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.
With wall-to-wall LED screens and the latest advances in AI, digital display, motion tracking, and object detection, Lumin Fitness launched its first "prototype" studio in Las Colinas last fall. Its new franchise agreement with Houston-based Verge Fit Holdings is meant to be just the start of growing the brand into the future.
Bean, a former CEO of Dallas-based Gold’s Gym, and Omeed Shams, previously chief executive at Coppell’s gaming app Kwest, founded Lumin Fitness in 2019. Last month we told you the story behind their pioneering fitness studio and franchise concept, which debuted to the public on Sept. 9 at a 2,600-square-foot space in Las Colinas.
Dallas-based Lumin Fitness—after four years of R&D focused on hyperpersonalized, gamified workouts—is opening its prototype studio to the public. Now co-founders Brandon Bean and Omeed Shams are eying franchise partnerships to expand their category-opening concept that leverages tech and innovation to 'make fitness fun.'
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....
Many enterprises today are grappling with transformation fatigue. After years of reorganizations, technology investments, and process overhauls, leaders are still asking the same question: Why aren’t we moving faster or seeing greater returns?...
Keurig Dr. Pepper (KDP) and JDE Peete’s jointly announced that KDP has acquired 96.22% of the shares of JDE Peet’s, marking a major milestone in the company’s plans for strategic transformation and long‑term growth....
Dallas-based Primoris Services has agreed to acquire PayneCrest Electric in an all-cash deal valued at $422 million to increase the company’s exposure to the high-growth data center services market and to integrate its industrial and renewables businesses with complementary electrical construction capabilities....
Tech Titans has appointed Wendi R. Wilburn as its new president & CEO, effective today. The organization said the leadership transition reinforces its continued growth and its focus on strengthening the North Texas technology ecosystem through “partnerships, operational excellence, and increased member value.”...
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....
Many enterprises today are grappling with transformation fatigue. After years of reorganizations, technology investments, and process overhauls, leaders are still asking the same question: Why aren’t we moving faster or seeing greater returns?...
Keurig Dr. Pepper (KDP) and JDE Peete’s jointly announced that KDP has acquired 96.22% of the shares of JDE Peet’s, marking a major milestone in the company’s plans for strategic transformation and long‑term growth....
Dallas-based Primoris Services has agreed to acquire PayneCrest Electric in an all-cash deal valued at $422 million to increase the company’s exposure to the high-growth data center services market and to integrate its industrial and renewables businesses with complementary electrical construction capabilities....
Tech Titans has appointed Wendi R. Wilburn as its new president & CEO, effective today. The organization said the leadership transition reinforces its continued growth and its focus on strengthening the North Texas technology ecosystem through “partnerships, operational excellence, and increased member value.”...