News & Research
Tech Square Peer Check-in: Making More Than Music
On a sunny Thursday afternoon via Zoom, we caught up with a handful of musical technologists in our community.
Solar Inventions: The New Solar Energy
Solar Inventions celebrates the win of the American Made Solar Prize, a startup competition sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technology Group and the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL).
Tech Square Peer Check-In: Adjusting to Isolation
Out of curiosity for how teams are adapting with the current events, we created (a virtual) space to check in with a handful of our members via video conferencing. Here are 3 ways our members are maintaining their personal wellness as they adjust to this new reality.
Accenture's Team Connects Through Social Distancing
Karima Alkhalid from Accenture’s Applied Intelligence team shares a new program that helps connect her group.
NOW Corp’s Lara Hodgson: Doing The Opposite Doesn’t Mean Breaking The Rules
When there’s talk about someone doing the opposite, it usually means that this person is being contrarian, bucking the rules, and challenging assumptions. All of that is generally true but to Lara Hodgson, doing the opposite is the key to all innovation, creativity, success, and significance — without having to break the rules.
Quick Tips to Look Professional While Video Conferencing
Tech Square companies have been recently transitioning their weekly stand-ups and check-ins to online video conference software. We wanted to provide some quick tips on how to make yourself look better and more professional while connecting.
How ATDC HealthTech Companies Are Pivoting
ATDC continued to connect and educate by moving their networking event, Entrepreneurs’ Night, to an online dinner party. Over 30 participants tuned in from the comfort of their couch.
Kaneva's Chris Klaus: Why Your Startup Should Join An Accelerator
During an evening fireside chat in our shared community space, Kaneva founder Chris Klaus shared his entrepreneurial journey: from building his first company in his grandmother’s spare guest room, to giving university students a platform to launch their own startups.
5 Ways To Combat Confidence Issues At Work
Maintaining confidence in the boardroom - whether it’s pitching your own business as an entrepreneur or moving the needle as an intrapreneur - is a common challenge, especially among women. From our International Women’s Day conversation over brunch, here are 5 tactical approaches we learned to overcome them.
Canary to Compete in The 2020 InVenture Prize Competition
Congrats to Tech Square ATL member Stephen Ralph Jr. and his teammates Simms Pettway and Noah Waldron, for being selected to compete in this year's 2020 InVenture Prize - a student invention competition with $35,000 in cash prizes, up to $20,000 for a U.S. patent application, and an automatic acceptance into CREATE-X’s Startup Launch program for the winning team.
Brains in a Bar: Should Robots Be Taxed?
During our inaugural Brains In A Bar speakeasy meetup, we discussed the robot tax conundrum with six members of our community. Our conversation encompassed economics, corporate social responsibility, the role of government, underground economies, and whether there is a limit to the human desire for innovation.
2020 Vision for the New Year
Theresa Ward (The Fiery Feather) guided an intimate discussion on protecting your personal energy and setting boundaries in the new year. The conversation led us into a strategic goal-setting workshop where learned the tools needed to bring our visions to life.
Bits of Good Launches into Spring with New Non-Profits
Bits of Good is a Georgia Tech student-run organization that lends their diverse skillsets to local non-profits in order to help advance their web applications. The “Launch Party” is the first time these civic boosters have the opportunity to meet with non-profits to discuss the projects for the semester.
Tech Square Game Night feat. Super Drone Racing
Super Drone Racing kicks off its inaugural drone race at The Garage
Hermeus: Building a Faster Future
Startup Exchange invites founder and CEO, A.J. Piplica to discuss the journey of building a supersonic aircraft.