AGL 266: The Metaverse with Raghu Bala

About Raghu Raghu Bala is CEO, NetObjex Inc based in California USA.  He is an experienced technology entrepreneur and is an alumnus of Yahoo, Infospace, PwC, and has had 4 successful startup exits.  Focused on Web3/NFT/Defi/Metaverse/IOT/AI. Four exits. Wharton/MIT/Columbia/Stanford. Now the CTO of Kresus Labs. Mr. Bala possesses an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), an MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a BA/BS in Math and Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.  He is Ex-Columbia University Adjunct Lecturer, currently tutoring MIT courses in AI and Blockchain on the GetSmarter platform.  He is a published author of books on technical topics and is a frequent contributor online. He is a contributing author in an upcoming book titled “Handbook on Blockchain” for Springer-Verlag publications.  He is also a Contributing Editor to a new book called “Step into the Metaverse”.   Mr Bala was also instrumental in the development of the Metaverse strategy for NetObjex including its purchase of land and construction of a Metaverse building (see https://youtu.be/yV3YfZQpAGo).  He is Board Advisor to several Metaverse and Crypto initiatives – 3DMeet – a Metaverse Education company , Dreamium Labs – a Layer 0 Protocol for the Metaverse, OpenFabric.ai – a decentralized AI platform, and, TrinityDEX – a state of the art DEX built on Algorand. Mr Bala has spoken at several major conferences worldwide including Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong, Global Foreign Direct Investment Conference in Sydney, Blockchain Malaysia, IoT India Congress, Google IO, and several more.  He is also an elected board member of AIM - The global industry association that connects, standardizes and advances automatic identification technologies. His current areas of focus include Product Development, Engineering and Strategy in the businesses or SaaS offerings related to Decentralized computing, Distributed Ledgers, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, and the Metaverse.  His domain knowledge is vast including Automotive, Retail, Supply Chain & Logistics, Healthcare, Insurance, Mobile & Wireless, and more. Today We Talked About Raghu's background Metaverse Education Training Field Trips Blockchain What is Web3 IoT AR Car Windshield AR Lanes on your Winshield Locations ahead Blockchain contracts NFT Tokenization Commercial Papers Connect with Raghu LinkedIn Website Twitter I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again! Private Internet Access I’ve been a customer of Private Internet Access for over 3 years now and I love this service.  I was at a security conference a few years ago and I connected to the hotel wifi.  Immediately my endpoint protection software began to alert me of hacking attempts.  I launched my VPN from Private Internet Access and all of the attempts were stopped. My data and internet connection was secure.  Another great use of the VPN service is connect from different geo locations, which is very helpful when testing DNS and CDN caching. To get a your VPN account starting at $3.33 per month, please visit https://ageekleader.com/vpn