26th Annual Tech Titans Awards

Tech Titans’ 26th Annual Awards Gala is North Texas’s largest named technology recognition night—Friday, August 28, 2026, 5:00 PM at the Marriott at Legacy Town Center in Plano, presented by Inbenta. The association frames tracks for corporate and emerging-company CEOs and CIOs/CTOs, innovation, inventors, advocates, and Tech Titans of the Future (high school and college). Finalists are expected in the room. Tickets were listed on sale from the Tech Titans homepage at scrape time; confirm live table vs individual inventory there rather than assuming a walk-up.

Legacy / Plano is Circuit Dallas’s campus-career geography: Toyota, Capital One, and the Telecom Corridor graph sit on the same Tollway spine. Tech Titans is not a diaspora chamber, but it is the durable North Texas tech trade host—the room where campus operators, vendors, and STEM educators actually get recognized. Asian engineers and operators who live the Collin County story show up here even when Ascend NTX’s August calendar is empty (the chapter’s next listed public programs jump to October). Same weekend as DAAFF downtown: pick Legacy gala or Arts District film, not both without a brutal drive.

Friday, August 28, 2026, 5:00 PM at Dallas/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town Center, 7121 Bishop Road (also listed as Bishop Blvd). Buy tickets on techtitans.org. Legacy Town Center evening traffic and valet queues are real; leave buffer. Black-tie / business-gala dress is the default for a 26th-year awards night—confirm attire on the live page. Finalists should not skip; the portal requires in-person attendance. Tables sell as a package—confirm whether you are buying a seat or a full table before checkout.

Bring a firm-lane introduction. This is a recognition dinner, not a pitch-night cattle call.

This gala is right if you work North Texas tech, corporate IT, emerging-company leadership, or STEM education and can pay association-gala rates. Anand Bazaar was the Frisco festival; TIPS was the physician day; DAAFF is the free Arts District Saturday.