Las Vegas – September 29, 2026 -- UrVenue has won the 2027 Global Gaming Business Gaming & Technology Award for Best Consumer Service Technology, recognizing its Venue Management Software that converts hotel and casino amenities into bookable, revenue-generating inventory. The award will be presented during Global Gaming Expo (G2E), running Sept. 28 through Oct. 1 at The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas.
Dallas – – September 29, 2026 -- TrendAI, the AI security business unit of Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), has expanded its integration with Claude's Compliance API inside TrendAI Vision One, giving security teams visibility into AI agent prompts, responses and tool calls alongside existing security telemetry.
The expanded integration pulls in session records for Claude Code and Cowork from Claude Enterprise, each tied to a verified user. It builds on the initial TrendAI-Anthropic integration announced in June 2026, extending coverage to how engineering and knowledge-work teams use AI agents on a daily basis.
Washington – September 29, 2026 -- The National Park Foundation (NPF) has awarded $4.7 million through its Open OutDoors for Kids program to fund 83 education projects across more than 90 national parks during the 2026-27 school year, marking the program's 15th season.
The funding supports field trips, classroom engagements, and virtual learning tied to national parks. The program was created in 2011 with the National Park Service to complement the federal Every Kid Outdoors initiative and address barriers such as transportation costs.
Columbia, Md. – September 29, 2026 -- The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission has awarded more than $4.8 million through the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF) in the first funding cycle of fiscal year 2027, backing 15 investigators across the state's regenerative medicine sector.
Requested funding significantly outstripped the capital available for this cycle, according to the Commission, reflecting both the depth of Maryland's research base and a rising number of technologies advancing past early discovery into validation, clinical development and manufacturing—stages that require substantially more capital.
Las Vegas – – September 29, 2026 -- Jack Shanahan finished third at Round Seven of the Formula DRIFT PRO Championship at The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, marking his third podium of the season racing on Kumho Ecsta V730 tires.
Starting from a sixth-place qualifying position, Shanahan defeated Jhonnattan Castro in the Top 32, Ryan Tuerck in the Top 16, and Chris Forsberg in the Great 8 before losing to his brother Conor Shanahan in the Final 4 after dropping two tires off course in Zone 4.
Detroit – September 29, 2026 -- Nagase America's Mobility Solutions division has received Nissan Americas' 2026 Monozukuri Spirit Award for New Model Development and Launch Readiness, following its execution of a takeover project transitioning five Nissan vehicle programs within six weeks.
The award was presented September 25 at Nissan Americas' annual Supplier Appreciation and Awards event at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. Nissan's annual awards recognize supplier partners across quality, operational excellence, innovation, aftersales support and sustainability. Nagase America was specifically singled out for New Model Development and Launch Readiness among the three Monozukuri Spirit Award recipients.
New York – September 29, 2026 -- Brand experience studio DE-YAN has appointed Jonathan Akwue as its first President, hiring the former Translation chief and ex-Publicis Groupe executive as the firm builds on a year of double-digit headcount growth and an industry-first ROI certification.
Akwue previously served as President and Global Media Lead at Publicis Groupe, with earlier stints at Digitas UK and Lost Boys. Based in New York, he will work alongside founder and CEO Dejan Jovanovic to deepen client relationships and expand the studio's scope. He is the second senior network-agency executive to join DE-YAN in under two years, following Chief Creative Officer Jason Kreher, who arrived from Wieden+Kennedy and Maximum Effort in 2025.
Vancouver – September 29, 2026 -- Inturai Ventures Corp. (CSE: URAI) (OTC: URAIF) (FSE: 3QG0) said its recently acquired drone command-and-control platform, DomeCommand, took first and third place in the two-day team integration category at the Singapore Defense Tech Hackathon 2026, held September 25-27 and co-organised by NUS Enterprise, TUM Venture Labs and the European Defense Tech Hub.
In the winning entry, Team Echelon connected its acoustic localisation system and Team Aegis integrated its interceptor drone with DomeCommand, producing an end-to-end demonstration of detection, localisation and coordinated interception run at the edge within the two-day window. DomeCommand also placed third alongside Team Phylax, which used the platform's simulation capabilities to build a civilian defence application modelling drone attacks and generating guidance for the public during an incident.
Broomfield, Colo. – September 29, 2026 -- Horizon Family Brands has promoted Scott Wallace to Chief Customer Officer, expanding his mandate to oversee customer strategy and retail partnerships across its organic dairy portfolio, which includes Horizon Organic, Maple Hill Creamery and Wallaby Organic yogurt.
Wallace joined Horizon Family Brands in November 2023 as vice president of sales and was elevated to senior vice president in 2025. In his new CCO role, he will coordinate across sales, marketing, operations and brand teams to deepen customer engagement and identify shared growth opportunities across the company's retail and commercial networks.
Oakland, Calif. – September 29, 2026 -- The PG&E Corporation Foundation is directing $1.32 million in shareholder-funded grants to more than 50 food banks, tribal food banks and senior meal programs across 45 California counties, an amount expected to provide the equivalent of approximately 3.13 million meals.
The funding, timed to Hunger Action Month, is financed entirely by PG&E shareholders and will not be recovered through customer utility rates.
The California Association of Food Banks reports that roughly 8.8 million Californians experience food insecurity, even as the state produces nearly half of the nation's fruits and vegetables. Rising housing and grocery costs are pushing communities of color, seniors and working families toward food assistance for the first time, with food banks reporting record demand.