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[Music] thanks for joining us i'm peter rowan i'm the executive director of pace and i'm the mc for this event i'm so excited to be here because i think this is the first time that we're bringing all of these particular groups these particular uh offices together under one roof to present information to you so pace is just one spoke of a wheel that comprises uh's entrepreneurial ecosystem and we thought it would be a good idea to provide everyone with knowledge and information about the kinds of programs and services that are available across uh to for uh entrepreneurs and innovators so all the leaders who will be presenting today including myself are here to support your goals as entrepreneurs and innovators and we hope that you'll uh take us up on our offer to provide support on this on this journey so a couple housekeeping things just to present prevent disruption to the presenters um all the participants besides the presenters are muted and feel free to make comments in the chat feature and we'll monitor the chat and hopefully get all your questions answered so we've allotted one hour for the event so each presenter has been asked to make a five minute presentation and then we'll take one or two questions in between each presentation that makes sense everybody good okay so i get to start uh by talking about pace a little bit so um can you see my slides you can see this okay good yeah it looks good okay so the pacific asian center for entrepreneurship has been around since 2000 uh with the mission of educating entrepreneurial thinkers and innovative problem solvers for the 21st century i i like to think that what we're doing is helping to make the next great the next generation of great entrepreneurs here in hawaii so a couple of things that we are and that we aren't so we are a research center a resource center offering mentorship and funding and hands-on startup training and we're open to all 10 campuses it's a free program it's not an academic program so you don't have to pay for credits or pay for courses or anything like that uh it's not a student club and it's not just for business students now our physical location our co-working space is a shidler but it's open to everyone and you know sometimes we have when we're when we're open in real life we you know have good food up there to kind of bribe everybody up to the to the corner of campus but uh anybody is welcome in to participate in all our programs particularly now that they're all online so we uh we don't have any geographic limitation across the ten campuses for the time being and um and that's actually helped we've had a lot of great participation from across the whole state uh we're also not just for student startups so many of our programs are you know originate with faculty researchers that have innovations that they worked on they're working on in the lab that they're trying to commercialize and one of the things that i hope that you'll use pace for is is to help build a team because uh entrepreneurship is an extreme sport but it's not a solo sport it's a team sport so make sure that you use us as a clearinghouse you know trying to find resources to build out to build out your team as well as some of the other programs we offer so let me go through really quickly and show some of the programs these obviously represent programs when we used to meet in person in our wonderful co-working space now 100 of our programs are online but we haven't stopped anything everything is moving forward we have a long list of entrepreneurs of uh entrepreneurs that we're very proud of that have gone on are continuing to pursue their ventures once they leave the four walls of uh and we don't kick them out the door we keep providing help and so i think there's no better time than when you're a student to start an entrepreneurial venture but it's you know it's a long journey and and we want to be there for you through the early stages when there's a lot of uncertainty so what's happened at pace this spring and summer uh we have a series called entrepreneurship live our first event is coming up in february with neil asatto from asato family shop i haven't partaken myself but i understand that sherbet is to die for and they're going to talk to you about their entrepreneurial journey it's uh our venture competition season uh we the stakes keep getting higher so there's 55 000 in prizes for uh the top three finalists and a wonderful group of mentors to drive to help support uh you through this competition and we hope you'll participate in some of our info sessions which are just around the corner in fact uh we're having our first one here you see an entrepreneur's boot camp that we've combined with another program that we have called co-finders co-finder is matchmaking for entrepreneurs so uh it's where you go if you need technical resources if you're or if you're a technical person you need business resources or you need design resources you know you can leverage our co-finder so we're going to do these events together in connection with the venture competition this year as usual we have our professional residence program we have a big database of virtual professional residents folks that you can call our contact and get connected with to get free advice and we also have a select group of professionals in residence who meet with you directly uh actually greg kim is one of our our regulars he's on the call today and he's going to talk later and so it's an amazing free opportunity for you to talk to lawyers to talk to marketing professionals to