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From left: Danny Tobey, Sean Fulton, and Dean Ball. Tobey and Fulton are attorneys at DLA Piper; Ball is a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and the primary staff drafter of America's AI Action Plan. [Courtesy photos]
Dean Ball Helped Write America’s AI Action Plan. In Dallas, He Told Business Leaders What to Watch For — and What Keeps Him Up at Night
by Quincy Preston | Apr 16, 2026
At Convergence AI Dallas, DLA Piper's Danny Tobey opened with a bottom line for business leaders: "Our AI is ROI." From there, colleague Sean Fulton and federal policy architect Dean Ball dug into what the U.S. action plan got right, what was left on the cutting room floor, and if ignoring a superhuman AI system could become the new negligence.
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Apr 16, 2026
“The old human-in-the-loop rules really don’t work as well when you’re looking at ubiquitous, automated AI agents that are acting 24/7 as digital workers.”
Danny Tobey, M.D., J.D.
Chair, AI and Data Analytics
DLA Piper
…speaking at Convergence AI Dallas on March 31
We’re moving “from an era of chatbot AI, where there is always a human at the receiving end of recommendations, to agentic and physical AI,” a world, Danny Tobey said, where AI “takes actions and makes decisions on behalf of humans” and “does so in ways that don’t always stop for human intervention, permission and understanding.”...
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by Glenn Hunter |
Apr 30, 2025
Dallas Innovates, in partnership with the Dallas Regional Chamber, once again is recognizing the most innovative leaders in AI in Dallas-Fort Worth. From visionaries and mavericks to transformers and academics, AI 75's class of 2025 are the AI pacesetters you need to know now.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 6, 2022
The Richardson-based Hedera network is a public distributed ledger that's helped advance everything from long-distance drone flights to stablecoin issuance to next-gen gaming and more. Now you can add art to the list. Yesterday LG launched its own NFT platform—LG Art Lab—on the Hedera network, giving users a "one-stop shop" to buy, sell, and showcase digital artworks.
The platform moves the concept of NFT art from computers to "a piece of art displayed as any other artwork would be within the home of its owner," says the CMO of Swirlds Labs, the team behind the Hedera network.
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Hedera Will Open-Source Its Hashgraph Code to ‘Capitalize on Growing Demand for Public DLT’
by David Kirkpatrick | Jan 20, 2022
The Hedera Governing Council will buy the IP from Swirlds, a startup co-founded in 2015 by the inventor of the Hashgraph algorithm. Dallas mathematician and computer scientist Leemon Baird created the distributed ledger technology to outperform other protocols in power, security, and speed.
This could be a breakout moment.
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by Alex Edwards |
Feb 10, 2021
The agreement will involve the two companies providing educational programs and connections for scientist entrepreneurs located at the Biotech+ Hub at Pegasus Park.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 25, 2018
Also you’ll find leadership appointments and changes at Heritage Health Solutions, TiE Dallas, BG Staffing, and Cushman & Wakefield in this roundup of people news in North Texas.
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