Next week, Atlanta will be in South Africa in a big way, as a creative and cultural delegation, appropriately called MASSIVE, will make its way to Cape Town for a mega creative-industry conference.
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Posted inConsular Conversations
Event Recap: Dominican Republic Diplomat Eyes Trade Beyond Tourism
Consular Conversations OTP: Dominican Republic July 30, 2025Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce The Dominican Republic’s consulate general for the Southeast U.S. is based in New Orleans, a vestige of the days […]
Posted inLogistics
Event Recap: How Dutch Innovations Are Changing the Atlanta Logistics Landscape
How can logistics become a competitive advantage for manufacturers? In Europe, some companies have cracked the code, becoming essential partners for customers seeking new sources of efficiency and reductions in cost.
Posted inCulture
Event Recap: Brazil– Something More Than Samba
Business leaders made the case at Atlanta Global Studies Center’s Samba to Strategy event July 10 that its potential for trade and investment has been largely overlooked.
Posted inEducation
Event Recap: ‘Bollywood to Boardrooms’ Examines Hindi’s Influence on Global Commerce and Culture
Bollywood to Boardrooms: Hindi’s Rise as a Global Language February 11, 2025Consulate General of India in Atlanta Hindi is spoken by more than 600 million people in India and around […]
Posted inNetherlands
Event Recap: Dutch Consul General Outlines How to Deepen Knowledge Cooperation With Georgia, Southeast U.S.
In a wide-ranging Consular Conversation, the consul general recapped the 2024 royal visit by the Dutch king and queen to Atlanta and Savannah, using it as a prism for the way the consulate is deepening trade and investment ties with the region five years after its opening here.
Posted inBusiness
Books 2025: Globetrotting Entrepreneur From Gwinnett on ‘Unsucking’ Your Business
Book: Unconstrained: Fueling Opportunities and Unsucking Your Business Author: Jeffrey Spence Review by: Nick Masino, president and CEO, Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Jeffrey Spence’s Unconstrained: Fueling Opportunities and Unsucking Your […]
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Event Recap — Diaspora Diplomats: Celebrating Atlanta’s African Consular Corps
Five African diplomats, three of them newly appointed, gathered with about 80 Global Atlanta Passport members and other community attendees for a reception downtown celebrating the continent’s contributions to the growth of the Georgia consular corps.
Posted inBooks
Books 2024: A Portrait of Ireland’s 20th-Century Evolution
Having visited Ireland first in 1982 and seeing it repeatedly during the Celtic Tiger years and after, my shorthand description of the changes in Ireland is that, in a generation, Ireland had moved from the status of Portugal, to Switzerland.
Posted inGermany
Books 2024: Historical Lessons From Berlin for Today’s Fashion Industry
Fashion is an enormous global industry. It sits at the very crossroads of individual expression and the global ecological consequences of our lifestyle choices. Fashion may be beautiful, but Fashion definitely is political.