talk to finance executives folks whose time is very valuable and it's free for you so i like to encourage my students even if you just want to go and sit down with somebody like greg and ask him what they had for lunch that's really valuable time and so use that please we have a new program that we're just launching called the calvin shindo student venture fund this is a very unique program that i'm so excited about this is a seed venture capital fund entirely run by our uh students so a committee of uh students a rotating committee will identify the investment opportunities they'll all be uh related startups but they'll they'll source them and qualify them and negotiate the investments and recommend those investments to the board and so if you want to be part of that uh either as an entrepreneur looking for sea capital or you want to be part of it in that you want to learn a little bit more about what it's like to be on the investor side of things the calvin shindo student venture fund is is a great place to start so you will look look for information coming out in the coming weeks about how that process is going to be rolled out we expect to be up and running making our the students making our first investments this this semester so uh we're bringing back summer startup launchpad this summer this is our uh six week boot camp for startups and uh by the time you do summer startup launchpad you're ready to devote some serious time and effort to to launching the business uh we've had between 10 and 12 teams every summer for the past four or five summers i think and many of them have gone on to other accelerators they've gone on to raise capital they've definitely gone into the market and and they've really gotten through the formative stages during summer startup launch pad so i hope you'll consider that program as well so you can connect with us on these various uh places tier social media which i don't use but i understand it's great and um that's all i have to say about pace so tracy i can't remember are we going to take questions at the end or in between or we can take questions now but i don't see any okay um if anyone has questions um please pop it in the chat function and we'll try to take them in between presentations um and next we're going to move to steve with the office of innovation and kermit yeah so i'm going to stop sharing so steve can share and as tracy says we have steve auerbach the director of the office of innovation and commercialization within the austin of research and innovation and um thank you so much for being here steve and go ahead and turn your screen and get going thanks peter and tracy i'm assuming everybody can see my slides you know so i'm going to keep forging ahead you know this is a wonderful opportunity and i uh hats off to peter and tracy for coming up with the idea right it's an imminent approach to get us all together across the campuses because there are a lot of free programs compelling programs and so i'm delighted to have the opportunity to share a little bit about what our office does um my organization is the office of innovation and commercialization as peter indicated we serve all 10 campuses and there's a three-part mission it's really to serve faculty staff and students and the research community to promote said research discoveries to solve problems for the global and local communities to only grow the uh research enterprise and enhance the community so three-part mission that we're doing and so a little more specifically you might say well what does that mean so when you think about the office of innovation and commercialization there's the innovation entrepreneurship side and there's also the tech transfer side and so first and foremost we're here to as i indicated collaborate with faculty staff and students to understand and assess their discoveries so peter talked about the free programs that pace has from a student's standpoint at a faculty standpoint if those turn into an invention or discovery we're going to work with our office to help you guys assess it we'll work on ip trademarks copyrights plant varieties plant breeders patents all the above from there if we assess it and we think there's commercialization or market fit then we go through a licensing or startup or and i have some acronyms here mta ndas mta is material transfer agreements so let's say that the cancer school or the medical school or kapilani community college wants to transfer a material to another institution to a collaborative or sponsored research project could be a mouse it could be a virus cell it could be a food ingredient a product we'll work on those agreements mda's non-disclosure or confidential disclosure agreements we do that all through our office ultimately to build connections with industry and community partners and a big emphasis that we like to focus on is not only private industry but dod given the presence here in hawaii and ultimately driving dual use cases for dud and private industry so that's how we can engage and you can engage with us this slide i'll have you start from the bottom it talks about there's multiple paths to commercialization so again peter and the pace team do a wonderful job in the section of trying to incubate and he talked about the lean startup methodology for summer he talks about the breakthrough innovation challenges he talks about the venture seed fund so if you start at the bottom the technology transfer pathway is really invention disclosure all the way to a license agreement and that could be a student working with a faculty member and says you know what i don't really want to do a startup i'm too busy i'm not interested i may have a technology a widget a service or a product i'm just going to license that and sit back and collect royalties now there may be somebody that wants to do a startup that's another path and peter talked a little bit about that he or she may say you know what i do have the energy i like i'm an entrepreneur i want to do a startup all right you assemble a team and peter you know it's the hacker right peter acronym hacker hunter hipster the hacker the hustler there you go and so you have a composition a multi-disciplinary team that does a startup and so idea generation already to market readiness and hopefully equity and and going forward and as you move to the middle of the screen there's a bunch of programs i don't have time to go through all these on the far left you're going to hear from mine uh this ensign x-force is a new dod funded fully funded out of a dod there's many institutions across the u.s that are doing hack for x half for defense hack for oceans half the diplomacy hack for sustainability hack for resiliency hack for recovery we're piloting hacking for defense with the college of engineering as we speak the plan is in the fall to do a multi-disciplinary with schneider in computer science or social sciences college of uh of medicine um and so those programs are left for more your ideation and then in the middle it's how do we from uh nurturing and all the programs that pace has funding support our organization get those ideas to the next stage and then ultimately you follow it to the right an sbir and then ultimately into the community whether it's a license or a startup i had more time i'd go through some other details but we'll save that i did want to talk about a startup story and this is a new one that i thought just to kind of connect the dots so you understand our mission you understand what we're doing this is a pretty unique startup story that actually a phd candidate along with a faculty member from two faculty members from different departments came together on a challenge that hawaiian electric had and let me go to the next slide so if you think about in spring 2020 flashback the year peter and his team were part of this one electric invested some money and said we had a challenge with our solar grid that team went through a competitive process one ten thousand to build a prototype summer they actually went through our office and and submitted disclosure i'll talk a little bit more about this closure in a bit and then in the fall they won the breakthrough innovation challenge then they completed the nsf icorp program which is another great you know customer discovery effort i think peter might have mentioned some of that so they've accomplished that in fall and guess what they're now in the spring in looking at potentially a uh venture competition out of pace some are doing the national nsfi core and maybe even the summer launch pad back to peter's chronology of programs and ultimately in the fall are they ready for liftoff advisors or siber phase one or phase two and so it kind of talks about a chronology of one startup and i just wanted to use that as an example so you guys so everybody on the audience can connect the docs so bringing this home because i only have five minutes this is all on our website i know that tracy will make these slime people make these slides available there's some policies to talk about you know how do i as an inventor do a license for a startup uh act 38 act 39 there are two bills that passed by the state legislature allow uh faculty and others to do startups um then and then with because i'm running out of time i just wanted to provide this and this is more of a take behind stage one as you engage with our office if you have an idea that you may think is meaningful or novel call our office we write we'll help you write a invention disclosure that kind of gets it in so that we start working on a uh a non-provisional patent to protect your idea and then we go to the next stage of marketing and protecting and then ultimately licensing and or startup so this slide does a nice job of just talking about the different stages it's a lot for you guys to ingest in a couple minutes but we're here to help you ingest it i do want to close with a call to action you're going to hear from commonwealth he's always talking about a call to action so the call to action for all the audience is when in doubt disclose call our office i have all the contact information on the next slide you'll get a hold of us and we'll help you through that to make sure you're protecting your idea participate in any and all innovation entrepreneurship offerings there's plenty of free ones out there participate in them and the last one if you have not already done this go talk to your professor peter's professor there's others that are professors talk to your professor your faculty member your instructor that you have an idea you want to get involved in innovation entrepreneurship get them involved get others involved this is very important for our commun ty and the future of our ohana so i will stop there all right thank you so much steve excellent i love your call called actions calls to action rather are there questions in between before we jump to common i don't see any in the chat okay well if you're shy dropping it in the chat you don't want to raise your hand so uh next we have kamuela enos the director of the uh office of indigenous innovation awesome thank you peter and uh i'm so excited to have you here if you wouldn't mind sharing your screen yeah i