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Café Zai: Intelligence for Informed Environments

Podcast door Kimon

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Café Zai is a short podcast where urgent conversations meet real action. Hosted by architect and systems thinker Kimon Onuma, FAIA, each episode brings together doers and disruptors from architecture, digital twins, BIM, GIS, AI, semantics, and beyond, all sitting at the same virtual table. No slides. No scripts. Just sharp dialogue and real work behind the scenes. From digital twins to standards to resilience, we connect the dots. You’re invited to listen in, and when you’re ready, pull up a chair. This is Café Zai.

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aflevering 29 Are We Owners or Renters of Our Intelligence? artwork

29 Are We Owners or Renters of Our Intelligence?

You are currently renting your own intelligence. And Big Tech is making you pay for the privilege. Every time you use a centralized AI, your data is vacuumed up by a few giants, accelerating a dangerous consolidation of power. But there is an even bigger physical threat: energy. If Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires centralizing computing in massive server farms, it will concentrate massive energy demand in just a few locations. As AI pioneer Dr. Ben Goertzel warns, this creates a nasty synergy that will turn the AI race into an energy conflict. Decentralized, open infrastructure is the key to safely distributing both our intelligence and our power consumption. Many people don't realize there is a realistic solution to balance the scales: truly open, decentralized AI. In my latest Cafe Zai interview with Reza Rassool, Founder and Chair of Kwaai, he noted that while companies like OpenAI call themselves open, they should probably be called "ClosedAI" since they rarely release anything truly open anymore. To fight this, Kwaai's 1,000-person volunteer "Rebel Alliance" is building a decentralized, open-source AI infrastructure so we can finally be the owners, not the renters, of our own intelligence. For those of us in the built environment, this is how we protect our physical infrastructure from being held hostage by "AI landlords."

20 mrt 2026 - 21 min
aflevering 27 Got sensors? Got IoT? Got “smart buildings”? artwork

27 Got sensors? Got IoT? Got “smart buildings”?

Then why can’t you keep ice cream at the right temperature? Everyone imagines ice cream melting , but the real operational killer is often the opposite: the freezer goes too cold, product gets freezer burn, and inventory is lost. This episode is a field note as I prep to fly to AHR in Vegas — reflecting on a week where we proved something important with Facil.ai + Onuma: Smart buildings are not defined by dashboards. They’re defined by outcomes. If you have sensors and “smarts,” but your ice cream is still outside the right temperature range, you don’t have a smart building, you have a disconnected system. And this is not just about ice cream. We connected: * live IoT telemetry (Facil.ai) * to CloudBIM context (Onuma) * to operational action (work orders) And we did it fast , not because it was “easy,” but because the foundation has been built for years, and AI is now accelerating the last mile: synthesis, storytelling, and iteration. If you have smarts and your ice cream isn’t right… you have a problem. This episode is about fixing that problem , with connection, context, and meaning. Join us!

1 feb 2026 - 10 min
aflevering 26 Cross-Pollinating AutomatedBuildings artwork

26 Cross-Pollinating AutomatedBuildings

Cross-Pollinating AutomatedBuildings: Mentorship & Bumblebees After more than five decades in the building automation industry, Ken Sinclair has seen it all, from brass pneumatic thermostats and refrigerator-sized computers to cloud platforms, digital twins, and AI. As the founder of AutomatedBuildings.com and a fixture at AHR for nearly 30 years, Ken’s real superpower isn’t prediction; it’s connection. In this Café ZAI conversation, Ken shares his “bumblebee” philosophy: cross-pollinating ideas between people, disciplines, and generations. We explore how mentorship really works, why innovation dies in silos, what’s changed at AHR over the decades, and why trust, not technology, remains the industry’s most valuable currency. A conversation about history, humility, and why the future of automated buildings depends on sharing the honey.

27 jan 2026 - 27 min
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