DFW iD 23 - where application & innovation meet.

DFW Innovation Days is a two-day open house-style showcase of innovative technology that can be applied to your business right now. From augmented reality to artificial intelligence, this is your chance to get up close and personal with groundbreaking technologies. Come prepared to absorb, engage, and embark on a futuristic exploration! 

 

What to expect: 

  • Hands-on access to multiple emerging technologies 

  • Converse with a Digital Human 

  • Guided tour of exhibits

  • Daily panel discussions on current topics

  • Decompression zone to rest your body & stimulate the mind 

 

We are offering three time slots across two days to ensure everyone gets the chance to interact with every exhibit that interests them, so pick the day and time that works best for you! Filled time slots will be removed from the options.

 

Location: Slalom Dallas, 5430 LBJ Freeway, Suite 1200, Dallas, TX 75240  

 

Dates: May 18th & 19th  

 

Time Slots Offered: 9am-11am, 12pm-2pm, and 3pm-5pm daily

 

Panel Discussions: 11am-12pm (scroll down for topics) daily

Request info here.

This event is over but you can complete the form below to request more information on any of the exhibits, whether you attended or not. 

Let us know if there are any specific exhibits or technologies you would like more information about here.

 

Watch now to experience DFW iD '23

 

 

Summary of Exhibits

Smith Optics Custom Ski Goggles

Already a renowned leader in the world of sports eyewear, Smith Optics wanted to elevate the experience of shopping for the perfect pair to a new level. Slalom Build helped them create something they didn’t know was possible for creating a customized fit for every facial type. Customers download an app that uses their camera phone to take a detailed 3D face scan. Every measurement is captured and translated into a custom CAD file for Smith’s production team. Now it’s your turn to try it out.

 

Ericsson 5G Anywhere

How can a private 5G network change the way your enterprise works and goes to market? What does it even LOOK like? Slalom and Ericsson can show you how.

 

Charge-Up Your Garage in 3D

Most new electric vehicle (EV) owners require a special charger at home but finding the perfect location for it within your garage can be tricky. Through this technology, EV owners can quickly sketch out their garage space in 3 dimensions, allowing intelligent software to guide them through the process of planning the home for their new EV – and charger. Attendees were able to strap on a headset to experience this technology first-hand. 

 

Enhanced Experiences

Virtual Solutions for Real World Challenges

Getting from an idea to an initiative can be tough. But having a partner that can help with creative concepts and envisioning can make all the difference. Enhanced Experiences can elevate a customer's experience, entice them to purchase products, enhance workplace training, and provide immersive, interactive experiences.

Explore the roles it can play in supporting strategic business needs and customer experience and interaction in areas such as:

  • Modeling & Visualization
  • Wayfinding
  • Virtual Tours & Exploration
  • Training & Learning Management

 

Digital Humans

What if the user or consumer persona you are targeting could match up with a digital representative designed to give them the optimal experience, and that that digital representative…could not only talk back, but truly interact with your customer? By combining Digital Personas with conversational AI, you can keep the engagement level high, the information and responses fresh and topical. Don't miss this chance to converse with a computer.

 

Intelligent Products with NVIDIA

Digital Twin

No, it’s not two matching Digital Humans. A Digital Twin is a virtual representation that serves as the real-time digital counterpart of a physical object or process. It’s the link between real and virtual worlds. Sound futuristic? It is, but it’s also something we at Slalom utilize every day. Slalom can help you create them and with ever-evolving technology and techniques, we can help you move real-world objects and ideas into a digital space to help jumpstart your analysis, product lifecycles, engineering innovation and more. Let us show you how at this demo.

NVIDIA Instant NGP

NVIDIA Instant NGP is a cutting-edge solution that leverages the power of AI to revolutionize the manufacturing industry. Our innovative platform enables manufacturers to optimize processes, improve quality control, and enhance production efficiency by utilizing NVIDIA's advanced neural graphics processing capabilities. More info here.

Deepstream YOLO V8

Model development and training can be lengthy and cumbersome. Without an efficient pipeline, it is easy to get bogged down in the "ideas and data" phase without getting something deployed for practical use.

 

What’s your song?

As part of our Innovation Days registration experience our AI-driven sentiment analyzer will take your picture, evaluate your mood or sentiment, and present you with a song that captures that emotion. Let us know if you think it captured you!

