Leon Lim — Industry 5.0, Cognitive Maintenance & AI-Powered Machine Health

Leon Lim is the CEO and Founder of Groundup.ai, a Singapore-based startup helping industrial companies prevent unplanned downtime using IoT and AI. With a decade in tech and AI, he has built and exited two ventures and once managed over 3,000 servers in one of Singapore's first large-scale blockchain data centers. An NUS alumnus, he mentors startups and invests in early-stage ventures. His background in music sparked his interest in audio analytics, which now drives Groundup.ai’s approach to machine anomaly detection. Leon Lim LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/sgleonlim Flor Laorga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flor-laorga/ X: https://x.com/florlaorga Website: https://aifn.co/flor AI Frontier Network Website: https://aifn.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-frontier-network/ X: https://x.com/aifn_co YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ai-frontier-network OUTLINE 00:00 Start 00:50 From Musician to Tech Entrepreneur 01:47 Founding Groundup.ai 03:44 Transitioning From Crypto to Industrial AI 05:32 What Is Cognitive Maintenance? 07:35 Expansion Across Southeast Asia and the Middle East 10:43 Launching the World’s First Agentic Maintenance AI 12:13 Keeping Humans in the Loop 13:07 Redefining Human Work in the AI Era 13:35 Should AI Pay Taxes? 15:13 The Robot Economy and Human Purpose 16:46 Living in a Technological Future 22:38 Industry 5.0 and the End of Manual Labor 25:04 Advice for Future AI Founders