Events
Talks, workshops, and working sessions on putting AI to work — most of them in Hawaiʻi, all of them built from projects we have actually shipped.
Open to the public
October 18, 2026
Workshop
Above The Wave · 400 Hana Hwy, Ste B1/C, Kahului, HI 96732 · 9am–3pm HST · $500
A hands-on Sunday for physicians, APRNs, PAs, and clinic staff. Set up AI on your own laptop, practice on documentation, patient messages, and inbox work, then build around a real task from your practice — with clear rules for privacy and PHI. A small cohort of 20.
November 5, 2026
Panel
Hilton Waikiki Beach Resort · Honolulu
Ali joins leaders from government and industry on the main-stage panel “Early AI Adoption in Hawaiʻi’s Essential Industries,” a look at where AI is already delivering value in the operations Hawaiʻi depends on, what early adopters learned, and how they balanced new tools against the reliability their communities expect.
Handouts and slides, where we published them
July 31, 2026
Talk
Realtors Association of Maui · General Membership Meeting, Maui Arts & Cultural Center
A talk for Maui real-estate professionals on using AI in day-to-day agent work — what it does well today, where it fails, and how to tell the difference before it reaches a client.
July 15–16, 2026
Workshop
City & County of Honolulu · with Essential Leap
A two-day workshop for grant teams on using AI across the grant lifecycle — from funding research and concept papers through compliance matrices and reviewer-ready narratives.
March–October 2025
Workshop
A year-long series · Maui, Kauaʻi & Oʻahu
Hands-on sessions, most of them AI proposal-writing workshops for non-profit leaders, plus a community-college session and a class for middle-school students.
February & April 2024
Podcast
Guest: Alireza Ali
Ali joined the hosts twice to talk through the week’s AI news and what it meant for startups: OpenAI’s Sora, Groq’s inference chip, and Gemini 1.5 in February; Llama 3, Claude Opus, and the YC W24 batch in April.
