Atlanta, GA
Venture Atlanta Returns to Celebrate 15th Anniversary of Connecting Founders and Funders
This October will see the legendary Enterprise Atlanta Convention break new floor. With a gorgeous new venue on the Woodruff Arts Middle and Atlanta Symphony Corridor, a brand new file of over 500 functions, and the best ever-amount of 90 occasion sponsors, this 12 months’s occasion is trying to be larger and higher than ever.
Hold studying to study what to anticipate from one of the prestigious and well-known enterprise capital conferences within the Southeast, and discover your cause to go to Atlanta for 2 days of invaluable experiences.
What’s the Enterprise Atlanta Convention?
The Enterprise Atlanta Convention is celebrating its fifteenth 12 months. The convention brings collectively enterprise and startup founders within the expertise discipline and presents them the right platform to current their corporations to a consortium of funding corporations and sponsors.
Through the years, Enterprise Atlanta has helped launch greater than 700 corporations and raised a complete of $6.5 billion in funding to assist entrepreneurs attain success. With greater than $17 billion in profitable exits, it’s straightforward to see the worth of the occasion for entrepreneurs and buyers alike.
In accordance with the Enterprise Atlanta web site, this 12 months’s occasion will showcase 85 corporations, who could have the possibility to face earlier than a discipline of helpful buyers and sponsors and make their case as to why their enterprise is value supporting. An entire record of this 12 months’s presenters and showcased corporations will be discovered right here.
Enterprise Atlanta Guarantees to FORWARD March
The theme of this 12 months’s convention is FORWARD, which marks the Southeast’s continued progress and momentum as a pacesetter within the expertise discipline. The file variety of functions, together with practically 60%, which come from exterior Georgia, is proof of the rising scope of Enterprise Atlanta. This 12 months’s corporations hail from promising expertise hubs, together with Austin, Birmingham, Charlotte, Dallas, Durham, Miami, Nashville, and Richmond, in addition to Atlanta.
“This 12 months’s candidates broke even final 12 months’s file, with the standard of corporations making it a really troublesome job for our Choice Committee,” mentioned Allyson Eman, Enterprise Atlanta CEO. “With a formidable slate of presenting and showcase corporations, a file variety of sponsors, and a brand-new venue, we’re persevering with to lift the bar for what will likely be our Fifteenth-anniversary occasion.”
Rob Casey, who’s chair of this 12 months’s Enterprise Atlanta Choice Committee and Associate of Assurance Companies at Aprio, mentioned, “We’re extraordinarily happy by the caliber and scope of this 12 months’s presenting and showcase corporations.”
“As at all times, Enterprise Atlanta’s mission is to present stellar corporations entry to connections and capital, and we stay up for watching the trajectories of this 12 months’s soon-to-be Enterprise Atlanta alumni,” Casey mentioned.
This 12 months’s Venue Mixes Artwork and Expertise
The Woodruff Arts Middle is the third largest of its sort in the US. The brand new venue will current audio system and shows from the newly renovated Atlanta Symphony Corridor situated on the Woodruff campus.
“Through the years, Enterprise Atlanta has developed from a two-day occasion into an energetic group devoted to bringing collectively revolutionary corporations, disruptive applied sciences, and top-tier buyers,” mentioned Elizabeth Stephens, chair of the Enterprise Atlanta Firms Committee and Principal at Noro-Moseley Companions.
“We’re excited and honored to be internet hosting Enterprise Atlanta FORWARD at such an vital and historic facility as The Woodruff Arts Middle and Atlanta Symphony Corridor. The venue, in addition to our outstanding showcase and presenting corporations, notable audio system, and full roster of sponsors, make it an occasion to not be missed.”
12 Keynote Audio system and A lot Extra
This 12 months’s convention will characteristic 12 keynote audio system taking part in a number of panels designed to offer the very best platform for imparting information and sharing inspiration. The convention has even teased high-profile thriller visitors who will current a closing keynote deal with and should even keep “after the clock runs out” for an autograph and picture session.
With over 1,200 annual attendees anticipated, composed of entrepreneurs, founders, buyers, and leaders from across the nation, there will likely be loads of networking alternatives for individuals on either side of the aisle.
Enterprise Atlanta presents vital pathways for all of its guests. Entrepreneurs will be capable of see the highest rising tech corporations from throughout the world and forge significant relationships with business leaders and funding companies from throughout the nation.
Buyers who collect on the occasion could have the chance to analyze over 85 corporations in slightly below two days. As a result of every firm undergoes a rigorous choice course of, buyers can assure that every potential match is value their time.