will do that right now real fast so my name is komwalinos i am the director of the brands breaking new office of indigenous innovation and i'm here to talk about the new features challenge sadly it doesn't have a rollout in spring we run we're actually in flight right now we on this challenge runs from fall through spring but i'll just give a quick context for who we are and what we do as office and where the new futures challenge fits within it so the office of indigenous innovation i sit i can look out on my window and door and see steve we're in the office of the vice president of research and innovation and really quickly the starting premise of this office is that indigenous people have or the practices that have evolved in indigenous communities to live within the context of their landscapes is innovation there's innovations that have thousands of years sometimes of r d attached to it and how do we think about applying them in contemporary spaces to solve for contemporary issues in ways that communities have been disenfranchised and marginalized have an opportunity to rethink about their heritage and deploy um in hawaii that's especially pronounced um being a native foreign myself i really have often felt that the word hawaiian culture is a poor way to describe what our ancestors didn't often reframe it as ancestral sciences and technologies of integrated biosystems management because if you ever understood what an or fish bonds do or navigating these are sciences and these are technologies that are really ancient and what they've optimized for for hundreds of years is basically the tenants of what we now call sustainability so my office is really here to help promote the practitioners of place and faculty to really put forward ideas and use cases that have our ancestral systems on be solving for global issues and create a vibrant space for learning for uh students but also have community partners and indigenous ideas be valued and communities can really understand what it means to own your ip and to be beneficiaries of your of your ancestry in ways that not just provide something of value to contemporary society but means for quality education and employment for communities that have often been marginalized i'm from waianae so they have a long history of trying to figure out how do we move our people um towards uh really strong and vibrant careers so what is new futures challenge um the new futures challenge is a project that we're running my office is running in partnership with the purple maya foundation purple maya is a non-profit that was started by two native hawaiians who are in the tech sector um donovan kealoha and older negan and his intention was to not only increase the participation of native wines in marginalized communities in the tech sector but also to reframe what we consider technology to make the case that fish ponds are technologies so i'm navigating with the technology and how do we look at creating startups that use these ideas in a way that is ethical in a way that understands some hairy questions about how do you create a business from something that was ancestry health all of these really tricky things we decided to get into and where the new futures initiative challenge comes from was this idea of how do we take a cohort of uh students which is who the target audience is through guided at first that we're working on our second cohort so now it's a 16-week process that um we don't necessarily align with semesters as much as we align with our ancestral solar calendar so the rising um from spring from fall and the rising of the pleiades all the way into spring like marking time as their ancestors in an immersive space where we get a chance to talk to native hawaiian designers and um native wine allied thinkers who will a present students with an overview of what constitutes indigenous design and what are the ethical and professional considerations one has to think about before they go out and create a prototype so some of that in this fall semester which just competed and then it moves on to spring where we run a court of students through a sprint to take these deep lessons and learning and have a chance and create prototypes um and what has been exciting is that we've had 2d two really big and important findings is that there's an appetite for non-native point students to understand how do you ethically enter the idea of indigenous innovation and there's an appetite for funders and investors and foundations in this idea so this is a new future challenge this was another court last year students that have passed through um we're really focusing on the calling is not if you're native hawaiian or not it is do you have a call to be of service to the land of hawaii and the practices that move you and that came we can have a range of people that come to it as engineers we've had computer science majors we've had botany majors a whole bunch of people hawaiian and non-hawaii have signed up but they are similar in their call to be present and to serve the place that we love if you're in hawaii um we kind of run through a cohort of uh students that are then paired with a sister project that maya foundation runs called kamaka inanna which will pair you with um people who are similarly studying this are immersed in this practice who are in the professional sector so you get a chance to um be networked with not just your peers but um professionals who are also interested in exploring this as a rich and a robust um space to learn and i think what you can expect is pretty interesting i found them really great feedback to gain