North Texas is a big place, with plenty to do, see, hear, and watch. So, we scour the internet every week to find events and activities for you. As always, things may change at any time, so be sure to check the official website or registration page for the latest details.
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Saturday, January 20
Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center Open Model and Talent Call
Hosted by Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center
1800 Bonnie View Rd., Dallas
10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Got talent? Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center is hosting its sixth-annual Open Model and Talent Call for men and women ages 16-50. The event for aspiring models, actors, singers, and dancers is free and open to the public, with registration starting at 9:45 a.m.
The call is hosted by Dallas-based Willie Johnson of J3 Productions, a fashion show production and modeling management company, and includes a panel of fashion show producers, acting and performing coaches, dance instructors, talent agents and more. The chosen individuals will spend 12 weeks working with Johnson and will receive professional head shots and other support. J3 Production will serve as the mother agency, with Johnson introducing the individuals to other regional and national agencies. While fees vary for the workshops and portfolio developments, the Heroes Foundation will offer scholarships to cover costs.
Learn more here.
Saturday, January 20 and Sunday, January 21
Brick Fest Live
Hosted by Brick Fest Live!
Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, 650 S. Griffin St., Dallas
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Timed ticket entry
Calling all LEGO and toy brick building fans. Brick Fest Live will showcase life-size models made from tens of thousands of bricks, offer entertainment from LEGO Masters contestants and more, and provide opportunities for some hands-on activities, including helping to build a Guinness World-Record setting mosaic. Also shop hundreds of vendors and hard-to-find LEGO merchandise.
Learn more here. Get tickets here.
Monday, January 22
WISH (Women In Science and Healthcare) Network Series
Hosted by Health Wildcatters
Health Wildcatters, 3000 Pegasus Park Dr., Suite 1330, Dallas
5 to 6:30 p.m.
Although the amount of venture capital going to all-female founder teams is currently at an all-time high $3.3 billion, it still represents only about 3 percent of all capital invested in the startup ecosystem. The goal of the WISH network is to provide education and resources, mentorship and an environment of like-minded people to help further women in their entrepreneurial journey. Dr. Lyndsey Harper, Founder and CEO of Rosy, will be the featured speaker for WISH Network’s first event in 2024. From MD to Entrepreneur, Dr. Harper is improving Women’s Health through Innovation and Advocacy.
Learn more and register for the free event here.
Thursday, January 25
GDPC Breakfast Series: Harold Simmons Park
Hosted by The Greater Dallas Planning Council (GDPC)
Park Cities Club, 5956 Sherry Ln., #1700, Dallas
7:30 to 9 a.m.
Learn more about the future of Harold Simmons Park at The GDPC Breakfast Series meeting. Tickets are $20 for students, $40 for members, and $60 for non-members.
Learn more and register here.
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Cybersecurity Forum: Impending Threats in a Quantum Era
Hosted by Tech Titans
Bank of America Dining Hall, Collins Executive Education Center, SMU, 3150 Binkley Ave., Dallas
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Security encryption rhythms that would take roughly ten billion years to decrypt can be expected to easily be broken in as little as ten seconds using quantum computing. This amazing speed is expected to revolutionize cybersecurity, but it also poses considerable risks. Data exchange using public key algorithms to say perform a banking transaction will not be secure in the future quantum era. Researchers and scientists are already actively exploring the threats, vulnerabilities and development of quantum-resistant algorithms in the effort to reduce the risks. Our expert panel will break down the potential threats and explore the options to improve encryption algorithms in anticipation of future quantum advancements. Featured panelist is Dan Solero, AVP, AT&T; and moderator is Barbara Theulen, Principal-Cybersecurity, AT&T.
Learn more and register here.
Thursday, January 26 Through May 30
Dinosaurs Around the World: The Great Outdoors
Hosted by Fort Worth Botanic Garden
3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth, TX, 76107
Regular garden hours
Travel back to a prehistoric world right in the heart of Fort Worth at the Botanic Garden’s latest exhibit, “Dinosaurs Around the World: The Great Outdoors,” available from January 26 through May 30. The unique outdoor experience, created in collaboration with renowned dinosaur paleontologist Gregory M. Erickson, showcases advanced animatronic dinosaurs from every continent. Embark on a journey through the Age of Reptiles and discover a narrative enriched with the latest research.
