{"id":392104,"date":"2026-07-30T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392104\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:32:08","slug":"photo-gallery-iadc-art-spark-tank-28-july-houston-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/392104\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Gallery: IADC ART Spark Tank, 28 July, Houston, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DSC00528-Large-780x470.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" is_main_img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>To encourage innovation in the drilling industry, IADC ART held another edition of its Spark Tank series on the afternoon of Tuesday, 28 July. Spark Tank is a forum to \u201cspark\u201d new thinking. It is an opportunity to provide active and aspiring technology entrepreneurs with a new opportunity to pitch their products and ideas to a panel of drilling contractors, operators and service companies (\u201csharks\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The purpose is to provide insights (\u201csparks\u201d) to technology developers into what matters to those they are innovating for. There is sometimes a vast disconnect between a good idea and a great product, and these events attempt to close that gap in a good-natured, productive manner. Spark Tank presentations allow the Sharks to ask questions and provide technical and business feedback from the perspective of the product\u2019s intended end user.<\/p>\n<p>*IADC and Drilling Contractor provides authorization for these photos to be used only on social media. All other uses are prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>*IADC and Drilling Contractor provides authorization for these photos to be used only on social media. All other uses are prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To encourage innovation in the drilling industry, IADC ART held another edition of its Spark Tank series on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-392104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}