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.
Most recently, Mike Rufail was chief gaming officer and co-owner of Dallas-based OpTic Gaming and CEO of Dallas-based Envy Gaming, which he founded in 2007. He joins early-stage company TradeOff Financial Corp., which aims to build an online, multiplayer stock and crypto trading game and merit-based social network that gamifies trading education for users.
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A few years ago, the digital leadership team of a globally recognized motorcycle brand reached out to us after completing a major digital refresh. They had followed every recommended best practice....
The prospect of electric “air taxis” buzzing around Texas skies just got a boost from the Federal Aviation Administration. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and the FAA announced that eight proposals—including one in Texas—have been selected as part of the brand-new Advanced Air Mobility and Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) Integration Pilot Program (eIPP)....
Dallas management and financial consulting firm Embark has named Laura Neal as its chief revenue officer. With more than 20 years of leadership experience in revenue growth and sales, Neal comes with a track record of establishing high-performing teams and guiding sustained growth across professional services and advisory organizations, Embark said....
Dallas-based fiber internet provider Gigapower has named Dave Dobbin as its chief strategy officer and a member of the company’s leadership team.
In this role, Dobbin will lead development of the company’s long-term strategy, growth initiatives, market expansion priorities, and enterprise-wide change management programs....
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....
A few years ago, the digital leadership team of a globally recognized motorcycle brand reached out to us after completing a major digital refresh. They had followed every recommended best practice....
The prospect of electric “air taxis” buzzing around Texas skies just got a boost from the Federal Aviation Administration. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and the FAA announced that eight proposals—including one in Texas—have been selected as part of the brand-new Advanced Air Mobility and Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) Integration Pilot Program (eIPP)....
Dallas management and financial consulting firm Embark has named Laura Neal as its chief revenue officer. With more than 20 years of leadership experience in revenue growth and sales, Neal comes with a track record of establishing high-performing teams and guiding sustained growth across professional services and advisory organizations, Embark said....
Dallas-based fiber internet provider Gigapower has named Dave Dobbin as its chief strategy officer and a member of the company’s leadership team.
In this role, Dobbin will lead development of the company’s long-term strategy, growth initiatives, market expansion priorities, and enterprise-wide change management programs....