On a summer Atlanta afternoon, the temperature can shift block by block. A street lined with trees feels bearable. Two intersections over, asphalt radiates heat and the air hangs heavy. Those differences are not incidental, nor are they harmless. For PhD candidate Ashley Boone, data provides a pathway to change that reality by mapping, interpreting, and mobilizing environmental patterns in the city.

In Atlanta, entire industries can sit a few miles apart and barely speak the same language.

Film, gaming, esports, and nonprofits operate in silos. Founders gain cultural capital but lack visibility outside their circles. The issue is not lack of talent—it's a communications gap. Elise Riley built My Global Presence to bridge that gap.

On Thursday, March 5, 2026, around 90 founders, operators, builders, students, community builders, and neighbors gathered in the Biltmore Innovation Center for Tech Square Game Day. The goal? To connect with colleagues, meet new people, and have fun!

Most dress patterns and forms come in a base sizes, but do not reflect real people’s bodies and proportions. That’s where Your Form comes in. The startup uses 3D body scans to create custom-made dress forms and sewing patterns out of recycled materials, making fashion design sustainable and inclusive.

When Sabah Mohammed moved to Atlanta to build her career in architecture, she expected to be designing buildings, not drowning in paper. Yet in her job, she found herself lugging dozens of floor plan printouts onto construction sites. “I was working on a project, and we were struggling to collaborate; I’d have to print these giant sheets of paper just to share updates with my teammates and clients,” Mohammed recalls. The process felt inefficient and archaic. This frustration would soon spark an entrepreneurial journey.

Every Tuesday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 AM, the lobby of the Biltmore Innovation Center fills with conversation.

Coffee Connect, the Center’s weekly networking and social hour, has quickly become a standing fixture in the building’s rhythm.

Vaping is now widespread, particularly among young adults, yet researchers lack reliable tools to quantify real-time nicotine intake. A new device developed at TSRB’s Uncommon Senses Lab estimates nicotine exposure by detecting the electromagnetic fields generated during each puff. The team calls it PuffEM.

What started as a six-person, virtual book club is now a volunteer-led network of over 600 women across Atlanta who are building a greener future. When challenges are complex, such as with climate change, nurturing a community is a powerful starting point. This perspective is at the heart of the Atlanta Women in Sustainability, who gather, share stories and ideas, and explore solutions to society’s biggest challenges.

Disguise’s new experience center will bring hands-on workshops, industry events, and the latest visual technology to creators in the Southeast.

“This isn’t a meetup, it’s a movement,” said Jeffrey Gray, Founder and CEO of AgeTech Connect, which is redefining the experience of aging through technology. On January 21, Gray welcomed 150 attendees to the AgeTech Connect 2026 Kickoff, held in partnership with RoboGeorgia at the Biltmore Innovation Center, and shared trends about where the AgeTech ecosystem is headed in 2026, and beyond!

Publishing your work can be daunting; the process can seem opaque and, at times, arbitrary. At Georgia Tech’s Editor-in-Chief Summit: Navigating Academic Publishing, hosted by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, eight editors shed light on how you can successfully publish your work. We’ve also prepared a key reminders document that you can use as you write your next manuscript or research paper.

Last week, faculty, students, partners, and sustainability leaders gathered at the Tech Square Clubhouse to celebrate a major milestone for the Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education, known across campus as SCoRE. The event marked ten years of the Center’s work advancing interdisciplinary sustainability research, education, and community-centered collaboration at Georgia Tech and beyond.

Last week, leaders from Atlanta’s tech and innovation ecosystem gathered to mark the Biltmore Innovation Center’s first anniversary as an initiative spurred by the leadership of the Georgia Tech Foundation.

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The Georgia Tech SimTigrate Design Center is a collaborative hub for interdisciplinary researchers to simulate and test healthcare challenges, such as design for aging, design for infection control, primary care teamwork, and healthy communities.

This past fall, Tech Square collected abandoned bikes to donate to the Atlanta chapter of Free Bikes 4 Kidz, a nonprofit focused on refurbishing gently used bikes to gift to the children who need them most.