Café Zai: Intelligence for Informed Environments

By 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.

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