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Innovators Luncheon featuring Award innovation presentations

Hear a short synopsis from our corporate and emerging innovation finalists. Brinks Home, Gearbox, Ericsson, VEX Robotics (Corporate) CASPR, E4D Technologies, Esposure, Linear Labs (Emerging)

Corp CEO Randy Pitchford Gearbox thought leader session

Listen to an in-depth discussion with Tech Titans Award winner Corporate CEO Randy Pitchford from Gearbox about leadership and the gaming industry. Moderated by Tech Titans Chair Amy Wheelus from AT&T.

John Archer, Red Hat, Leveraging IoT as part of your digital transformation

Part of the IoT Forum in May 2021. John is the Chief Architect Energy

Hall of Fame inductee David Matthews RevTech

During the Tech Titans awards, gala chair Kathy Curry from State Farm ®hosted Hall of Fame Inductee David Matthews from RevTech Ventures. Watch a deep discussion about North Texas entrepreneur environment with these leaders. https://lnkd.in/ekvF8AA9 # #entrepreneur #retailtech #retailtechnology

DARPA and the pandemic

Dr. Amy Jenkins, Program Manager in Biological Technologies Office (BTO), DARPA This presentation will provide an overview of the DARPA BTO Pandemic Prevention Platform program and the role it has played in covid-19 pandemic response.  Additionally, the role of novel and emerging nucleic acid technologies and distributed manufacturing in future preparedness efforts will be discussed.    About the speaker:Dr. Amy Jenkins joined DARPA as a Program Manager in June 2019.  Her interests include...

Kevin ODell, Technology Director and DevOps Advocate at State Farm

DevOps successes and challenges featuring Kevin ODell, Technology Director and DevOps Advocate at State Farm, given during Awards Gala.

Dr. John Whyte, CEO of WebMD

Dr. John Whyte, CEO of WebMD, discuss how COVID-19 has changed the expectations of health care

CES 2021 recap

 Join Tech Titans member and 2thedge Founder Ty Harmon for a CES 2021 recap. Ty will share the event's highlights and key takeaways.

Tech Titans team engagement, getting involved

Join Tech Titans Board Chair Amy Wheelus and a panel of active volunteers to hear about how and why to get involved with Tech Titans as a volunteer!

Virtual Expo featuring Ed Kelly, Chief Data Officer for State of Texas and Laila Alequresh, Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Dallas

Featuring Ed Kelly, Chief Data Officer for State of Texas and Laila Alequresh, Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Dallas - February 2, 2021

Tech issues in public policy in 2021 with Robert Atkinson

Robert David Atkinson is an economist and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that promotes policies based on innovation economics.  Rob presented to the Tech Titans board of directors in late January 2021. Rob spoke about privacy concerns, artificial intelligence (and minority biases), and what it means when it says that President Biden signed executive orders. Note that the beginning of the presentation wa...

The Texas Broadband Council talks its recommendations to Connected Nation

President Bill Sproull serves as the chair of the Texas governor's Broadband Development Council, which evaluated and made recommendations to the governor about how vital broadband is to the future of Texas. Thanks to Connected Nation for producing the podcast. Read the full report here: https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/2020_Texas_Report_-_Governors_Broadband_Development_Council.pdf 

President Bill Sproull gives 2020 election update

Though things are still in flux, Bill gives an update about what to expect in the short term and what the implications are for North Texas

Qorvo CEO James Klein

James Klein is president of infrastructure and defense products at Qorvo and Tech Titans Corporate CEO award winner in 2019. Interviewed by Tech Titans’ President/CEO Bill Sproull, James talks about his background, Qorvo’s history, how Qorvo managed to keep their plants healthy even in China and the need to support STEM and diversity efforts. Part of the discussion focuses on the importance of culture, leadership and the trust of the team. 

UT Dallas President Dr. Richard Benson

UT Dallas has an enrollment of 30,000 (and ranked as one of the fastest growing in the country). As the CEO of a staff of over 3600, Dr. Richard Benson is working with budgets and analyzing customer trends and threats for delivery (ie, steering his institution through covid and meeting international student needs). Tech Titans' President Bill Sproull talks to Dr. Benson about the future of the school (think resiliency and optimism) and how diversity is built into its DNA.

Yobie Benjamin, innovator coronavirus air cleaner

Yobie is a world class innovator who is an active member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network and received their 2015 Technology Pioneer award. Benjamin was winner of a 2014 CNN Top 10 Technology Products award in augmented reality. He was the Global Chief Technology Officer for Citibank where he was was responsible for global money flows of $3 trillion to $9 trillion per day. He is also co-founder, advisor to several startups in the technology and synthetic biology space.  Yobie tal...

Bottle Rocket's Calvin Carter talks about leadership

High-energy Calvin Carter has opinions about how to lead an organization. The latest action is allowing employees to work from anywhere, on top of their self-managed vacation plan. Calvin talks about connecting employees to a purpose, how an entrepreneur/leader needs empathy, and how coronavirus accelerated adoption of trends by 3-5 years.

Tech Titans Chair Amy Wheelus with AT&T

Amy Wheelus acts as the CIO of AT&T’s broadband and video business. During the podcast, Amy talks about how AT&T plans for disasters, what she thinks the new normal will be after coronavirus and what innovation looks like. Amy also discusses her background and how that influences her ability to lead in a diverse but results-oriented environment. 3

Blockchain technology at the edge of traditional banking

Important blockchain developments affecting traditional banking have been occurring outside of public view. This Tech Titans Forum will discuss how blockchain is being used to send payments globally and to streamline interbank processes for syndicated loans. We'll also learn about central bank currencies and the integration of digital currencies into traditional payment systems. Panelists: JC Jollant, senior product manager, Finastra Richard Meszaros, Managing Director IoT, Accenture Eric S...

DFARS & NIST cybersecurity compliance for defense contractors and subs

Regan Edens, a long-time administrator and consultant for DoD cybersecurity protection, talks through the strict compliance mandates that will be enforced starting Jan. 1, 2020, and ways for you to use the Agile method to analyze your cyber compliance health, and get your organization into the gym before the feds TELL you to get into shape!

Emerging CEO finalists from awards

hear a panel featuring the Tech Titans Award finalists in our Emerging Company CEO category. This includes  Calvin Carter from Bottle Rocket, Curtis Hite from Improving Will Rosellini from Nexeon Medsystems Andrew Schaap from Aligned Energy These finalists discuss what their companies do, how they rose to success and the remaining challenges for them.

Innovation: Ty Harmon, making an impact on a project/process

Ty Harmon from 2THEDGE, which consults with top companies about their innovation projects, talks about establishing an innovation team, setting up success milestones, questions to ask, gives examples and how to set up tests. This conversation will help solidify your understanding of the innovation process.  Ty leads 2THEDGE's Testing and Experimentation as a Service (TEXaS) practice that accelerates an organizations ability to identify, test and drive adoption of new capabilities.  Since 20...

Innovation with Dr. David Ricketts, Harvard professor

Dr. Ricketts sits down to talk about what is innovation, some practices to cultivate innovation in your own organization and some innovative ideas that we're experiencing in our culture today. 15 minutes.

Managing bias in datasets

Bias in datasets used to train AI is a significant challenge. AI and machine learning can produce potentially disastrous results if training data sets are not managed. Pradyot Prasoon, director of emerging technologies, American Heart Assoc. Hettie Tabor, director of masters of science in business analytics, SMU Dwayne Paschall, data scientist - machine learning and AI, IDEXX Kalyana Chakravarthy Bedhu, head of AI and data innovation, Ericsson Group

Legislative update, May

Tech Titans CEO Bill Sproull talks about the 2019 Texas legislative session and which bills are in committee and the process to making them laws. The bills include topics of education reform (teacher raises & funding), a bill to address rising property taxes, plus a regular and supplemental budget bill. 

Tech Industry Lunch: Cybersecurity

1. How to align cyber security to business strategy and goals  2. How to Measure and balance your cyber risk with your business needs  3. Tips on how to conduct an enterprise-wide cyber vulnerability and risk assessment  4. How to develop and roll out a comprehensive cyber strategy  5. And how to Communicate cyber insights and initiatives across the business and C-suite in terms your audience will understand Sponsored by UT Dallas Panelists: Jason Fruge, VP and CISO of Fossil Group, Dav...

TGI Fridays CXO Sherif Mityas

A growing number of companies are using AI and machine learning to not only better understand their customers but also to create highly personalized experiences and messages.  One of DFW's leading pioneers in this journey is TGI Friday's. TGI Digital, a digital transformation project with the objective to reconnect with customers on a 1 to 1 basis, has become an advisor helping customers answer the question, "What should we do tonight?"  Friday's uses AI to achieve deep insight into their cu...