Events

Fremont, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- THINK Surgical, Inc. has appointed Rick McDowell as Vice President, Sales, tasking him with leading the orthopedic robotics maker's national sales organization as it scales commercial operations.

McDowell reports directly to Executive Vice President Chris Marrus

McDowell will drive market strategy and growth for THINK Surgical's commercial team, reporting to Chris Marrus. He arrives with more than 20 years in medical device commercialization, clinical strategy, and capital sales across the surgical robotics sector.

St. Louis – September 22, 2026 -- The Gateway Business Health Coalition (Gateway BHC), which represents roughly 70 employers nationwide including Fortune 500 companies and public sector organizations, has partnered with Rezilient Health to expand employer access to a hybrid primary care model.

Gateway BHC members gain same-day access to Rezilient's hybrid CloudClinic model

The partnership pairs Rezilient's same-day primary and urgent care with specialty consults and care navigation, aiming to reduce total healthcare spending for self-funded employers. Rezilient's CloudClinic format combines an in-person clinical medic with a provider joining remotely via secure video, supported by connected diagnostic devices for physical exams, labs and basic imaging during the same visit.

London – September 22, 2026 -- The Natural Diamond Council has rebranded as The Diamond Collective, launching a new global strategy to rebuild consumer demand for natural diamonds amid rising competition from synthetic alternatives.

New CEO shapes strategy after six months of industry consultation

Amber Pepper, who took over as CEO, developed the strategy following talks with producers, retailers, brands, creatives and consumers. The plan responds to shifts in how people discover and buy luxury goods, aiming to convert consumer desire into sustained purchasing demand.

San Antonio – September 22, 2026 -- Texas A&M University-San Antonio advanced nine spots to No. 31 in the U.S. News & World Report Top Performers on Social Mobility category, its largest single-year gain in the ranking.

University moves up in three separate U.S. News categories

A&M-San Antonio also rose one spot to No. 28 among Top Public Schools and held its position at No. 56 among Regional Universities West, a category spanning 14 states including Texas, Washington, Nevada and California.

Sixty percent of students qualify for Pell Grants

Approximately 60% of A&M-San Antonio students are Pell Grant-eligible. The University's Jaguar Promise program covers tuition and fees for eligible Texas students from families earning $70,000 or less annually.

Austin, Texas – September 22, 2026 -- Mendocino Farms opened its 102nd restaurant nationwide on September 22, marking its third Austin location at 1100 South Lamar Boulevard, Suite 1125, and expanding its Texas footprint to 14 restaurants statewide.

Chain expands Austin presence following two prior openings

The South Lamar site follows earlier debuts at Arbor Trails and West 38th Street, building out the fast-casual chain's third foothold in the Austin market since entering the city in 2025.

Chief Marketing Officer cites sustained local demand since 2025 entry

"Ever since we opened our first Austin location in 2025, the community has embraced Mendocino Farms and showed us incredible support," said Alicia Mowder, Chief Marketing Officer of Mendocino Farms, noting the new opening reflects continued customer traction in the region.

Munich – September 22, 2026 -- Persistent Systems Limited has secured 83.25% of Nagarro SE's outstanding share capital, clearing the minimum threshold for its EUR 81.00-per-share takeover offer and setting up a delisting from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange's Prime Standard.

Tender results exceed the 50%-plus-one-share minimum acceptance threshold

During the acceptance period that expired at midnight CEST on September 17, 2026, holders tendered 7,568,145 Nagarro shares, equal to approximately 61.15% of total share capital and voting rights. Persistent separately secured a 22.10% stake through a share purchase agreement with Lantano Beteiligungen GmbH, bringing the combined position to 83.25%, excluding treasury shares.

Austin, Texas – September 22, 2026 -- Sparx Engineering has opened its third Texas office, a 3,117-square-foot location at 1023 Springdale, Bldg 12B, in the Springdale General community in East Austin.

Sparx expands its Texas footprint with new East Austin lease

The Greater Houston-based engineering consultancy secured the space with representation from Aquila Commercial's Noah Yetley. The new office follows Sparx's first satellite branch, opened in Dallas in 2023, giving the firm operations in Houston, Dallas, and now Austin.

Initial team to grow to 10 staff by next year

An initial team led by Steven Block, P.E., and Tyler Chaney, P.E., will anchor the Austin operation, which is expected to reach a staff of 10 within a year. The office will support Sparx's four core service lines: electrical, mechanical, software and chemical engineering.

