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Analytics & Insights Forum
Establishing data literacy in support of a data-driven organization, sponsored by SevenTablets
Radha Mahapatra, UT Arlington and Brian White, Ericsson. Hear how an academic program is rapidly creating a data driven organization in a 140-year-old company.
Ericsson Smart Factory - IoT Forum
Using 5G to make 5G. With the 5G demand for radios greater than ever, the Ericsson Smart Factory is combining IoT with Industry 4.0 to make increasingly advanced radios with lower power consumption, smaller form factors, in higher quantities and lower costs.
Hall of Fame Valerie Freeman discussion
During a group discussion, Hall of Fame inductee Valerie Freeman of BravoTECH talks about the importance of entrepreneurship and giving back.
CerSci Therapeutics a DFW BioTech startup
Lucas Rodriguez led his startup from concept, through founding and growth to high-dollar acquisition by an established pharmaceutical firm, all right here in North Texas. Hear from Lucas how the business community enabled his success.
Hall of Fame Valerie Freeman discussion
During a group discussion, Corporate CEO winner Ericsson's Niklas Heuveldop talks about innovation and growth in the market.
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Town Hall
Tad McIntosh, founder and president of HumCap hosted the event along with Melissa Townsley, founder and CEO of GIACT. Members of Tech Titans discussed the current technology business environment and what lies ahead.
Talent development: STEM & millennials
General Manager of Qorvo Roger Hall with TT STEM team Lisa Frey about encouraging STEM and how to recruit millennials in today's environment
DevOps discussion from State Farm
DevOps successes and challenges featuring Kevin ODell, Technology Director and DevOps Advocate at State Farm
5G use cases from Nokia
5G use cases featuring Sandro Tavares, VP of Mobile Networking Marketing at Nokia
Innovators luncheon
Featuring the finalists of the 2020 innovation categories of the Tech Titans Awards Gala. This year that includes: (emerging) Asset Panda, BALANCED Media | Technology, Hedera Hashgraph, Spark Biomedical Inc. (corporate) +1 Labs at Match Group, BAL--Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP, CBRE, Omnitracs
Semiconductor growth during covid
James Klein, president of infrastructure and defense products at Qorvo, discusses the current connectivity marketplace, and how semiconductors manufactured by Qorvo, such as GaAs, GaN and BAW are developing new opportunities for mobile, the IoT and 5G.
CES 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.
President AT&T Business Anne Chow
Anne speaks about COVID-19 response, technology predictions for the future and what’s next for 5G.
Town hall
Bill Sproull, Tech Titans CEO, hosts our virtual town all with featured speaker Caroline Gagliardi, partner with PwC and discusses the current technology business environment and what lies ahead.
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Trust the party on the other end?
Blockchain
Daniel Bachenheimer, Accenture; and Drummond Reed, chief trust officer, Evernym, Inc. Trust over IP (TOIP): enabling trustworthy exchange and verification of data between any two parties on the Internet
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Data privacy in analytics during COVID
Analytics & Insights/Cybersecurity Forum
Covid is creating new benchmarks that businesses must navigate to protect their companies and biggest asset, employees. Hear two of the leading cybersecurity and technology experts in the state of Texas identify some of the best use cases that will help survive the crisis and plan for the future after the crisis is over.
Virtual healthcare beyond the COVID-19 crisis
Health Tech Forum
COVID has unlocked the potential of virtual healthcare technologies. Dr. Pardeep Shori, a pioneer in virtual healthcare and a current active provider, discusses what's working, discloses what isn't, and shares his perspective on the long-term impact of these systems on the delivery of healthcare.
Legislative Update
A special roundtable discussion with U.S. Congressman Colin Allred and U.S. Congressman Van Taylor on Aug. 17.
Lessons learned in cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Forum
Panelists: Jarret Kolthoff, CEO, SpearTip Shawn Tuma, Partner, Spencer Fane, Dallas Harvey Ewing, CIO and CISO, MoneyGram International
AI and quantum computing
Gopal Gupta, Ph.D., department head - department of computer science, UT Dallas; John Randall, Ph.D., president, Zyvex Labs; John Spencer, Ph.D., president and CEO, Photodigm
They discuss use cases and the quantum skills needed to prepare for the era of the quantum economy.
Covid trends/ technology impacting HR
Ty Harmon and Bill Link, 2THEDGE
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the economic crisis resulting from containment efforts, have shifted the employee-employer relationship. A wide range of employment law, tele-health regulations, and work-from-home policies will fundamentally change the nature of how we work together now. Learn how leading organizations are developing new solutions to ensure a safe and productive workplace.
Selling & customer service at a distance
With travel being limited and more expensive, the selling process and customer service will need to change. Companies will still need to search for, attract, sell to and serve customers from across the city and around the world. How will companies reorganize their selling and customer support efforts to be effective and potentially replace face-to-face meetings? What tools?
Blockchain and banking
Important blockchain developments affecting traditional banking have been occurring outside of public view. Blockchain is being used to send payments globally and to streamline interbank processes for syndicated loans. Central bank currencies and the integration of digital currencies into traditional payment systems are discussed . Panelists: JC Jollant, Finastra; Richard Meszaros, Accenture; Eric Smith, App Brilliance, Inc.