College students can attend the occasion for one-of-a-kind networking and academic alternatives. There are even a restricted variety of pupil tickets accessible without spending a dime!
Members of the press can join a press cross for direct entry to audio system, presenters, and high innovators within the expertise business.
Reserve Your Spot
This 12 months’s convention will happen on Wednesday, October 19, and Thursday, October 20.
These thinking about attending this 12 months’s convention can register on the Enterprise Atlanta Convention web site, and pricing info is accessible right here. Sponsor info is offered as properly. If you would like a preview of this 12 months’s occasion, try the Enterprise Atlanta 2022 Promo video.
Atlanta, GA
Gwinnett County Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade canceled due to cold weather
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Gwinnett County has been canceled due to cold weather expected to move through Atlanta.
The Gwinnett County Democratic Party announced that the United Ebony Society made the decision.
The party said, “This decision was not made lightly, and was made to prioritize the safety of our community. We welcome you to honor Dr. King’s legacy in your own way and hope you stay warm!”
According to the Atlanta News First First Alert Weather team, it will be below freezing Monday morning and could be as low as 29 degrees at noon. Highs tomorrow are expected to be in the low 30s.
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Atlanta, GA
Winter Storm Watch: What we know so far about snow for metro Atlanta on Tuesday
We’ll have a Winter Storm Watch from Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning with the possibility of one to three inches of snow possible.
The highest impacts are expected in areas south of Interstate 20.
Severe Weather Team 2 Chief Meteorologist Brad Nitz is tracking the timing on when it will arrive.
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Atlanta, GA
MLK Beloved Community Awards shines light on injustice of man killed during homeless encampment clearing
ATLANTA – The annual Beloved Community Awards by The King Center kicked off a weekend of remembrance and service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It’s a night to honor people working to make the world a more just place.
But the injustice of an unhoused man’s death, caused by an Atlanta City Public Works truck during a sweep of the encampment where he was sleeping, weighed heavily on many of the civil rights leaders gathered at the ceremony.
MLK Beloved Community Awards
The music, glitz and glamor of the annual awards ceremony shined bright Saturday evening.
As celebrities and community leaders came together to honor those working to carry out Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a “beloved community.”
Actress Jenifer Lewis, who’s starred in many movies and T.V. shows including Black-ish, received an award during the ceremony.
“I’ve had a lot of wonderful occasions in these 68 years, but this is the most wonderful. The glory and the hallelujah of it all when people come together, stand strong and unite,” Lewis said.
Civil rights leaders concerned about homeless man’s death
But the death of a man who was homeless at the hands of an Atlanta City Public Works truck while they were trying to sweep the encampment where he was staying on Old Wheat Street Thursday, happened just a few hundred feet away from The King Center.
Dr. Bernice King, CEO of the King Center and daughter of the late Dr. King lamented the tragedy.
“I just wish that the person who did this would’ve thought about ‘hey let’s check the tents, let’s make sure human beings are not present’ before they cleared out the camp,” King said.
FOX 5 was at another MLK Day event in Stone Mountain and caught up with the President of Hosea Helps Elisabeth Omilami.
Hosea Helps President Elisabeth Omilami
She decried the tragedy and says the death feels too similar to the deaths of the two sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968.
“It reminds me of the gentlemen who were crushed by the garbage truck in Memphis at Martin Luther King’s last speech where he was assassinated in Memphis,” Omilami said.
State President of the NAACP Gerald Griggs was at Saturday’s awards ceremony and says it shows how badly the City needs to make changes.
“We don’t need to move people when we’re having international guests. I think Dr. King would want us to embrace those unhoused brothers and sisters and do more to provide the necessary funds and housing for them,” Griggs said.
How City of Atlanta leaders are responding
In a statement, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said the city will “review each of our processes and procedures and take every precaution to ensure this never happens again.”
Dr. King says the King Center stands ready to help them do that.
“We’re looking forward at The King Center to possibly working with the City to train people on how to carry out what they’re trained to do in a humane way,” King said.
Some activists have accused the City of clearing the homeless encampment because of its proximity to The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park and the upcoming holiday.
But the City denies that.
In a statement, Cathry Vassell, CEO for Partners for HOME, which works with the City to get people housed, said they had been working with this encampment for months to try and get them off the streets prior to this sweep.
“The first engagement with this encampment began the week of April 5, 2024. Individuals began transitioning to shelter on June 7, 2024. Through these ongoing efforts, 21 individuals have been connected to shelter and housing,” her statement reads.
The Source: Information for this story was provided by the City of Atlanta and gathered by FOX 5 crews at the 2025 Beloved Community Awards Ceremony and Stone Mountain MLK ceremony.
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