About us
Dallas AI is the largest 501(c)(3), nonprofit AI forum in North Texas with a community of 10,000+ professionals distributed over meetup and LinkedIn. Its mission is to help Dallas Fort Worth and Texas become a vibrant hub for AI via providing quality avenues for professional learning and networking. In the last 8+ years, the forum has conducted over 80 educational talks and workshops, partnering with top companies and academia at the forefront of AI research, including Hugging Face, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Verizon, MIT, University of Texas, UNT, Southern Methodist University and more.
Dallas AI is steered by local MIT Alumni leaders, Aamer Charania and Babar Bhatti. Dallas AI is backed by a strong board packed with C-level leaders and supported by a team of dedicated volunteers - all passionate about giving back to the community with their time and expertise. The large membership base of 10,000+ is very diverse, including professionals from a variety of industry verticals at different levels of their career journey - from C-level leadership to fresh graduates.
The Dallas AI forum is not tied to nor endorse any brand, vendor or product, thereby promoting unbiased, intellectual conversations, professional networking and learning without any sales aspects. Past speakers include: CTO of Hugging Face, Head of MIT CSAIL, the largest AI lab at MIT, Chief Data & Analytics officer of Travelers, Chief Revenue Officer of Qualtrics, Chief Technology Officer of VXI, Former Research Director of NSA (National Security Agency), Former Head of AI Research at Meta and many more.
In addition to joining us over meetup.com, we encourage you to visit our website and sign up for emails at www.dallas-ai.org, follow us over LinkedIn and join our discussion group.
Thanks to Dallas College for their valuable support - providing us space at the Brookhaven Campus, resources, and helping promoting AI innovation in North Texas.
Upcoming events
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Renting Back Your Own Business Logic: Who Owns What Your FDEs Learn?
Austin, Austin, TX, USA, TX, US**Note: This event is in Austin TX downtown (not Dallas) **
(Street address will be shared with registered attendees the evening before)Complex AI software rarely sells, or sticks, on its own. The pilots that convert are the ones where an engineer sat with the customer and shaped the product to their problem. The hard part is doing that on purpose without turning into a staffing shop.
That engineer learns a lot on site. How your workflows actually run. Where the edge cases live. Which rules nobody wrote down. None of it ends up in the repo.
Vendors are turning that knowledge into reusable templates. Customers risk paying to rent their own business logic back. What gets left behind has to be designed on day one.
Aater Suleman, co-founder of Vixul, has built and sold an AWS services firm and now helps SaaS and services companies stand up forward-deployed engineering functions. He'll walk through what FDEs really produce, who should own it, and what to agree on before the engagement starts.
Hosted by Austen Allred, CEO of Gauntlet AI, the conversation will also get into:
- Is the FDE a permanent fixture of enterprise AI, or a sign the tooling isn't finished?
- If AI makes a deployment five times faster, what does the client actually pay for?
- What would you need to see to trust an engineer in front of your customer on day one?
Speakers
Aater Suleman, Co-founder, Vixul Aater co-founded Vixul, a platform that helps SaaS and services companies stand up and run forward deployed engineering functions. He was previously founder and CEO of Flux7, an AWS services firm acquired by NTT DATA. He taught computer engineering at UT Austin and holds a PhD in Computer Engineering.Austen Allred, Founder and CEO, Gauntlet AI Austen is the founder and CEO of Gauntlet AI, where elite engineers spend ten weeks rebuilding how they ship software in the AI era and graduate into $200K–$950K roles funded by hiring partners. He previously founded and scaled a technical education company that trained more than 10,000 engineers.
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