2025 Innovation Award winners represent the cutting edge of North Texas innovation across industries. From left: Ben Lamm, Colossal Biosciences; Aurora; Bell; and Dave Copps, Worlds.
D CEO and Dallas Innovates' Innovation Award winners are working to resurrect extinct species, launching autonomous trucks, reinventing military aircraft, and bringing AI into the physical world—and that's just the beginning. The 2025 awards showcase game-changing achievements—including Texas' first newly minted decacorn—across 17 categories of innovation. Here’s a look at the innovators leading the way.
The Innovation Awards 2025 recognizes 76 companies and trailblazers paving the way for the future of innovation in North Texas. Here's who made the finalists list.
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Dallas-based Spark Biomedical, an innovator in drug-free wearable neurostimulation technology, has named Anja Krammer as its new chief executive officer.
Krammer has extensive expertise scaling healthcare and medical technology companies, turning breakthrough innovations into commercially successful products across clinical and consumer markets, Spark said....
Irving-based Quisitive, a Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions provider, has named Michael Roughsedge as its new CEO, effective immediately. Roughsedge succeeds Mike Reinhart, who founded the company. Reinhart will retire as CEO and transition to the role of chairman of the board, continuing to provide advice and counsel as the company enters its next phase of growth. ...
Dallas-based cyber threat intelligence company iCOUNTER has named Lisa Hayashi as chief marketing officer and Bob Kalchthaler as chief financial officer to deepen the company’s leadership bench. The C-suite additions come at a critical moment to provide cybersecurity and high-growth operating expertise, the firm said....
North Texas is a big place, with plenty to do, see, hear, and watch. We scour the internet every week to find events and activities for you. As always, things may change at any time, so be sure to check the official website or registration page for the latest details....
Dallas-based Spark Biomedical, an innovator in drug-free wearable neurostimulation technology, has named Anja Krammer as its new chief executive officer.
Krammer has extensive expertise scaling healthcare and medical technology companies, turning breakthrough innovations into commercially successful products across clinical and consumer markets, Spark said....
Irving-based Quisitive, a Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions provider, has named Michael Roughsedge as its new CEO, effective immediately. Roughsedge succeeds Mike Reinhart, who founded the company. Reinhart will retire as CEO and transition to the role of chairman of the board, continuing to provide advice and counsel as the company enters its next phase of growth. ...
Dallas-based cyber threat intelligence company iCOUNTER has named Lisa Hayashi as chief marketing officer and Bob Kalchthaler as chief financial officer to deepen the company’s leadership bench. The C-suite additions come at a critical moment to provide cybersecurity and high-growth operating expertise, the firm said....