Founders, engineers, designers, students and civic technologists — the people actually building Atlanta's next decade.
Permits, 311 service requests, and neighborhood-level civic datasets.
Statewide datasets spanning health, environment, and the economy.
Transit and regional mobility data for the metro Atlanta area.
A short morning to set the table, then the room got to work on real Atlanta problems.
SZD Labs and The AI Collective Atlanta open the day — why this room, why this city, why now.
The format in five minutes: pick a track, form a team, ship a working prototype on live data by the end of the day.
A purpose-built portal with Claude access, the civic datasets, and starter scaffolding so teams skip setup and start building.
Three civic-data tracks grounded in real Atlanta datasets:
Eight teams chose their problem and put their heads down — six hours of building, mentoring, and live data.
▪ Photo placeholders — drop event photos into /assets/impact-lab/ and wire up the grid.
One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.
One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.
One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.
One-line description of the winning build and the impact it could have.
One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.
One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.
One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.
One-line description of what the team built and which Atlanta problem it tackles.
The judges — including a representative from the City of Atlanta — picked this build for its real-world impact: a clear problem, live civic data, and a prototype you could put in front of users the next morning.
8 teams · ~50 builders · 3 civic-data tracks · one Saturday.
▪ Template — modeled on the Claude Community Australia Melbourne recap. Swap in real numbers, names, projects & photos after the event.