Highlights:
A Catalyst for Change: Indigenous Innovation at UH
A UH Innovation Conference 2024
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
- 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
- Kamuela Enos, UH System
Conference Program
The University of Hawaiʻi would like to acknowledge the following for their generous support: