Tech Industry Lunch
2021 Tech Industry Series Speakers
January 22 - Mike Bafan, Chairman of Toyota Mexico Manufacturing Operations and Group Vice President of Toyota North America's Manufacturing Project Innovation Center
February 19 - Jose R Favilla, Jr, Global Industry 4.0 Leader, IBM Corporation
March 26 - Teresa Mackintosh, CEO, Trintech (2020 Tech Titans Emerging Company CEO Award winner)
April 16 - DevOps Panel: Kevin O'Dell, State Farm; Kodwo Panford, Zix; Courtney Kissler, Zulily; John Willis, Botchagalupe Technologies; and Bryan Finster, DevOps Mentor
May 21 - Joe D'Cruz, Catalyze Dallas and Roger Raley, Alpine Advanced Materials
June 18 - Blair Bardwell and Pari Pandya, AT&T
July 16 - Grant Ecker, VP Global Enterprise Architecture, Walgreens Boots Alliance and E.G. Nadhan, Chief Architect and Strategist, Red Hat
August 20 - Skip Howard, CEO, Spacee
September 17 - Malcom Ross, CTO, Appian
October 15 - Innovators Luncheon
November 19 - Trude VanHorn, CIO, NCH Corporation
2020 Tech Industry Series Speakers
January 17 - Pamela Arora, CIO, Children's Medical Center
March 6 - Dr. Stephanie Adams Dean of Engineering, UT Dallas
April 17 - Steve Roemerman, CEO, Lone Star Analysis
May 15 - Anne Chow, CEO, AT&T Business
June 19 - Kaushal Amin, CTO, KMS Technology
July 17 - James Klein, President of Infrastructure and Defense Products, Qorvo
August 14 - Dean Jones, Microsoft
September 18 - David Wagner, CEO, Zix Corp
October 16 - Annual Innovators Luncheon
November 15 - Lucas Rodriguez, CEO, CerSci Therapeutics
Tech Industry Luncheon Series - Hybrid Presentation
presented by
Friday, October 8, 2021
Check-in/Networking 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Presentation 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Prestonwood Country Club
15909 Preston Road, Dallas 75248
*Virtual attendees will receive link prior to event.
INNOVATORS LUNCHEON
Join us as the finalists nominated for awards in the Tech Titans Innovation categories explain how their innovation, achievement and breakthrough technological applications are changing the landscape of North Texas.
CORPORATE INNOVATION AWARD CATEGORY
The Tech Titans Corporate Innovation award recognizes a company for outstanding innovation and unique accomplishments through recent or potential breakthrough technology or approach within the technology industry in North Texas for which the company owns the intellectual property or proprietary property/method OR innovated by adopting another company’s intellectual property. The company must have a corporate headquarters or a division office in North Texas with 2020 operating revenues of more than $200 million.
2021 Finalists:
Brinks Home
Ericsson
Gearbox Entertainment Co.
VEX Robotics
EMERGING COMPANY INNOVATION AWARD CATEGORY
The Tech Titans Emerging Company Innovation award recognizes a company for outstanding innovation and unique accomplishments through recent or potential breakthrough technology or approach within the technology industry in North Texas for which the company owns the intellectual property OR proprietary property/method or innovated by adopting another company’s intellectual property. The company must be headquartered in North Texas and have 2020 operating revenues of at least $2 million but not more than $200 million.
2021 Finalists:
CASPR
E4D Technologies
Esposure
Linear Labs, LLC
