{"id":"donald-gossen","version":1,"language":"en","title":"Donald Gossen","hidden":false,"content":"**Donald Gossen** is the Founder & CEO of Nevermined, building the decentralized AI payments protocol that gets AI agents paid. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-hxr6b7aipy)[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-4u3c652fjd)  \n$$widget0 [YOUTUBE@VID](FU_2PNUZV6I)$$  \n  \n# Education  \n  \nHe graduated with a BSc. Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, the #2 AI school in North America. [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-4u3c652fjd)  \n  \n# Career  \n  \nDon is a Data and Analytics professional with extensive global experience. He is currently focused on advancing decentralized AI technologies. His expertise covers various aspects of [Web3](https://iq.wiki/wiki/web3), Data, AI, and Analytics, including large-scale Data Federation, Machine Learning/Federated Learning, Big Data, and Digital Transformation. [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-4u3c652fjd)  \n  \nBefore Don became CEO of Nevermined, he co-founded Keyko and [Ocean Protocol](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ocean-protocol) and gathered a wealth of data experience at NTT Data, amongst others. After studying Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta, he worked in LA, Tokyo, London, and Berlin. [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-4u3c652fjd)  \n  \n## Nevermined  \n  \nNevermined is an AI payment protocol that helps Artificial Intelligence (AIs) to get paid. It was founded in February 2022 by Donald Gossen and his Co-founder Aitor Argomaniz[\\[6\\]](#cite-id-tk5v20fygy) in Zug, Switzerland. [\\[5\\]](#cite-id-sxoj2chfasb)  \n  \nNevermined is a Data Ecosystem platform that leverages [Web3.0](https://iq.wiki/wiki/web3) technology, Federated Learning frameworks, and privacy-preserving techniques to create the right blend of capabilities and incentives for participants to share data and contribute resources back to the ecosystem. Nevermined enables a new era that allows collaboration in the de-facto standard in the most competitive industries. Because Nevermined leverages a unique data provenance protocol and offers an architecture-agnostic framework, any entity connecting to the ecosystem can consume and process data or any other digital asset (algorithms, computation, etc.) available inside or outside of their premises, without moving the underlying data assets. [\\[7\\]](#cite-id-jml8b3v3vzf)  \n  \nThe ecosystem consists of three main components - Data Sharing, Data Monetization, and Data Governance. 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