The MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta offers four core programs:

Interactive Case Studies highlight top-notch, technology-based entrepreneurs and their business plans. Entrepreneurs are selected and prepared for the Case Study through a rigorous process to reveal strategic issues critical to the company's long-term success. The Forum engages recognized leaders as keynote speakers and panelists to scrutinize the business and management approach as well as market positioning in a lively interactive program. This unique format differentiates the MIT Enterprise Forum's programs and has attracted a worldwide following. The Atlanta Chapter's Case Study programs have become “must see” events for the entrepreneurial community.

The Satellite Broadcast Series features MIT alumni, faculty, and distinguished guests discussing topics of special interest to entrepreneurs. The programs are uplinked from MIT's Kresge Auditorium to Forum Chapters worldwide. In 2005, our chapter became the first chapter, outside of Cambridge to host a global satellite event.  The program, featuring panelists from the Nasa Institute of Advanced Concepts and other organizations involved in groundbreaking innovation, was also broadcast on the NASA Television.

The Distinguished Entrepreneur Series features a highly regarded expert in a hot technology, the development of new enterprises or a related field. Speakers in this series have included Lester Thurow, former Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management; James Rothnie, CTO of EMC; Ginnie Rometty, General Manager of IBM Global Services and IBM’s top ranking woman; and Bob Metcalfe, founder of 3COM and inventor of Ethernet, and Glen Robinson, founder of Scientific-Atlanta.  Our 2006 Distinguished Entrepreneur Series will honor visionary Cam Lanier. 

The Leading Edge Technologies of the 21st Century Series presents programs centered on a technology that will have a dramatic impact on business and our lives in this century. Our events in this series so far have focused on Genomics, Nanotechnology and Artificial Human Organs, Alternative Energy Sources and Nano-biotechnology.

Our Members-only VIP Private Receptions provide members with the opportunity to meet event speakers on a personal level in conjunction with one of the core programs.  The receptions are hosted by MIT Enterprise Forum sponsors and are offered free of charge to members to enable close interaction with the speakers.

Our long-running Members-only “Run It By the Pros” Workshops offer members the opportunity to witness the behind-the-scenes dialogue between three entrepreneurs and a panel of veteran entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.  The panel  examines and discusses three business plans with their founders and provides actionable and candid advice, generates real-life, honest discussion and debate and offers objective feedback and advice.  The in-the-round discussion format provides a unique and rare opportunity to talk honestly and frankly with some true pros. Members are invited to present their business plans or be part of the audience in this Saturday morning workshop.

The Forum creates Members-Only Special Events honoring key business and technology leaders, such as the “Critical Success Factors In High Technology Entrepreneurship, and the " What's Hot And What's Not!“ event hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. This event featured two gifted speakers at the cutting edge of academics and business, noted MIT Serial-Entrepreneur, Ken Morse, Senior Lecturer and Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, and Atlanta's own Entrepreneurial Visionary, Terry Blum, Dean of Georgia Tech's DuPree College of Management.