context of what it means to do work in hawaii to gain the fundamentals of design thinking and entrepreneurial mentality to create a cohort and we've been doing this entirely on zoom people are telling us having a zoom cohort of people doing something with you has been something they've craved and it's become kind of emotional people really look forward to our weekly meetings receive mentoring and coaching there's a huge array of people on the staff who are like myself professionals but we see coaching and mentoring as being horizontal and vertical like i get coached from students to coach each other we create a welcoming and affirming space and we also provide academic and financial resources we try to raise money so that at the end the projects that you go after there's a pitch session and we can link you with resources fiscal but also professional and there's opportunities upon terminus of the new futures program to enter into graduated into the really robust and powerful ecosystems of incubators that steve has and folks that peter's talked about and folks after me when we speak to we see ourselves as the opening catchment come in with zero knowledge zero background anything this is where we capture and we hope to spread out into different spaces and ultimately our goal is to create livelihoods that really cherishes the ingenuity of ancestors of this land but all of our collective ancestors and finding ways for that to be brought ethnically but also economically viably into the 21st century so i'll stop there and if i have my done sharing skiing um but i really appreciate being able to share with everyone um we don't have any openings in the spring realizing that but we will start in fall and if people are interested um we'll provide i can japanese chat or check in with peter and we can provide you more contact information thank you everybody for your time thank you for being here on a friday and we will talk later all right thank you so much kamu and if we have any questions jump right in there uh marianne you have a question or you're just waving no i i'm just waving from sydney australia guys and this background behind this this background behind me is it's real okay [Laughter] that's awesome great to have you here marianne so next we'll uh we'd like to ask greg kim to tell us about the school of law entrepreneurship and small business clinic greg is the founder of vantage council which is one of the very first virtual law firms in the country and he's a corporate attorney with over 30 years of experience and he also teaches at the law school and oversees the clinic and provides an incredible amount of help to our uh entrepreneurs so uh i'll turn it over to you greg in other words i'm old age has advantages um welcome everyone i'm just going to cut to the chase here because i think that i take it the purpose here is to share our resources to the student body right and i guess faculty so what can we do for you i'll just i'll just share a screen my really fancy presentation here so i just typed this up right now but basically it's pretty simple our clinic is a class at the law school has been around since 2008 justin levinson who i think is on this zoom was the brainchild for the class so basically the law students learn how to represent small businesses and startups and as part of their curriculum we take on small business clients and assist them for free and i've listed some of the things here that we do um the students learn by doing so it's project-based education which is you know i guess the wave of the future or the wave of the present so um it's been going well this is my 13th year teaching the class um but we do things like you know incorporations llc's as well as corporations delaware or hawaii we also do non-profit corporations we do help with the tax exemption application called a form 1023 but most of the work there should be done by the client but we fill in on the legal side um we review contracts of all kinds we've done a lot of terms of use for websites privacy policies we've done a lot of contracts you know depending on your business you might need a customer contract manufacturing contract or some sort of vendor agreement so we've done all those sorts of things and and i'm sure there's a lot of other things that we've done but anything on the business side we don't do litigation or claims or disputes um and so yeah if you're interested in um here i'll put my contact information down here oops that's my cell and my email uh is there and uh we've been pleased to work with a lot of the uh contestants um for the business plan competition but we're not exclusively high growth in fact i think most of the businesses that we help our small businesses um meaning that they're not venture they're not seeking venture capital in traditional sense which is probably 99 of the businesses in hawaii and so i think those kinds of businesses can become really big and significant hawaii businesses it's just they're not going to seek traditional venture capital and so we help both kinds of businesses um but probably more so you know small businesses um so i think that's i is there anything else uh peter you want me to say i think that's in a nutshell all that i need to share oh that's great that's great and uh thank you very much for for for uh the overview so if there's any questions you know jump in at any time or drop them in the chat but otherwise we'll just keep uh moving forward so now we're going to hear from the mind program which is the medical innovation and design program and mike hansen is going to talk to us about that mike