Dallas Innovates, in partnership with the Dallas Regional Chamber, once again is recognizing the most innovative leaders in AI in Dallas-Fort Worth. From visionaries and mavericks to transformers and academics, AI 75's class of 2025 are the AI pacesetters you need to know now.
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.
Dallas Innovates, the Dallas Regional Chamber, and Dallas AI have teamed up to launch the inaugural AI 75 list. The 2024 program honors the most significant people in AI in DFW in seven categories—the visionaries, creators, and influencers you need to know.
Austin Copps—son of CEO and Co-Founder Dave Copps of Dallas-based Worlds, the AI platform for building the industrial metaverse—recently posted an article on Medium called "Creation Acceleration: The GPT Interface Revolution in Game Design and Beyond."
Dallas-based Worlds' 2023 Strategic Advisory Board includes seven prominent industry leaders and change makers from the manufacturing, distribution, transportation, logistics, national defense, and government sectors. The move is part of the company's efforts to lead automation in the Industrial Metaverse, a concept that one advisor says has "untapped potential" well beyond digital twins.
"AI now is where the web was in the mid- to late-'90s," Sentiero Ventures' David Evans says. And North Texas is becoming central to the AI revolution, he and other local tech leaders contend. DFW's role as an AI hub has been burnished by its tech workforce, the breadth and diversity of its industries, its thriving startup community, and its wealth of AI-oriented universities and research institutions. Most important of all, though, is the region's status as a magnet for Fortune 500 companies, many of which are eager to partner with AI's local pioneers.
Here's what leading North Texas experts have to say.
Now in its fourth year, the program from Dallas Innovates and D CEO honors 68 disruptors and trailblazers driving a new vision for innovation in North Texas.
Finalists will be recognized in the January/February issue of D CEO magazine and online at DallasInnovates.com. Winners will be revealed at an exclusive awards event in January.
Every year, Tech Titans highlights the top movers and shakers in the North Texas technology ecosystem. Here are the finalists in 11 categories. Winners will be announced at the group's signature gala in October.
Dave Copps, who runs a Dallas-based spatial AI company that gives businesses a new way to view their physical world, took the stage during Dallas Startup Week to discuss how to create the right entrepreneurial mindset and company culture. Here’s what he had to say.
In this weekly roundup of funding, merger and acquisition activity in North Texas, you’ll also find news from Worlds, Tricolor, Puration, Atos, Kriya Capital, Kofile, and more.
With three successful exits from startups under his belt, and Worlds launching from stealth with $10 million in funding, Copps knows a thing or two about how to build a company. We also found out his "walk on" song is Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.
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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....
Dallas-based registered investment adviser (RIA) True North Advisors LLC has acquired Blue Investment Partners LLC, an investment management firm headquartered in Danville, California, that has roughly $353 million in assets under management as of June 30....
Eight student-created ventures emerged as funding recipients in the 2025 Institute for Entrepreneurship CREATE program’s final pitches in May, dividing $50,000 to help bring their business ideas to life, TCU announced....
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....
Dallas-based registered investment adviser (RIA) True North Advisors LLC has acquired Blue Investment Partners LLC, an investment management firm headquartered in Danville, California, that has roughly $353 million in assets under management as of June 30....
Eight student-created ventures emerged as funding recipients in the 2025 Institute for Entrepreneurship CREATE program’s final pitches in May, dividing $50,000 to help bring their business ideas to life, TCU announced....