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NTXAI Builders IRL

The place where AI builders in North Texas find each other.

The people using, building, deploying, funding, and buying AI across North Texas get in the same room once a month.

Founders. Engineers. Enterprise teams. City Developers. Students. Investors.

No panels. No fluff.
Just real builders meeting other builders.

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Inaugural session — June 15.

Monday, June 15
2026  ·  4:00 – 6:30 PM CT
Venue
TUPPS Brewery
402 E Louisiana St., Building 2
McKinney, TX 75069
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McKinney Economic Development Corporation
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MEDC’s Innovation Unwind

Format

An in-person gathering for North Texas builders. No panels, no programmed speakers, no slide decks. The one piece of structure: every AI builder in the room gets a thirty-to-sixty-second intro at the top of the meetup.

  • 4:00 PMDoors open · arrival
  • 4:30 PMBuilder intros (30–60s each)
  • 5:00 PMNetworking
  • 6:30 PMWrap
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RSVP for the inaugural session.

Capacity is limited. Confirm your seat below and you'll receive a verification email — once confirmed you're on the attendee list.

We use your information only to coordinate the session and notify you about future NTXAI gatherings. Never shared, never sold.

Who's Invited

Six constituencies. One table.

AI Builders are the spine of every meetup. The value compounds when they connect with the rest of the regional ecosystem — civic, capital, enterprise, academic, and the AI-curious. Every line below is a connection the room helps make happen.

Industry Enterprise & Business Community AI Curious Academic Students & Educators Primary Builders in AI Civic North Texas Cities Capital AI Investors
  • PrimaryBuilders in AI
  • CivicNorth Texas Cities
  • CapitalAI Investors
  • IndustryEnterprise & Business
  • AcademicStudents & Educators
  • CommunityAI Curious

The meetup's job is to put a builder one handshake away from the city official, the investor, the enterprise buyer, the university student, and the curious neighbor — every month, without ceremony.

Mission

Connect the people building the future of AI in North Texas.

Founders, engineers, enterprise teams, investors, civic leaders, and students don't ship anything by being adjacent on LinkedIn. They ship by recognizing each other across a room and starting the conversation that wouldn't otherwise happen.

Vision

Make North Texas the world's leading hub for applying AI to real business and industry.

Other regions will keep winning the frontier-research race. North Texas wins by being the place where AI gets put to work — in operations, healthcare, finance, logistics, and city services. We are building the community that compounds into that outcome.

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What Happens

Three things, on repeat.

Convene

A monthly in-person working session for AI builders across North Texas. Same place each month, no slide decks, no sponsors on stage.

Connect

Direct introductions between builders, universities, civic technology, and capital — when they help, not as programming.

Document

A growing record of who is building what across North Texas, so partners and policymakers have an accurate picture of the regional ecosystem.

Partners

In partnership with.

The organizations standing up alongside us — civic leadership and capital partners who take the North Texas AI build seriously and help make it possible.

McKinney Economic Development Corporation North Texas Angel Network
Why North Texas

Ten reasons the build is happening here.

The Bay Area still leads frontier research. That isn't the game North Texas is playing. The game here is applied — taking models that exist and turning them into products, deployments, and businesses inside real companies. By every input that game requires — enterprise customers, deployable capital, cheap power, cheap housing, and the country's largest in-bound migration — North Texas is now the strongest stack in the U.S.

What's missing locally isn't the talent or the money or the compute. It's the room. The lone-wolf engineer at a Fortune 500 has not yet met the founder hiring, the fund writing checks, or the UTD researcher with a paper nobody outside campus has read. That's what we're building.

We start monthly. The plan is weekly. Showing up is the only requirement.

  1. 01

    An AI Star Hub by the numbers

    Brookings' 2025 Mapping the AI Economy placed DFW in the top 28 U.S. metros — top-quartile in talent, research, and enterprise adoption simultaneously. Texas is the only state with four.

  2. 02

    Nineteen Fortune 500 headquarters

    #6 metro nationally. AT&T, ExxonMobil, McKesson, American, Southwest, Texas Instruments, Charles Schwab, CBRE, Caterpillar, Toyota North America. Your enterprise design partner is twenty minutes away.

  3. 03

    Financial services is relocating, not visiting

    JPMorgan: 18,000 DFW employees and a 1.5M-sq-ft, 12,000-person Plano campus. Goldman Sachs: an 800,000-sq-ft Dallas campus opening 2028 — its second-largest U.S. office after NYC HQ.

  4. 04

    Stargate is in the backyard

    OpenAI's flagship $400B+ Stargate site is operational three hours west in Abilene — scaling to 1.2 GW and 450,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs by Q4 2026. The largest AI compute build in the country, all on the Texas grid.

  5. 05

    Texas Instruments is spending $60B+

    Across seven U.S. fabs — the largest ($40B, four fabs) sixty miles north of Plano in Sherman, partnered with NVIDIA on AI infrastructure.

  6. 06

    The country's tightest data-center market

    ~1 GW operational at 98% leased. 600 MW under construction at 95% pre-leased. 2.2 GW more in planning. CBRE puts DFW vacancy at 2.4%.

  7. 07

    The largest interstate migration in the country

    California → Texas runs roughly 100,000 moves a year — the single largest interstate corridor in the U.S. DFW led every metro in the country for net inbound moves two years running.

  8. 08

    The math actually works

    Plano median home: $540K. San Francisco: $1.7M. California top marginal income tax: 13.3%. Texas: 0%. The same comp goes a lot further here.

  9. 09

    Capital density without the Sand Hill auction

    2,330+ ultra-high-net-worth households. One of the country's deepest single-family-office benches — Harlan Crow, Perot Jain, Cresset, Legacy Knight. ~$3.1B raised for DFW AI/ML in 2025. Capital here cares about revenue, not narrative.

  10. 10

    530,000 CS graduates in the pipeline

    Plus 2,093 AI-related PhD students. UT Dallas (CAIML, the Erik Jonsson School), SMU Lyle, UNT, TCU, UTA — feeding both the enterprise and the startup sides of the room.

The Ecosystem

North Texas is already building.

Below is a working survey of 145+ organizations already operating across the DFW Metroplex — accelerators, capital, university programs, civic publications, city economic development corporations, coworking and innovation campuses. None of these are partners of this meetup. They are simply here, already doing the work, and the volume of activity is the point.

If your organization belongs on this map and isn't yet, tell us. We're treating this list as a living document of who is building what in North Texas, so founders, investors, and policymakers can see the actual surface area of the region.

Accelerators & Incubators 17

Capital — VC (DFW HQ) 19

Capital — VC (Active in DFW) 1

Capital — Corporate Venture 5

Capital — Angel Networks 7

Universities 17

Civic & Government 47

Civic & Media 11

Industry, Campuses & Coworking 9

AI Communities 13

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