Beyond Buildings

The importance of collaboration, the role of consultants, and the need to solve problems with the help of modern tools and an enabling mindset. In this special episode of BeyondBuildings Podcast, Jon Lester interviewed Bryce Anderson our founder, Nicolas Waern, about Creating Smart Buildings. They have discussed the importance of collaboration, and the role of consultants, in creating smart buildings enabled by the latest technology. We get to hear their vision and perspective about how the smart building will be in the future. We will go in-depth about smarter materials, automated machinery, modern tools, and the need for modern mindsets. What we need from the future and potentially how we could go beyond buildings. We hope you will enjoy this episode and subscribe and share if you think this is for you or anyone you know! The answer on those things about how we are specifying that sort of communication or structure, it's not really happening very well because we still in now the same delivery model that we've been in for the last 50 years. This episode has a lot of twists and turns where the smart building was were discussed and what our role would be in the not-so-distant future. And made it even clearer that we can start creating a better future with the help of technology. Do you agree or disagree? Links: Jon Lester, Global head of marketing at Siemens Bryce Anderson, Independent Building Automation Consultant Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO

Edge vs Cloud, where does one start, and where does one end up? Which people should be able to come in and create value? And how long should it take? David started in the industry about 15 years ago, and as with many others, it quickly snowballed to unlocking value from disparate systems and focusing on the need of the users and how to create a foundation for future readiness at scale. David is adamant in enabling others to come in and build value on top of buildings with a core focus on people. Not just the people in the industry but making it easier for anyone and everyone that should be able to create value with buildings. We cover all the hot topics in buildings and discuss the power of open source tools, edge & cloud strategies, and the importance of speed and scalability. David has a pragmatic and futuristic approach at the same time. And it’s no wonder that Aussies are taking over the world when it comes to smarter buildings. David talks about vital approaches in how to think about AI and Smarter buildings, and the need for urgency in getting better and faster access to data in standardized ways. And at the end, we also discuss what the future might be like with Smart Contracts, AI, NFTs, and a community-driven approach! Truly an interesting discussion! David Blanche, Chief Technology Officer at Bitpool Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO

How can we run infrastructure from the future? Where do AI initiatives start? What are the applications of physics based-models, and how can companies travel through time? In this episode of BeyondBuildings Podcast, we are talking to the AI-enthusiast Marcus Weiland from Savantic. His background in entrepreneurship and applied AI in several fields make for a very interesting discussion. He works as the deputy CEO for Savantic who helps customers understand, and leverage the possibilities with AI and Machine Learning at scale. We get to learn about the practical aspects of knowledge transfer between people and computer vision, and also get into the nitty-gritty of data costs related to connecting things to the cloud. We discuss the applications of physics based-models and how companies can travel through time. This is the first part of 2 and you will definitely be in for an AI ride that will demystify some of the mystique that surrounds AI initiatives today. What happens when customers need to restart their data strategy after having spent millions on it? Is there a way to simulate the future in order to transcend the now? Links: Marcus Weiland, Vice VD / Deputy MD at Savantic Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO

What are the main drivers for healthy buildings? How can they be achieved? What are the steps to achieve Smart Building? We continue where we left off with Brian where he said that we don’t need a fully automated BMS to have a healthy environment. But this time we go into the nitty-gritty side of interoperability and the importance of contextual relationships in buildings and how to achieve them. We talk about the skill-shortage gap, ontology wars, and how we can create a reality we need on a planetary scale. This is truly an amazing episode and we get to take a deep dive into what is happening behind the scenes. This is an episode you do not want to miss and you will understand why OAP is in the place to be! Links: Brian Turner, Building Technology Evangelist and CEO of Buildings IoT Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO

What are the challenges with designing and operating high-performance buildings today? What is the quantum ontology and what does the future look like for Smarter Buildings everywhere? From an electrical engineer to designing products for a wide variety of industries to the grandfather of quantum buildings and co-founder of Passive Logic. In this episode, we get to hear the origin story of one of the most interesting companies in the smart building/energy space when we talk to Troy Harvey. Some listeners might remember Troy Harvey (not McClure) from inspirational sessions and articles, such as: Obstacles and Opportunities for HVACR in the Next Decade, moderated by Nicolas Waern. And of course, the phenomenal article series around quantum ontologies and self-driving buildings at www.automatedbuildings.com. Links: Troy Harvey, CEO at Passive Logic Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO

What does Smart Building in the future look like? How do we solve ancient problems with modern tools and smart people? In this episode, we are talking to the foundational fountain of smart building wisdom, Brian Turner. He has a background in field controls, programming buildings, and is used to the fact that technology advances faster than contractors could keep up with. And that was 20 years ago! Today he is leading the charge as the CEO of Buildings IoT where he is bringing a balance of disruption, pragmatism, and optimism to the Smart Buildings arena. We discuss the challenges and opportunities with Smarter Buildings in the first episode of two. We get to learn about what smart really is, and how it might affect how contracts are being created in the global real estate landscape. Only time will tell but Brian has some very interesting insights into the industry and beyond. What do you think? What will the world look like in 10 years? What will the commercial real-estate side look like? Will it be radically different? Or still, the same as it has been? This episode ended in a cliffhanger, and we will continue to talk about the possibilities of running buildings from the future, and what that could look like. If you found this episode interesting, remember to subscribe/like, and share! Links: Brian Turner, Building Technology Evangelist, and CEO of Buildings IoT Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Advisor at WINNIO

What did the most funded startup in construction do wrong? What do parametric design, generative design, and an AI-first intent mean? And what will the cutting edge be in 15 years? How can $2 Billion dollars spent on re-defining construction have ended in Bankruptcy for the most funded Construction startup in the world, Katerra? What was their fundamental problem from the beginning? We need to make better decisions faster. That is what the future is all about. But better for whom? For people? For companies in the real estate industry? For the planet? Will we even be allowed to construct more buildings in the future? And where will we get the materials? And will the materials change enough that buildings can turn into Transformer to take us anywhere we need to go? In this special episode of BeyondBuildings Podcast, our founder, Nicolas Waern was interviewed by Jochen Burkhardt about the Future of Construction. Nicolas’s extensive background in innovation and strategy shines through in this episode, and he weaves in other industry advancements, and much else, in order to boldly go where few people have dared to go before. This was a totally unscripted interview where Nicolas Waern did not know anything about the questions beforehand. We get to hear his vision about how the construction will be in the future. We will go in-depth about smarter materials, automated machinery, modern tools, and the need for modern mindsets. What we need from the future and potentially how we could go beyond buildings. We hope you will enjoy this episode and subscribe and share if you think this is for you or anyone you know! Links: Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO Jochen Burkhardt, Senior Futurist at 2b AHEAD ThinkTank GmbH

"I'm sorry. But I had to hack your eyes..." Controlling Reality - Greg Demchak, Nicolas Waern Do Innovation Leaders Dream of Electric Sheep? What is Varjo, and why should you care? - What will happen when we change reality and are we ready for a true-to-life metaverse? Are we already there? What was supposed to be a conversation about AR/VR in the built environment, became instead this Sci-fi inspired pandora’s box discussion. This is a 10-minute segment from a 60-minute discussion and an extra episode that goes Beyond Buildings into the RAW discussion territory. We listen in to a discussion about world-changing perspectives with Greg Demchak, Director of the Digital Innovation Lab at Bentley Systems, and Nicolas Waern, the founder and creator of Beyond Buildings. In the discussion, Nicolas Waern and Greg Demchak zoom in and out to the virtual/augmented reality world, discussing how modern technologies could seriously disrupt what we define as reality today. Nicolas had not had the time to look into Varjo at all before this conversation so everything was just based on those first words from Greg: “Did you see that video too from Varjo….” This is truly a conversation that goes beyond buildings, into the universe, and then back to planet earth. Because even though we would be uploaded to the cloud, the cloud is still someone else’s computer. Links: Greg Demchak, Digital Twins | Mixed Reality | XR | 4D Planning | Innovation Prototyping Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO

What is happening when decarbonization and electrification push cities to become smarter? What roles do digitalization companies need to have to create a better industry? This is an episode that goes Beyond Buildings and we get a chance to talk to Don Kasper, VP, Strategy and Business Development at Sentient Buildings LLC, who shares the same mission of Beyond Buildings, in making the world a better place. With a mechanical training and energy modelling background Don Kasper’s job is to be the data manager of buildings. Get the data out, make sense of it, and create value with it, at scale. We get to hear about his vision about a more sustainable world, the past present, and future of energy efficiency, retro-commissioning, and sustainability aspects. We go into depth about what energy modelling has been, and what it needs to be and we get an interesting view of how analytics has changed over the years and how we now need to go beyond buildings. Where in New York new laws will put a penalty on not knowing enough about existing buildings and it’s interesting what that will do with data transparency at large. This is only the beginning of the story. Part 2 will be all about what happens at the final frontier, and how to solve tomorrow's most pressing challenges today. Enjoy this great episode and subscribe and share if you think this is for you, or anyone that you know! Links: Don Kasper, VP, Strategy and Business Development at Sentient Buildings LLC Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO

What is happening in the Real Estate Industry when it comes to Energy and Climate Change? Where are the drivers for sustainability? What is the risk involved in today's climate? If all of the energy is being supplied from the sun and in local energy communities, is energy savings even needed anymore? This was a curveball that we got to throw at Robert W. Cross and it was an interesting answer! “I'm starting to think that they are also the same system, the same people, to an extent that are, that I perceive are part of the problem are going to wind up being a part of the solution…And if you think about it the reality is as the climate is changing, the exposure to risk is growing exponentially…” - Robert W. Cross This is an episode that goes Beyond Buildings and we get a chance to talk to the global thought-leader in energy, Robert W. Cross. His banking and finance background opens up for interesting discussions since he has been designing energy efficiency and renewable energy programs for utility clients. Specifically in their multifamily and home programs. And he was one of the driving forces in opening up the cleantech space for investors back when solar photovoltaics cost exponentially more than it is today. Robert is a business model engineer working with CEOs and founders of cleantech and renewable energy companies. This is truly an inspirational discussion and we get to talk about why the energy side matters, a lot. And why it might be risky business to continue to be a part of the status quo group. If anyone is up to the task of creating an impact for the world, it’s definitely Robert W. Cross. He is a long-term fighter against immovable objects in industries and has an amazing track record in introducing sustainable change at scale. These are some of the questions that are being answered in the episode! What is happening in the energy space? Why are things happening while others are not? How are we combating the ongoing Climate Crisis? What is keeping solar power to really hit the market for real and gain widespread adoption? What are the hurdles in the energy market? Why is California a hotbed of innovation regarding energy companies? If the energy supply that comes to buildings is 100% sustainable. Is there still a need for energy efficiency? Can we bring the change the planet wants outside capitalism? Or do we need to understand market dynamics more and play the game as it is? What will make the change for buildings in the short-long-  to medium term? How can portfolio owners assess risk? will corporations become more committed to truly measuring assets on a real granular level, because if you're not measuring assets on a granular level, you are exposed to risk? Will people come back to commercial real estate? If so, why, and how, and what’s needed to get them there? This and more will be asked and answered in this episode of the Beyond Buildings podcast. Truly an amazing episode that you can’t afford to miss! Remember to subscribe, leave a comment, and/or share the episode. Let’s go above and beyond, with the Beyond Buildings Podcast! Links: Robert W. Cross Business Strategy Consultant - I help Cleantech and Renewable Energy CEOs fix their business models and scale Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO

What are ontologies, and what are they good for? What does semantic interoperability mean and what is the business purpose of standardization?  Is the real estate industry behind Industrial ways of working? Or actually, better positioned for the future thanks to a solid foundation in BACnet (where applicable)?  What is Brick schema, Haystack Tagging, Real Estate Core, Google Buildings Ontology, Volttron, Microsoft Data Language, taxonomies, and ontologies in general? And how can we tell them apart and/or use them together? Who are the unsung heroes of our time? Who’s making the world work behind the scenes? Who are the true pure breeds when it comes to Building Automation Bravado? And why is it important with standardization? This episode is a true island of reality in an ocean of semantic interoperability and building automation. These are some of the questions that are being answered in the episode! What’s the business purpose of standardization?  Could buildings be in better shape than industrial settings for the future?  Is energy optimization a hygiene factor these days and should be seen as an area that has been solved?  What’s the big thing for buildings during COVID?  What’s the hidden potential in BMS/and BAS, and how could companies take advantage of it?  Do we have enough of the ontologies to get started, or do we have to wait? Beyond open APIs. Ontologies & Faster time to value creation is out at Anchor and all places where Podcasts live.  And finally, a big thank you to Joel, Terry, and Erik, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor IDUN Real Estate. Idun ProptechOS the Operating System for property owners, used and supported by Microsoft Azure and some of the World’s largest property developers. Links: Terry Herr, President at Intellimation LLC, Buildings Systems Integration and BAS Analytics specialist, and a deep interest in open interoperable systems. Joel Bender, Programmer/Analyst at Cornell University, Building Automation Rock-star and BACnet Guru. Erik Oskar Wallin, Founder and Chairman of the RealEstateCore Consortium and Chief Executive Officer at Idun Real Estate Solutions, Ontology specialist with a passion for self-learning systems and connected real estate. Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO

What is it that Proptech is missing? What does the future of Smart Buildings look like? What is the alignment between Rate of Innovation and Return on Investment? “…If I build you a BI dashboard, I shouldn't have to explain to you what's on it … …We start to see that fault detection is starting to go away on that bleeding edge and is being replaced with ML models, which are then going to be replaced with just deep learning…” What is the mindset that is needed to drive change and get things going in the real estate industry? We learned about the importance of having a foundation of Connectivity in the last phenomenal episode with Joe Gaspardone. But, when you have the Foundation of Connectivity, what then? What happens with all the data? How to make sense of it in a modern way that is replicable, scalable, and as future-proof as can be? That’s what you will find out in this episode! “We have a strange business model that we try to replace our own services.“ To say that Jeremy Richmond has been all over the Real Estate Industry is probably an understatement. He is now the director of business development for DB engineering, where DB Engineering is a smart building consulting firm that specializes in delivering value from data to end clients. We get to listen to Jeremy telling us his origin story of having joined the Navy at an early age and fixed everything that moved and had a wire to it. You will hear the amazing Jeremy Richmond talk about the buzzword bingo in a way that most people talk about eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It’s machine learning, ontologies, Github repositories, deep learning, and Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, which usually are in the hype-cycle territory for most. Jeremy has made those tools into something that’s port of the toolbox. This is an extraordinary podcast episode where we get to understand how Jeremy helps portfolio owners go from quick wins to operational excellence at scale. It continues from where we left off in the last episode and moves into the operational side of ontologies. And how real-estate stakeholders can create value in a sustainable way. This episode is definitely one that you can’t miss and it will accelerate and/or validate your knowledge on where the future is heading for everyone! Links: Jeremy Richmond, Innovation Enthusiast | Bilingual (IT/OT) | Change Agent and Director of Business Development for DB Engineering Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert

Smart Building Foundations – Enterprise Level Connectivity, the role of Visual Twins, scaling up, and how to get started, get going and succeed in the real estate industry. “As long as connectivity is solved, compute power is not the issue."  was what Industrial IoT Expert Sastry Malladi said in the last episode. Well guess what, this is something that Joe Gaspardone and his team at Montgomery Technologies have solved, for everyone! Robust, Useful, and Attractive. That’s not only descriptive of most industry professionals working with building automation today, but it’s also what this episode is all about! You will hear the real estate digitalization professional Joe Gaspardone talk about how to reach a future-proof connectivity foundation, and what needs to be done to get started with the recipe for smart buildings everywhere. You will learn from someone who is working with building systems of every age, every type, every model. Montgomery Technologies have people on the ground all over the country and work in every major metropolitan market every day. This episode builds on all of the earlier episodes and it offers tremendous insight into how to build a Smart Building Platform. It is not so much about betting on one standard as it is building platforms and solutions that are interoperable enough to work with any standard in a meaningful way. We talk about everything from touchless tech, IoT, and the classic sides of building automation. To where the industry is right now, and where it needs to go next, and the importance of understanding industry dynamics at scale. These are some of the questions that are being answered in the episode! Companies new to the market, where should they focus? What role will platform giants have in the future of Smart Buildings? How valuable is the data that exists in buildings, and how can that be turned into information? What is the role of Digital Twins when it comes to existing real-estate transformations? Should we bet on A standard? Or should we bet on platforms that can be mapped to ANY standard? What works in the Smart Building space? What will be here in the next 5 years? What are people doing for healthy air? What are people doing for the touchless tech? How do we get to a foundation of connectivity for everyone? How to accelerate decision-making capabilities for all stakeholders, forever? How will Digital Twins stay updated through the lifecycle? This and more will be asked and answered in this episode of the Beyond Buildings podcast. Truly an amazing episode that you can’t afford to miss! Links: Joe Gaspardone Connectivity Expert, Digital Real Estate Professional, and COO at Montgomery Technologies, LLC Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert

