Welcome back to ATL Grind.
I’m Andrew(your host) who’ll be showing you the best events, news, jobs, and more in Atlanta’s business world. Let’s get started.
Atlanta AI Week is happening right now and runs through tomorrow, April 20 to 22, at Atlanta Tech Village in Buckhead. Three days of AI Leadership Summit, AI for Business Summit, Startup Showcase, and workshops built for operators actually deploying AI inside companies. Day passes still available. Read more here
Georgia Technology Summit hits Cobb Galleria Centre on April 30. TAG's flagship event pulls in over 1,000 Georgia technologists for panels, the Innovation Pavilion, and the annual Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies reveal. Read more here
Venture Atlanta 2026 registration opens this week for the October 14 to 15 conference at Woodruff Arts Center and Atlanta Symphony Hall. 1,600 attendees, 450 funds, 40-plus seed-stage companies pitching, and the investor dinner. Last year sold out weeks ahead. Read more here
I.Sarah Tourville, Media Frenzy Global
Media Frenzy Global hit its 20-year mark on April 10. Founder and CEO Sarah Tourville started the agency in London in 2006, expanded to Atlanta in 2013 as the U.S. headquarters, and has spent the last decade building one of the few independent PR and marketing agencies in the city that competes head-on with WPP-owned shops.
Her path into the work is the kind of resume that only makes sense in hindsight. She wrote her dissertation at Bournemouth University on the rise and fall of the travel agency, then walked straight into the European launch of Expedia, the first online travel booking platform. From there she led PR and analyst relations for Motorola across EMEA, working on launches that spanned early mobile handsets and space-grade communications technology. A 2008 relocation took her family to Dubai, back to London, and then to Atlanta in 2013, where she knew almost nobody and had to rebuild the U.S. client base from zero.
Today Media Frenzy Global is positioned as an international boutique for mid-market and enterprise B2B tech brands. Sister agencies in seven European countries and Brazil, eight languages spoken inside the firm. Clients have included Verizon, Comcast Business, NCR Voyix, Ryder, and Philips. The agency has won a Cannes Lion, multiple PR News Agency Elite awards, and made the Inc. 5000. Sarah sits on the Forbes Agency Council, the AMA Atlanta board, and will take over as EO Atlanta president in July 2027, overseeing a chapter close to 200 entrepreneurs.
The operating thesis behind the name: "Media" means the firm treats platforms as commodities and builds earned, owned, and paid strategies in whichever combination the client actually needs. "Frenzy" is the cultural snowball, the moment a brand stops pushing a message and starts getting pulled into a conversation people already care about.
II.Ashland at Loews Atlanta Hotel
Ashland opened in March as the new signature restaurant at Loews Atlanta Hotel in Midtown, part of the hotel's multi-million-dollar lobby transformation timed to its 16th anniversary. The concept pairs a classic American steakhouse with Japanese sushi craft, which sounds like a marketing deck until you see the sourcing.
The steakhouse side runs on Black Opal Wagyu, 1855 Black Angus, and Campo Grande Iberico, flame-finished across center-cut filets and tomahawks. The sushi program changes with the season. The cocktail menu is worth the trip alone: the Southern Smash with Maker's Mark, thyme, peach liqueur, and ginger; the Garden of Ember built on mezcal, fresh carrot juice, and dill syrup; and a Grilled Citrus Negroni with Hendrick's, Campari, and sweet vermouth. Dramatic stone bar, glowing lounge, plush dining room. Good for a power lunch, better for a client dinner.
1065 Peachtree St NE, Midtown. Reservations on Resy.
Enterprise Account Director, Central at Salesloft ($102K to $190K). Own the largest Central-region accounts for the Atlanta-based revenue orchestration platform used by Google, IBM, Shopify, and Cisco. Quota-carrying role reporting into senior sales leadership. Hybrid from Salesloft's Midtown HQ. Apply here
Director, IT AI/Integrations at Flock Safety. Build and scale internal AI systems at the $7.5B safety-tech unicorn. Apply here
Senior Director, Product Design at Salesloft. Lead design for the Revenue Orchestration platform, reporting to the VP of Product Management. Apply here
Major Account Executive at Flock Safety. Enterprise and government sales at one of Atlanta's fastest-scaling SaaS companies. Apply here
Senior Manager, Recruiting Operations at Flock Safety. Own hiring systems and process at a company adding hundreds of roles a year. Apply here
Regional Sales Director, Local Markets at Flock Safety. Lead a field sales team across municipal and community accounts. Apply here
III.Alkaloid Networks
If you have ever wondered where Atlanta's quieter operators actually get work done, the answer is often a 150-year-old converted warehouse on the Eastside Beltline. Alkaloid Networks opened in April 2015 and is one of the longest-running independent coworking communities in the city. Katharine Chestnut founded it, still runs it, and also started the Atlanta Coworking Alliance in 2019 to pull together the other independents in town.
Inside: exposed brick, 20-foot ceilings, massive windows, a rooftop deck, showers, and indoor bike storage. Outside: direct Beltline access, with Ponce City Market and Piedmont Park within walking distance. The member base runs across remote employees, solopreneurs, micro-businesses, and nonprofits. Dedicated desks and private offices both available, no corporate parent dictating the amenities. Atlanta Magazine named it one of the city's top seven coworking spaces, and the Atlanta School of Photography operates inside the building.
Katharine calls her role "super-connector" and says the biggest compliment she gets from members is when someone mentions a problem and she can point them three desks over to the person who solves it. Unofficial motto: "Work hard, be nice."
691 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE, Old Fourth Ward.
952 Edgewood Ave NE, Inman Park
5 beds, 5 baths, 3,542 square feet of Victorian-style townhome on one of Inman Park's most picturesque corridors. Wraparound front porch, back deck overlooking the park next door, and a separately accessed 1BR/1BA furnished short-term rental on the lower level with its own private entrance. Two-car attached garage, oversized primary with sitting room, separate living and dining rooms plus a sunroom. Steps from the Eastside Beltline, Krog Street Market, and Little Five Points. The built-in rental income is the angle: most homes this size in Inman Park don't hand you a turnkey Airbnb.
5 other headlines to snack on:
Governor Kemp announced Prime, Inc. is investing $160 million in a new Southeastern regional hub in Spalding County near Griffin. 120 full-time jobs plus 50 professional drivers. Logistics remains a $107 billion industry in Georgia. Read more here
Georgia Tech is acquiring a building and park space on North Avenue long owned by Coca-Cola, including a key PATH trail connection west of Midtown. Read more here
Construction AI startup Document Crunch was acquired by Colorado-based public company Trimble. The Atlanta-based platform has been deployed on over 10,000 construction projects. Terms not disclosed. Read more here
Eversheds Sutherland has taken multiple full floors near the top of Bank of America Plaza, Atlanta's tallest skyscraper, in one of the largest downtown leases of the year. Read more here
Hartsfield-Jackson kept its title as the world's busiest airport in 2025 with 106.3 million passengers, extending its lead over Dubai and Dallas/Fort Worth. Read more here
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