AT&T Bringing Tech Center to Atlanta
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Atlanta's presence in the tech world is getting bigger. WABE's John Lorinc reports.
AT&T is opening a Foundry Innovation Center in Atlanta later this year.
The Atlanta location will focus on technologies around AT&T’s new home security and automation platform called Digital Life, as well as connected car U-verse Internet and television service, and all things wireless, according to a written statement from spokesman Victor Godinez.
“Basically they support the creations of new applications,” says Brian McGowan, the president and CEO of Invest Atlanta.
McGowan wouldn’t say whether government incentives were used to lure the center to Atlanta, but he says it didn’t take much arm-twisting to bring the company to town.
“We are literally a global hub for the development of global applications, so companies like AT&T and other technology companies want to be where the most creative, you know, competitive people are in the world,” says McGowan.
Workers at the center will test products and apps, as well as foster collaborations with others in the area.
“It allows business owners to come in and use their technology and get their support also. So, in some ways, it’s an incubator,” says McGowan.
The Atlanta facility will be AT&T’s fifth foundry innovation center, with two in Texas and one each in California and Israel.
Godinez says Atlanta’s center is expected to open later this summer.
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