Episode 259: Exemplary State – July 31, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Ed Teixeira and Deborah Mellom from Chaminade University to tell us about the upcoming CyBiz Forum. Finally, we’ll talk to Major General Darryll Wong, Kevin Montgomery and Ken Kaneshiro and find out about the Exemplary State and Collaborate.org, an ambitious project to form groups to gather and analyze data about our environment.

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Episode 258: Video Gamification – July 24, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Dawn Lippert from PICHTR to tell us about the next round for the Energy Excelerator. Finally, we learn about video gamification and its applications in education and marketing. We’ve invited two local companies, parWinr and Hyperspective Studio to shed light on this new technology.

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Episode 257: Google Glass + Ingress – July 17, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Jeffrey Loo from the Hawaii Health Information Exchange to tell us about the upcoming HHIE IT Summit. Finally, we’ll get a distinctly local view of ‘augmented reality’ as we talk to Hawaii’s first “Google Glass” users, Brendan Brennan, Todd Cochrane and Paul Lawler as well as players of Google’s geolocation based “Ingress.”

Thanks to Brendan Brennan, here is the show as seen #throughglass.

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Episode 256: CanSat – July 10, 2013

 

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Eric Nakagawa back from San Francisco, to tell us about some of this latest projects. Finally we’ll talk to the team at Kapiolani Community College who won the NASA CanSat competition for sending a payload into space and bringing it safely back to earth.

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Episode 255: Science on Hokule`a – July 3, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Hoala Greevy here to tell us about his new app DareShare. Finally, we’ll learn about some of the science experiments being conducted on the voyaging canoes Hokule’a and Hikianalia on their World Wide Voyage. We’ll take with Alexis Rudd from the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and Anuschka Faucci from Kahi Kai.

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Episode 254: Blue Startups 1st Cohort – June 26, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Evan Rapoport from Google to tell us about some new features with Google Maps. We also talk about the Google Trekker, the Google Maps Blog and Photosphere. Finally, we’ll talk to a couple of recent graduates from the first cohort of Blue Startups and find out what’s next on their startup journey. We’ve invited Samantha Godfrey from Pharmly and Dave Kozuki from Tow Choice to share their experiences.

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Episode 253: Founder Institute – June 19, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Carey & Brandon Bennett from Happy Hour Hawaii to tell us about their nation wide rollout. Finally, we find out from Russel Cheng about the Honolulu chapter of the Founder Institute and how it’s helping to build the entrepreneurial startup ecosystem.

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Episode 252: UHERO Dashboard Project – June 12, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Piia Aarma from HiBEAM to tell us about the upcoming Transitions and Growth workshop. Finally, we’ll talk to Carl Bonham and Ben Trevino to learn about the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO), and how it’s building a data dashboard to help the community better understand the many facets of the local economy.

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Episode 251: State of the Web – June 5, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Collin Kobayashi from 3D Innovations to tell us about the upcoming HTDC Product Design & Development Seminar. Finally, we find out how the web has evolved over the last 10 years and where it is headed in the next 10 years, from two of Hawaii’s foremost web thought leaders, Kevin Hughes and Dan Leuck.

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Episode 250: Hawaii Space Flight Lab – May 29, 2013

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First we’ll look at the latest tech news and happenings in Hawaii and beyond. Then joining us today is Mimi Wong and Kimble McCann from Kamehameha School to talk about the KS Unconference. Finally, we find out about the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory and plans for UH to put a satellite in low earth orbit. We’ll talk with Greg Witteman from Honolulu Community College and Georgeanne Friend from Kauai Community College both along with UH Manoa are part of the space launch program.

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