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Episode 920: AI Safety Week – April 10, 2026

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2026/04/11

During this special spring membership drive, we have Andres Ramirez from the AI Safety Awareness Project and Nam Vu from the Hawaii Center on AI, here to talk about AI Safety Week happening on April 27 – May 1, 2026

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Episode 919: East Meets West – April 3, 2026

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2026/04/05

On todayʻs show we have David Holt, Program Director at Blue Startups, here to talk about the upcoming East Meets West Conference.

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Episode 918: Deep/C – March 27, 2026

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2026/03/28

On todayʻs show we have Greg Burns, founder of Deep/C and he’s here to talk about underwater data centers.

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Episode 917: PacIOOS – March 20, 2026

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2026/03/21

On todayʻs show we have Jim Potemra, Specialist at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology and co-investigator at PacIOOS the Pacific Island Ocean Observing System. You can show your support for PacIOOS here.

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Episode 916: Marine Agrifutures – March 13, 2026

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2026/03/14

On todayʻs show we have Wenhao Sun, President of Marine AgriFutures, here to talk about a novel approach to marine aqua farming which converts salt water to fresh by growing sea asparagus.

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Episode 915: Local Unrest – Mar 6, 2026

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2026/03/07

On todayʻs show we have Shawn Lopes author of Local Unrest and Gary Chun, formerly with the Star Bulletin, Star Advertiser, and a long time music aficionado. Together we recollect the underground music scene in Honolulu during the 80ʻs and 90ʻs.

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Episode 914: Hawaiʻi Island AI Summit – Feb 27, 2026

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2026/02/28

On todayʻs show we have Michelle Dumais from Kealani Solutions and Margaret Schmitt from Hawaiʻi Women in Tech here to talk about the Hawaii Island AI Summit. Listeners to the show can use this promo code for a discount: BytemarksCafe.

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Episode 913: Servpac Data Centr – Feb 20, 2026

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2026/02/22

On todayʻs show we have Richard Zheng President of Servpac, here to talk about cloud computing, data centers and the impact of AI.

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Episode 912: Innovation Archipelago – Feb 13, 2026

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2026/02/13

On todayʻs show we have Olin Lagon, startup, serial, social entrepreneur, co-founder of Shifted Energy, and author with his new book, Innovation Archipelago, expected out in April 2026. Here’s Olin during the Talk Story with the KS Trustee Finalists.

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Jan 30, 2026

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2026/02/12

On todayʻs show we reprise a show we did with Steve Sue, writer, producer and director of the educational documentary, The 100th Battalion, Seeds of Aloha. We also talk about Shaka, A Story of Aloha and its streaming debut on Apple TV and Amazon Prime.

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Episode 910: Pacific Alliance for Collaboration and...

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2026/01/31

On todayʻs show we have Keith Matsumoto, Program Director at PICHTR and Chad Kumabe, President at Second Wave Technologies, here to talk about the Pacific Alliance for Collaboration and Technology Conference.

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Episode 909: Guy Kawasaki – Everybody Has Something...

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2026/01/24

On todayʻs show we have Guy Kawasaki, author, writer, evangelist, investor, who has a new book about Signal called Everybody Has Something to Hide. Preorder here to get the book for $.99.

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Episode 908: HVCA Entrepreneur Awards – Jan 16, 2026

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2026/01/17

On todayʻs show we have Meli James, President of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association, Elisia Flores CEO of L&L Hawaiian Barbeque and Jason Brand, co-founder of Ko Hana Rum, here with us to talk about the upcoming HVCA Entrepreneur Awards on Feb. 25, 2026.

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Episode 907: The 100th – Seeds of Aloha – Jan 9, 2026

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2026/01/14

On todayʻs show we have Steve Sue, writer, producer and director of the educational documentary, The 100th Battalion, Seed of Aloha. We also talk about Shaka, A Story of Aloha and its streaming debut on Apple TV and Amazon Prime.

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Episode 906: Hawaii Technology Development...

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2026/01/03

On todayʻs show we have Trung Lam, the new Exec Director of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to talk about what’s in store for 2026.

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Episode 905: News Desert Project – Dec 26, 2025

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2025/12/26

On todayʻs show we have Janice Gin, lecturer at UH Manoa, Dept of Journalism and former News Director at KITV, and Perry Arrasmith, President at the Hawaii Institute for Public Affairs and they are here to talk about the news desert project.

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Episode 904: C&C Honolulu HNL 311 – Dec 19, 2025

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2025/12/19

On todayʻs show we have Ian Scheuring, Deputy Communications Director and Nancy Vo, Division Chief from the Department of Information Technology at the City and County of Honolulu and they’re both here to provide an update on new HNL311 app. You can find instructions to download the app here.

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Episode 903: PTC 2026 – Dec 12, 2025

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2025/12/13

On todayʻs show we have Brian Moon, CEO of the Pacific Telecommunications Council here to talk about the upcoming PTC’26 conference on January 18-20, 2026.

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Episode 902: Annual Geek Show – Dec 5, 2025

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2025/12/06

During this edition of Bytemarks Cafe, we have a couple of our favorite tech geeks, James Pakele, community organizer, jack of all trades and Ian Kitajima, tech sherpa at PICHTR here to tell us about their favorite tech in 2025. We talk about everything from how to be a road warrior to what AI tools … Continue reading "Episode 902: Annual Geek Show – Dec 5, 2025"

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Episode 901: AI Safety and Governance – Nov 28, 2025

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2025/11/29

On todayʻs show we have Natalie Perez from Aula Fellowship, co-author of Levers of Power in the Field of AI and Andres Ramirez from the AI Safety Awareness Project, here to talk about AI Safety and governance.

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