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Apple-backed HBCU Innovation Center To Call Atlanta University Center Home

Apple-backed HBCU Innovation Center To Call Atlanta University Center Home

Atlanta is set to be home to yet another HQ. The Atlanta University Center (AUC) will soon house The Propel Center’s innovation campus, which will focus on building tech talent within the country's 100+ HBCUs. The Propel Center, started by Birmingham-based Ed Farm, offers in-person

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How Former City of Atlanta COO Duriya Farooqui Curates Collaboration At the Point A Supply Chain Innovation Center

“For most of my career, I have been in these roles where I’ve had to galvanize and mobilize people with completely different backgrounds around these common causes.” Duriya Farooqui is explaining why she, as a former public service leader, has taken on the weighty charge of directing Point A,

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Innovation Impact: Georgia-Pacific's Point A Is A Member-Driven, Collaborative Innovation Club

Mary Kate Love believes that the common thread of the innovation process, from ideation to customer discovery to implementation, is forcing people “ to be a little bit uncomfortable.” Love spent most of her career at UI Labs, an innovation center based in Chicago that works with companies, universities and government

First Look At the $100M Georgia Cyber Center: The Largest Investment in Cybersecurity By a State

First Look At the $100M Georgia Cyber Center: The Largest Investment in Cybersecurity By a State

In early 2017, Georgia state government made clear its commitment to growing and nurturing the state's cybersecurity talent with the allocation of an initial $58 million, and then another $35 million, into the Hull McKnight Georgia Cyber Center for Innovation and Training. The campus of the Augusta-based

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Innovation Impact: How Southern Company Turned An Employee Idea Challenge Into An Innovation Center

For Southern Company, innovation wasn’t a choice — the umbrella company of more than a dozen electric and natural gas utilities and energy businesses, the energy giant realized that the future of how consumers consume energy is changing, sooner rather than later. Rather than taking a “wait-and-see” approach

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Hacking the Enterprise: Here's Why Corporations Open (Useful) Innovation Centers

Over 25 global corporations including Coca-Cola, thyssenkrupp, Home Depot and Stanley Black & Decker tap into Atlanta's dynamic concentration of startups, talent and entrepreneurial initiatives by standing up an off-site innovation center. Innovation centers can make a significant impact on business growth when done well. Off-

$100M Georgia Cyber Center Chooses Innovation Partner

$100M Georgia Cyber Center Chooses Innovation Partner

In order to expand the footprint and resources for cybersecurity startups in Georgia, the soon-to-open Hull McKnight Georgia Cyber Center for Innovation and Training in Augusta has formed a strategic partnership with entrepreneur-focused non-profit theClubhou.se to manage its new innovation space, opening this July. The