Description

AI and DFW start-ups 

Panelists:
 
Andrew Levi, Founder & CEO, PlantTAGG
David Evans, Managing Partner, Sentiero Ventures
Dave Copps, CEO, Worlds
Kumar Narala, CEO and Founder, Re-Vive.com


Bios:

Dave Copps is known internationally as a futurist, technologist and visionary on the role that emerging technologies will play in transforming markets and the world. Dave has founded, launched and sold two technology companies that have placed machine learning and artificial intelligence in hundreds of companies around the world. In 2017 Dave was recognized as Emerging Company CEO of the Year in Texas while serving as CEO of Brainspace Corporation which was acquired by Cyxtera in 2017. Dave received his BA from the University of North Texas. He is an active member of many impactful communities, including: The Aspen Institute's Round table on AI, Peter Diamandis' Abundance360 community, Xprize Visioneer, US Governments's Council for Competitiveness focused on Disruptive Technologies and a frequent speaker at MIT's EmTech conferences as well as universities and technology incubators all over the world.

David Evans is a serial entrepreneur & technologist who started his first company at 19. He designed & built a national digital signage network that was sold to CBS. And lastly, he founded and led EasySeat.com to 176 on the Inc 500 & sold to a strategic buyer




Andrew Levi is the founder and CEO of Dallas-based PlantTAGG, an AI/ML innovation that helps gardeners significantly improve the success they achieve caring for all the plants they own.  PlantTAGG’s unique ability to localize comprehensive species-specific care guidance is built upon world class data sets sourced from Texas A&M AgriLife, the US Department of Agriculture and NOAA as well as data supplement from a team of Master Gardeners.  Andrew is a serial entrepreneur having built and sold several technology companies over a 30-year career in technology and holds 15 US Patents. 

Kumar Narala  has over 23+ years of experience in Analytics, Data Warehouse, Web Applications across various verticals including Telecom, Healthcare, Retails, Cyber Security, Investment Management, Retail & Commercial Banking.