The city's annual celebration of its startup community, run by Startup Atlanta and timed deliberately for Venture Atlanta week when the ecosystem is already in town. Seated dinner and drinks at the Biltmore, then nine awards across founder-of-the-year, mentor, community builder, pivot, market breakthrough, technical innovation, investor and post-exit contribution. Finalists each year are a who-is-who of Atlanta's active founders, operators and investors, so the room reads less like a gala and more like a reunion of the people building the city. Worth going if you want to know every face that matters in Atlanta tech by Christmas.

  • dinner
  • awards
  • founders
  • investors
  • atlanta
  • startup-atlanta
  • networking