Purple Sessions: Explore What’s Growing in Our Mālaplex

​Join us for a brown bag style talk, an open-door lunchtime session hosted by Purple Maiʻa Foundation during Honolulu Tech Week. This casual midday session offers a front-row seat to what’s growing in our culturally grounded tech nonprofit's mālaplex.

māla - garden
plex - to weave, complicated

Expect short demos from builders and program leads working on everything from software to environmental monitoring sensors alongside open conversations and community connection. We’ll highlight emerging projects, share updates, and offer a peek inside our budding coworking space and the unique ʻĀina Foundry model we’re building—dedicated to cultivating Indigenous tech leaders, founders, and talent. Weʻll be highlighting:

Purple Maiʻa programs like Hulihia Labs and the ʻĀina Foundry, Builders Team and more!Come for lunch, stay for the ideas. Whether you’re a student, seasoned dev, artist, or investor—there’s space for you in this conversation. Bring curiosities, leave with new koa, fresh synapses, and a sense of where you might be able to root down.

​This event is a part of Honolulu Tech Week - a week of events that unifies Hawaii’s tech ecosystem and those connected to it globally.