Miami – September 22, 2026 -- Nucleus Research has named Boomi, Matillion, Oracle, Qlik, and Salesforce (Informatica) as Leaders in its 2026 Data Integration Technology Value Matrix, citing a wave of consolidation reversing five years of market unbundling.

Consolidation deals reshape vendor landscape as buyers demand single-platform coverage

Fivetran has merged with dbt Labs, IBM has acquired both StreamSets and Confluent, Salesforce has completed its acquisition of Informatica, and Qlik has folded Talend into its cloud platform. Nucleus Research says these moves mark a reversal of the unbundling trend that defined data integration from 2019 to 2024, as vendors now compete on consolidated support spanning batch ingestion, change data capture, and streaming transformation.

Redwood City, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- Ivalua has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Direct Spend 2026 Vendor Assessment (#US54900426, September 2026), based on evaluations of its capabilities, strategy, market presence, and core architecture.

Unified data model spans sourcing, BOM, contracts and quality

IDC MarketScape identified Ivalua's single data model, which natively links sourcing, bill of materials, contract, quality, and supply chain collaboration objects, as its most substantive differentiator. The architecture enables full traceability from item to BOM to award to contract to invoice, reducing fragmentation that competitor suites reportedly struggle with.

New York – September 22, 2026 -- OM-eTrading, LLC ("OMeT") has signed a strategic licensing agreement with SwapData AI Solutions, LLC to build out OMeT-i, its newly formed market data intelligence division for over-the-counter interest rate swaps.

Kirby moves from SwapData AI founder to Senior Managing Director of OMeT-i

Michael Kirby, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SwapData AI, has been appointed Senior Managing Director of OMeT-i, where he will oversee product architecture, commercial licensing operations, and market expansion for the division.

SwapData AI grants OMeT-i a perpetual enterprise license to its core platform

SwapData AI has granted OMeT-i a perpetual enterprise license to its proprietary SwapData.ai software architecture. The platform will be fully migrated into OMeT's core environment to aggregate, normalize, and process public Swap Data Repository (SDR) feeds across multiple asset classes and execution venues.

LONDON – September 22, 2026 -- QubicaAMF and ROLLER have entered a long-term strategic partnership and launched Conqueror ROLLER, an all-in-one management platform already operating at bowling and entertainment centers worldwide. The tool merges QubicaAMF's Conqueror X lane management technology with ROLLER's venue management platform, targeting a $10 billion global bowling industry that draws more than 100 million players annually across 125 countries.

Joint customers report measurable revenue and efficiency gains from the unified system

Lumos in Texas increased its share of revenue generated online by 5.5 times after adopting the joint platform. Queens in London lifted multi-activity bookings by 64%. NIKITO, headquartered in Paris, deployed the system in under three months, with 100% of staff preferring it over previous tools.

Marlborough, Mass. – September 22, 2026 -- Quantiphi has been named a Leader in the NelsonHall 2026 NEAT Evaluation Report for Wealth and Asset Management Services within the AI and Analytics Services category, outranking several established global technology and services providers.

Quantiphi outperforms established rivals in AI and analytics services for wealth management

The AI-native services company was positioned ahead of multiple large-scale technology and services providers in the AI and Analytics Services category of the report, a segment that evaluates vendor capability in AI advisory, data and application modernization, and business process reimagination for wealth and asset management institutions.

Denver and Los Angeles – September 22, 2026 -- Luxury Asset Capital, which has financed over $1 billion in loans backed by luxury assets, has struck a strategic partnership with Timepiece Grading Specialists (TGS) to link watch collectors directly to non-bank financing within 24 hours.

TGS-graded watches now unlock direct loan access across four lending brands

The alliance connects TGS's collector community to Luxury Asset Capital's full brand suite, including Borro, Beverly Loan Company, New York Loan Company, and Palm Beach Loan Company. Collectors who have already used TGS to grade and evaluate their timepieces can leverage those authenticated watches as collateral for short-term capital.

Copenhagen – September 22, 2026 -- ATLANT 3D and the University of California, Berkeley have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore A-HUB California, a facility pairing atomic-scale manufacturing with AI-driven materials research.

ATLANT 3D brings its DALP technology to Berkeley's research ecosystem

The partnership combines ATLANT 3D's programmable atomic-scale manufacturing platform, built on its Direct Atomic Layer Processing (DALP®) technology and NANOFABRICATOR® platform, with UC Berkeley's research infrastructure. The proposed A-HUB California follows the model of ATLANT 3D's existing Copenhagen A-HUB, an autonomous materials foundry that combines AI, atomic-scale manufacturing, and automated testing in a closed loop to discover, validate, and scale advanced materials.

