Hawaii-based researcher Michael Kantar, a former postdoc at the University of British Columbia, sits down with Seed World’s Marc Zienkiewicz to talk about his work at the University of Hawaii, how technologies like Netflix are changing plant breeding, and how the Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee (PBCC) is working to reshape itself to respond to shifting priorities in the world of public breeding. Interview conducted at the 2019 meeting of the National Association of Plant Breeders in Pine Mountain, Georgia.