KEVIN O'DONOVANTECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST · TECHNOLOGY SCOUTKEVIN O'DONOVANTECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST · TECHNOLOGY SCOUTLATEST THOUGHTS, FIELD NOTES AND PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVES
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I was recently involved in a workshop where the topic of conversation was on the transmission grid, the role of AI, and why modelling power flows is so complicated. Now most of the folks involved were not from the utility or power engineering world, yet the 'hard' question that kept coming up was, why is this so hard?
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AI-RAN was not a topic I expected to spend much time on after Mobile World Congress. I understood the basic story: AI can help optimize networks, improve beamforming, manage traffic, reduce energy use, and make radio access networks more efficient. Useful, certainly, but not normally where I spend most of my time.
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The technologies behind the industrial metaverse are converging. The practical challenge now is connecting models, data, simulation, AI and operational workflows in a way that scales.
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After stepping back from NVIDIA GTC 2026, five shifts still stand out: the factory as a robot, AI tokenomics, energy as a constraint, open models and distributed inference.
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Consumer VR may have lost momentum, but the technologies behind the industrial metaverse are accelerating across factories, energy plants and infrastructure.
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My Web Summit takeaways through an energy and industrial lens: agentic AI’s potential and risks, competing AI factory architectures, the growing physical AI ecosystem, and why 6G is now on my watch list.
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My takeaways from ADIPEC 2025: the push toward autonomous operations, the energy demands of AI factories, robotics in the field and the unsettled question of who will capture AI’s value.
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The metaverse never really went away. It has been quietly evolving into something more tangible, as digital twins, simulation, spatial computing and AI converge across industry.
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My outside-in takeaways from five days at EMO 2025: astonishing machines, digital twins and simulation everywhere, persistent data silos, plenty of automation, and much less Physical AI and immersive technology than you might expect.
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Why reshoring manufacturing, digital twins, simulation and Industrial AI could make the Industrial Metaverse one of the biggest drivers of XR adoption.
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