Partners
Partners of the Austin Forum on Technology & Society include world-class national and global companies and organizations, and visionary local companies and organizations. The Austin Forum Advisory Board includes two experts from each Partner who help design our comprehensive program of topics, speakers, events, and podcasts, and participate in events and podcasts aligned with their expertise. Our annual Partners are leaders and are the foundation of the Austin Forum!
Annual Partners
Adapter is building the next generation of tools that, at their core, reimagine how real people interact with collaborative and intelligent technologies in their daily lives. Adapter is not focused on incremental 10% or 20% improvements; instead, the goal is the reinvention of our collective abilities.
Adapter is a team of engineers, scientists, creatives, and innovators united by the belief that these technologies can be harnessed to improve the daily lives of people around the world. The team is backed by some of the industry’s most respected and accomplished thought leaders, doers, and venture investors.
Founded in 1969 as a Silicon Valley start-up, the AMD journey began with dozens of employees focused on leading-edge semiconductor products. From those modest beginnings, AMD has grown into a global company of 10,000 people, achieving many important industry firsts along the way. AMD today develops high-performance computing and visualization products to solve some of the world’s toughest and most interesting challenges. There has never been a better time to be in the semiconductor industry, and we are ready to tackle the next 50 years with high-performance computing and graphics solutions that transform all of our lives.
Arm defines the pervasive computing shaping today’s connected world. Realized in 100 billion silicon chips, our device architectures orchestrate the performance of the technology transforming our lives — from smartphones to supercomputers, from medical instruments to agricultural sensors, and from base stations to servers.
The foundation of a global ecosystem of technology innovators, we empower the world’s most successful business and consumer brands. Every day our thousands of partners embed more than 45 million Arm-based chips in products that connect people, enhance the human experience, and make anything possible. Extensible, scalable, and ever evolving, it is a foundation that confirms how we lead by design — to serve today, anticipate tomorrow.
Atchley & Associates, LLP (A&A) is an Austin-based full-service certified public accounting firm, offering services such as attestation, tax, accounting, business consulting, political campaign reporting and litigation support services. We serve clients in both the public and private sectors.
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Our commitment is to provide quality services to our existing clients and create opportunities for new clients. To gain a better understanding of the type of firm we are, we invite you to check out our website. You will see that in addition to being a professionally dedicated CPA firm, we also realize the importance of maintaining a balance in our lives.
Civo is a cloud native service provider and the world's first managed Kubernetes service powered by K3s. Civo isn't just a Kubernetes platform. It's a community, and it's a vision of how we think cloud industry should be.
We're on a mission to help simplify Kubernetes and make it more accessible for developers of all levels. Our goal has always been to develop a simplified, open cloud platform shaped by a global community in an ethical and transparent manner, while empowering positive social and environmental change.
KUNGFU.AI is a leading AI consultancy that strategically partners with clients on large cycles of change and innovation to help them compete and lead in the age of AI. We provide strategy, engineering, and operations services to achieve AI-centric transformation.
NFP is a leading property and casualty broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager and retirement plan advisor that provides solutions enabling client success globally through employee expertise, investments in innovative technologies, and enduring relationships with highly rated insurers, vendors and financial institutions.
Headquartered in Austin, TX, Strangeworks is on a mission to turn computational complexity into real world solutions. With the largest catalog of quantum and quantum-inspired computing resources on an innovative cloud platform backed by computational experts, we make the transformative potential of quantum computing accessible to all.
Our AI powered workflows make it easier for enterprises to solve today’s toughest challenges, accelerate breakthroughs, and future-proof their operations. Partnering with customers worldwide, Strangeworks delivers immediate ROI while shaping a smarter, quantum-enabled future.
Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), founded and headquartered in San Jose, California, is a global leader in IT solutions with 30+ years of expertise in AI, Enterprise, cloud, and 5G Telco/Edge Infrastructure. Known for its Building Block Solutions® and Green Computing servers, Supermicro offers customizable and sustainable solutions for efficiency and reduced workloads. A pioneer in liquid cooling technology, Supermicro enhances data center efficiency with lower PUE and minimal environmental impact.
The 12-Week MBA by Abilitie is an online leadership development program that focuses on the timeless and universal core of business management. For the past two decades, Austin leadership development company Abilitie has created leadership development programs for some of the world’s largest and most admired companies. The 12-Week MBA is designed to match what those companies look for in their emerging leaders. The program is short and sweet not because it skims the surface, but because it goes deep where it counts, helping rising leaders develop the knowledge, skills, and mindset they need to step up to management. Not in two years, but right now.
​Good Systems is a campus-wide, interdisciplinary research grand challenge at The University of Texas at Austin focused on designing ethical AI technologies that benefit society. This research effort brings together humanists, social scientists, and technologists to define, evaluate, and build AI systems driven by broadly accepted values such as transparency, agency, trust, equity, and justice. Together with partners in academia, government, industry, and nonprofit sectors, Good Systems works to address pressing societal issues through six core research projects in the areas of AI and the future of racial justice, privacy and surveillance, smart cities, disinformation, smart hand tools and the future of work, and living and working with robots.
The McCombs MSTC program is the first-ever go-to-market graduate program in the U.S. Designed as a launchpad for your businesses and products, MSTC gives you everything you need to take your dreams to market either through a venture of your own or an existing organization.
In-Kind Partners
Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas, the number one startup state in the U.S. Thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes and coworking. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors and customers. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2010.
The Center for Government and Civic Service (CGCS) enables and empowers the ACC community to be engaged citizens, effective government and public servants, and impactful civic leaders. We do this through Educational & Service Initiatives that build and strengthen 21st-century government, civil society & community for and with ACC students.
South By Southwest dedicates itself to helping creative people achieve their goals. Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, SXSW is best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. The event, an essential destination for global professionals, features sessions, showcases, screenings, exhibitions, and a variety of networking opportunities. SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together.