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Georgia Tech's Scott Duncan welcome remarks at the Microgrid workshop

February 4, 2025

Tech Square Microgrid Workshop Sparks Ideas For Energy Resiliency Assets

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Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), Southern Company, and Georgia Power hosted a workshop aimed at imparting new information and sparking innovative ideas around the Tech Square Microgrid (TSMG) and the use of its data in education and research

Image of a notebook and lightbulb. The notebook reads "CRAETE-X Tips"

February 3, 2025

Six Tips to Begin Your Startup With CREATE-X

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Starting a business can be daunting, but CREATE-X is here to help you navigate these challenges with six essential tips for launching your own business!

January 30, 2025

Solar Rebound: The Behavioral Economics Behind Increased Electricity Use

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A recent study by Matthew E. Oliver from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his co-authors, Juan Moreno-Cruz from the University of Waterloo and Kenneth Gillingham from Yale University, delves into the solar rebound effect.

Poster featuring S.K. Sharma, former Chief Analytics and AI Officer at Universal Music Group, promoting the Deep Startups event on January 30 at 7 p.m. in Marcus Nano Rooms 1116-1118. The event, hosted by CREATE-X, will discuss developing startups using AI, data science, and strategic analytics within the music industry

January 27, 2025

Deep Startups with S.K. Sharma: Transforming Music With AI and Data Science

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CREATE-X will host a Deep Startups fireside chat featuring S.K. Sharma, former chief analytics and AI officer at Universal Music Group, on Jan. 30, focusing on startup development in the music industry.

This image shows computer science students in Twiggs County, Georgia in their virtual class with Georgia Tech

January 22, 2025

Georgia Tech's Computer Science Initiative Expands Opportunities for Rural Students

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Georgia Tech’s Rural Computer Science Initiative empowers rural teachers and students in Georgia through co-taught computer science courses, preparing them for tech careers and supporting Georgia’s future workforce.

Collage of Startup Launch alumni an CREATE-X participants on the cover of the CREATE-X Decade Report

January 17, 2025

CREATE-X Releases Report on 10-Year Milestone

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CREATE-X, founded in 2014 at Georgia Tech, has released its first decade report, showcasing its impact of supporting the Georgia Tech community in launching more than 560 startups, achieving a total portfolio valuation of over $2 billion.

December 9, 2024

CREATE-X Announces 2025 Jim Pope Fellows

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CREATE-X has announced the next cohort of faculty members selected for the Jim Pope Fellowship for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year.

December 3, 2024

New Dataset Takes Aim at Subjective Misinformation in Earnings Calls and Other Public Hearings

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SubjECTive-QA is the first human-curated dataset on question-answer pairs from earnings call transcripts (ECTs). The dataset teaches models to identify subjective features in ECTs, like clarity and cautiousness.

December 3, 2024

Multipurpose Model Enhances Forecasting Across Epidemics, Energy, and Economics

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The Large Pre-Trained Time-Series Model (LPTM) framework completes forecasting tasks across a broad range of domains, outperforms current models, and requires 40% less data and 50% less training time than current baselines.

Josh Luber, co-founder of StockX, zerocool, Fanatics Collectibles, speaks to Georgia Tech students

December 1, 2024

StockX Co-Founder, Josh Luber, Visits Georgia Tech for Deep Startups

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Josh Luber, co-founder of StockX, shared his entrepreneurial journey and insights on resilience and innovation with Georgia Tech students at the CREATE-X Deep Startups workshop.

December 1, 2024

Adapt to Thrive: Y Combinator and Greptile Talk Startups Georgia Tech

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On Nov. 12, CREATE-X hosted a panel with Y Combinator partner Brad Flora and Greptile founders, offering practical advice and networking for aspiring entrepreneurs, with Flora sharing his journey and tips, and the Greptile founders discussing their startu

Members of Georgia AIM’s governance team stand for a photo with Cassia Baker, a cybersecurity expert with the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (left), and David Bridges, executive vice president of Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute (second from right), which oversees the projects.

November 7, 2024

Georgia AIM Wins Tech for Good Award from the Technology Association of Georgia

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The award honors a program or project that uses technology to promote inclusiveness and equity by serving Georgia communities and individuals who are underrepresented in the tech space.

Georgia Tech's Tech Tower with flowers blooming in the foreground

November 5, 2024

Y Combinator Is Coming to Georgia Tech, Hosted by CREATE-X

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Y Combinator, hosted by CREATE-X, is coming to Georgia Tech on Nov.12, 5p.m., Walter G. Ehmer Theater, for a panel between Group Partner Brad Flora and the founders of Greptile to discuss the startup accelerator and entrepreneurship.

From left, Georgia Tech’s Nakia Melecio, Keith McGreggor, and Raghupathy “Siva” Sivakumar, are the NSF I-Corps Southeast Hub director, faculty lead, and principal investigator, respectively.

October 30, 2024

National Science Foundation Awards $15M to Georgia Tech-Led Consortium of Universities for Societal-Oriented Innovation and Commercialization Effort

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Multi-state I-Corps Hubs project designed to strengthen regional innovation ecosystem and address inequities in access to capital and commercialization opportunities

Three Georgia Tech researchers headshots

October 30, 2024

National Science Foundation Awards $15M to Georgia Tech-Led Consortium of Universities for Societal-Oriented Innovation and Commercialization Effort

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Multi-state I-Corps Hubs project designed to strengthen regional innovation ecosystem and address inequities in access to capital and commercialization opportunities

Severe weather effecting port activities

October 16, 2024

Risk and Resiliency: Practical Steps for Supply Chain Professionals, Businesses, and Individuals

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Recent hurricanes, port strikes, wildfires, and global disruptions have proven that the risk of major interruptions to business and personal life is no longer hypothetical.

Georgia AIM representatives talk with students on Georgia Tech's campus during the launch event for their new mobile labs.

October 14, 2024

Georgia AIM Week: Making Manufacturing Cool

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Georgia AIM Week launched with events and a mobile lab to bring AI and smart technology to Georgia communities.

October 1, 2024

Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines Announces New Initiative Leads

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We hope that initiative leads will act as the “faculty face” of IRIM and communicate IRIM’s vision and activities to audiences both within and outside of Georgia Tech.

Team Sustain poses with their lock box for home cooked meals at the 2024 Spring Capstone Expo.

September 30, 2024

Team Sustain’s Capstone: Engineering Culinary Convenience

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Team Sustain, as a part of CREATE-X Capstone Design, developed a crowdsourced meal system to make home-cooked meals more convenient, showcasing their blend of technical and entrepreneurial skills.

Beril Toktay, Brady Family Chair in Management and regents professor

September 25, 2024

Scheller Business Insights: Achieving Net Zero Featuring Beril Toktay

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Beril Toktay, director of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business and Regents' Professor in Operations Management, discusses achieving net zero and provides examples of how some industries can reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change.