Mr. Gabriel Rene reports

VERSES NAMES RENOWNED AI AND PUBLIC SECTOR LEADER DR. DAVID BRAY TO CHAIR STRATEGIC ADVISORY COUNCIL

Verses AI Inc. has appointed Dr. David Bray, PhD, as chair of its newly formed strategic advisory council. As strategic advisory chair, Dr. Bray is expected to assist the company in assembling a council of experts across industry, policy and technology, aimed at accelerating the company's strategic growth and driving market adoption across both private and public sectors.

Dr. Bray is a globally recognized expert on artificial intelligence, data and cybersecurity. He was named one of the top-24 Americans changing the world by Business Insider for his leadership in turbulent environments, national security, digital transformations, counterbioterrorism and public health. Dr. Bray has held executive roles across government, academia and industry, and he also led two successful bipartisan commissions on the future of AI, cybersecurity, biotechnology, commercial space endeavours and quantum computing.

Dr. Bray previously served as information technology chief for the bioterrorism preparedness and response program during the responses to 9/11, anthrax, SARS and other events, as well as senior executive and chief information officer of the FCC, a senior national intelligence service executive, and a strategic adviser to multinational organizations navigating emerging technologies and complex global challenges. In 2023, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. He also received the global CIO 100 award twice (2015 and 2017).

"We are honoured to have David on board to provide guidance and to lead our strategic advisory council," said Gabriel Rene, chief executive officer of Verses. "David brings a rare mix of public and private leadership, scientific acumen, and systems-level thinking. His impressive track record working at the intersection of emerging technology, national security and policy makes him the ideal chair for our advisory council. We very much appreciate his leadership in helping to drive our global growth strategy."

"I'm energized to help Verses scale its technology to enhance the speed of decisions, adaptability and resiliency of both companies and communities alike," said Dr. Bray. "Having navigated numerous high-stakes environments from protecting national security to managing global health emergencies to shaping the future of space systems, I've seen first-hand how complex challenges require systems that adapt quickly to a changing world, and, in those moments, the ability to make swift, informed decisions with limited information is critical. What excites me about Verses' active inference technology is that it is designed to help companies, communities and countries make better decisions with less information, and it does so efficiently, bringing intelligence to the edge, right where it's needed most."

Dr. Bray currently serves as chair of the accelerator and distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center, and senior fellow at the Institute for Human-Machine Cognition, and is an expert affiliated with MIT Horizon, the Oxford Internet Institute and Harvard's leadership for a networked world program. In 2019, the United Nations invited him to give the distinguished AI address on Charter Day. He was also awarded the national intelligence exceptional achievement medal in 2013.

About Verses AI Inc.

Verses is a cognitive computing company building next-generation intelligent software systems modelled after the wisdom and genius of nature. Designed around first principles found in science, physics and biology, its flagship product, Genius, is an agentic enterprise intelligence platform designed to generate reliable domain-specific predictions and decisions under uncertainty. Imagine a smarter world that elevates human potential through technology inspired by nature.

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