Nolan

Positioning

Founder and CEO of the Atlanta AI & Robotics Initiative. Former Microsoft AI and cloud specialist. U.S. Army veteran. Georgia Tech MBA · MSc, AI. Nolan speaks from direct experience building the operators, infrastructure, and ecosystems powering the physical AI economy.

Upcoming & Recent Stages

Upcoming: Physical AI Summit: Minds in Motion

Imagination in Action · October 30, 2026 · MIT Samberg Conference Center, Cambridge, MA. Official speaker page

Scheduled for 5 PM ET, helping close out the summit with a focus on training the next generation for physical AI. Presentation and panel format being finalized.

TAG //SHIFT: AI 2026

State of the Shift: Moving AI from Experimentation to Enterprise Execution. Opening keynote and fireside conversation, September 18, 2026.

RenderATL 2026 Keynote

From Demo to Production: The Infrastructure Gap, August 12, 2026.

Georgia AI Data Center Leadership Summit

Panel Discussion: Where Data Center Delivery Is Moving Next, August 13, 2026.

Audience Feedback

“It was highly informative and I easily took more notes from it than any others.”

Phil Kasiecki, RenderATL attendee, on From Demo to Production: The Infrastructure Gap. Read the public feedback.

Bio

Nolan S. Code is a physical AI keynote speaker and the Founder and CEO of the Atlanta AI & Robotics Initiative (AARI), a nonprofit training underserved students to build and operate the infrastructure behind AI, from robotics and edge systems to AI Data Factories. He champions local AI: running models on your own hardware, controlling your data, and moving beyond demos into production. A U.S. Army veteran, Morehouse College graduate, and Georgia Tech MBA, Nolan founded IntelHP and sold it to AWS, and at Microsoft closed a $100M Azure renewal at 174% of quota. AARI has trained 40+ students, raised $100K+. He delivered the opening keynote at TAG //SHIFT: AI 2026 and keynoted RenderATL 2026. His message is simple: own the stack.