Martina King sees her tech teams as a crime fighting force. As CEO of payments fraud prevention company Featurespace, King oversees a workforce 200 strong across two continents. The UK-based executive, named one of the most influential women in payments, joined the company following executive roles in media, technology, and retail. Featurespace was her first payments […]
When Jessica Merriman first enrolled as a Georgia Tech student, she was studying neurosurgery. By the time she graduated, she had become the co-founder of what is now one of the largest gaming, anime, eSports, and comics conventions in the southeast. MomoCon is an “all-ages Geek Culture Convention” held in Atlanta. Founded in March 2005 […]
Since Amazon launched the Echo Show, the first Alexa device with a screen, the company has been encouraging developers to modify Alexa Skills to make them more visual. That was the impetus for the Multimodal Alexa Skills Challenge, a contest judging Alexa Skills with visual components. The Challenge, which opened in 2018 and is giving […]
Hannah Hill was planning to become a prison chaplain to help women caught in the unremitting cycles of the justice system. But when she taught herself to code to build a simple website, she realized that there might be a more direct, albeit experimental, way she could help the current and formerly incarcerated population. “I […]
When IBM acquired The Weather Company in 2015, it was reported that close to 900 employees of the Atlanta-based weather operation would transition into the global enterprise. The strategic acquisition was made to power IBM Watson’s Internet of Things unit and build out more offerings in the cloud and IoT space. At the time, Cameron Clayton was […]