are you ready yes thank you peter and hello everyone it's good to be with you what a great and exciting group this is let me share my screen okay so mind hawaii is a university-wide program across all campuses and its purpose is to directly improve health care in our community it's an interdisciplinary group as you'll see there those are the main schools and colleges involved but it's open to to any student and these schools have come together from different colleges to develop solutions to challenging medical problems that we have and something that peter started us off with was that as a student there might not be a better time to be an entrepreneur and i i totally agree with him i think that's exactly right because you're able to take advantage of so many different resources and you have so many different people with varying backgrounds right next to you and mind hawaii has really tried to take advantage of that and create these interdisciplinary teams that solve real world problems let's see the mission of my toy is to bring together students and faculty from all sorts of different places i mentioned the business medicine engineering and law are kind of the main ones marketing of course and computer science art you know any there's so many places for everybody to contribute in this space again we're developing solutions to medical problems programs opened to students whether you're pursuing an undergraduate degree a graduate or professional degree and the way that the program works is we'll put you into teams um we have educational workshops there's team mentoring from physicians or other industry professionals that working specifically with your team and with the problem that you had and your team have have taken on and that all together provides some fantastic networking opportunities as far as the timeline of how mind hawaii works it's a it's a year-long program academic year and so this spring we're in the middle of the program that started in august which is when our mind our kickoff happens in september we start to form teams and those teams are based off of interests that you have and so it's really organic you're you're put together not necessarily with somebody that you come into the program with but rather somebody who shares the same interests as you you begin to work and develop prototypes and learn how to design a prototype learn how to approach a problem and then by the time january comes around your team is ready to pitch that idea to the mind hawaii student board and directors as well as to other investors sponsors doctors and other professionals so then after that you've got a chance to kind of refine your your prototype or your process and then in april there's a competition and there's real cash money that's available up to ten thousand dollars and so this is really an opportunity to jump start something brand new take a problem and work it through to a real world world solution some of the highlights from our program are we've had a team go to a national competition and actually win i've had teams publish patents and several have formed companies that have gone on to be successful and most importantly they've changed lives there's many many lives that have been changed for the better because of these students coming together to address problems that either they saw or were seen by one of the one of the mentors and so the way that the program works is that we begin with kind of a bank of problems that come from physicians or others in the in the healthcare industry and you build a team you can choose a problem that you'd like to address and then you work through that timeline that i that i talked about it's been really gratifying and rewarding to watch students come together and start with almost nothing but an idea and take it through and you know that's that's the magic of of being at a university with such robust entrepreneurship and innovative programs you can that you can see through this program today that there's so many different opportunities to take an idea and move it to some a real a real solution so here's our contact info we have an email website and our own social media i think that's that's all all right all right thank you very much micah i i i love this program i've had an opportunity to come in and talk to the mind teams in the past and it's a fantastic cross-functional uh experience and i'd encourage all of you to check it out so uh next we're pleased to have john richards he's here to talk to us about the exciting things happen happe ing at capilani community college john is the dean of career and technical education for culinary hospitality business legal and technology as well as of the culinary institute of the pacific that's a lot of responsibility but he's going to tell us about all the exciting things and innovative things happening there so i'll turn it over to you john thank you so much and i appreciate everybody giving us this opportunity to share the really cool things that we do so at capiolani i'm the dean of career and technical education and the culinary institute of the pacific and those disciplines are culinary hospitality business legal technology and entrepreneurship the culinary institute of the pacific diamond head campus is the newest campus in the system it is a dedicated advanced culinary education institute we have built the first half of it which is in this picture that's phase one we are now under construction to complete the entire campus with an expected completion in uh fall of 2022 included in the next phase is we have an international auditorium is what we are calling