Denise Holt is a visionary educator, strategic advisor, and the founder and CEO of AIX Global Innovations and Learning Lab Central — the world’s only education platform solely focused on Active Inference AI and the Spatial Web Protocol.

She is widely recognized as the leading educator in this emerging field and was the first to formally introduce and teach the convergence of these two breakthrough technologies. Her foundational presentation on Active Inference and the Spatial Web was delivered publicly in 2023 at the Active Inference Institute and has since been archived as a citable preprint on the Zenodo research database — marking the first academic record of its kind.

As a member of the IEEE P2874-2025 Spatial Web Protocol, Architecture, and Governance Working Group, Denise played a role in the development and adoption of the Spatial Web Protocol, HSTP and HSML, as a global standard, marking it the third official foundational protocol of the internet, ratified by the IEEE in May 2025. This work is shaping the next generation of decentralized, interoperable, intelligent systems.

Denise is the architect of the first and only Executive Certification Program in Active Inference AI and Spatial Web Technologies — a seven-course SCORM-based series built for enterprise teams, developers, and forward-looking leaders. Her curriculum distills complex scientific models such as the Free Energy Principle, Renormalizing Generative Models (RGMs), AXIOM, and VBGS, making them accessible, actionable, and applicable to real-world decision-making and future-proof enterprise operations.

In addition to her structured program, Denise has been hosting monthly Learning Lab LIVE sessions since January 2024 — a public educational broadcast and discussion forum exploring emerging developments in AI, intelligent systems, digital twins, and decentralized infrastructure. These events have featured leading voices from Alpha Omega Systems, VERSES AI, neuroscience, AI safety, and spatial computing, and serve as a public education front for the fast-developing field of First Principles AI.

Denise’s education efforts extend beyond executive learning. She is currently developing a Smart Campus program to bring foundational knowledge of intelligent systems into high schools and universities across the United States.

A lifelong systems thinker with a career spanning three decades at the intersection of technology, media, and innovation, Denise isn’t just tracking the evolution of AI — she’s building the educational foundation and ecosystem of adoption of self-evolving, adaptive, real-time intelligence that will define its next era. Her mission is to ensure that every organization, institution, and individual has access to the insights and tools necessary to thrive in a world increasingly shaped by intelligent, context-aware, real-time agents and decentralized decision-making.