Washington – September 22, 2026 -- 1,000 Dreams Fund (1DF) has pledged to scale its MentorHER Initiative into a global, AI-driven mentorship platform reaching 300,000 young people worldwide by January 2030, under a three-year Commitment to Action unveiled at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2026 Annual Meeting.

1DF targets 300,000 young people through a 36-month, three-phase rollout

The commitment was announced during CGI's Leaders Stage session, "Steering AI Innovation towards Impact." The rollout begins with a pilot phase for matching and career-readiness resources, then moves to scaled recruitment through global university partnerships, corporate employee networks, and regional ambassadors. 1DF will report outcomes annually to CGI over the three-year period.

Québec – September 22, 2026 -- Strøm Old Quebec has been named Canada's Best Day Spa at the World Spa Awards for the third consecutive year, STROM Group announced.

STROM Group's 10-destination portfolio underpins repeat award recognition

The award reflects standards applied across STROM Group's 10 wellness destinations, spanning brands including Strøm Nordic Spa, Nord restaurants, the BORÉAL skincare line, AWŪ urban sanctuary, Förena Cité thermale, Sibéria Spa, and Spa Nordic Station. Founded in 2009 in Québec, the Group's network draws nearly one million visitors annually and operates its own media channels, including a magazine and podcast, alongside signature retail collections under the Strøm and AWŪ brands.

Las Vegas – September 22, 2026 -- TCSJOHNHUXLEY and entertainment figure Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson will unveil 50 Cent HeadcrackTM, a licensed live casino dice game adapting the century-old street game Cee-Lo, at G2E Las Vegas 2026. The game debuts at Booth #4439 inside The Venetian Expo from September 29 to October 1, 2026.

Live casino dice game debuts at G2E with a published pay table and licensed rules

50 Cent HeadcrackTM pits the Bank against the Shooter on every hand, with a Tie bet and multiple side wagers on the table: 5-5-6, HEADCRACKTM itself, Any Trips, 1-2-3 Natural Bust, a bundled Cover All wager, and a standalone Four or Better bet. The game retains the classic rules and vocabulary of Cee-Lo, also known as Four-Five-Six, a name derived from the Chinese term for the unbeatable 4-5-6 roll that has anchored the game for more than a hundred years.

Boston – September 22, 2026 -- QuEra Computing and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have agreed to integrate neutral-atom, fault-tolerant quantum computing systems with the HPE Cray supercomputing platform, giving enterprises and national laboratories an on-premises route to quantum capabilities alongside cloud access.

QuEra and HPE target hybrid quantum-classical workflows for on-premise deployment

The collaboration will let HPC centers run classical computation on Cray systems while offloading select subproblems to QuEra's quantum hardware within the same facility. The companies are pursuing integrated testbeds, hybrid algorithm co-design, software interoperability, and system-level performance benchmarking ahead of deployment.

QuEra and HPE have worked together since 2025, and HPE showcased a magic-state demonstration featuring QuEra's technology at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2026.

Louisville – September 22, 2026 -- The TurfMutt Foundation will stage two signature charity events at Equip Exposition 2026 in Louisville, Kentucky, benefiting longtime partner Kentucky Humane Society (KHS).

Mulligan's 5K Fun Run & Walk kicks off October 21 at the TurfMutt Foundation Great Lawn.

Participants will depart from the Great Lawn at Waterfront Park and cross the Ohio River via the historic Big Four Pedestrian Bridge. All registrants receive a commemorative shirt and finisher medal, with proceeds directed to KHS.

The 8th Annual Mulligan's Mutt Madness adoption event runs October 22 at the Kentucky Expo Center.

Held inside Mulligan's Garden Park, a custom-built indoor green space, the event allows Equip attendees to meet and adopt rescue dogs from KHS. Since its launch, Mutt Madness has placed more than 130 dogs with industry professionals and attendees.

Pleasant Hill, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- Special Olympics Northern California (SONC) has appointed five new members to its Board of Directors as the organization works to strengthen its financial base and expand inclusive sports programming across the region.

SONC recruits finance, law and pro-sports executives for board expansion

The new directors are Colleen Atkinson, Kevin Brown, Richard Rahm, Brian Wentzel, and athlete leader Devon Yoshimine. David Solo, President and CEO of SONC, said the group brings expertise spanning corporate finance, professional sports operations, grassroots coaching and lived athlete experience to support the organization's growth goals.