it um and this is technically a a high-tech food and wine innovation uh television studio so everything that we do in this space will be able to be broadcast or streamed real time to any program in the world for that matter as far as sharing what we're doing as far as our innovation work with the world we also have a very highly anticipated restaurant that will be opening that is it is a restaurant but it is an academic classroom it is restaurant management it is restaurant innovation it is food innovation it's where our students complete not only culinary arts but also restaurant management and getting into the higher level of the business of restaurants the third building is our culinary innovation center and this is a dedicated space for uh innovation it's a flexible space where experts from around the world will come in virtually and in person and this may be set up as a classroom or maybe set up as a demonstration space it's also linked into the the high definition television studio so that we can include programming from this facility while we're doing other programming at the same time so some of the areas that we're focusing in with our culinary institute of the pacific is new product development we have multiple partnerships with kings hawaiian 711 zippys a number of partnerships where we're working with their corporate offices and developing new products for for their businesses we also have that's been ongoing now an ignite collaborative internship this is a totally customizable collaborative internship not just for our campus but for department of education high school academy programs it can be uh any program in uuh and what we do is we take all of our interns in their final semester and we put a group of them into this internship where yes it's culinary institute but we'll have a culinary student working with chefs side by side with a marketing student an accounting student an i.t student and they all start to collaborate on what does it take to innovate this this new product what does it take to market it and how what's the business how do i set up the accounting for this new product very exciting to watch the students catch on fire in this collaborative environment we're always expanding our agricultural network to be the center where uh yes we do some entrepreneurship uh building but we're primarily evolving into a uh food culture research and development center where we'll work with farmers businesses manufacturers and taking new product ideas and drilling down on food shelf life testing acidity testing allergen testing all of the all of the technical end of whatever food products that we may develop food entrepreneurship that's just hot as all get out right now and it is as broad as the world and now during coven it's never been more important to be able to develop the entrepreneurs in our food industry to reinvent the way we're able to monetize our skills and our talents another area that we're getting into is the artificial intelligence presence and food service what's it going to look like five years from now how much that we're doing now might be automated not just in our kitchens but in our our farms uh in our manufacturing and the last component that i'll just mention is a pretty intensive look into the nutrition and wellness side of the food innovation so those are our primary focuses with many many other ancillary focuses and again i'm very excited to share this and if anybody's working in food over one of the places that you want to come talk to thank you thanks john that's so exciting all the progress that you've made over there and it's such a great opportunity for hawaii so uh again if you have questions throw them in the chat or or raise your hand or shout out don't be shy but otherwise finally we're fortunate to have karen hanada join us from maui college she's the director of extended learning and workforce development and i'm eager to hear what's happening with the maui food innovation center i was over there last year visiting and was with steve and was so excited about what what you were doing there so uh if you'd like to share the screen karen go ahead okay aloha mai kakou and i to mahalo peter and tracy you know what an honor it is to be part of this group really a beautiful growing eco system supporting entrepreneurship and business development here in hawaii and i want to thank the other presenters because i learned a lot from you and it's exciting you know to think about how we can connect dots and help more people so i'm from uh maui college so aloha from maui and i'm the director of the office of extended learning and workforce development the maui food innovation center is a program in ellwood that's our acronym and our focus is food product entrepreneurship and we've been at it for 10 plus years started previous chancellor many federal and local grants and fortunate enough to have our legislature appropriate over seven million dollars for a new facility that will be finished this august in the meantime uh we are running uh training and mentorship and incubation programs in our non-credit division that is elwood and you can see here on the slide we have many local small businesses that we've helped nurture and develop i believe we're in our 10th cohort of the and fixed graduates and we have 146 graduates and again you can see small businesses often the backbone of diversifying our economy and you know trying to get synergy going between food product development and getting tourism back up you know getting a sustainable egg going etc so having food products really is tying all of those efforts