2017 news

Calling all programmers, software developers and tech-minded innovators. The State of Hawai‘i is holding its 2017 Hawai‘i Annual Code Challenge (HACC) to draw local creative talent to tackle government IT problems. Open to students, amateurs and professionals alike, the HACC is a hackathon-inspired competition establish to engage the local tech community and modernize and streamline state services and functions. The second-annual, month-long competition will kick off on Saturday, Aug. 26, at the East-West Center’s Keoni Auditorium and close with a judging and

According to Global Startup Economy Report 2017, the impact of startups is becoming significant in all walks of life. With the US taking the first two positions, UK stood on third based on the performance, funding, market reach, talent & startup experience. With increasing startup economy day-by-day we need more accelerators. Startup accelerators are cohort-based programs that include mentorship, educational components and to reach in a public event. Accelerators which can be either privately or publicly funded, focus on a wide

Long before Hawaii distinguished itself by becoming the first state to declare a 100 percent renewables goal two years ago, the island had a long history of innovation related to electricity. After all, the former monarchy’s Iolani Palace was first electrified back in July 1886, four years before the White House, as part of a project that was the brainchild of intrepid entrepreneurs and a royal family fond of making a modern impression. As was the case more than a century ago,

XLR8UH, a public-private partnership between the University of Hawaiʻi and Sultan Ventures created to educate, mentor and invest in UH startups and entrepreneurs, has been named a top 30 U.S. accelerator in the 2017 Seed Accelerator Rankings, a part of the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project(SARP). The XLR8UH program is a four-month startup accelerator that works with UH-affiliated entrepreneurial teams to offer office hours, weekly workshops, presentations and lectures conducted by noted business, technology and startup experts.

XLR8UH, the University of Hawaii’s accelerator program, was named one of the nation’s best startup accelerators of 2017. “This is great momentum for innovation and startups in Hawaii, the university and Startup Paradise,” said Omar Sultan, managing director of XLR8UH. “We’re obviously very happy for the national recognition.” XLR8UH made the “Bronze” category in the ranking compiled by the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project. AngelPad in San Francisco and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Y Combinator were the two accelerators that were ranked in the top

The Aloha State may not be Silicon Paradise (yet), but it’s trying! To get you up-to-speed, we’ve put together a short guide to earning a HI data science degree. It has details on everything from research & scholarships to startups & salary numbers. Already have a university in mind? Skip ahead to our list of all the data science programs in Hawaii. Studying Data Science in Hawaii Hawaii is a land of opportunity. On the plus side, it has a long

In 2010, Dr. Jeffrey Yu, a radiologist working at Queen’s Medical Center, embarked on a technology treasure hunt. Yu’s boss, Queen’s Chief Executive Arthur Ushijima, asked him to look at research being conducted at the hospital and find what had commercial potential. Yu discovered something promising: technology invented in collaboration with the University of Hawaii to make images from medical scan tests such as MRIs more clear. Seven years later, Yu’s company, KinetiCor Motion Correction Technologies, is a model for successful Hawaii startups. In March the