Distinguished Guests
May 3, 2023 – Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce
April 26, 2023 – Curiosity Lab 2023 Criterium – Spoke CSO and COO Reid Sigety, Spoke Safety Executive Head of Product Integration David Brodie, Olympic Cycling Bronze Medalist and 3x World Champion Annette Edmondson, Olympic Cyclist Frankie Andreu
April 11, 2023 – APMA Project Arrow – President of Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) Flavio Volpe, Chief Technology Officer of APMA Colin Dhillon, CEO of Canadian American Business Council (CABC) Maryscott Greenwood, Consulate General of Canada James Hill
March 2023 – Congress Woman Lucy McBath and her team
March 2023 – Quebec-based company Dix au carre – Nicolas Synott, Marketing Business Dec and Strategy Consultant as well as President and Founder, Felix Marzell
February 2023 – Hong Kong Trade Development Council – Henry Yu and Curtis Louie
February 2023 – University of Georgia delegation – Senior VP for Academic Affairs & Provost, S. Jack Hu; Dean, College of Engineering, Donald Leo; Director of Special Projects, College of Engineering, Kelly Sausy; VP for Public Service & Outreach, Jennifer Frum; Asst VP for Public Service & Outreach, Paul J. Brooks; and Director, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, Rob Gordon
February 2023 – Business France – Trade Advisor Tech Deeptech – North America Arthur de Boisfleury visited the Curiosity Lab and FACC with Katherine Lafourcade
December 1, 2022 – Mio Maeda, Consul General of Japan in Atlanta to the US Southeast; Nao Arii, Consul at the Consulate of Japan in Atlanta; and Hiroyuki Akiyama, JETRO Chief Executive Director for the US Southeast
November 16, 2022 – Rory Power and Jane O’Sullivan from Enterprise Ireland
November 4, 2022 – French Delegation including Xavier Bressaud and Benoit Faivre of the French Embassy
November 3, 2022 – German American Chamber of Commerce, Marshall Memorial Fellowship
November 3, 2022 – Clayton County Development Authority
October 5, 2022 – Noodoe CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Chang and Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in Atlanta Director, Economic Division Martin Chen
October 5, 2022 – PROCOLOMBIA Regional Trade Representative Hernando Galindo
September 27, 2022 – Graduate students from FOM in Essen, Germany participating in a program at Mercer University
September 20, 2022 – Consular Corps – see list of attendees
August 17, 2022
- Cordell Schachter – U.S. Department of Transportation Chief Information Officer
- Ken Leonard – Federal Highway Administration Director ITS Joint Program Office
- Carl Andersen – Federal Highway Administration Technical Director, Operations, Office of Safety and Operations
August 17, 2022 – Consul Arii Nao and Consul Kenji Inoue from the Consulate-General of Japan in Atlanta and MUFG Vice President Yoko Harrison and Managing Director Keiichiro Mizutani
July 27, 2022 – Irish Consul General
July 7, 2022 – Josh Delaney – Legislative Director for Reverend Raphael Warnock
July 28, 2022 – Laurens van Doeveren, Netherlands Deputy Consul General to Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama; and Martijn Asselbergs, Senior Economic Policy Officer
July 27, 2022 – Irish Consul General
July 7, 2022 – Josh Delaney – Legislative Director for Reverend Raphael Warnock
June 6, 2022 – Bruxelles Fiscalité – Fiscaliteit Brussel General Director Dirk De Smedt, PA to General Director Tom Ghijsels and Head of IT and Projects Roselyne Goossens
June 7, 2022 – French Delegation visit including:
- Dr. Carine BERNAULT, President of Nantes University,
- Dr. Olivier MENARD, Dean of the Law and Political Sciences School, Nantes University,
- Dr. Catherine DELCONT, Vice-Dean for International Relations at the Law and Political Sciences School, Nantes University,
- Dr. Etienne PICARD, Professor Emeritus University in Public Law Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ex-Director of the International and Comparative Law Institute, Oxford University,
- Professors and members of the Center for Ethics at Emory and the French Embassy.
June 7, 2022 – JETRO
May 18, 2022 – Volkswagen with T-Mobile
May 16, 2022 – EU Diplomat visit including:
- Mr. Michael Curtis, Deputy Ambassador of the European Union to the US
- Mr. Pablo Sanz, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Spain in the US
- Mr. Henrik Bramsen Hahn, Deputy Ambassador, Embassy of Denmark in the US
- Ms. Alexandra Bilreiro, Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy of Portugal in Washington
- Mr. Jan Gruenhage, Head of Political Department, Embassy of Germany in the US
- Ms. Svetlana Doboszova, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Czech Republic in the US
- Mr. Danijel Medan, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Croatia in the US
- Mr. Gilles Bauer, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Luxembourg in the US
- Mr. Boris Ecker, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the Slovak Republic in the US
- Mr. Adam Krzywosądzki, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Poland in the US
- Mr. Alessandro Gonzales, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Italy in the US
- Mr. Dovydas Spokauskas, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Lithuania in the US
- Mr. Margus Särglepp, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Estonia in the US
- Ms. Maria Savvidou-Panayiotou, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Cyprus in the US
- Mr. Juris Pekalis, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Latvia in the US
- Mr. Maarten Boef, Deputy Ambassador, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the US
- Ms. Aurélie Bonal, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of France in the US
- Ms. Anita Stanković Pavlič, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Slovenia in the US
- Mr. Jan De Pauw, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Belgium in the US
May 4, 2022 – Canadian Consul General James Hill and Senior Trade Commissioner Elizabeth Reid
May 3, 2022 – Representative Carolyn Bourdeaux
March 25, 2022 – Georgia Department of Economic Development
March 25, 2022 – Kennesaw State University
March 16, 2022 – Bosch
February 17, 2022 – German Consul General
February 14, 2022 – Dean of Consular Corps and Consul General of Mexico
January 20, 2022 – Peach County Innovation Partners
December 9, 2021 – Israel Consul General and Deputy Chief of Mission
September 9, 2021 – French American Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting at Curiosity Lab
September 2, 2021 – Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce CEO Katie Kirkpatrick
August 27, 2021 – Swiss Ambassador
July 29, 2021 – City of Aurora, IL
June 25, 2021 – Spanish Trade Commissioner
June 21, 2021 – Ministry of International Relations of Quebec
April 28, 2021 – Canadian Consul General
April 26, 2021 – Congresswoman Carolyn Bordeaux
April 1, 2021 – Belgian Consul General and Flemish Investment and Trade Commissioner
March 26, 2021 – Japanese Consul General
March 24, 2021 – Louisiana Tech
January 20, 2021 – Georgia Tech