to the market and adding to sustainability what does the maui food innovation center provide well we provide training and startup support and specialized kitchen facilities the training and support that we offer for now is in the form of three classes a food business startup class and then a concept to consumer class and a food accelerator business accelerator class three classes in succession and our teachers provide coaching and business resources networking to capital small business administration to economic opportunity uh nonprofit etc it really is a village here in maui county and there's a tremendous network of support for our students that come through and then mentoring and coaching after they leave our program i really want to give a shout out to our team of teachers they've been fantastic uh professor sperry just retired they've laid a great foundation including this test kitchen you can see a picture here of where our students work what's coming in the future is a new seven and a half million dollar facility about 4 300 square feet slated for completion this august and in that facility we'll have spaces for uh research and development and for students to come in and for public operators to come in and we'll have these spaces here that you see whole process dry process with processing packaging so to sum up this presentation and since i'm the last presenter uh i thought it would be best to take you to a video because you know i think the old adage is a picture is worth a thousand words but i think a video video is worth a thousand words so bear with me while i switch over okay are you able to see this video i hope so okay this is about two minutes [Music] i'm really happy to be part of the maui food innovation center and it's been a great program for me and it's open possibilities in my mind on what's possible with my business i think that the key to the program was understanding where my product belonged i think as an entrepreneur you jump through every door that opens because you're scared there's not going to be another door or you're wondering what direction you're you're supposed to go so you kind of just go in all the directions so i had you know i'm no longer doing that because i got outside the building outside of the food innovation center i asked a lot of questions it encouraged me to have belly-to-belly interviews not over the phone you know not by email but actually go out into the you know the marketplace where i wanted to see my product be and get immediate feedback at the stage we were at when i enrolled and took the class the way i was most benefited was with the the people the people that surrounded us and their support and their encouragement and their enthusiasm you know to be around that many like-minded entrepreneurs really helped to support me because you know as as an entrepreneur in a business we all know there's ups and downs it's tough sometimes you want to throw in the towel and other times you're super excited and into it and in those low times being in the class and meeting those people that have gone through it before you are in that position now having that support kind of encouraged me and pushed me to keep moving and and complete what we set out to do the local business all the money stays on maui or the island where the business is but they're not sending the money off to the mainland to investors whereas all the large hotels are owned by corporations most of them are publicly owned and the stockholders are the investors so the stockholders are basically getting the profits the hotels employ people and the wages of course maintain our economy but the economy could be so much better if the wealth stayed on the island we were able to meet our graphic designer through the program and she created an amazing label and logo for our kimchi as well as connecting us with key people in the community to events that i would never be able to do alone bear with me as i switch back to my powerpoint there we go alrighty so let's see i'm so sorry here we go okay so uh thank you for your patience and if you'd like more information on the food innovation center there's our email i welcome any inquiry we have a great team a very supportive colleagues have a very nice network that supports inviting entrepreneurs we welcome your inquiries i'll take any questions if you have any all right thank you so much karen so any questions for karen or any of the other presenters okay well uh before we let you all go i want to i just want to thank you all for participating in this event and for having the courage to be entrepreneurs during this difficult time you know we all we've all had a a rough year to say the least but uh we're still going and that's the most important thing we can do to help hawaii is to keep going is not to stop and and wait for for the environment to change and uh you've seen seven i think programs across uh that are here to help you do that and i hope uh that you found one or more uh that inspire you to you know to reach out and get help so for my part i wanna uh i know some people came in late and i wanna remind you that we've started the uh venture competition season and uh you can still register for that event um at the on the pace website and i think we'll drop the link in uh in the chat but i hope that you will take at least one uh take advantage of these one of these amazing programs and uh and keep going and uh we're excited to see you uh at one of these great uh upcoming events so thank you very much and uh you can stick around if you wanna talk further but i think uh tracy that's a wrap right you