Ambassador: How Argentina’s Tech Sector Aligns With Atlanta at an Opportune Moment

Speed meetings between the 13 Argentine companies and local firms was part of the South Meets South reception.

Argentina’s ambassador to the U.S. covered his diplomatic bases, extolling recent reforms and recommending investors take another look at a South American country that has made an art form out… Continue reading Ambassador: How Argentina’s Tech Sector Aligns With Atlanta at an Opportune Moment

Metro Export Challenge Applications Open as ‘Pitch Day’ Approaches 

Fulton County-based CodeMettle takes home a $10,000 check after winning second place at Pitch Day in 2024. The company had already utilized $5,000 in grant funding to grow its sales abroad.

Applications are once again open for the Atlanta Metro Export Challenge, the longstanding grant program that aids companies within the 29-county metro area in expanding into to new international markets. 

Event Recap — Zambian Roadshow Outlines New Paradigm for Investment

Zambia Innovation & Investment Roadshow Featuring Ambassador Chibamba Kanyama September 11, 2025Buckhead Club, Atlanta Zambian Ambassador Chibamba Kanyama first came to Atlanta in 1993. A young TV reporter at the… Continue reading Event Recap — Zambian Roadshow Outlines New Paradigm for Investment

Aquagenuity’s Water Quality Data Platform Is Looking to Go Global

Doll Avant, center, was named one of Apple's Impact Accelerator participants in 2022, another door opened for the Atlanta-based entrepreneur.

What started as a journey to evaluate and track local water quality in the U.S. has taken a global turn for Aquagenuity, the Atlanta tech platform now riding a wave of international interest. 

No Quick Fixes for Atlanta Sustainability Startups, Mobility Giants Tackling Systemic Global Problems 

Mobility giants SK Battery America and Michelin shared insights from their massive Georgia investments and how their international parent companies continue to innovate on sustainability initiatives.

Systems tend to work pretty well for the stakeholders who created them, but startups from Atlanta are taking the long road to disruption, implementing new technologies with global impact.

Event Recap: How Atlanta Companies — and Students — Are Cultivating a Greener World

Circular City: How Atlanta Trades Sustainability Innovations with the World August 28, 2025Atlanta International School – Sandy Springs Set in a forest along the Chattahoochee River, Atlanta International School’s new… Continue reading Event Recap: How Atlanta Companies — and Students — Are Cultivating a Greener World

KNAPP’s Cobb Presence Supports U.S. Growth Amid Shifting Logistics Landscape

Knapp's AeroBot is an example of how it's innovating to meet the rapidly evolving logistics needs of customers.

When KNAPP Inc. first set up shop in the United States in 1997, its founders opened the company’s first U.S. office in a Cartersville garage.

Today, the Kennesaw-based subsidiary of Austrian automation provider KNAPP AG employs over 1,100 people nationwide—roughly half of them in Cobb County—and plays a key role in shaping the future of logistics and supply chain automation in North America.