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.
Matt Sommer has spent 25 years in key aspects of managing and growing organizations, including fostering innovation, pioneering and evangelizing product vision, and leveraging data and analytics. Sommer, an AI expert with 10 patents, believes that if technology is doing its job in marketing, "you shouldn't even know it's there."
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The role of the chief information officer (CIO) is undergoing another significant transformation. No longer limited to overseeing systems and operations, today’s CIO is a central strategic partner, guiding businesses through rapid technological and operational change....
Glow or Go—an all-new glow-in-the-dark game experience from New York-based live-entertainment platform Fever—opened its doors recently in the Dallas Design District at 921 N. Riverfront Blvd, Suite 100.
Glow or Go is a “one-of-a-kind,” real-life video game experience that’s been described as “part neon dream, part physical challenge,” Fever said....
A partnership between Fort Worth-based buddi—a pet-focused, family-friendly streaming platform that’s been likened to a Netflix for pet lovers—and Atlanta’s Bark TV has created the first multi-platform network with 24-hour-a-day programming dedicated exclusively to dog lovers....
Months after turning its dire wolf de-extinction into a moonshot milestone, Colossal Biosciences is going bigger—and taller. The company, now Texas’ first decacorn with a valuation of more than $10 billion, has unveiled plans to recreate New Zealand’s giant moa: a 12-foot-tall, 500-pound flightless bird that’s been extinct for six centuries....
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....
The role of the chief information officer (CIO) is undergoing another significant transformation. No longer limited to overseeing systems and operations, today’s CIO is a central strategic partner, guiding businesses through rapid technological and operational change....
Glow or Go—an all-new glow-in-the-dark game experience from New York-based live-entertainment platform Fever—opened its doors recently in the Dallas Design District at 921 N. Riverfront Blvd, Suite 100.
Glow or Go is a “one-of-a-kind,” real-life video game experience that’s been described as “part neon dream, part physical challenge,” Fever said....
A partnership between Fort Worth-based buddi—a pet-focused, family-friendly streaming platform that’s been likened to a Netflix for pet lovers—and Atlanta’s Bark TV has created the first multi-platform network with 24-hour-a-day programming dedicated exclusively to dog lovers....
Months after turning its dire wolf de-extinction into a moonshot milestone, Colossal Biosciences is going bigger—and taller. The company, now Texas’ first decacorn with a valuation of more than $10 billion, has unveiled plans to recreate New Zealand’s giant moa: a 12-foot-tall, 500-pound flightless bird that’s been extinct for six centuries....