050 - Gabriel René & James Hendrickson - Web 3.0 & Supply Chain Transformation

VERSES is a next generation AI company and developer of COSM™, an operating system for AI, which powers context-aware applications that bridge the gap between digital and physical systems. COSM generates a unified intelligent network of contextualized data, policies, simulation models, and workflow automations that can be shared within and between organizations. https://verses.io GABRIEL RENÉ is a technologist, entrepreneur, author with a 25-year career in the Technology, Telecom and Media Industries specializing in emerging technologies like AR / VR / AI / IoT / DLT and their applications for industrial, fintech, govtech and global standards organizations. He is the Founder and CEO of VERSES Labs a Spatial Web Software development group. He is also Executive Director of the Spatial Web Foundation, and an international Bestselling author of "The Spatial Web" Gabriel René, CEO & Founder @ VERSES.IO --- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-ren%C3%A9-0201902 The Spacial Web on Amazon - http://surl.li/dlpgf JAMES HENDRICKSON joined VERSES in July or 2022 having an accomplished background in both strategic and commercial leadership at the intersection of supply chain and technology, most recently leading Strategic Partnerships and Alliances for the robotics automation company Berkshire Grey. During his prior tenure with Honeywell, he led product development, engineering and channel teams who delivered solutions and built strategic partnerships that addressed a variety of supply chain challenges. James Hendrickson, President & GM, VERSES Enterprise --- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmhendrickson In Episode 50 Richard talks with Gabriel René and James Hendrickson of VERSES about: 0:01:03 : Gabriel's education and start in AI 0:03:51 : What’s happened since the early 90s with advanced technologies. 0:10:04 : James’s origin story and how he met Gabriel. 0:15:50 : Can the tech behind VERSES be applied to things besides Supply Chain? 0:19:48 : The Spatial Web is not about text and media content. 0:25:19 : How do Digital Twins apply to the Supply Chain? 0:31:17 : How do you face the idea of individual networks vs a global network? 0:37:17 : What’s happening in the Web today and why have siloed approaches failed? 0:43:30 : How do you see The Spatial Web playing out in the future? 0:48:44 : How do you see the Spacial 3.0 protocol being adopted? 0:50:22 : How active inference and neural nets effectively work. 0:55:09 : The human world in a machine friendly way was the was the invention. 0:59:11 : 3 dimensional PLUS space, or N dimensional space. 1:02:00 : VERSES looking ahead to 2025.