Closing the loop with Edgification strategies at scale. It's 5G, industrial automation, local control first, and a modern data strategy based on decades of experience with Big Data and IoT. Why is Foghorn not actively promoting Digital Twins even though they are doing a lot of these things today? “As long as connectivity is solved, compute power is not the issue." In this episode of the Beyond Buildings Podcast, we get to talk to the CTO of Industrial Edge player, Foghorn, and their CTO Sastry Malladi from Silicon Valley in California. Foghorn wants to solve real-world problems because they know that they can. And the IT-gods know that this is something the Beyond Buildings Podcast can rally behind! Sastry has 30 plus years of technology background, is a passionate entrepreneur, been at big companies, small companies, IBM, Oracle, and eBay working with Cloud computing before that was even a term. It’s edge computing all the way and Foghorn is definitely going places. Sastry shares their journey to Digitalization and describes a phenomenal approach to talking to customers and piloting done right. We will also get some interesting 5G discussions on what the value is all about and how companies should take the chance to leapfrog into the future. Commercial buildings and data center push, legacy in Oil & Gas, moving towards a product-market fit and scalability aspects. That’s what you will hear in this episode and much more like it. These are some of the questions that are being answered in the episode! How do you Edge-ify the machine learning model developed to run in a Cloud Lake setting? What’s the difference between predictive and prescriptive maintenance? What can industrial automation for buildings look like? What is thermal imaging used for in the building automation space? How important is it to cater to regional and different demands for different asset classes? What is Foghorn’s take on a modern data strategy? What are the drivers for getting started with Smart Buildings in the first place? What does Energy, Convenience, and Environment mean in the Data Center space? What is the first step to take in the Smart Building space? What are the steps to take when taking out data from legacy systems? What does exploratory data analysis mean, and how to get from data to information and insights? What does Tribal knowledge mean and how to capture it? Where is the data coming from? What quality? What to do about if the quality is not there? Links: Sastry Malladi - CTO, Experienced Technology Leader, and an Entrepreneur - IoT, Edge Computing, AI, Cloud, eCommerce, Big Data Nicolas Waern - Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert WINNIIO - Digital Consultancy

Ecosystem thinking and what’s the deal with 5G? Faster Download Times and Throughput? Low Latency? Something else? This episode is all about understanding important aspects with connectivity, 5G, and what the difference is between the past, present, and future ways of working. And we also get a master-class in how IoT selling from a master at his trade. Are companies building products for humans? Or for machines? Why not both? …”We are probably going to rely on machines and AI to become trusted advisors for humans to take better take better decisions through blockchain capabilities…” In this episode of the Beyond Buildings Podcast, we talk to the Connectivity King Marc Tobal’s amazing journey that is filled with words of wisdom and an understanding of how to sell IoT projects in the connectivity market like few others. His role is to simplify the complexity of IoT for customers as a trusted advisor. What are the key challenges when dealing with connectivity? How do companies get started, get going, and actually succeed with 5G? We get to hear about the difference between the 2G, 3G, and 4G and major differences to 5G and beyond. This was recorded in September 2020 so there’s a lot of things that have happened since then. Reach out to know more about 5G, 6G, and Beyond! These are the questions you will find out more about! What are the key challenges with IoT? What does the journey of getting born again connected look like? How to get started, get going and succeed with IoT Projects? Moving out of an existing role, what are the challenges? What is 5G and what features interest you? NB-IoT the relationship between 5G? What to align, where, and with whom when discussing IoT? How are solutions supposed to work together? What would a future-proof industry look like? What do you think? More experts? Fewer experts? How much should we go into the comfort zone, instead of outside it? This episode discusses the fact that we're specialists in different areas. And if companies are indeed looking to help the customer Marc means that we need to partner up more. Links: Marc Tobal, Creating business value for clients with IoT Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator/Smart World Architect WINNIIO - Digital Consultancy

