have Amara Shaker-Brown, Consultant and former Internet policy advisor at the National Democratic Institute (NDI). She joins me from the East Coast and is here to talk about the recent World Summit on the Information Society. Additional resources on WSIS include the Internet Society and the Global Partners Digital.
Episode 885: 2nd Annual Honolulu Tech Week – Aug 8, 2025
On todayʻs show we have Michael Bennett, founder of Honolulu Tech Week and we’re talking about the 2nd annual week long event featuring Hawaii’s diverse tech ecosystem happening on Sept. 8-12, 2025. Check out the lineup of events.
Episode 884: Malama Carbon – Aug 1, 2025
On todayʻs show weʻll talk with Paul Apao, Chief Strategy Officer and Dominick Garey, Chief Technology Officer at Malama Carbon about using Web3 technology like blockchain to help ensure an open, transparent accounting of carbon credits.
Episode 883: CivicNexus – July 25, 2025
On todayʻs show weʻll talk with Seiichi Nagai, Founder and CEO of CivicNexus an application that enables nonprofits, lobbyists, policy wonks & public sector that enables smarter policy tracking.
Episode 882: PMDP Hackathon – July 18, 2025
On todayʻs show weʻll talk with Jesse Moonier, Mechanical Engineer and Derek LeVault, Quartermaster at the Papahanaumokuakea Marine Debris Project and they are here to talk about the PMDP Hackathon.