🧠The AI Collective | North Dallas Launch 🚀
🧠 The AI Collective | North Dallas Launch 🚀
The AI Collective | North Dallas Launch
Join us for the kickoff of the North Dallas Chapter of AI Collective!
We’re gathering for a relaxed, informal meetup in Plano, TX, to brainstorm, connect, and shape the future of AI-focused events in the region.
Whether you’re an AI enthusiast, professional, startup, or simply curious, this is your opportunity to meet like-minded individuals, share ideas, and help build a vibrant local AI community.
What to Expect
💡 Open brainstorming on future AI event formats
🤝 Casual conversations & idea sharing
☕ Refreshments & great company
🌐 Informal networking with the local AI crowd
Agenda
5:30 – 5:50 PM | Meet & Greet
5:50 – 6:00 PM | North Dallas Team Introductions
6:00 – 6:30 PM | Les D'Souza, Co-founder & CTO, ReKnew
Learn how Les and ReKnew are reshaping the enterprise AI landscape with speed, security, and business-first impact.
6:30 – 6:50 PM | Manish Jain, VP & Head of AI Architecture, Firstsource Solutions
Explore the strategic imperatives of enterprise AI and how to scale innovation in complex environments.
6:50 – 7:20 PM | Panel Discussion & Q&A with both experts
7:20 – 8:00 PM | Networking
Featured Speakers
Les D’Souza – Visionary digital leader with 25+ years guiding startups and global enterprises through transformational innovation. As Co-founder & CTO of ReKnew, Les helps organizations unlock the full potential of their data and digital assets. A patented problem-solver and trusted AI/ML & cloud advisor.
Manish Jain – VP & Head of AI Architecture at Firstsource Solutions, with 20+ years in tech leadership and a decade driving enterprise AI. Consultant at DeepLearning.AI, mentor at Analytics Vidhya, and reviewer for leading AI publishers including Manning and Packt. Expert in delivering scalable, measurable, and practical AI solutions.
Sponsor Spotlight
ReKnew’s platform of pre-built accelerators enables rapid delivery of high-impact AI use cases in risk management, compliance, fraud detection, and customer experience—while modernizing data infrastructure for secure and scalable AI adoption.
Event Venue & Food Sponsor: ReKnew(https://reKnew.ai)
💬 Let’s kick things off together – see you there!
The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 70,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.
All attendees and organizers at events affiliated with The AI Collective are subject to our Code of Conduct.