What is the relationship between Digital Twins, AI and how will the road to Smart Buildings play out? Understanding the existing ways of working in the Building Automation Integration space when it comes to past, present, and future lock-in effects and switching costs. And everything else in between. “You're not buying generally based on the hardware you're buying on what feature sets the software can provide to make that hardware do really cool stuff.” With a background in the Smart Building integration industry going back decades, Rusty Hennessey has a lot of wisdom to share. And when Rusty says that he’s waking up every day, just excited about what he does, it’s destined for a great episode! This is an episode that zooms in and out to the world of building automation, focusing on Smart Building Integration. Rusty starts off by talking about the amazing people he gets to work with, and that his job is all about testing out new technology to deliver the best solutions for customers. It’s important to show the value, and that change is not something for everyone. We get to understand more of why there’s such a slow technology adoption in the industry, and discussions around what needs to happen. We talk about technology trends, security, interoperability, what Digital Twins and AI will do for the industry, and also who’s leading the charge right now. We talk about the similarities and differences between the PC industry and that of Building Automation. Plus everything below: These are the questions you will find out more about! What is the role of a modern Master Systems Integrator today? How important is security for buildings and what is the mindset in the industry today? What effect has Covid had on remote buildings? How are the physical and cybersecurity attack surfaces been thought about in the industry? Security Trends in the Building Automation Industry? What are the benefits of open source in the building automation industry? What are the challenges when getting data out, and what to do about it? What is the state of vendor lock-in, service transparency, switching costs? How can we create a deeper interaction between stakeholders in the Smart Building industry? When to get started with AI? Open software, open hardware, and open minds. Where does it start? How important is it with Ecosystems thinking, Joint ventures and sharing information? What is the relationship between Digital Twins, AI and how will the road to Smart Buildings play out? Is it possible to let people work within their silo, where the data is part of a larger context with information that will stay with the building over time? And this episode made it even clearer that it might be easier and better to go with existing buildings instead of new buildings. Why is that? Do you agree or disagree? Links: Rusty Hennessey Manager at Conexus, Inc.  Nicolas Waern Podcast Creator/Smart World Architect  WINNIIO - Digital Consultancy

Understanding the Digital Thread in the Real Estate Industry through 3D-printing and Lifecycle Digital Twin Thinking. “Architects love being unique and different. Contractors like consistency.” Hardball questions to a former softball player that worked hard in achieving long-life goals from 10 years of age. Having seen the spaghetti junction in Atlanta, saying, “I want to build that when I grow up” Jennifer is now out there, realizing her dream of building the future for all of us! This is an episode where passion shines through and it’s inspiring to hear that Jennifer really wants the construction industry to succeed with 3D-printing. Simply due to the fact that there are so many avenues of innovation. We talk about different use cases, what’s holding the industry back, and some interesting truths about the Construction Industry in general and why change is hard to come by. Truly a fantastic episode where Jennifer shares her past, present, and future thoughts about the construction industry. We also talk about parametric and generative design and how to create a better future with less risk and more inclusivity. How do rules and regulations affect construction projects? How can regulating-bodies help in getting market adoption of new technologies? What are the first-mover advantages and disadvantages when doing something new? What are the application areas for 3D printing? How can we ensure the best proposal at the lowest cost? How to get buy-in and adoption from Smart City purchasing? What are the use cases for 3D printing in the construction space today? How can 3D printing, data-driven decision making help us in realizing a better world for everyone? Can Digital Twins, 3D printing, rules, and regulations, combined usher in a new era? What do you think will happen in the future? Is 2021 the year 3D-printing will truly help construction companies increase their margins and accelerate towards a more sustainable and efficient way of working? If not, why? Links: Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator/Smart World Architect WINNIIO - Digital Consultancy Jennifer Christman Product Specialist at Black Buffalo 3D

“This is a new paradigm, going away from the store everything in a database or data lake concept...”. Part 2 of 2 Demystifying Cloud Native strategies and how Real-Time Real Estate might look in the future In part two of this explorative episode of the Beyond Buildings podcast, we continue to talk to the rockstar that is Kai Waehner who is a Technology Evangelist and Big Data Analyst, helping Fortune 500 companies get started, get going, and succeeding in becoming cloud-native. We demystify the jargon of Kafka that we heard in the first episode about clusters and brokers. We talk about the importance of convincing decision-makers and the side-effects of being able to attract people who want to work with cutting edge tools and technologies. What to send to the cloud and when, and what the beginning of a cloud-native journey could look like. It’s construction, it’s industry 4.0, it’s connectivity as well as distributed intelligence. What an episode! These are the questions you will find out more about! What is a cluster, and a broker? How to get started on the Big Data/Cloud-native journey? What does it mean with a distributed architecture? How does the data strategy complement the business strategy? How can data strategies be created without relying on the cloud at all times? What to send to the cloud and when? What schemas and data governance have to do with a robust data strategy? How to get to a modern and open data architecture? How to get away from proprietary solutions that can’t scale well? What the pros and cons are with standards? What could Smart Cities learn from UBER and other ride-hailing companies? What aspects to include when building a business case? How important is it with the TCO and ROI to get management buy-in? Maybe one way to predict the future of real-estate could be to look at other industries and see what they are working on and what tools they use. As always, it doesn’t make much sense to build the future with yesterday's tools, technology, nor mindset. If we want to change the world for the better, maybe we need to go Beyond Buildings and boldly go where others have gone before? What do you think? Are there any similarities between real estate, industry 4.0, and the importance of local control?

