Tech Square ATL

Do you want a chance to win four tickets to the World Cup? 🌍⚽

Cox Enterprises is hosting Play With Purpose at the Biltmore Innovation Center in Midtown, featuring a 3-day hackathon focused on key sustainability challenges. Gather your team, select a track, and collaborate to create the best solution possible. Present your ideas to a panel of judges with expertise in sustainability from various industries. Tracks include energy, agriculture, spaces/places, making/remaking, transportation of goods & people, or even design your own challenge.

Play With Purpose Sustainability Hackathon's sponsors include Southern Company, Cox Farms, the Mayor's Office of Sustainability and Resilience, Carter's, Delta, Mercedes-Benz, and gener8tor. Operating partners include Atlanta Tech Week and the georgia cleantech innovation hub.

📆June 14: Kickoff
📆June 15-16: Build
📆June 17: Complete & Present

Discover more and register here 👉 https://www.coxenterprises.com/hackathon

Next Monday is Civic Tech Atlanta's monthly Civic Action Night. 💥

Stop by the Clubhouse to join Civic Tech Atlanta's volunteer efforts to make Atlanta more inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible through tech. Coders of all levels are welcome, and bringing a laptop is recommended but never required. 👩‍💻

🕔 Monday, June 8 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
📍TSQ ATL Clubhouse

Register for the event here: https://buff.ly/CSdnivd

The TSQ Clubhouse has been a key part of the tech community here since its early days as The Garage. It has hosted coworking, startups, and events throughout the whole year.

As the tech square ecosystem has evolved, the Clubhouse has now shifted its focus to become a premier event space hosting Atlanta Tech Week programming, corporate events from companies like Aflac, startup meetups, research panels, and student showcases.

For more information, booking inquiries, or quotes for the Clubhouse or other TSQ-affiliated venues, visit the TSQ Events website or contact Michaela Johnson at [email protected].

Full story👉https://www.techsquareatl.com/tech-square-news/2026/6/2/the-clubhouse-reimagined-where-big-ideas-now-take-the-stage

You’ve probably heard of “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, but how about “Reduce, Reuse, Refill, and Refuse”?

Veronica Apecena never expected to launch a retail business.

And now, Apecena is the owner of Joyful Jarra, a refillery providing non-toxic, low-waste, and a variety of locally sourced home and body products to Atlantans.

The turning point for Apecena came when she visited a North Carolina refillery where a friend with a developmental disability label was working. “She was so empowered and talking so positively about this new role. And within minutes of walking in the door of the refillery, I knew I needed to recreate this for communities in Atlanta,” said Apecena.

Learn how Apecena launched Joyful Jarra to unite the circular economy with inclusive employment here 🔗https://www.techsquareatl.com/tech-square-news/2026/6/2/sustainability-on-tap-joyful-jarra-brings-sustainable-options-to-atlantans

🌎Last week, The American Marketing Association's Atlanta chapter packed the Chick-fil-a College Football Hall of Fame for Celebrating the Global Games, and the conversation was bigger than a recap. It was about getting over Atlanta's "imposter syndrome" and celebrating the how impressively the city has moved forward in sports, entertainment, and tech!

⚽With FIFA World Cup 2026 coming here, the room was full of marketers, sports execs, and creatives talking about what Atlanta has quietly built — and why it's time to stop being modest about it. Soccer. Esports. Hip-hop. World-class brands. Local talent doing work that doesn't need to leave the city to be great.

Read the full recap here and check out AMA Atlanta to find out how to get involved 👉https://www.techsquareatl.com/tech-square-news/2026/5/28/recapping-sports-in-atlanta-at-amas-celebrating-the-global-games

📱Most people haven't considered that the smartphone in their pocket could be part of a clinical workflow. TSRB researcher Sixuan Wu (Uncommon Sense Lab, College of Computing) is changing that.

🔬His project, µMobileScan, pairs a smartphone with a standard microscope to digitize blood cell analysis. The result is faster, more accurate red blood cell counts that can be stored, shared, and reviewed later.

Read more: https://www.techsquareatl.com/tech-square-news/2026/5/26/making-microscopy-more-accessible-with-smartphone-guided-slide-scanning

🧠Last week, members of the Tech Square community gathered for a secret meeting of the minds. A new event series called Brains in the Bar convened to spark conversation about artificial intelligence. The question that both inspired the gathering and earned attendees their invitation: "Where would you choose a human over perfectly accurate AI?"

🔗https://www.techsquareatl.com/tech-square-news/2026/5/19/tech-squares-newest-event-series-tackles-the-ai-question

🚨 LOCATION UPDATE!

Starting this week, TSQ Tuesdays will be held in the Centergy Lobby! Just head up the stairs across from the Clubhouse at 75 5th Street. Join us for drinks, snacks, games, and great conversation every Tuesday from 4 to 6 PM in the Centergy Lobby. Don't miss out! 🎉🥳