Rev Lebaredian and Mark Thomas talk. Two legends in the world of 3D visualization and data.

Rev is a global leader across visual effects, movies, 3D visualization and career with NVIDIA. Mark’s journey began in engineering but rapidly moved into innovation across CAD, 3D graphics, and digital twins. The two innovators met whilst working on their own startup companies two decades ago and now with NVIDIA investing in Nextspace their paths have come together again.

Join them as they discuss the industrial metaverse, the Omniverse, digital twins, visualization simulation, federated data systems, and building our future AI-enabled virtual world.

Rev Lebaredian is Vice President of Omniverse and Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, where he leads the Omniverse product, engineering, and research teams. From the dawn of the computer graphics revolution to the present day, Lebaredian has always been at its cutting edge.  For the last five years at NVIDIA, Lebaredian and his teams have been combining the rendering, physics simulation, and AI technologies pioneered by NVIDIA into a single platform for creating and simulating physically accurate virtual worlds: NVIDIA Omniverse.  Prior to NVIDIA, Lebaredian spent his career in Warner Brothers Digital, Disney Dream Quest Images and his own venture, Steamboat Software. 

Mark Thomas is the founder and CEO of Nextspace. A global leader in data interoperability, Mark has over 30 years’ experience, multiple patents, and has created digital twins for the world’s most complex businesses. 

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Paul Doherty, Chairman and CEO of TDG and Doug Thompson explore how virtual worlds and data will inform sustainability and planning going forward in the physical and built worlds. 

Paul reflects on the monetization of digital real estate beyond being virtual neighbours of Snoop Dogg, and how this will impact real buildings. He looks at luxury e-commerce NFTs, the internet of buildings, why we should all invest in a Tesla, and how Tiffany & Co.’s digital diamonds may well be a girl’s or guy’s best friend.

Paul Doherty (AIA, IFMA Fellow, DFC Senior Fellow)  is Chairman and CEO of TDG, a globally renowned and award-winning architect who is one of the world’s most sought after thought leaders, strategists and integrators of process, technology, and business.  As seen on Bloomberg TV, acknowledged by CNBC as one of America's Business Titans and reported by Forbes as “Changing the World”, Paul is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and a Fellow of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA).  Paul's current work is as Chairman of TDG Global Ventures, a Smart City real estate development company that provides financing, design-build and innovative technology solutions around the world.  TDG Global Ventures is also considered industry leaders in Digital Twin/Virtual Worlds/Metaverse development along with their worldwide recognition as leaders in industrial NFT and Blockchain solutions. Concurrently, Paul is the co-founder and producer of the critically acclaimed AEC Hackathon that launched at Facebook Headquarters.  His past successful ventures include Revit Technologies (Sold to Autodesk 2002), Buzzsaw (Autodesk 2001) and TRIRIGA (IBM 2011). 

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Can Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite teach business about virtual user experience in the next decades? 

Should the planners of virtual worlds learn from the great masters of architecture? 

 Paul Doherty, Chairman and CEO of TDG, thinks it's imperative that virtual and physical worlds overlap, and that business leaders need to transform the world of business to be as engaging as the virtual experience of gaming in order to tap into and capture the creativity of the next generation.  He walks Doug Thompson through a digital Fifth Avenue and reflects on Epic Games massively profitable fashion arm.

Paul Doherty (AIA, IFMA Fellow, DFC Senior Fellow) is Chairman and CEO of The Digit Group, a globally renowned and award-winning  architect who is one of the world’s most sought after thought leaders, strategists and integrators of process, technology, and business.  As seen on Bloomberg TV, acknowledged by CNBC as one of America's Business Titans and reported by Forbes as “Changing  the World”, Paul is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and a  Fellow of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA).  Paul's current work is as Chairman of TDG  Global Ventures, a Smart City real estate development company that provides financing,  design-build and innovative technology solutions around the world.  TDG Global Ventures are also considered  industry leaders in Digital Twin/Virtual Worlds/Metaverse development along with their worldwide recognition as leaders in industrial NFT and Blockchain solutions. Concurrently, Paul is the co-founder and producer of the critically acclaimed AEC Hackathon that launched at Facebook Headquarters. His past successful ventures include Revit Technologies (Sold to Autodesk 2002), Buzzsaw (Autodesk 2001) and TRIRIGA (IBM 2011). 

Visit Nextspace for more on their world-leading digital twin technology.

In this episode of The Industrial Metaverse podcast, David Finnegan speaks with Alexander Matiyevsky and Phil Allsopp from GeoFusion about the art and craft of creating digital twins. Are digital twins a kind of scientific model? If so, what does that tell us about the relationship between scientific research and the Metaverse?

Alex Matiyevsky is the founder and CEO of GeoFusion. He runs GeoFusion business operations and its software development process. His career-long experience developing advanced visualization systems for public and private sector customers equips him to bring valuable insights to new product development. An expert-level Software Architect with over three decades of experience in software engineering and project management, Alex guides customers' strategic development pipelines. Prior to co-founding GeoFusion, Alex served as Vice President of Technology at Axios Data Analysis Systems Corporation, Technical Lead at the United States Naval Research Laboratory, and Technical Director at Mississippi State University’s Center for Air Sea Technology at NASA Stennis Space Center.

Philip Allsopp is the CEO of GeoFusion Inc, the developer of the industry-leading 3D geospatial software platform bringing the art and science of 3D visualization to big data, analytics and simulations that encompass space exploration, aerospace and high resolution 3D urban infrastructure. Phil is also a Senior Scientist with Arizona State University’s Global Futures Laboratory where his work and research is on improving the spatial DNA of human habitats to address ballooning ecological, social, and economic crises arising from urban growth and accelerating climate change. Phil has been a keynote speaker on topics of healthy cities, smart cities, and designing urban infrastructure for wellbeing and health – “architecture as a public health endeavor”. His diverse career in the UK & US has spanned government service and the fields of 3D Software applications (BIM + GIS), architecture, public health, system dynamics & management consulting. Phil’s prior leadership roles include practice directorships at Electronic Data Systems, A.T. Kearney, and Perkins & Will, and CEO roles in the US health insurance industry and with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation based at Taliesin West in Scottsdale. Phil is a Chartered Members of Britain’s Royal Institute of British Architects, and he and his wife Lauren, and their border collie, Jack live in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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In episode 2 of The Industrial Metaverse podcast, Mark Thomas asserts that digital twins bring a democratization of data for business leaders and company directors, ending the excuse of technological illiteracy. The upshot? Safer, better, more accountable companies.

Mark Thomas is the founder and CEO of Nextspace. A global leader in data interoperability, Mark has over 30 years’ experience, multiple patents, and has created digital twins for the world’s most complex businesses.

Go here to read Mark Thomas' white paper as referenced in the podcast.

Visit Nextspace for more on their world-leading digital twin technology.

Welcome to The Industrial Metaverse podcast episode 1, where Mark Thomas walks Timothy Giles through the outlines, definition and uses of the metaverse. They discuss how digital twins help to bring together all the different data types to make them meaningful and visual for humans, the many and varied types of metaverses and why digital twins are an evolution rather than a revolution of technology.

Make sure you come back for episode two, where they get into more detail on digital twins and their application in the industrial metaverse.

Mark Thomas is the founder and CEO of Nextspace. A global leader in data interoperability, Mark has over 30 years’ experience, multiple patents, and has created digital twins for the world’s most complex businesses.

Visit Nextspace for more on their world-leading digital twin technology.