On September 25th, Women in Technology (WIT), a nonprofit organization that is “supporting the women who are shaping the future”, hosted the 2025 WIT Career Fair at the TSQ ATL Clubhouse. Over 220 attendees engaged in dynamic conversations with tech-driven companies and formed valuable professional connections with community members.

TSQ Tuesday is a weekly happy hour/networking event that turns casual conversations into real-world collaborations, connecting researchers, entrepreneurs, and technologists. For Weiyuan “Vera” Wang, a chance meeting at the event sparked a partnership that could transform how live-animal research is conducted, reducing stress for animals while improving data accuracy.

“We hope to get everyone to catch ‘entrepreneur’s disease,’” says John Avery, referring to the contagious excitement of entrepreneurship. As director of Georgia Tech’s ATDC, Avery has helped cultivate a collaborative environment in Tech Square where mentors and founders spark ideas, share advice, and turn big concepts into startups.

San Francisco–based startup Pylon joined Bits of Good at The Clubhouse for a tech talk on modern web development, fresh off a $31M Series B.

Startups need talent. Students need experience. But too often, cost keeps them apart. Georgia Tech’s Office of Commercialization is breaking down that barrier—funding internships that give students real-world exposure while helping young companies scale.

Imagine an Atlanta where there’s a pathway for every breakthrough in a Georgia Tech lab to launch into a startup and scale to a billion-dollar “unicorn”. This isn’t a distant fantasy—it’s the vision that Dr. Raghupathy “Siva” Sivakumar, Georgia Tech’s chief commercialization officer, is championing.

“It’s the smell of the future,” says Mya Love Griesbaum, reflecting on her work with fungi. The 21-year-old materials researcher has come to appreciate the earthy odor of decomposing matter, a scent that symbolizes possibility: a future where fungi clean up pollution and transform the fashion industry. As the founder of Mycorrhiza Fashion, she is developing a sustainable approach to textiles by cultivating fungi-derived materials that can help address the pollution problem in the fashion industry.

At Memento in Atlanta, Sam Thurman’s 3D-printed light sculptures transformed architectural principles into luminous art, blending geometry, symmetry, and design to create spaces that resonated with both form and meaning. His debut show, Speculative Futures, invited viewers to experience how architecture and technology intersect with creative expression.

Atlanta’s video game industry has quietly built one of the Southeast's most dynamic tech sectors. With over 200 studios operating across Georgia, many clustered in and around Atlanta, the region is gaining national attention as a serious destination for game developers.

Shamim Shoomali is a PhD student in Georgia Tech’s Digital Media program. She works out of the TSRB building in Tech Square, blending art, design, and technology—and lately, documenting everyday campus life through her illustrated book, Between Classes. Her path to this interdisciplinary calling began thousands of miles away in Iran.

Midtown Day gave Atlanta Tech Week a massive pulse, turning Tech Square into a playground for big ideas, chance encounters, and innovation in motion. From sunrise jogs to sunset happy hours, the day captured what makes this district hum: people coming together to build, test, and debate the future.

Every year, Tech Square changes. But 2024 marked a period of accelerated growth and transition. With the release of the 2024 edition of The Book, we’ve taken a moment to document that shift.

At the intersection of business and breakthrough ideas in Atlanta, the Corporate Innovation Center's Connect series ensures that momentum doesn’t stay siloed. Spearheaded by Mikey DiCenso, Innovation Ecosystem Relationship Manager at Collaborative Real Estate, the event series brings together some of the region’s top corporate innovation centers to collaborate, learn, and grow stronger together.

The Startup Exchange Spring Summit 2025 brought together students from around Atlanta. These founders were brought into the TSQ Clubhouse, where six of the best teams got to hit the stage and pitch live to investors who served as judges for the competition.

Last month, Bits of Good held its highly anticipated spring Demo Day, where project teams presented the results of their semester-long work with local nonprofit partners. The event drew significant attention from Georgia Tech faculty and Atlanta-based nonprofit organizations, all eager to see the impact of Bits of Good's collaborations.