Highlights:
A Catalyst for Change: Indigenous Innovation at UH

Conference Videos

Opening Pule, Ha‘i Ōlelo/Welcome/Sponsor’s Remarks

• Kamuela Enos, Director, Office of Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation, UH System
• David Lassner, President, University of Hawaiʻi
• Juanita Kanehailua Wolfgramm, Project Manager, The GSI Family of Companies

Opening Keynote: Setting the Context for Indigenous-Centered Innovation

• Kamuela Enos, UH System
• Kūha‘o Zane, Board President, Edith Kanaka‘ole Foundation; Creative Director, Sig Zane Designs

Plenary Panel 1: Restoring Regional Health through Indigenous Practices

• Aimee Grace, Director, Office of Strategic Health Initiatives, UH System
• Puni Jackson, Ho‘oulu ‘Āina Program Director, Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services
• Robin Miyamoto, Director of Clinical Services/Associate Professor, Department of Native Hawaiian Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine, UH Mānoa
• Lisa Linda Natividad, Professor of Social Work, University of Guam
• Moderator: Rachelle Robley, Director, UH Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity

Plenary Panel 2: Pewa: Weaving Ancestral and Contemporary Technologies: Indigenous Data Hubs

• Tracy Bui, Research Assistant, Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications, UH Mānoa
• Ulukoa Duhaylonsod, Archaeologist/Ethnohistorian, Ka‘uikiokapō
• Marissa Halim, Research Assistant, Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications, UH Mānoa
• Shaelyn Loo, Fellow, Indigenous Data Hub, UH System
• Kari Noe, Indigenous Technology Specialist, Office of Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation, UH System

Featured Keynote: Trajectory of Indigenous Innovation

• Nikora Ngaporo, CEO and Founder, Nikora Ngaropo Motion Design/Young Animators New Zealand

Plenary Panel 3: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Social Innovation for an Abundant Future, a Showcase

• Kelsey Amos, Co-CEO, Purple Maiʻa Foundation
• Mikiʻala Lidstone, Executive Director, Ulu Aʻe Learning Center
• Kukui Maunakea-Forth, Founder/Executive Director, MAʻO Organic Farms
• Kūhaʻo Zane, Edith Kanaka‘ole Foundation/Sig Zane Designs
• Moderator: Alec Wagner, Program Manager, Design and Innovation, Office of Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation, UH System

Plenary Panel 4:  Growing Indigenous Innovation Partnerships and Initiatives

• Suzanne Case, Director, Land and Ocean Conservation Futures, UH System
• Kawena Elkington, Graduate Research Assistant, Pōʻai Ke Aloha ʻĀina Lab, UH Mānoa
• Donavan Kealoha, Managing Director, Startup Capital Ventures x SBI Fund; Co-Founder, Purple Mai‘a Foundation
• Albie Miles, Associate Professor of Sustainable Community Food Systems, UH West O‘ahu
• Moderator: Vassilis L. Syrmos, Vice President for Research and Innovation, UH System

Closing/Manaʻo Pani

• Kamuela Enos, UH System

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