“…I see more and more data flowing around and you need to apply and leverage it to add business value and be innovative in your business” Part 1 of 2  Part 1 of 2 - In this sensational streaming episode of the Beyond Buildings podcast, we get to talk to the rockstar that is Kai Waehner who is a Technology Evangelist and Big Data Analyst, helping Fortune 500 companies get started, get going, and succeeding in becoming cloud-native. He’s been working with data integration his whole life and has first hand seen the journey Big Data has taken during the last couple of decades. We get to learn more about how to combine slow data and fast data in the same platform, what the industrial IoT scene looks like, Railway Connectivity, and we go above and beyond where most buildings are today. Will there be a need to transfer millions of messages per second in the real estate industry? If so, how can it be done? This is an episode where we might get a glimpse towards the future modern data strategies for Real Estate Portfolios, that are part of a Smart City context. We get to find out the relationship between open architectures and existing proprietary PLC and much much more. What an exceptional episode thanks to Kai, and I strongly recommend reading up on Streaming Platforms, Apache Kafka, and think about what the future demands from your business! I’ve been following Kai Waehner for a couple of years now and I really like Kafka as an open-source technology as well as Confluent with what they are bringing to the table. Going above and beyond real estate is important and it’s fascinating to know more about why will be hybrid cloud strategies in automotive and manufacturing, and that everything is moving towards distributed intelligence. What do you think? Are there any similarities between real estate, industry 4.0, and the importance of local control? Links: Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator/Smart World Architect WINNIIO - Digital Consultancy Kai Waehner Global Technology Advisor - Technology Evangelist/Field CTO at Confluent

Combatting Global Warming through Smart Buildings and Smarter people "…Humans are still the ones who control these intelligent technologies that we have today…" In this phenomenal episode of the Beyond Buildings podcast, we get to talk to the hero Seun Thomas Orimolade who is working as a service specialist focusing on how to create value for customers in a sustainable way. He started in the HVAC Building Automation industry and has followed his passion for Smart Buildings all over the world! I learned a lot in this episode and Seun really taught me one of the most important lessons I really needed to hear. Leave no person, or building behind. We are all in it to win it, and there's no business to be done on a dead planet. This was truly a life-changing episode and we get to learn from Seun how projects and people should be approached in the best way possible when it comes to sustainable digitalization! These are the questions you will find out more about! How can risk be evaluated in projects? What are the appetite for trying new things and the risk of inaction? Where is Smart Buildings sensoring moving towards? What value propositions are customers interested in? How to maximize the use of space? Before technology, what is the most important thing? Where is the change coming from in the industry? How important is it to demystify the buzzwords? How can existing organizations manage Smart Buildings? What are the keys to creating a successful smart building initiative? How to divide customers into stages of readiness? How to talk about technology with decision-makers? How to get organizational buy-in? What happens if we can't embrace technology? People before processes, meeting customers where they are, taking steps in the right direction, and understanding that we are all in it together. This was a truly enlightening episode that has changed my life for the better. Everyone is looking for something, and it's up to us to demystify what we do and really teach elephants how to dance! Remember to subscribe, leave a comment and/or share the episode. I hope that you and others will go above and beyond, with the Beyond Buildings Podcast! Leaving no person or building behind is out at Anchor and all places where Podcasts live.  And finally, a big thank you to Seun, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor: Platform of Trust who’s helping companies turn data into actionable insights! Links: Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator/Smart World Architect WINNIIO - Digital Consultancy Seun Thomas Orimolade Service Coordinator at Ainsworth Inc