Mind & Machine DFW: Generative AI for Business Leaders - December 18, 2025

Mind & Machine DFW

Presents: AI-Powered Creativity: How to Scale Content Without Losing Your Voice

Lighting does strike twice!! In this case Larry has been struck with another bug and will miss the December stage. We are starting a fund for a year's worth of Airborne.......who's in?

Retail is undergoing a major transformation as physical stores evolve into intelligent, data-driven environments. With the rise of AI and language-based analytics, retailers have the means to get meaningful, live insights from video, sensors, and sales systems.

This shift opens a vast business potential: use cases for hyper-personalized customer engagement, real-time inventory management, and loss prevention are reshaping how retailers connect with customers and drive growth.

Alex will discuss how to bring the Intelligent Store concept to practice and deliver real business impact today. Gain insights into practical strategies, proven use cases, pitfalls to avoid, and the technologies that are setting the pace for the next generation of smarter, more connected retail experiences.

About the Speaker:

Alex is a growth and transformation advisor who blends deep operational experience with board-level strategic insight.

He helps organizations unlock value by elevating the customer experience end-to-end, modernizing store and enterprise operations, and orchestrating ecosystem partnerships across hyperscalers such as Microsoft and Google, as well as edge-AI leaders like NVIDIA.

With more than 30 years in retail and consulting, Alex has worked across the industry’s most influential institutions—including Accenture, Walgreens, Nielsen, Crossmark, Blue Yonder, and Everseen. His leadership spans category management, operational effectiveness, and large-scale technology modernization, with a particular focus on AI/ML, computer vision, and next-generation customer and associate technologies.

Drawing on both operator instincts and consulting discipline, Alex is known for helping executives translate complex problems into actionable strategies—and for guiding organizations through the change required to deliver measurable impact.

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