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Amol Naik

Amol Naik

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From Smart Bug Farms to Plant Data, Atlanta AgTech Challenge Kicks Off On the BeltLine

Agribusiness is Georgia’s number one industry, and is important across the Southeast at large. But with a projected 70 percent of the world’s population condensing in urban areas by the year 2050 — not to mention the effects of a warming world — the forward-thinking are looking towards farming

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The BeltLine Will Soon Be Home to Smart AgTech Pods That Grow Food

Around the world, urban populations are rising. Metro Atlanta, for example, is projected to double by the year 2040. This rapid growth puts pressure on cities in terms of resources like food, water, housing and more. Technology, particularly in the category of smart cities, can provide solutions to some of

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Schoolhouse Tech: Why Smart Cities Must Also Be Inclusive Ones

I recently had the pleasure of accompanying the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) on its annual LINK trip in my capacity as the ARC’s citizen board member for the City of Atlanta. The purpose of the trip is for more than 100 government, business and non-profit sector leaders to

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Schoolhouse Tech: How Georgia's State Government Set the Stage for Tech Industry Growth

In this column, technology and public policy expert Amol Naik will discuss issues at the intersection of government and tech. Views expressed are those of the author. In this era of distrust in our federal government, its natural to write off everything in politics. But recent days in Georgia, which

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Voting Rights Lawyer-Turned-Technology Advocate Talks Regulating the Tech of Tomorrow

Amol Naik started his legal career in a relatively traditional fashion — after graduating from Emory Law School he worked as a litigator at a large firm, eventually using his former political experience to start a political law practice at the firm. "In addition to representing a number of Democratic