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Every Last Word
Dallas Innovates’ signature series capturing what leaders across North Texas are saying — in their own words — about innovation, impact, and what’s next.
Skip Howard [Photo, Michael Samples; Background, Wanan Yossingkum/istockphoto]
The Last Word: Spacee’s Skip Howard On the Rapid Rise of Generative AI in Knowledge Work
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | May 10, 2024
Dallas-based Spacee brings next-gen retail tech to life with virtual touchscreens and “invisible” inventory robots powered by AI. Its founder's insights lead him to believe knowledge work is being quickly replaced by generative AI.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 9, 2024
“Welcome home Dallas Trinity FC”
Dallas Sports Commission
.…on the name reveal of Dallas’s first-ever women’s professional soccer team at Klyde Warren Park on May 9, via LinkedIn....
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 8, 2024
Texas Women's Foundation presented #BESTSELF and the Leadership Forum & Awards Celebration, setting the stage with a powerful conversation between ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts and Dallas Mavericks CEO Cynt Marshall.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
May 7, 2024
“Fire can really be very useful—or it can be destructive.”
Mukesh Kumar
President, Global Technology
Slalom Consulting
… on equating artificial intelligence to fire, at the Dallas Regional Chamber’s Convergence AI event in Irving on May 2....
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Luther Birdzell, chief AI officer at Krista [Photo: LinkedIn]
The Last Word: Krista’s Luther Birdzell on AI as ‘Technology That Understands People’
by David Seeley | May 2, 2024
Dallas-based Krista provides a natural language processing-based platform that helps companies "integrate any AI into processes to improve business outcomes." That gives Birdzell plenty of reasons to muse on how AI and people intersect.
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by David Seeley |
May 1, 2024
Founded in 2001, Sowden's privately held, vertically integrated CRE firm has an even longer history in the industry, with roots going back some 37 years. RREAF operates across multiple platforms, targeting different segments of the real estate market, including multifamily and hospitality. With nearly 500 employees and assets of $4.5 billion, it's not surprising that an IPO would seem to be in the picture.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 29, 2024
Dundon, the chairman and managing partner of Dallas-based Dundon Capital, became the majority owner of the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes in 2017, three years after he took Dallas-based auto loan giant Santander Consumer USA public with an IPO that raised $1.8 billion. He's also a co-owner of the PPA Pickleball Tour—which merged in March with Austin-based MLP by Margaritaville—and an investor in Pickleball.com.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 26, 2024
With all of the recent news about chips in Texas—including the Samsung $6B+ billion funding announcement by the Biden administration and North Texas’ anticipation of a new TI award—the Austin American-Statesman examined a claim the President made earlier this month.
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Lindsay Lightman, center, on stage at Texas Venture Forum [Photo: Lindsay Lightman]
The Last Word: RevTech Principal On VC Value-Add Beyond Capital
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Apr 24, 2024
North Texans took the stage at Texas Venture Gala & Forum last weekend in Austin.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Apr 23, 2024
Fort Worth is the top city in Texas, and three other North Texas cities made the top tier.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 22, 2024
Sullivan helms Plano-based PX Technology, which has just been acquired by Maryland-based patient advocacy healthtech company CareMetx. Writing on LinkedIn, he describes himself as a "servant leader with a reputation for integrity, transparency, persistence, and employee loyalty."
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by David Seeley |
Apr 19, 2024
If you've followed the up-and-down journey of Texas Central's $30 billion Dallas-Houston bullet train project, you know it's offered high-speed dreams and at times challenging headlines. You also may remember that last August we told you the project might be back on track, after Amtrak and Texas Central announced they were partnering to explore advance planning and analysis on the proposed 205 MPH high-speed rail project.
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Rob Pace, founder and CEO of HundredX. [Photo: HundredX]
The Last Word: HundredX’s Rob Pace on Partnering with Forbes on the 2024 Best Brands for Social Impact List
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Apr 17, 2024
Dallas-based HundredX, a mission-based data and customer insights provider, partnered with Forbes to create the newly released 2024 Best Brands for Social Impact list. Powered by HundredX data, the list recognizes the top 300 brands for social impact based on over four million pieces of consumer feedback on more than 3,000 businesses during the past year.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 16, 2024
The Dallas Public Library's J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in downtown Dallas—one of America's largest—was built in 1982 across from Dallas City Hall, and many agree it could use an overhaul. That especially includes library officials and consultants they brought in for a report on the building's future, among other needed investments in the city's library system.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 11, 2024
In March, Dallas Cowboys Owner and GM Jerry Jones did an interview with Dallas Morning News sportswriter David Moore about Dak Prescott's Super Bowl-winning potential. When a photo from the interview was posted on X, it went viral fast—even faster than the 'Pokes end their playoff runs.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 10, 2024
Dallas-based commercial litigator Talmage Boston has another avocation as an historian, and writes that his dual discipline "has made me a better lawyer and vice versa, since both callings require the same skills"—meaning researching, writing and rewriting, interviewing and interrogating, and public speaking.
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