A NEW KIND OF CHRISTMAS

After consideration of many options and formats, we've settled on our 2022 Holiday Gathering and Awards Ceremony.  It will be at 5-7:00 pm on Thursday, December 8th, 2022 and it will be a hybrid.  Our venue, which we are very happy with, is the Conference Center at the Pacific Guardian Life Center  It is not as large a room as before covid, but certainly big enough to handle our special invitees, including our oli blessing and keynote, our Community and ThinkTech presenters and awardees and our staff, directors and underwriters.

From there and through our studio, we will produce and broadcast an interactive program to our many, many hosts, guests and friends in Hawaii and in so many other places around the world.  Through this hybrid format, we will reach more of our ThinkTech family than we have ever reached in any Holiday Gathering before.  Of course, we will record the event and post the video on our broadcast and on-demand social media platforms, so our viewers and followers can call it up and see it at any time in the future. 

We are working on this event now, and selections are being made for the program lineup and for the individuals and organizations who will receive these Community and ThinkTech talk show awards.  Stay tuned to our website and our Daily Email Advisories for more information as we get closer to the date.

This Holiday gathering will celebrate our 21st year of operation and usher in our 22nd year of providing citizen journalism, news and comment to our ThinkTech community and family, and the general public, and we look forward to connecting with all of our old friends, hosts and guests again for this December Holiday Season to catch up with you on where ThinkTech has been and where we are going. 

Please save the date, December 8th, and plan to join us then.  We'll keep you advised and provide more information soon.

ThinkTech Hawaii

Innovating every Day



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