Listen "00 What is Cafe ZAi and Who Will be Here?"
Episode Synopsis
Café ZAi is now open. The built environment is cracking under pressure. Climate, cost, AI, infrastructure, meaning. It’s all happening at once. So we’re opening a café.Not a conference. Not a webinar. Just 20-minute conversations between industry leaders who are doing the work. Owners, planners, builders, policymakers, technologists, artists, and thinkers, all sitting down at the same table.This isn’t just a podcast. It’s where we blend BIM, digital twins, AI, culture, semantics, and strategy - not to oversimplify them, but to break down silos and uncover what truly connects.Episode Zero is now live. We talk about the roots of café culture and what happened when people like Einstein, Freud, and Čapek shared the exact cultural moment. They were working through the same questions:What does it mean to be human? What happens when intelligence scales faster than understanding?So we’re taking that same spirit and applying it to our time.The café sessions will unfold across three evolving ZAi Salons:Stewards of the Environment: owners, agencies, and decision-makers charged with long-horizon responsibilityBuilders, Movers, and Makers: architects, engineers, contractors, and logistics leaders who deliver assets to realityInterpreters of Complexity: scientists, technologists, artists, and standard-makers working across semantics, AI, and meaningWe’re also surfacing ZAiMAP.ai a living, standards-aligned platform built over decades, now opening up for collaboration.
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