Get ready to have your ‘Passport to Pangea’ stamped as you encounter these awe-inspiring animatronic dinosaurs in their naturalistic outdoor settings. This exhibit educates and entertains, offering a perfect blend of adventure and learning for visitors of all ages.
Go here for admission and more information.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Moody Foundation M-Pact Fund Cycle 1 webinar
Hosted by Moody Foundation
Online via Zoom
10 a.m.
The Moody Foundation is offering grants of $1B over 20 years to support Texas education through nonprofits and public entities that address Early Learning or Postsecondary Success. With benefits extending beyond grant funding, the Education M-Pact Fund will cultivate a comprehensive network of grantees who are fueling student success in areas of deepest impact and greatest need. This webinar will provide an overview of the Education M-Pact Fund Cycle 1 RFP. All those who are interested in submitting an application are strongly encouraged to attend and submit questions in advance. Applications open Jan. 15 and close March 15.
Learn more about the fund here. Register for the webinar here.
Thursday, February 1
GDPC Mobility Task Force 2024 Kickoff Meeting
Hosted by The Greater Dallas Planning Council (GDPC)
Kimley-Horn Dallas Office, 13455 Noel Road, Two Galleria Office Tower, #700
7:30 to 9 a.m.
Help the GDPC Mobility Task Force plan the new year at the 2024 Kickoff Meeting. Members and non-members are invited to attend. The meeting is free, but registration is requested. Breakfast will be provided.
Learn more and register here.
Thursday, February 8
Live Demo of AI-Powered Healthcare Navigation Assistant
Hosted by The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council
Scottish Rite for Children 2222 Welborn St., Dallas
8 to 9:15 a.m.
Discover the new technology of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) and Mediktor co-host a live demonstration of its AI-Powered healthcare navigation tool. Mediktor’s experts will travel from New York for the in-person discussion detailing an AI medical assistant that directs patients to the right level of care at the right time. The complimentary breakfast event will include speakers Vicenc Ferrer, managing director of Mediktor’s New York headquarters; Fred Pineiro, USA chief growth officer at Mediktor; and Stephen Love, president/CEO of DFWHC.
Learn more here. Register here.
Tuesday, February 13
D CEO Women Leading STEM 2024
Hosted by D CEO in partnership with the Girl Scouts Of Northeast Texas
Perot Museum of Nature and Science, North Field St., Dallas
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Join D CEO and fellow Dallas business leaders for the D CEO Women Leading STEM forum, featuring the region’s top thinkers, pioneers, and executives paving the path for more women in STEM. In partnership with the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, the goal of this program is to increase representation of women in STEM, give a megaphone to leaders to share stories, and help build a pipeline for the future. Come for a candid, necessary conversation about what’s needed to close the Dallas-Fort Worth gender gap in STEM, from those in the business community leading the way.
Learn more and register here.
Thursday, February 15
Enhancing AI and Cyber Awareness for Optimal Security
Hosted by BioNTX
The University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI), 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. South, Fort Worth
10 to 11 a.m.
In a world where AI has imploded, cyberbiosecurity is increasingly a priority. Where does AI play a role in your business and how does stronger resilience factor in? The challenges and opportunities in protecting your biggest asset – your data – will be explored and will help you begin to understand the risks specific to bioscience and our ecosystem. Join BioNTX in what will be a thought-provoking conversation for the final event in the North Texas cyber trilogy. Panelists are moderator Hazel Chappell, CEO and founder of ishca health; Gurshaman Baweja, PhD, MBA, general partner of Enterprise Venture; Susan Butler, director of product management for Kerv.ai; and Panna Sharma, CEO and president of Lantern Pharma.
Learn more and register here.
Wednesday, February 21
The Future of Venture Forum Part 1
Presented by The DEC Network, North Texas Angel Network, and D CEO
D Magazine, 750 North Saint Paul St., Dallas
6 to 8 p.m.
Join DEC Network and the North Texas Angel Network for an evening filled with insights, networking, and inspiration as experts discuss the entrepreneurial outlook. Keynote speaker is Rob Kaplan, former CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, known as a visionary leader and trailblazer in the venture capital world. If you’re an entrepreneur, startup founder, venture capitalist, angel investor, or corporate innovator, this event is for you. Seats are limited to the first 100 registered attendees.
Learn more and get tickets here.
Thursday, March 7
The DEC Network’s State of Entrepreneurship
Hosted by The DEC Network and presented by Bank of America
Vouv Meeting & Event Space, 4445 Sigma Rd., Dallas
6 to 8:30 p.m.
