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Kasim Reed

Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed: On the Startup Scene and the Need to “Nurture Courage”

“Over the last two years as Mayor, Atlanta has just really taken off.” On March 15, Switchyards Downtown Club filled up for its signature Made In Atlanta monthly event. The eclectic mix of startup enthusiasts, creative entrepreneurs, and those that just wanted to spend a week night learning a little,

Tech Talent: This Air Force Vet Wants to Use His Coding Skills to Solve Social Services Challenges

Tech Talent: This Air Force Vet Wants to Use His Coding Skills to Solve Social Services Challenges

After six years in the U.S. Air Force, Kenneth Barnes wanted to come back to his original social work-oriented career path — with a tech twist. Upon realization of how technology could help the family services field from document submission to case management, Barnes decided to enroll in Georgia Tech&

PwC's Kevin Campbell On Why Cybersecurity Responsibility Lays With the C-Suite First

PwC's Kevin Campbell On Why Cybersecurity Responsibility Lays With the C-Suite First

PwC's 2018 Global State of Information Security survey showed that almost half — 48 percent — of companies surveyed don't have an employee security awareness training in place, while 54 percent don't have incident response plans in regards to cybersecurity threats. "Thinking through how you&

Are Atlanta Roadways Ready For An Autonomous Future? A High View To Where We're Headed

Are Atlanta Roadways Ready For An Autonomous Future? A High View To Where We're Headed

Many of us have a certain vision of how autonomous vehicles, a smart, driverless vehicle, will look like. Whether you have your favorite sci-fi movie or the Jetsons in your mind, the technology is quickly evolving past our imagination and into the real world. After approving regulations this past February,

Debbie Wheeler

How Debbie Wheeler's Security Background Prepared Her To Be Delta's First Chief Information Security Officer

Cybersecurity breaches, increasingly common at large organizations, are at best embarrassing and at worse, a dangerous breach of customer data and internal knowledge. This wide range and frequent nature of hacks is why the fairly recently-created role of a Chief Information Security Officer is growing more and more critical at

Tech Talent: This Junior Programmer Brings Hospitality into the Collaborative Tech World

Tech Talent: This Junior Programmer Brings Hospitality into the Collaborative Tech World

Seth Zimmerman is a people person. His personality shined at the happiest place on Earth, Walt Disney World, after completing his degree in Hospitality Management at the University of South Carolina. The team-oriented environment boasted by the tech industry attracted Zimmerman into programming and he enrolled in DigitalCrafts‘ full-stack immersion