Dan Mapes is the Founder and Director of THE SPATIAL WEB FOUNDATION enabling a new Spatial Internet. (Spatialwebfoundation.org) (IEEE Standard P2874).
Dan is also the Founder and former President of VERSES AI (www.verses.ai)
Dan authored the best-selling book – The Spatial Web – and is often a keynote speaker on the impact of AI, Metaverse, Blockchains and the Spatial Web on business and society.
The Spatial Web enables Spatial AI Applications to be networked and decentralized globally. This global network functions as an AI ecosystem leading to an ever-evolving "Collective Intelligence".
Applications can range from the very general (Climate Management, Smart Cities, etc,) to the very specific (individual health and education applications, etc.) which can be developed by individuals, businesses or governments anywhere.
"Collective Intelligence" Summary
(https://www.verses.ai/rd-blog/executive-summary-designing-ecosystems-of-intelligence-from-first-principles)
VERSES has developed a new type of AGENTIC AI based on World Models – called "Active Inference" AI. Active Inference is a form of Natural Intelligence because it is founded on the "Free Energy Principle" which is how sentience emerges in all living things. It is based on the breakthrough research of the world's leading neuroscientist, Dr. Karl Friston, who is Chief Scientist of VERSES. Search under "Active Inference", "Free Energy Principle", "Dr. Karl Friston"
Dan was awarded the Flood Fellowship to do his PhD studies at UC Berkeley with C.West Churchman (Applied Systems Theory and Expert Systems Design). He left after two years to apply what he had learned by starting his first company.
He is an avid sailor, diver and mountain biker who is also committed to a sustainable environment.
