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.
Plano-based tech company Ribbon Communications (Nasdaq: RBBN) brought AI professional Priyanka Kharat aboard as head of its AI-powered autonomous networking business.
As senior vice president, Kharat oversees Ribbon’s Acumen unit. The company launched Acumen, a platform for autonomous voice and data networking, in 2025....
Plano-based tech company Ribbon Communications (Nasdaq: RBBN) brought AI professional Priyanka Kharat aboard as head of its AI-powered autonomous networking business.
As senior vice president, Kharat oversees Ribbon’s Acumen unit. The company launched Acumen, a platform for autonomous voice and data networking, in 2025....