The State of Entrepreneurship presented by Bank of America has become a tradition for celebrating the people, places and passions that keep the North Texas startup ecosystem thriving. The entire community comes out to cheer on the launches, fundings, exits and overall wins of the entrepreneurial community from the past year. Join the DEC Network in person at the Vouv Meeting & Event Space on March 7.
Register here.
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Collin County Technopreneurs Industry Night
Hosted by Yottabyte Data Con
City Works at the Star, 3680 The Star Blvd., #1300, Frisco
5:30 to 8 p.m.
Find networking and innovation at the Collin County Technopreneurship Conference Industry Night. This in-person event will be held at City Works (The Star – Frisco), where you’ll have the opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and learn from industry experts. Hu and Joy Obazei of Afrostylicity are the featured speakers, and the discussion topics are how to leverage social media marketing technology to market your business and how to escape the rat race with an appointment-based service business.
Learn more and get tickets here.
ONGOING
Through Saturday, February 3
Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo
Hosted by FWSSR
The Will Rogers Memorial Center, Fort Worth
Various times and locations within the Will Rogers complex
Dust off your boots for the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, the city’s oldest and largest public event, drawing more 1.2 million guests to the Will Rogers Memorial Center and adjacent Dickie’s Arena. The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo offers 23 days of fun-filled celebrations of Western heritage. Enjoy rodeos, livestock and horse shows, a carnival midway, and plentiful food and shopping. Celebrating more than 120 years, it lives up to its motto: “This thing is legendary.”
Find the schedule here.
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Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo’s Moo-seum Experience
Hosted by FWSSR and sponsored by Central Market
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Cattle Raisers Museum and the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame
Various times
Grounds admission to the Fort Worth Stock Show includes entry to three nearby museums, thanks to sponsor Central Market. Enjoy all the exhibits at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, the Cattle Raisers Museum, and the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. Also, members of any of the three institutions can get free admission to the Stock Show, but rodeo admission is not included.
Learn more here.
Through February 11
Marjorie Prime
Hosted by Stage West Theatre
821.823 W. Vickery Blvd., Fort Worth
Various times
Marjorie Prime is a Jordan Harrison play and a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize dealing with the limits and promises of artificial intelligence to assist with memory. Members of the creative team will moderate a 15-20 minute postshow conversation about the production on Jan. 26 and Feb. 1.
Learn more here.
Through September 22
T.rex: The Ultimate Predator
Hosted by Perot Museum of Nature and Science
Perot Museum of Nature and Science, 2201 N. Field St., Dallas
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Daily
T. rex: The Ultimate Predator explores the remarkable features that allowed T. rex to dominate its competition, examines the sensory abilities and social behaviors of this powerful hunter, and reveals how the world’s most iconic dinosaur evolved from a superfamily that included more than two dozen species and spanned 100 million years. Explore our evolving understanding of this theropod, learn about a number of recent tyrannosaur discoveries, and find out how paleontologists study fossil specimens to understand the biology and behavior of T. rex.
Learn more here.
SAVE THE DATE
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February 28 through March 2
Fort Worth Music Festival & Conference
Produced by Live Nation, in partnership with Chef Tim Love and musician and festival producer Larry Joe Taylor
Various venues at the Fort Worth Stockyards
Save the date
The second annual music networking conference for aspiring agents, managers, promoters, and emerging artists features live music at multiple venues in the Fort Worth Stockyards, panel discussions and keynote speakers from the music industry, workshops, and more.
Featured artists include Abraham Alexander, Calder Allen, Cameron Sacky Band, Catie Offerman, DJ Real Hypha, Fonteyn, Grady Spencer & The Work, Jack Ingram, KVDE, Louie TheSinger, Palmer Anthony, Slade Coulter and Travis Roberts. The 2024 festival & conference will extend to seven venues in the Stockyards, including Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall, Tannahill’s Lounge, White Elephant, Love Shack, Billy Bob’s, Cowboy Channel Studio and an outdoor stage.
Full festival schedule with performance set times and stages, along with conference panelists and topics, will be revealed in the coming weeks. The festival also announced that a limited number of 1-Day GA passes are now on sale for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the festival. Each 1-Day GA ticket includes single-day general admission to live shows at all participating venues for that specific day, with no conference panel access. Single day tickets are $39.50 each. Single-day tickets, along with multi-day tickets, are for sale HERE.
Learn more here.
