We talked to six locals in fashion who are facing the coronavirus pandemic head-on by sewing, importing, sourcing, or donating medical masks.
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The research staff delivered 72,000 gloves and more to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas for distribution to hospital workers involved in patient care.
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On Thursday, leaders from four of North Texas' most respected foundations will discuss how the local social impact community is responding to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic. SVP Dallas CEO Tony Fleo says he's delighted at the community's response: The number of participants quickly climbed to about 700 within just two days. (But hurry, participation is capped at about 1,000.)
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In this weekly roundup of executive and leadership activity by businesses and organizations in North Texas, you'll also find news from Stevens Transport and Plunk Smith.
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TEST KITS
Dallas Native’s Everlywell Releases First At-Home COVID-19 Test Rollout
UPDATE: A recent announcement from the FDA has barred private labs from collecting at-home samples from customers. Startups like Everlywell (in the story above) had to discontinue their testing programs immediately, reports TechCrunch. As of March 23, Everlywell says it's still committed to making a COVID-19 test available to consumers, but for now, its COVID-19 test is only available to qualifying hospitals and healthcare companies that provide the test for free to healthcare workers and symptomatic patients.
GOING VIRTUAL
North Texas Film Festivals Are Now Taking Place in Your Living Room
With the coronavirus pandemic leading to many film festivals like SXSW being canceled or postponed across the nation, some DFW festivals are pivoting to create virtual marquees. Denton’s Thin Line Fest and Dallas VideoFest’s Alternative Fiction Fest are two of the upcoming film festivals that will be hosted virtually, per the Dallas Observer.
Remote Work: Testing the Model During Uncertainty
With many businesses adjusting to the coronavirus pandemic by allowing employees to work from home, the capacity for a remote job market has become limitless, writes Stream Realty Partners' Dan Harris. If companies are able to create a successful remote working platform during this time, he says it may result in an increase in employee satisfaction, a reduction in overhead from reduced office obligation, and lower operating costs.
To read more (and get our week's Top 10), head here.
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"Computing located at the edge is essentially beachfront property."
Wen Temitim
Chief Technology Officer
StackPath
"It's always going to be finite and in high demand," he says.
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This morning, StackPath announced a new collaboration with global tech leader Broadcom Inc. to advance cloud services at the edge. The partnership "will address the growing demand for content-delivery services at the edge," the company told Dallas Innovates in an email. "This is especially important as more people are working from home as it applies to streaming video, application performance optimization, and security."
“The network edge provides significant opportunities for innovation,” said Dan Harding, vice president of marketing for the Compute and Connectivity Division at Broadcom.
Stackpath has had an ongoing relationship with Broadcom, which provides many different hardware/silicon components to its stack, since the company's early days. The latest work with Broadcom has been ongoing for some 18 months "as we had actively worked on hardware/software implementations with them to work in our platform," the company said.
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