Bytemarks Café
Bytemarks Café is a half-hour radio magazine that showcases the innovation and creativity in Hawaiʻi's tech community. Hosted by HPR's Burt Lum, the program's purpose is to raise awareness of the tech economy and to engage the listener in the discussion.
Hawaii Public Radio
Show overview
Bytemarks Café launched in 2025 and has put out 61 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 30 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 29 min and 29 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 months ago, with 24 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Hawaii Public Radio.
From the publisher
Bytemarks Café is a half-hour radio magazine that showcases the innovation and creativity in Hawaiʻi's tech community. Hosted by HPR's Burt Lum, the program's purpose is to raise awareness of the tech economy and to engage the listener in the discussion.
Latest Episodes
View all 61 episodesBytemarks Cafe - June 26: Data Center Innovation Initiative
Bytemarks Cafe - June 19 - Mana Up Cohort 11
Bytemarks Cafe - June 12 - Makalii Metrics
Bytemarks Cafe: June 5th - Stoa
Bytemarks Cafe: May 29 - Maui Workforce Development
Bytemarks Cafe - May 22: Kamehameha School Education Technology Conference
Bytemarks Cafe - May 15: Kupuna and Digital Tech
Bytemarks Cafe - May 8: Digital Safety
Bytemarks Cafe - May 1: Hawaii Energy Conference
Bytemarks Cafe - April 24: Seasick program
Bytemarks Cafe - April 17: TRUE Initiative
Bytemarks Cafe - April 10: AI Safety Awareness Project
Today we'll learn about a week long series on AI Safety. We'll talk with members of the AI Safety Awareness Project who are coming to Hawaii to conduct the workshop in April.
Bytemarks Cafe - April 3: East Meets West Conference
Today we'll find out what is planned for the upcoming East Meets West Conference. We'll talk with the organizers of the conference to learn what it truly means to have east meets west, culturally and philosophically.
Bytemarks Cafe - March 27 - Underwater Data Centers
Today we'll talk about data centers, not the ones on land but underwater. We'll talk to a local company called Deep/C that proposes these data centers can improve ship communications and knowledge retrieval.
Bytemarks Cafe - March 20 - Pacific Island Ocean Observing System
Today we'll talk about the Pacific Island Ocean Observing System. We'll find out what technology they use to gather data and how Pacific Island communities can support them.
Bytemarks Cafe: March 13th - Marine AgriFutures
Today we'll hear about a novel approach to converting salt water to fresh. We'll talk to a company called Marine AgriFutures and learn how they use sea asparagus to create fresh water to grow crops like ogo and rice.
Bytemarks Cafe: March 6th - Local Unrest
Today we’ll hear about a recent book chronicling Hawaii’s underground music scene.The book is called Local Unrest and it harkens back to the late seventies, at a time, dare I say, was pre-digital.
Bytemarks Cafe - AI Summit
Today we'll talk about an AI summit happening on the Big Island. It's called the Hawaii Island AI summit and it features Hands-on workshops and Practical Skills you can put to use.
Bytemarks Cafe - February 20 - Data Centers
Today we'll hear about recent developments in data centers. We'll find out what Servpac is doing with the increased traffic and compute demands of AI.
Bytemarks Cafe - February 13 - Book "Information Archipelago"
February 13 - Olin Legan