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A scene from last year's Get Connected Dallas tech festival. [Photo via Dallas Innovation Alliance]
Dallas Innovation Alliance Brings Tech Festival to Oak Cliff Saturday
by Quincy Preston | Sep 30, 2025
The third annual Get Connected Dallas event pairs on-the-spot job interviews and emerging tech demos—from robotics to VR—at a free community festival.
by Quincy Preston |
Aug 6, 2025
At the statewide TUNIE meeting hosted at SMU, top local economic developers laid out how they’re teaming up with universities to drive innovation and entrepreneurship. Leaders from Dallas, Richardson, Frisco, and McKinney talked anchor institutions to smart-city pilots—but for better partnerships, one ask rose to the top: “Who do I call first?”
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 1, 2025
The global engineering and tech services company’s Plano facility is slated to create over 350 high-skilled jobs in AI, digital engineering, cybersecurity, and manufacturing solutions.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 30, 2025
With support from UTA’s Research Enhancement Program, assistant professor Mahmoud Bayat is developing a digital twin platform to help officials adjust evacuation routes on the fly. The platform could inform future systems across cities, counties, and states for what he calls “truly resilient communities.”
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Rendering of the Traphene Hickman Library & Cedar Hill Museum, which is opening April 6. [Image: City of Cedar Hill]
Dallas County, 3 North Texas Cities Are Finalists in IDC Smart Cities North America Awards
by David Seeley and Lance Murray | Feb 26, 2024
The cities of Dallas, Irving, and Cedar Hill joined Dallas County among the 36 finalists for awards from IDC Government Insights. Locally honored initiatives include digital equity and public Wi-Fi programs, as well as a modern library in a park and a public health investigation system.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 6, 2023
The NTXIA said that Fort Worth's coming on board signifies "a major step" toward the city's continued commitment to enhancing quality of life, safety, public health, and welfare of residents in the region through "a data-driven approach." The Panther City joins more than 40 municipalities, agencies, corporations, and academic institutions already in the alliance.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Jun 29, 2023
Spearheaded by the North Texas Innovation Alliance, initial planning for the 2026 event foresees lasting regional benefits ranging from public safety and energy efficiency to traffic management.
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by David Seeley |
Mar 31, 2023
VicOne—an Irving-based provider of automotive cybersecurity solutions—wants to make it safer to share data in "vehicle-to-everything environments." To help do that, it's expanding its partnership with Taiwan's DFI, a global provider of embedded motherboards and industrial computers. See how their "advanced embedded" solutions could lead to fully interconnected transportation with smart cities environments.
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[Left: video still: TravelSafely - https://youtu.be/4MnmOFxOIUE ; Right: Photo: City of Arlington]
TravelSafely App Alerts Arlington Drivers to Potential Road Hazards
by Dave Moore | Dec 7, 2021
Arlington's Cooper Street Smart Mobility Corridor uses "connected vehicle-to-everything" technologies to alert drivers to traffic light changes, nearby pedestrians and cyclists, approaching fire trucks, and more.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 5, 2021
The NTXIA is a founding member of the new National Smart Coalitions Partnership, now one of the largest smart cities networks in the country. The organization unites more than 100 governments across seven regional smart cities consortiums.
The goal? To accelerate sustainability and resilience in communities.
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by Quincy Preston and Alex Edwards |
May 26, 2020
The nonprofit North Texas Innovation Alliance—the largest of its kind in the U.S.—brings together cities, counties, municipalities, and agencies to tackle pressing challenges with innovative solutions. First up, the group will look at the effects of COVID-19. With the launch, NTXIA joins Mastercard's City Possible network that advances inclusive and sustainable development
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 11, 2019
Dallas is third in the nation among large cities that rank for urban AI resilience and readiness in the rise of the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution,' according to The Oliver Wyman Forum.
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[Image: via Dallas Innovation Alliance]
The Innov8te Smart Cities Incubator Announces its Inaugural Cohort of Companies
by Alex Edwards | May 21, 2019
The DEC's Innov8te incubator aims to be a driving force in the region's smart city technology research and development. Meet the startups chosen to participate in the six-month program kicking off next month.
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by Dave Moore |
May 20, 2019
From bobcat sightings to blocked lanes and bike trails to public art, the City of Richardson is collecting and taming data to keep folks informed.
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by Dave Moore |
Sep 22, 2018
At the North Texas Smart Cities Summit, IT specialists, engineers, public officials, and civil servants pondered the possibilities and perils of smart city technology that's ever closer to becoming commonplace. Dave Moore has the takeaway.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
Aug 22, 2018
The Trust for Public Lands study released Wednesday shows that 60 percent of Dallas residents live within a 10-minute walk to a park.
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