When: Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 5 p.m.
Where: Hawaii Keiki Museum, Waikoloa King's Shops, 69-250 Waikoloa Beach Drive K104 Waikoloa, HI 96738-5720
Presenter: Maria Leonardi, CEO, Infinity Rack
Join us at the Hawai'i Keiki Museum on June 17th from 5-7pm and hear from co-founder and CEO of Infinity Rack as she discusses her journey building a startup that creates more accessible, powerful, and resilient solar structures.
Infinity Rack manufactures mechanically watertight solar carports and canopies that integrate solar panels directly into the roof structure. The structures are modular, resilient, withstanding winds up to 195mph, seismic events, and fires, and pre-engineered to make the product easy to ship and install.
Maria Leonardi co-founded Infinity Rack with longtime friend Chris Verner during the height of the pandemic in 2020. In the last 5 years, they have taken the company from pre-product, to MVP, to now having projects in 22 states, Puerto Rico, and Turks & Caicos. Prior to Infinity Rack, Maria worked with tech entrepreneurs and founded Startup Hawai'i, an organization with the mission to create a community of tech entrepreneurs on Hawai'i Island.
Website: www.infinity-rack.com
Agenda:
5:00 p.m. Doors open
5:30 p.m. Talk starts
6:15 p.m. Q&A
6:30 p.m. Networking and light pupus
7:00 p.m. Pau
About the lecture series
This lecture series is a collaboration of Kona Science Café and the Hawai`i Keiki Museum, with the goal of fostering interests in science and education. There is networking time before and after the presentation to build the science community. It is free and open to the public.