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I’m excited to share that leaders and professionals from all 8 of the Great Lakes states will be attending and participating in Great Lakes AI Week. In fact, it looks like closer to two dozen states will be represented at what is turning out to be one of the largest and most impactful AI events in the region. Attendees will have great opportunities to level up their AI skills, networks, and impact. Speakers from: Google Microsoft Amazon Web Services (AWS) Owens Corning The Wendy's Company and many more enterprises, SMBs, institutions, and governments. Headlining partners: JobsOhio Enterprise Technology Association Actual Reality Technologies Presenting partners: Bowling Green State University The University of Toledo Nexigen Big Kitty Labs Fifth Third Bank SSOE Group AI Week is the community powered AI festival seeeping the nation. It lands in northwest Ohio in less than two weeks… To intelligence, and beyond! Summer Crenshaw Christi Brown Tom Bush Keith Instone LeSean Shaw Justin B. Laura Seelinger, MBA Nate Sowder Todd James Steve Hanson Tushar Kulkarni Morgan Koth, CFP, FMCHC Jon Salisbury Mark Schnitter Scott Phillips Chris Hensley Mike Camp Shannon Villalba Charlie Apigian Louis Lane Christopher Slee Nick Fontova Jo Otey Ralph Rivas (MVP MS Biz Apps) Amy Lindenbusch, MBA

Virtual event contact: carl@cincycatalyst.ai Boyang Wang Dave Hatter Mark Schnitter Jon Salisbury

World models & Video generation and a few illuminating papers and benchmarks: H/T Cecile G Tamura - Inspired * How Far is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspective (Kang et al., 2024) — discussed above. It demonstrates that video models typically fail in out-of-distribution physical generalization. https://lnkd.in/g8JMRGqp * WorldModelBench: Judging Video Generation Models As World Models (Li et al., 2025) — introduces benchmarks explicitly checking physics adherence, object consistency, and other world-model properties beyond visual quality.https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20694 * Morpheus: Benchmarking Physical Reasoning of Video Generative Models (Zhang et al., 2025) — uses real physical experiments and tests whether video models obey conservation laws (mass, momentum). They find current models struggle even on visually plausible outputs. https://lnkd.in/gbqU73ng * Force Prompting: Video Generation Models Can Learn and Generalize Physics-based Control Signals* — this work injects *force prompts* (e.g. push a ball) to guide video generation in a physically meaningful way. This helps video models respond to forces more plausibly. https://lnkd.in/gVpKP7ZZ #ai #worldmodels #simulation

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RoveIQ + Nexigen: Building the Future of Connected Communities As part of RoveIQ's newly formed Preferred Partner Program, we are excited to announce a new partnership between RoveIQ (https://www.roveiq.com/) and Nexigen (https://www.nexigen.com/), joining forces to deliver cutting-edge Smart City, Digital Kiosks, Digital Directories and IOT technologies to some of the most vital sectors of our lives. By combining RoveIQ’s innovative and transformative hardware and software with Nexigen’s expertise in digital infrastructure, this collaboration will create solutions that are intelligent, scalable, and human-centered. 💠 Smart cities: deploying interactive, data-driven infrastructure that enhances safety, accessibility, and citizen engagement. 💠 Intelligent communities: driving digital transformation that empowers residents, visitors, and organizations with real-time insights and connected experiences. 💠 Healthcare: enabling smarter environments that improve patient and visitor experience while streamlining provider efficiency. This partnership marks a leap forward in how technology integrates with daily life-bridging infrastructure, information, and people to shape the next era of innovation. 👉 Stay tuned as we roll out new projects, share success stories, and showcase how connected technology can unlock value for communities everywhere. #SmartCities #IoT #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalTransformation #FutureOfCommunities #Partnership

The Great Lakes Region is the third largest economy on earth, and is primed to be the next Intelligent Region. More specifically, if the Great Lakes region were a country, it would be the third largest economy in the world, producing more than $6 trillion annually and accounting for 20% of U.S. GDP. It’s home to over 1 million STEM professionals, 70+ research universities, 30% of all U.S. manufacturing output, a population of nearly 80 million across U.S. and Canada, and strategic strengths in automotive, robotics, logistics, healthcare, insurance, retail, and advanced manufacturing. This is the industrial backbone of North America. And it’s ready for its AI-powered reinvention. That’s why we are bringing AI Week to the Great Lakes this November at Bowling Green State University in Northwest, Ohio, marking the third “AI Week” city in Ohio, joining Cincinnati and Columbus. Daily summits and tracks focusing on AI in manufacturing and supply chain, AI education, AI leadership, and more. Speakers and presenters laying out the MARS framework (manufacturing, automation, robotics, space) for heartland states like Ohio. An open technology and innovation showcase. Intelligent Region coalition building. And more. From Detroit to Toledo. From Cleveland to Chicago. Great Lakes AI Week brings us together. To share. To build. To lead. Interested in getting involved? Have a use case to highlight or share? Let me know! Confirmed speakers include Nate Sowder from Fifth Third Bank, Payal Thakur (MBA) from JobsOhio, Todd James, Derrick Hodge, Summer Crenshaw, Jon Salisbury, Brett Renzenbrink, Tom Bush, Keith Instone, Tyler Mantel and many, many more.

Nexigen + Rove IQ: Building the Future of Connected Communities We’re excited to announce a new partnership between Nexigen (https://www.nexigen.com/) and Rove iQ (https://www.roveiq.com/), joining forces to deliver cutting-edge Smart City, Digital Kiosks, Digital Directories and IOT technologies to some of the most vital sectors of our lives. By combining Nexigen’s expertise in digital infrastructure with Rove IQ’s innovative and transformative hardware and software, this collaboration will create solutions that are intelligent, scalable, and human-centered. 🔹Smart cities – deploying interactive, data-driven infrastructure that enhances safety, accessibility, and citizen engagement. 🔹 Intelligent communities – driving digital transformation that empowers residents, visitors, and organizations with real-time insights and connected experiences. 🔹 Healthcare – enabling smarter environments that improve patient and visitor experience while streamlining provider efficiency. This partnership marks a leap forward in how technology integrates with daily life—bridging infrastructure, information, and people to shape the next era of innovation. 👉 Stay tuned as we roll out new projects, share success stories, and showcase how connected technology can unlock value for communities everywhere. #SmartCities #IoT #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalTransformation #FutureOfCommunities #Partnership Aron Godbey Peter (PJ) Thelen Russ Middleton Nick Duskey Chris Hensley James Downs Kevin Pressler