December 2025

As we close out the year, we are wishing you a joyful holiday season and a strong start to 2026. This December edition reflects the heart of the IMA community—where innovation, leadership, and purpose come together to drive real-world impact.

Inside, you will find insights on AI, intelligent infrastructure, responsible data, healthcare innovation, workforce connection, and public safety—alongside stories of community support and holiday giving. We hope this issue leaves you inspired by what’s ahead and proud of the collective momentum shaping the future.

Please take a moment to read our partner articles below.

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IMPACT Show
Dan Wright on Real-World AI, Intelligent Infrastructure, and Global Impact | Armada

Join Dan Wright, CEO and Co-Founder of Armada, for an in-depth conversation exploring the new frontier of real-world AI. From his experience scaling DataRobot and AppDynamics to leading Armada, Dan shares how AI, compute, and connectivity infrastructure are being deployed to bridge the digital divide and make technology accessible to industries and communities worldwide.

In this session, you’ll learn:

Discover how Armada is shaping the next era of intelligent infrastructure and driving innovation with global impact

Moneyball for AI Transformation:
You're Missing the Metric That Matters

By Garth Andrus, Global Leader of AI & Org Transformation, Andersen Consulting

Billy Beane didn't discover new data. He discovered that everyone was overvaluing the wrong data.

While every other baseball team obsessed over batting average and stolen bases, Beane asked a simpler question: what actually predicts runs scored? The answer—on-base percentage—had been sitting in everyone's spreadsheets for decades. Nobody weighted it correctly.

Veritone: Building the Foundation for Responsible, Rights-Managed AI

For the last few years, AI systems have been built and trained on internet data—scraped from websites, social media, and digital archives—often without permission or oversight. But now, a new phase in AI’s evolution is beginning: the “post-scraping era,” in which responsibly sourced, high-quality, rights-managed data is paramount. Veritone is leading this charge, leveraging its decade-plus expertise to help organizations transition from the outdated, anything-goes approach to data toward one rooted in governance, accuracy, and value creation.

Free Emovid access for job seekers

Job searches aren’t built on applications—they’re built on genuine connections. Emovid (named Communication Solution of the Year by the Internet Marketing Association) is giving job seekers free access to its Professional Plan to help them reconnect, stand out, and get hired. Please help share the news.

From Island Connectivity to National Infrastructure

By Lance Ware, Founder, DEC LLC

Five years ago, I started asking a simple question: why does Catalina Island—home to 4,000 year-round residents and over a million tourists annually, just 22 miles off the California coast—still depend on aging copper lines and limited microwave links for its connectivity? The answer led me to found AVX Networks, a California telephone corporation now building a redundant submarine fiber cable system connecting Catalina to Huntington Beach, creating resilient infrastructure that serves both communities.

The HealthCues Journey Since 2020

Since our founding in 2020, HealthCues has grown rapidly to become a leading innovator in the preventive healthcare space. We have doubled our growth year over year and today serve more than 150 corporate clients and over 30,000 employee members nationwide.

A Major Leap in Women’s Breast Health: Gnosis for Her Opens This Week

Gnosis for Her, a first-of-its-kind women’s breast-health diagnostics experience, is now officially open for patient scheduling. The announcement comes at a time when women across the country are demanding earlier answers, greater comfort, and more accessible imaging options. The rollout launches with a month-long imaging services activation at Bella Terra in Huntington Beach for the month of December, followed by MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana throughout January.

Communications Systems Infrastructure Veteran Kevin Persing Appointed as GUGLI Director of AHJ Relations and Compliance

GUGLI, an innovator in real-time sensing and monitoring of critical emergency responder infrastructure for both indoors and outdoors as well as private and commercial wireless networks, has appointed Kevin Persing as Director of AHJ Relations and Compliance.

CyberForward Academy Launches Tech Proficiency Score (TPS)℠

CyberForward Academy is launching Tech Proficiency Score (TPS)℠ (tpsreport.aii) as a key activation of the Innovation is Love ecosystem™, a national framework focused on transforming how the United States develops and uses technical talent. This launch aligns with the leadership of Mike Gentile, CEO of CyberForward Academy, CISOSHARE, TalentSplit and related Innovation is Love™ organizations, and his participation in the Impact 25 conference in Washington, D.C. as part of the CEO Leadership Alliance. Together these efforts express a shared commitment to aligning business, education, government and community around a common approach to talent and productivity.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of OC and IE Delivers Holiday Magic to over 400 Local Youth Through Expanded Two-Day Holiday Gift Drive Shopping Experience

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire (BBBS OC/IE) brought holiday joy to 413 youth from 158 families during its newly expanded two-day Holiday Gift Drive Shopping Experience, distributing more than $25,000 in gifts, essential items and food support across both regions.