2026 Symposium on Spatiotemporal Data Science

2026 Symposium on Spatiotemporal Data Science

Background

The DOE Orange Button and Smart Grid Interoperability Panel initiatives sought to enable a digital ecosystem for energy infrastructure projects by transitioning to digital. The resulting FISTech model platform provides proof of concept and OB Alliance (501c3) is creating the digital product registry for the components that go into energy infrastructure systems. That high integrity granular infrastructure data, aggregated with multiple stakeholder relationships, will be providing underwriting data for the capital markets, Finance, Insurance and Surety (FISTech) by leveraging the existing technology of XBRL, ISO, NIBS and buildingSMART. 

FISTech offered to sponsor a Startup AI Seed Contract to engage academia for its transparency with an educational opportunity as part of work force development. Texas A&M, DT-RICH at George Mason University (GMU) and Strategic Building Innovation (SBI) accepted the challenge. There were no rules, just opportunity. 

The challenge was to use AI to create actionable data interpreted from public sources like the 50 DOT’s, and then to make a business case for why interpreted PFD data is a disservice when making the data accessible as high integrity data is easy to achieve and provides compliance with legislative mandates.

The real challenge was to see if the methods they pursued, the insight they gained, the innovations they created, and the platforms that are now operational, could be monetized by providing that initial low quality PDF data as a bridge while contributing towards industry wide adoption of digital ecosystems empowered by ISO.

The VC Pitch

Join us on August 8th at 5:00pmET for the next phase of their journey as the two teams present a five-minute pitch followed by five minutes of Q&A. The 30-minute pitch event will close with a ten-minute open Q&A and then a screening of the long lost Appollo film.

5:00 - 5:10  Texas &M

5:10 - 5:20 GMU

5:20 - 5:30 Q&A

5:30 Screening of: Space Age: From Dr. Goddard to Project Apollo 

Mentors

Chaowei Phil Yang, NSF Digital Twin Research, Innovation & Collaboration Hub (DT-RICH)

K. Dixon Wright, SRC Digital Insurance Services

Calvin Kam, Strategic Building Innovation (SBI)  / buildingSMART

David Blaszkowsky, EDM Association

Max Hakim, Co-Chair Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) Fintech WG 

Don Bowden, Builder Connixt 

Startup AI Seed Contracts

Texas A&M

Mentor: Jorge Vanegas and K. Dixon Wright

Carson Whitaker – Intra-Data Exchange

DT-RICH at GMU

Mentor: Chaowei Phil Yang and K. Dixon Wright

Yahya Masri –  Xtract-Exchange - XBRL Explorer -  NSF Digital Twin Research, Innovation & Collaboration Hub

Within the presentation each team shall answer the following

How does the platform

• Interpret the PDF data, and what is the difference between interpreted data and high integrity data direct from the source.
• As proof of concept help stakeholders understand how they can implement a roadmap for engaging with digital ecosystems.
• Contribute to expanding the XBRL taxonomy and synergizing XBRL with FDX, buildingSMART, NSF, NIBS and ISO 
• Plan to enhance its value proposition to its clients as public and private stakeholders accelerate their adopting and implementing the Application for Payment.