 

Hole-in-One with Salesforce

Revolutionize your next in-person, live event experience with the Slalom In-Person Event Mobile App. Using this turnkey app on the Salesforce platform, easily collect registration information, manage sponsors, provide live feeds, and drive revenue during your next in-person event. Whether coordinating vendors at a trade show, golfers at a charity golf event, or ticket holders at your award show, this app can deliver! Recently Slalom partnered with Special Olympics Florida for their charity golf event. Come see how the app was tailored to the event to display golf pairings, view hole flyover videos, and track live scoring. Also, try to win Slalom swag at our putting challenge. More info here.

 

Generative AI in Salesforce

If you're thinking about generative AI and how it can be incorporated in your CRM, Slalom's Global Digital Service's team has created an API driven service layer based on Open AI that can be leveraged inside of Salesforce for various use cases that keeps your data and models private. For example, it can summarize a contact for your customer service agents and can dynamically conduct multi-lingual chats with customers using Einstein Bots. Come speak with our Digital Service's representative to explore even more use cases within Salesforce. More info here.

 

Salesforce Employee Experience

Employees today expect more than ever before. They want to feel heard and valued, rely on tools that enable flexible work, expect trust in their data privacy, and crave personalized connections with peers and leaders. Come discuss how Slalom's approach can provide a rich employee experience that scales with your business and drives business impact through integration of employee data, focus on process improvement and end user experience. More info here.

 

Mobile IoT Development (MIDL)

Slalom's Mobile IoT Dev Lab (MIDL) with Environmental Sensing (Earth) is a portable demo kit that replicates a miniaturized Industry 4.0 ecosystem for testing and experimentation. It is a highly-configurable hardware and software platform that allows generation and transmission of data (telemetry) from a wide range of sources, packaging all in the standardized OneDM SDF JSON payload, and sends the data payload to various configurable cloud services for processing, analysis, and visualization.

 

Slalom Ventures

Slalom Ventures is a part of Slalom, a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. We support external innovation by connecting best-in-class startups around the world to our 3,000+ corporate clients and innovators.

 

Powered by our global reach and extensive network of 13,000+ advisors and mentors, we provide cross-industry insights and technological expertise to scale future growth for the next-generation of entrepreneurs and businesses.

 

Slalom Ventures: Meet Worlds

Meet Worlds: The AI Platform for Building the Industrial Metaverse. A new inner world model that layers AI over a company's existing cameras and IoT infrastructure so they can see, measure, and bring AI-based automation directly into the ground floor processes that are driving value in their business. Inside Worlds, companies are building live digital twins of their operational environments that make it possible to measure the real world in motion. Market leaders like Chevron and Petronas are trusting Worlds to build their Industrial Metaverse and provide a solid AI framework for digital transformation. For more information about Worlds, visit https://www.worlds.io.

 

Hack-a-Thons

Creating opportunities for your people to experiment and innovate is a tremendous way to unlock new and transformational solutions. We this approach internally and routinely help our clients host hack-a-thon events of their own to jumpstart solutions and develop new skills quickly. Here we are showcasing work from a recent event involving Generative-AI.

 

Word Wrangling

Leveraging NLP we will showcase how topical modeling can be applied to complex Healthy and Safety and Environment text data, showcasing how AI can help reduce accidents and save lives.

 

 

Discussion Topics

Culture of Innovation

Thursday, May 18th, 11am - 12pm

Innovation is always a hot topic but how do we make it real? Listen in on this talk about what it means to have a culture of innovation, from ideation to operation. Our speakers will break down Slalom's tenets of innovation strategy and application and explore industry examples of those tenets in action. Learn where your business fits in the innovation culture maturity scale and how you can find your opportunity zones.

 

 

Chat about ChatGPT

Friday, May 19th, 11am - 12pm

Presented by Dallas Regional Chamber

Are you ready to witness the power of language processing technology? Join us for a panel discussion about ChatGPT, a cutting-edge language model that has been trained to understand and generate human-like text. In this talk, we'll explore the capabilities and limitations of ChatGPT, and some of the exciting applications and implications of this groundbreaking technology. Get ready to dive into the world of artificial intelligence and language processing and discover how ChatGPT is revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. This blurb was written by ChatGPT.