Nokia CTO 5G
Michael Murphy, CTO Americas, Nokia, will give an overview of the wireless 5G development at a global level, but with details regarding the US including:
• economic benefits
• timing of operator deployments
• example use cases
• local and global security concerns
• how businesses can take advantage of 5G and how to prepare for it
Awards: Emerging CEOs
Tech Titans Awards emerging CEO finalists talk about their businesses, their paths to growth and the continuing challenges their companies face. Calvin Carter at Bottle Rocket, Curtis Hite | Improving, Will Rosellini | Nexeon Medsystems, Andrew Schaap | Aligned Energy
Podcast: Bottle Rocket CEO Calvin Carter
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.
#oldtech that we've forgotten
Remember the technology that we remember but has moved to newer innovations.
Innovation: next stage emerging companies
Connects next-stage emerging companies with investors and corporate business about the current investment climate in DFW.
Alyce Alston--CEO, Dallas Entrepreneur Center; Joe Beard--partner, Perot Jain
Steve Guengerich-- executive director, Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Dallas; Glenn Singleton--vice chair, Transactions Practice Group, Foley Gardere
Managing bias in datasets
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
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.
Innovation: future making
Learn how Intentional Future Making and other future-related methodology is required for businesses to succeed in today’s disruptive technological world. Hosted by the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Technology (ATEC) at UT Dallas, the event featured notable leaders in the area of future making:
Dr. Anne Balsamo, dean, UTD ATEC
Gwen Ishmael, SVP, Escalent
Ted Farrington, Kalypso Fellow
Cybersecurity
Panel: Jason Fruge, VP and CISO of Fossil Group, David Venable, VP cybersecurity of Masergy, Jeff Schilling, SVP and CISO of Epsilon
Moderated by George Finney, CISO of Southern Methodist University
How to align cyber security to business strategy and goals
Measure and balance your cyber risk with your business needs
Tips on how to conduct an enterprise wide cyber vulnerability and risk assessment
How to develop and roll out a comprehensive cyber strategy
Communicate cyber insights and initiatives across the business and C-suite in terms they understand
Leadership
Ellen Barker, CIO of Texas Instruments, and Manoj Kumbhat, CTO of Kimberly-Clark
The role of the heads of digital, technology and information continues to rapidly evolve as companies embark on new digital transformation initiatives - moving from traditional back-office IT to being right in the thick of the customer experience equation. More than ever, the CDO/CIO/CTO function has grown to be a strategic partner with internal business partners, leveraging new technologies across sales, marketing, operations and manufacturing to define new business models, drive transformation while accelerating revenue growth.
Extended reality (XR)
Juan Alvarez - Texas Instruments; Dr. Ryan McMahan - UT Dallas, computer science; Jerome Stembridge - Samsung; Dr. Carrie Straub - Mursion.
Includes virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and immersive technologies. It helps employees improve their productivity and performance. Examines the various forms of extended reality.
Blockchain
Mance Harmon, Hedera Hashgraph; Paul Snow, Factom; Venkatesh "Ven" Kumar, CTO Pepsico account, IBM Cloud
Jon West, VP software engineering, Thomson Reuters
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is going through its own hype cycle and it's promising to change the world, but yet the number of issues facing Blockchain seems overwhelming.
Using AI to create personalized messaging
Sherif Mityas, CIO and chief experience officer, TGI Friday's
TGI Digital is a digital transformation project with the objective to reconnect with customers on a 1 to 1 basis. Friday's uses AI to achieve deep insight into preferences and lifestyles to provide highly personalized and timely messaging. Friday's has seen a 500% increase in engagement with customers on social media channels since implementation.
Infographics
Organizations have an immense amount of data, and they want to use that information to make more informed decisions. In this session we'll discuss the challenges of effectively communicating complex information so it can be easily digested by the target audience. Analytics and Insights Forum.
Entrepreneur ecosystem in Dallas
These entrepreneur experts discussed the Dallas ecosystem, comparisons with Austin, and the current state of investment. JR Garcia of Health Wildcatters & Green Park Ventures, David Matthews from REVTECH, and Bryan Chambers of the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas
Branding
Michael Guillory, worldwide brand communication, Texas Instruments
Organizations have an immense amount of data, and they want to use that information to make more informed decisions. In this session we'll discuss the challenges of effectively communicating complex information so it can be easily digested by the target audience.
Space: mobile satellites
Matt Desch, CEO, Iridium Communications
Matt talks about the space industry and Iridium, is a leader in providing mobile satellite services for maritime, aviation, government and the Internet of Things. They had a $3 billion dollar network transition with 81 new satellites launched by SpaceX. Matt describes the "Space 2.0" race, and what the implications of that will be for global communications.
Venture investor panel
Moderator -- Glenn Singleton, Gardere
Shawn Kelly—Teakwood Capital Seth
Harward—Frontier Capital Kevin
Ainsworth—GuideCap Partners
Aziz Gilani—Mercury Fund