HBMF 2024

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HBMF 2024

We’re Live in 2024 at UH Mānoa

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10:00am HST

Bamboo Ridge #124 UH Campus CenterEric Chock • Darrell H. Y. Lum • Thomas Iannucci • Darlene M. Javar • Jonathon Medeiros • Gail Harada • Ann Inoshita • Marion Lyman-Mersereau • John E. Simonds Bringing The Magic Back To Writing UH Campus CenterPenny Pence Smith • Rachel Heller Earth at Risk: 5 Converging Crises UH Campus CenterMichael J. Cooney • Marti Townsend • Wayne Tanaka • Aurora Kagawa-Viviani

11:00am HST

Changing The Paradigm for LEARNING “Town Hall” UH Campus CenterJon Pennington, Moderator • Dawn Brown • Anson Li • Xyandri Ortiz • Mahealani Jackson • Gigi Kiyabu Papa ‘I‘i: Nā Hunahuna o nā Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi UH Campus CenterPuakea Nogelmeier Made in Hawai‘i UH Campus CenterDr. Tarah Suiter Three Years on the Great Mountain: A Memoir of Zen and Fearlessness (Sponsored by BDK Hawaii) UH Campus CenterMaya Soetoro-Ng, Moderator • Cristina Moon Lei and the Invisible Island UH Campus CenterKristiana Kahakauwila • Malia Maunakea

12:00pm HST

Changing The Paradigm for TEACHING UH Campus CenterGabriel Yanagihara, Moderator • Casey Agena • Chris Ferry • Michael Lomuscio • Jennifer Roble • Alan Suemori An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific UH Campus CenterBrandy Nalani McDougall • Joyce Pualani Warren • Pono Fernadez • Caryn Lesuma • Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl Water City Trilogy / Midnight Water City; Eventide water City; Sunset Water City UH Campus CenterRobert Barclay, Moderator • Chris McKinney Hydrogen Future Now UH Campus CenterPatrick Sullivan The Realities of Coastal Retreat UH Campus CenterMarcel Honore, Moderator • Makena Coffman • Emily Sobolewski Knight Clairboyance UH Campus CenterAndrew K. Hoe, Moderator • Kristiana Kahakauwila

1:00pm HST

AI & Business Practice in Hawai‘i UH Campus CenterEvan Weber The AI Revolution at MidPac Institute UH Campus CenterBrian Grantham, Moderator • Elizabeth Cleary • Chris Ferry • Gianna Groves • Gigi Kiyabu • Toby Kishimoto • Danelle Landgraf • Kymbal Roley • Japjit Tulsi EVENT CANCELLED - The Kāmau Trilogy UH Campus CenterDonna Blanchard, Moderator • Alani Apio Energy self-sufficiency: How Hawai'i households can lower their cost of living and carbon pollution with new federal funds. UH Campus CenterJosh Stanbro • Evan Castro • Evan Weber The Old Timers UH Campus CenterCathy Song, Moderator • Wing Tek Lum Decarbonizing Hawaii UH Campus CenterCatherine Cruz, Moderator • Monique Schafer • Michael Colon • Emily Sobolewski Knight • Leah Laramee The Lost Souls of Benzaiten UH Campus CenterGabriella Contratto • Kelly Murashige

2:00pm HST

The Rebuilding of Lahaina History UH Campus CenterLance D. Collins, Moderator • Bianca Isaki • Sydney Iaukea • ‘Umi Perkins • Ron Williams, Jr. The Bluff UH Campus CenterDouglas Corleone, Moderator • Bonnie Traymore Elemental Accelerator UH Campus CenterJosh Stanbro Three Hawaiian Poets UH Campus CenterDonovan Kūhiō, (Colleps) • Brandy Nalani McDougall • Noukahauoli Revilla The Navahine Victory UH Campus CenterLeinā‘ala Ley • Navahine F. • Pahonu C.

3:00pm HST

AI for Creative Arts UH Campus CenterKen Makuakane • Angie Anderson • Ikaika Agard The 1898 Project 1 UH Campus CenterTom Coffman, Moderator • Kēhau Abad • Kevin Chang • Kyle Kajihiro • Bianca Isaki Women! In! Peril! UH Campus CenterKristiana Kahakauwila • Jessie Ren Marshall Hawaii Literary Arts Council Annual Award Ceremony UH Campus CenterEric Paul Shaffer • Wing Tek Lum • Brandy Nalani McDougall • Susan Scott • Joy Kobayashi-Cintron

4:00pm HST

Jeffrey Watumull on Why LLM-based AI is limited UH Campus CenterDr. Jeffrey Watumull The 1898 Project 2 UH Campus CenterKyle Kajihiro • Julian Aguon • Andre Perez • Marti Townsend Honolulu Stories Today UH Campus CenterDonald Carreira Ching • Joseph Han • Jeffrey J. Higa • Kristiana Kahakauwila • Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Moderator • Mark Panek • Cedric Yamanaka Pay to Play UH Campus CenterBlaze Lovell, Moderator • Randall Roth • Alexander Silvert • Cynthia Thielen