Café Zai: Intelligence for Informed Environments
By Kimon
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Episodes: 31
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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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29 Are We Owners or Renters of Our Intelligence?
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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28-The $20 Million Legal Dispute That Changed Construction's Daily Report
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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27 Got sensors? Got IoT? Got “smart buildings”?
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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26 Cross-Pollinating AutomatedBuildings
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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25 Stop Protecting the Hill
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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24 Are we living in a simulation? In building AI: yes!
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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23 NVIDIA Urban AI
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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22 Teaching an AI How to Learn About HVAC
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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21 Buildings are Giant Robots
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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20 Seven Deadly BIMs
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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19 Greenbuild LA 2025 Day 2 : Kimon Onuma
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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18 Greenbuild LA 2025 Day 1 : Kimon Onuma
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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17 It’s Alive! No More Dead Data
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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16 Capital, Energy, & Intelligence: Data-Center Reality with Amy Polvado
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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15 The Soul, the Silence, and the Twin with Chikara Inamura
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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14 BIM Data Saves the Most Important Asset: Lives
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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13 When AI Meets openBIM
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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12 Before CAD (BC) to BIM Clash & Burn
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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11 Calling Uber with a PDF: The Absurdity of Facility and Asset Data Today
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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10 Jack Dangermond on the Nervous System of the Planet : A Café ZAi Conversation
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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09 Donuts, Silos, and the Shape of Asset Failure
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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08 Why Buildings Are the Gift That Keeps on Taking — and What to Do About It
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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07 Your Shiny Building Smells like Rotten Data and Deferred Maintenance
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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06 The System Is the Problem: Asset Management, ROI, and the Case for Total Strategy
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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05 A Caffeinated Journey to the Metaverse and Beyond with Paul Doherty
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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04 Total Cost At UT Austin with Ana Thiemer
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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03 From Rolled Drawings in the Basement… to Talking to your Building with Russ Sanders
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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02 BIG BIM, BIG ZAi, BIG Everything: with Finith Jernigan, FAIA Emeritus
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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01 Total Cost, Total Clarity – A Conversation with Deke Smith, FAIA Emeritus, FbSI
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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00 What is Cafe ZAi and Who Will be Here?
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Café ZAi: Intelligence for Informed Environments - Introduction
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Jul 05, 2025 |