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The Future of AI: Capital Factory Convenes North Texas Leaders to Explore What’s Next in Artificial Intelligence

by | Aug 17, 2023
At the Bush Center in Dallas on September 5, Capital Factory will host top tech minds to talk AI and AGI. Tech icon John Carmack will take the stage in a rare fireside chat on artificial general intelligence with AI expert Dave Copps.

Here's what you need to know, along with advance insights from Copps.
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The Last Word: UTA’s Meghna Tare On How to Solve Big Problems, Like Turning DFW Airport Into a Zero-Waste Zone
by | Aug 16, 2023
So how do you start in approaching big problems? Tare says it's all about the basics: "You start from the very basics and think about data collection. What you measure now, you need to measure again in the future to see if there’s a trend line."
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Dallas’ Internet Travel Solutions Launches Credit Card To Ease Corporate Travel
by | Aug 16, 2023
The travel technology company says its new EasyCard aims "to redefine the landscape of corporate payment management." One way it will do that? By "virtually eliminating the need for post-travel expense reports."
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PMY Group Invests in WJHW Expansion to Extend Tech Design Firm’s Global Reach
by | Aug 16, 2023
North Texas-based WJHW has spearheaded high-profile tech system projects at venues such as SoFi Stadium, UBS Arena, Globe Life Field, and Dickie's Arena. To lead its global push, PMY Group has promoted WJHW veterans Kym Shilton to Senior Vice President of International and Charles Adkinson to Senior Vice President of Sports Development.

As part of PMY's strategy, the company said it plans to relocate its global headquarters from Melbourne to the United States.
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The Last Word: Farmers Branch Mayor on Why His City Moved to a 4-Day Work Week

by | Aug 15, 2023
Farmers Branch has officially launched a four-day work for city employees. The move followed earlier approval by the city council, and a few months of schedule-testing by various city departments.
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AMLI Deploys ‘ArborLift’ Tech To Move 4 Heritage Live Oaks for Addison Treehouse Project
by | Aug 15, 2023
Some companies will move mountains to get a project going. AMLI Residential is moving something else—four heritage live oak trees—to make way for a multifamily and retail development that's all about trees itself. AMLI hired Houston-based Environmental Design to deploy its innovative ArborLift tech—featuring inflated, sausage-like rolling bladders.
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Turvo, Optym Forge Strategic Partnership ‘To Revolutionize Collaborative Logistics’
by | Aug 15, 2023
Dallas-based Turvo and Dallas- and India-based Optym say their collaboration will help supply chain companies efficiently match available freight with their asset-based fleet's capacity. "Our goal is to unify and automate the global supply chain," says Turvo CEO Billy Sarracino.
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Dallas Skincare Trailblazer, BeautyBio, Acquired by Nu Skin Subsidiary
by | Aug 14, 2023
BeautyBio, known for merging skincare with unique beauty tools, transformed the at-home beauty scene and grew a devoted following. Now the "Truth in Beauty" brand, founded by model and entrepreneur Jamie O'Banion in 2011, is starting a new chapter.
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Tango CEO on How His Firm’s WatchWire Acquisition Creates a Real Estate Management Powerhouse

by | Aug 14, 2023
North Texas-based Tango—a Berkshire portfolio company—says the acquisition expands the global footprint of its own next-gen real estate management platform. And by leveraging WatchWire's proprietary data ingestion engine, the merged entity brings Tango squarely into the sustainability and energy management space. The result? "Bridging the gap" between landlords and tenants, says Tango founder and CEO Pranav Tyagi.
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Junchuang North America Inc. expansion
China’s Junchuang Opens EV Parts Plant, R&D Hub in Fort Worth
by | Aug 14, 2023
JCNA's model plant in Fort Worth will be its cornerstone North American R&D hub, driving innovations for the EV market and creating over 120 jobs by 2025.
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Collins Aerospace Awarded $36M USAF Contract to Develop Beyond-Line-Of-Sight Satellite Communications Pod
by | Aug 14, 2023
Collins, which has a Richardson-based secure communications division, will develop the pod with capability to connect with commercial and military satellites in low, medium, and geostationary orbits. The pod's goal: to enhance situational awareness and enable faster, better decisions "across the battlespace."
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Dallas Invents: 139 Patents Granted for Week of August 8
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 139 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: Baylor Research Institute's vaccines against HPV- and HPV-related diseases, Better Vision Solutions' disinfecting contact lenses with a manganese-coated disc, FOI Group's automatic rotating agricultural system to irrigate, plant, gather forage, and/or harvest field and method for operating the system, Google's identifying a set of characters in a media file, Jpmorgan Chase Bank's system for integrating voice biometrics, Kyndryl's charging regulation model for electric vehicles on the road, Merative's determining drug effectiveness ranking for a patient using machine learning, Samsung's multi-sensor, multi-view, multi-frame, multi-task synthetic image fusion engine for mobile imaging system, State Farm's autonomous vehicle insurance based upon usage, Swiss-American CDMO's antimicrobial compositions that are non-toxic to mammals and plants, Thor Tech's mobile device tools for smart vehicle features operation and automatic wireless routing selection and methods of useAA's autonomous vehicle barricade, and Walmart Apollo's automatically annotating images.
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Plano’s Atlantic Aviation Names Industry Veteran as New CEO

by | Aug 11, 2023
Atlantic Aviation said that Jeff Foland brings nearly three decades of experience in the aviation, travel, and transportation industries to his new post. Foland joins Atlantic Aviation from The Parking Spot, the largest near-airport parking operator and real-estate owner in the U.S., where he was president and CEO since 2018.
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Dallas Appoints Patrick Carreno as New Aviation Director, Eyes Forward Momentum
by | Aug 11, 2023
As the interim director steps into the role of director of aviation, he officially takes charge of Dallas Love Field, Dallas Executive Airport, and the Dallas Vertiport.
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Dallas’ Lincoln Property Co. Appoints CRE Veteran as CMCO
by | Aug 11, 2023

Christy Ingle has joined Dallas-based full-service real estate firm Lincoln Property Co. as chief marketing and communications officer.

Ingle joins Lincoln from CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, where she spent more than 20 years in roles of increasing responsibility, most recently leading communications for the firm’s Advisory Services (leasing, sales, property management, capital markets, and valuations) and Real Estate Investments (CBRE Investment Management and Trammell Crow Company) businesses....

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EnLink Names New Chief Commercial Officer as It Eyes ‘the Future of Midstream’
by | Aug 11, 2023

Industry veteran Dilanka Seimon has been named executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Dallas-based EnLink Midstream LLC. EnLink said that Seimon joins the company on Aug....

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