AUKI

Nils Pihl is the founder and CEO of Auki Labs, a Hong Kong-based deep-tech company developing the Posemesh protocol, which enables shared spatial awareness among devices, robots, and AI systems. With a background in behavioral engineering, gaming psychology, and memetics, Pihl blends social theory with cutting-edge tech to build decentralized, open-source infrastructure for spatial computing.

His journey began with building AR overlays for tabletop games, which evolved into solving broader problems in machine perception and augmented reality. Under his leadership, Auki Labs has grown into a multimillion-dollar enterprise, pioneering collaborative AR solutions for global industries—particularly in retail—while championing openness, decentralization, and the future of real-world shared intelligence.