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No matter what your interests and skills are, there is most likely a niche for you in the tech scene.

Gone are the days where only engineering degrees allowed one to succeed in the tech sector. Today, for a product to be successful it takes a village of workers with a myriad of talents to launch and sell a product.

Roles range from operations, sales/marketing, customer success, UX design, product management, human resources, and community management.

Through a round-table conversation and speed mentoring, you’ll learn from non-tech superstars from Panasonic Automotive, Emerson, Sideqik, Keysight, and more.

Featuring:

Melisa Griffin, Keysight Technologies

Sachiyo Zuehlke, Panasonic Automotive

Daniel Roberts, Friendly Human

Andy Kabistan, Sideqik

Louise Wasilewski, Acivilate

Kseniya Shelkovskaya, Siemens

Lauren Lange, ATDC

Fan Ding, Emerson

Lance Weatherby, recently CallRail now Weatherby Ventures

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Some say data is the new oil. 

Consider: oil provides fuel for commerce. It pollutes. Wars are fought over it; wars are fought with it. Is data headed down that same path? 

Tech Square is full of people shaping the future of technology--including the future of data. So in this episode of The Hot Seat, we asked three bold experts to predict how data will affect our lives in the next five years.

Hear from Aamir Goriawala of Honeywell; Carl Bedingfield of AT&T Foundry, and Rahul Basole of Georgia Tech. A lively roundtable discussion and Q&A caps it all off.

The latest episode of Hump Day Exchange is a veritable buffet of delicious tidbits from some of our best conversations in 2017.

Throughout the year, we talked to 30 guests across 10 episodes to explore the latest developments in smart cities, global tech hubs, the student hustle, and more. Each of these conversations highlighted the breakthrough ideas, talent, and companies that call Tech Square home. 

For this sampler, we're diving back into virtual reality, drones, and eSports. Tune in for morsels you might have missed the first time around.

This month's topic of our podcast is "The Student Hustle" and will explore the mind of today's college student. We spoke with Wesley Samples of Startup Exchange, Lekha Surasani of HackGT, and Chloe Belangia of TEDxGeorgiaTech.

Cities rise from commerce. Those who focus on their strengths and comparative advantages will rise. So who’s on the rise? That’s what we explore in this episode, featuring Adora Cheung from Y Combinator, Grant Wainscott from the Metro Atlanta Chamber, and Dave Williams from NomadX in Lisbon.

Show&Tell is Tech Square's quarterly science fair-style demo day, which focuses on a different emerging technology each time. Brought to you by Sandbox ATL, Georgia Centers of Innovation, and Honeywell.

The Oct 2017 theme was BuiltTech, which includes technologies shaping the built environment. This $217 trillion sector is what shapes the future of planning, design, construction, and management of buildings, infrastructure, and cities.

This time around, hear from Bill Wilkins of Pointivo, K.P. Reddy of The Combine and Shadow Ventures, Sandeep Ahuja of Pattern r+d, and Dennis Shelden of Georgia Tech's Digital Building Lab as they share their predictions for the next five years in the world of BuiltTech.

Free and open to the public thanks to the support of Georgia Centers of Innovation and Honeywell. This event is part of BuiltTech Week.

According to the National Science Foundation, women make up half of the U.S. college-educated workforce, but only 29% of the science and engineering workforce. While many great first computer scientists were women, we still have not closed the gap between genders. The conversations of sexism and sexual harassment in the workplace, and how to solve these large problems, are becoming more of a hot-topic with recent viral articles about companies like Uber.

To explore this topic, we brought in Jen Bonnett, Director and General Manager of ATDC, Wei-Chun Tai, partner at Mosely Ventures, and Annie Harrison Elliott, playwright of Empty Rooms, which will be performed in the Garage. Listen to what these women had to say about the challenges and opportunities they face on a daily basis:

Modern eSports are a juggernaut, light years beyond the Red Bull-fueled LAN parties of the early aughts. Games have become dizzyingly complex, prize pools reach 8-figures, and a growing number of colleges and universities now offer eSports scholarships. We'll break it down for you no matter your skill level.

Adam Toll - CEO at Haste

Connie Cambre - Social media specialist at KontrolFreek

Albert Lee - President of Georgia Tech's eSports Club

Drones are everywhere - on the ground, in the air, and in the water. They've evolved rapidly from a strictly military- and enthusiast-driven market to mass availability. The space is growing as fast as the drones are shrinking.

Troels Adrian - Director of Supply Chain Ecosystem Expansion, Metro Atlanta Chamber.

Nick Willard - Professional drone racer and collegiate champion.

Justin Lee - Drone Entrepreneur.

Show&Tell is Tech Square's quarterly science fair-style demo day which focuses on a different emerging technology each time. This time, hear from Vincent Haines from Honeywell, Colton Griffin from WMSight, and Georgia Tech graduate student Nathaniel Horodam share their predictions for the next five years in the world of smart cities and connected devices.