March 21-23
International Leadership Summit
Hosted by T.D. Jakes Foundation
Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, Dallas
Save the date
Timing is everything. Join T. D. Jakes who asks, “Could your past failure simply have been the right idea at the wrong time? Are there opportunities for you now that were once out of reach?” Come to the 2024 International Leadership Summit and learn to harness the power of timing. Timing is the usher of destiny. It’s not just your turn; it’s your time!
Learn more here.
April 11
InnoTech Dallas 2024
Hosted by InnoTech
Irving Convention Center, 500 Las Colinas Blvd.
Save the date
InnoTech Dallas, the Technology and Security Conference, creates an environment where education, innovation, peer-to-peer networking and the latest technology and business solutions are all available specifically for IT professionals. Featured events include the Women in Tech Summit, the IT Leadership Forum, and Data Analytics and AI.
Learn more here.
April 23-25
EarthX E-Capital Summit
Hosted by EarthX
Save the date
The EarthX annual E-Capital Summit is an invitation-only conference that has convened, inspired, and catalyzed action from thousands of investment firms, early to late-stage innovators, global companies, industry thought leaders, policymakers, incubators and accelerators, and researchers that have had substantial, positive impacts on investments, businesses, people, and our planet. More than a dozen technology verticals are represented. The three-day event includes an investment forum; opportunities to connect with venture capital, growth equity, private equity and funds/LPs investments between vetted investors, companies and dealmakers; a highly competitive pitch competition for the EarthX Climate Tech Prize; and options for commercialization of innovations.
Learn more here.
May 3-5
Impact Ventures Inclusive Capital Summit
Watch for the date
Impact Ventures just wrapped up its inaugural Inclusive Capital Summit, which brought together local, regional, and national leaders to discuss innovative solutions to bridge the gap in access and opportunity for historically underestimated communities.
After the event, Impact Ventures CEO Benjamin J. Vann wrote to email subscribers, “Hanging tightly to this momentum, we are already gearing up for the next one… stay tuned for Impact Ventures’ Inclusive Capital 2024! As Fawn Weaver said during our Keynote Fireside Chat, ‘I don’t focus on the problem ever. Just like I don’t focus on weaknesses, I only focus on making strengths stronger. I don’t focus on problems because every problem has a solution.’ We believe there is a solution to making capital more inclusive and it takes all of our communities and all of our knowledge capital, together.”
Want to get involved as a sponsor, partner, or volunteer? Sign up to learn more here.
Wednesday, May 1*
Moody Foundation M-Pact Fund Cycle 2 webinar
Hosted by Moody Foundation
Online via Zoom
Save the date
The Moody Foundation is offering grants of $1B over 20 years to support Texas education through nonprofits and public entities that address Early Learning or Postsecondary Success. With benefits extending beyond grant funding, the Education M-Pact Fund will cultivate a comprehensive network of grantees who are fueling student success in areas of deepest impact and greatest need. This webinar will provide an overview of the Education M-Pact Fund Cycle 1 RFP. All those who are interested in submitting an application are strongly encouraged to attend and submit questions in advance. Applications open April. 15 and close June 14.*
*Dates for Cycle 2 are approximate
Learn more about the fund here.
June 13-15
Good Soil 2024
Hosted by the Good Soil Movement and the T.D. Jakes Foundation
AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas
Save the date
Good Soil plans to increase generational wealth and employment by supporting and nurturing under-resourced entrepreneurs. The organization aims to lead partners in the creation and retention of one million entrepreneurs over the next decade.
Learn more here.
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R E A D N E X T
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The hybrid event in August will take place in person at SMU and virtually. The seventh annual Dallas Startup Week powered by Capital One is Dallas-Fort Worth’s largest event focused on driving entrepreneurial success, economic impact, and innovation in the region.
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You’ll find deadlines coming up for a new accelerator program; and many more opportunities.
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You’ve found Dallas Innovates’ archive of news briefs from July to September 2021.
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Nonprofit BUiLT is hosting the event to highlight the success and possibilities of Black tech talent in the region. “There is no talent pipeline problem,” says Peter Beasley, co-founder of the Blacks United in Leading Technology International. “Black tech talent is widely available, especially in North Texas.”
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With Dallas ranked as one of the top cities in America for tech pros, UT Dallas and Fullstack have launched four skills training bootcamps focused on coding, cybersecurity, data analytics, and DevOps. The online bootcamps begin in November with tuition at $11,995 each.
