Privacy was never built at the core of the digital revolution. As a result, it has transformed today’s societies into surveillance hubs. Welcome to episode 8. In this special episode, CEO and Founder Shima Beigi sit down with Dr Jaya Klara Brekke, Chief Strategic Officer at NYM Technologies SA and explore privacy in the age of interconnectivity.

In this episode, we connect with Jeremy Lent and discuss one of his books, “The Web of Meaning”, and explore his integrative worldview and ways accessing universal wisdom can become more popular in the tech industry.

Welcome to episode 9 of Fridays with Attar. In this episode, we explore the second valley of the Conference of the Bird and discuss the neurobiological features of this challenging valley.

Starting in December 2022, we will release our annual roadmap document of Mindful Smart Cities 2050. This roadmap series aims to accelerate the transition to a resilient, sustainable, mindful, and technologically safe urban planet by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2050 at the latest. Our Mindful Smart Cities 2050 will address present and future challenges on a truly mindful digital transformation and provide a guiding roadmap to the existing ideas as well as transformative measures urban communities can make to become Mindful, Sustainable and Resilient Smart Cities.

In this episode, we speak about overcoming leadership or corporate ego in times of transition as the subject of our episode together.

It is an honour to announce our special guest for the third episode of the Triple AI Podcast, Thomas Hübl, PhD. In this episode, CEO and co-founder Shima Beigi, PhD and Thomas Hübl will talk about the notion of intelligence and smartness from the mystical point of view and explore ways the tech community can help heal the world from cultural, ancestral and generational traumas.

We are delighted to announce that on 16.08.22, we will be live on Twitter for the second episode of the Triple AI Podcast with one of the world's most influential voices in AI, ethics, and smart city space; the one and only Dr Denis Roio aka Jaromil.

We are extremely proud to announce our Triple AI Podcast is launching this Wednesday with the amazing Blockchain Queen, Dr Shermin Voshmgir. In this episode, our CEO and co-founder, Dr Shima Beigi, author of Mindful Smart Cities, speaks with Shermin about the future of tokenisation and their application in smart cities and the new edition of Shermin's book Token Economy. This episode will be made available soon on our platforms.

Attar's message for his readers is to become aware of the inner and outer structures of consciousness and consciously embark on the journey of ‘full awakening’. Attar wants us to know that the full blossoming of human potential is possible, and full awakening is not limited to a few. The story of Conference of the Birds and the sheer diversity of the types of birds and characters involved in the story is, therefore, an invitation to become curious about our quest for truth. Now, since we are on this quest together and believe we can build smart cities differently, we are doing something a little bit different in this episode. We are asking questions and allowing Attar’s wisdom to guide us in our quest to build and live in truly Mindful and Smart Cities.

How can we use smart citizenship as a vehicle of full awakening?

In this episode of Fridays with Attar, I will explore the characteristics of each valley of Conference of the Birds and then analyse key takeaway messages of each valley that can be used in today’s modern and urban life.

We are searching for better cities. Cities that are liveable, resilient, sustainable, inclusive, smart, etc. But are we willing to do the inner work needed to get there?

Advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) powered by AI and advanced spatial computation technologies promise to solve some of the most complex problems of cities, namely climate change and delivering higher quality urban services.

However, with this degree of digitalisation comes a metaphysical question.

Is it possible to remain deeply connected to life's mystery while living in the smart cities of the future? This question directs this episode of Fridays with Attar: Staying on the Edge of Mystery in Smart Cities.

We are very excited to be selected by Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Studies to contribute to this year's 4th Urban Living Lab Summit in Amsterdam.

What is research telling us about these complex systems?

For today's issue 001, we selected five articles from the most-read research. First, the concept of smart cities is not an emerging contemporary concept.

At the start, it was called digital cities or tele-cities. The main focus was on the power structure of cities between governments and citizens. Then governments began using the digital force to re-establish their influence on people's lives.

CEO and Co-founder Shima Beigi addressed this in her book, Mindful Smart Cities, which you can find more on our website and other platforms. 

This Friday, the story's structure is used as a framework for smart city design. Shima Beigi, CEO and Co-founder of TAI/T, goes through the Conference of the Birds story’s structure and explores how the underlying philosophical message of this ancient work can be used as a guiding light. TAI/T’s approach to smart cities is guided by the Triple AI model, which includes the followings:

• Awakened Individuals (AI.01)

• Ancient Intelligence (AI.02)

• Artificial Intelligence (AI.03)

Each of these forms of intelligence brings something unique to the Smart City conversation. Without awakened individuals, cities cannot become smart. Societies are lost without a solid appreciation of the universal body of ancient wisdom and intelligence. Without a resilient and meaningful application of artificial intelligence, the best technology cannot be realised. Thus, all these forms of intelligence are necessary building blocks of a truly smart city and civilisation.

In this Friday, TAI/T co-founders Shima Beigi and Dan Mapes get together and discuss how the practice of smart city creation can be used as a vehicle of human consciousness transformation and evolution.

On Fridays with Attar, we discuss how we are using the Triple AI Model and the powerful allegorical storytelling of Attar’s Conference of the Birds to offer what we call ‘Urban Therapeutics’. Our primary goal in these sessions is to help cities and people increase their awareness of the entire process of change, which means identifying obstacles and barriers to change. Farid-du-Din Attar's message in this ancient text is clear: No external force controls the faith of individuals or collectives. Change is possible; however, it requires commitment, intentional action, devotional attention, resilience, acceptance of reality, letting go of excuses, and willingness to remain in the process even when it is increasingly difficult. Attar also compassionately lets the readers know that it is natural to come up with excuses and resist change. To overcome this resistance, he offers a solution: Storytelling. Granted, we use the same story-telling technique and invite you to join us on this journey of transformation.

This Friday 13 May 2022, CEO and co-founder Dr. Shima Beigi takes another deep dive into the mystical world of Farid Ud-Din Attar (c. 1145 – c. 1220 CE) and more specifically The Conference of the Birds”. This Friday we decided to expand on the structure of the story, Attar’s masterful choice of using birds as a symbol of different states of human consciousness, the universality and relevance of this ancient story for today’s and tomorrow’s Smart Cities.

In our Fridays with Attar events, CEO and Co-founder Shima Beigi goes deeper into the classic work of Attar, the Conference of the Birds and shares with you lessons that can be learned and adopted for our modern lives both at individual and collective levels.

Dear TAI/T Friends, Join Us on Friday, 29 April 2022 and Attend Our Very First Online Event on Smart Cities with World Experts.