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Calendar: Not-to-Miss Events for Innovators in Dallas-Fort Worth

North Texas has plenty to see, hear, and watch. Here are our editors' picks. Plus, you'll find more selections to "save the date."
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AllianceTexas Is Building America’s First Autonomous Logistics Ecosystem and Redefining North Texas as the Future of Freight
Hillwood’s 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development has long served as a proving ground for what’s next in logistics. Now, through decades of public-private partnership, the creation of a Smart Port, and the integration of forward-thinking policy, AllianceTexas is helping define the future of freight by positioning North Texas to lead in the algorithmic age of supply chain infrastructure.
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Lockheed Martin Awarded Up to $35B to Speed Production of Missile Defense Interceptors
by | Jun 25, 2026
Lockheed—whose Missiles and Fire Control division is based in Grand Prairie—said its THAAD interceptors are "the only U.S. system designed to intercept threats both inside and outside the atmosphere, providing a critical layer of missile defense."
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Hunt Energy’s Dallas-Based Subsidiary Mantle Energy Raises $5M Seed Funding
by | Jun 24, 2026
Mantle, a Hunt Innovative Technologies spinout, uses groundbreaking techniques to create heat in oil and gas formations to extract more oil from reservoirs than traditional methods—along with geothermal energy, which offers a lower carbon baseload power. The method could unlock as much as 90% of the reservoir potential previously left behind, Mantle said.
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Dallas-Based Komen’s New $15.4M Grant Round Targets AI, Emerging Technologies, and Novel Breast Cancer Therapies

by | Jun 24, 2026
The funded projects include the use of AI for better health outcomes, vaccines that could target the most aggressive and deadliest forms of breast cancer, research on breast cancer in younger populations, the role of weight loss on breast cancer risk, and prevention and reducing disparities in breast cancer outcomes for all populations.
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Frisco-Based Public Storage To Acquire Public Storage Canada in $1.2B Deal
by | Jun 24, 2026
The PS Canada portfolio consists of 68 properties totaling 5.3 million square feet, located in the key Canadian markets of Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, and Ottawa. It's just the latest big move by Public Storage, which relocated from California to North Texas in February and acquired National Storage Affiliates in March for $10.5 billion.
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Dallas-Based SusieCakes Marks Its 20th Birthday With a Sweet Lineup of Summer ‘Celebrations’
by | Jun 24, 2026
SusieCakes' founder and CEO, Susan Sarich, moved to Dallas in 2022—the same year her company relocated to the city from Brentwood, California. Now—with three DFW locations serving up scratch-made cakes from her two grandmothers' 3X5 recipe cards—SusieCakes is offering a 20th anniversary storytelling giveaway, a menu comeback, and an annual BOGO event.
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Patented: Visa’s Offline Cryptographic Payments and More North Texas Inventive Activity
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of June 2 with a total of 129 patents granted.
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Dallas Aggregates & Infrastructure Products Co. Arcosa To Be Acquired by CRH for $8.5B

by | Jun 23, 2026
Arcosa President and CEO Antonio Carrillo called the deal "a powerful validation of the work" his company has done in recent years—including Arcosa's $1.2 billion acquisition of the construction materials business of Stavola Holding Corporation in 2024.
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