Tech Square ATL

This fireside chat focused on how collecting, using, and managing data is crucial to your business. The panel included three leaders of local startups that use data in different ways to efficiently drive their business.

Jared Serfozo (moderator) - CTO at Collaborative Real Estate

Andrew Bate – CEO at Safely.com

Michael Nguyen – CEO at DataTorch.io

Lawson Sumner – Chief Engineer at Ampere EV

Live podcast Q&A focused on when ideas become "official."

Moderated by Jared Serfozo of Tech Square ATL.

--Round Table Panelists--

Blanca Catalina García - BCG Innovation & MBDA@ATDC Startup Catalyst

Greg Coonley - Wahsega

Tim Felbinger - StartProto

Monroe Ramsey - Virtual Air

Veronica Woodruff - Travelsist

In collaboration with Startup Exchange, Georgia Tech's Student Entrepreneur Community, Serial Entrepreneur Lara Hodgson came to Tech Square for young startups to learn about her rise to success from Georgia Tech student to CEO of NOW Corporation and Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School.

Lara heads NOW Corporation, a B2B financing company that helps corporations grow quickly by allowing businesses to access customer payment immediately. Prior to NOW, she co-founded Nourish, a firm specializing in investment, and Insomnia a project management company. Lara has served as Chief Operating Officer of Dewberry Capital Corporation, a commercial real estate company.

Lara was also on the founding team of Dunk, serving as Executive Vice President to the performance footwear and apparel manufacturing/retail company founded with Shaquille O’Neal and Mike Piazza. Her extensive career has led her to be an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School and an internationally recognized speaker, leading seminars on creativity, innovation, and access to capital.

In collaboration with Startup Exchange, Georgia Tech's Student Entrepreneur Community, this recorded fireside chat is with Chris Klaus: Georgia Tech Alumni, Serial Entrepreneur, and Co-Founder of CyberLaunch VC, NeuroLaunch and and Kaneva. But he is most known for being the Founder/CEO of Internet Security Systems which was acquired by IBM. He has also had a long relationship with Georgia Tech and invigorates the future of technology at Georgia Tech by supporting CREATE-X.

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Partnering with The Self Made Sisterhood, Tech Square ATL brings together a powerful group of Entrepreneurs during International Women's Day.

-Where does your confidence come from?

-What are the ways, if any, do women in business approach leadership differently than others?

-What has worked for you in navigating workplace dynamics around these differences?

Our Power Panel:

Jasmine Crowe — Founder & CEO, Goodr.Co

Margarita Caraballo — Chapter Director, Techqueria | Product Manager, MailChimp

Aleshia Eckard — E-Commerce & Digital Strategy Manager, Siemens Smart Infrastructure

Jenna Settle — Senior Engineer - Product Development, Abbott

Ifrah Khan — Founder & CEO, Usit.Inc

Stefanie Jewett (Moderator) — Founder & CEO, Activvely

This season’s Show&Tell featured 17 exhibitors, showing off their research and advancements in the Health and Wellness field. During the event at The Garage at Tech Square, four speakers were invited to share their predictions on how technology will impact this industry within the next five years.

Full Story:

http://www.techsquareatl.com/stories/2019/3/17/c6w7coz211ttq7e4r9ingejgie4d0l

Before the written word, connections were tangible and immediate. With the dawn of the Victorian Internet (aka the telegraph), connections evolved to include the ephemeral and invisible.

With the modern Internet, ubiquity of connected devices, and emergence of artificial intelligence, these connections don’t require humans anymore. Devices connecting with other devices generating terabytes of data for software to review and take action without human involvement.

How will connected devices and artificial intelligence alter our cities, towns, and communities? This Fall season, we’re exploring this question through a variety of programs and events.

We ask five experts to each step forward by themselves on to the stage and boldly predict how these technologies will shape our lives in the next 5 years. Then we conclude with some questions from our live audience.

Nate Damen (aka ATLtvhead)

Heather Alhadeff

Craig Greenfield

Luigi Ray-Montanez

Alison Powers

With so many people, companies, and universities seeking the holy grail of "innovation," is the innovation journey a case of the blind leading the blind through a circuitous labyrinth? Like toddlers playing with power tools, there’s definitely a fair amount of pain and frustration, especially with internal barriers and unclear measurements of success. 

To explore this topic, we turned to Dr. Kumar Mehta. He is an expert in innovation science and the author of Amazon bestseller The Innovation Biome, on building a sustained business environment where innovation thrives. Dr. Kumar Mehta is the founder of Bridges Insight, a think tank focused on innovation.

We also had the chance to speak with Tom Daly, whose career arc includes stops at Dell, ING, UPS, marketing agencies, and 11 years of wrestling the innovation alligator within the Coca-Cola Company leaving as a hall of fame mobile marketing exec.

In this episode, we explore questions like: What is innovation? Can (and should) everybody innovate? How can everyone in the audience unleash creativity? And what does it mean for an innovation to fail? 

Listen in to learn why Dr. Mehta wholeheartedly rejects the concept of 'The Next Big Thing,' and what he considers the key to successful innovation (hint: he calls it "the experience delta").

By special request, this is for everyone who’s already in the workforce and interested in how to make their next move. Looking to move up the ladder? Interested in switching roles or taking on new responsibilities?

Through a roundtable conversation and speed mentoring, you’ll learn from mentors who’ve done what you’d like to do. Representatives from AT&T, Delta Airlines, BillMo, EngeniusMicro, Emerson, Tech Square Labs, thyssenkrupp, and Calend.ly will be there for you.

Featuring:

Carrie Moore, Delta Airlines

Chris Heaton, EngeniusMicro

Daniel Sabio, TechSquare Labs

Fan Ding, Emerson

Felix Hu, Calend.ly

Kwambe Smith, AT&T

Roger Lopez, BillMo

Shawn Park, ThyssenKrupp

HUGE thank you to...

ATDC

ChooseATL

Our mentors

Every job seeker

And YOU, the audience!

Software is eating the world. While artificial intelligence is making progress, the AI software isn't going to write itself. After all, that’s what software developers do.

So what's it like to be a software developer? The role has grown exponentially to cover an array of different functions from Dev Ops to Cyber Security to Web Developer. That's why we’ve assembled ten software developers to connect with job seekers(present and future)to find out what it’s really like to work as a developer in a variety of settings.

We recorded this episode during the TechSquareJobFair.com Spring 2018 series as part of the March 6 Mentor Circle. Thank you to our partners at ATDC and ChooseATL for making it all possible.

Featuring:

Melisa Griffin, Keysight Technologies

Vincent Haines, Honeywell

Carl Bedingfield, AT&T Foundry

Nicolas Palpacuer, AT&T Foundry

Kevin Carlson, Florence Healthcare

Ben Hirsch, Sideqik

Sage Gerard, Evident

Kevin Gibby, Keysight Technologies

Eric Pate, FIXD

Peter Finn, SalesLoft

Damian Starosielsky, Evident

Jeremy Haile, Sideqik