FF 2025

Our Town

Part Civics. Part Sporting Event. Like nothing you’ve seen before.

A series of 5-minute mini-presentations with auto-advancing slides…ready or not! It’s going to be interesting.
Date and TimeWednesday, September 24, 2025 @ 5:30 pm

Hometowns with a “sense of place” are vibrant, engaged, growing, and economically successful. They are places people want to live and raise families. There are new reasons every day why this describes Tallahassee. Fast Forward Tallahassee offers a chance for citizens to get a sneak peek at new and upcoming projects, development, ideas, businesses, and more throughout Tallahassee. The evening serves up a speedy look at everything new and cool right here in our hometown. We like to call it part civics, part sporting event!

The format for Fast Forward is a series of fast-paced “Pecha Kucha” style presentations (meaning “chit chat” in Japanese). Our talented emcee Greg Tish will guide us through a fun-filled, fast sampling of what’s cool, new, and interesting around town. Each presentation will contain 15 slides, each advancing automatically after 20 seconds. This keeps the “fast” in Fast Forward! You get to enjoy the highlights of many different ideas and projects through visual storytelling, allowing you to dive deeper into those that especially resonate with you at another time.

Check out our presenter lineup for the evening below!

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Doors will open at 5:30 PM, and the program will run 6:00-8:00 PM. You can find handy directions and parking guidance here.

A BIG thank you to our partners and sponsors: Challenger Learning Center, City of Tallahassee, Knight Creative Communities Institute, Leadership Tallahassee, and Leon County Government.

Show

Moderator

Greg Tish

Real Talk 93.3
Presenter

Vicki Bradley

Junior League of Tallahassee President
Presenter

Autumn Calder

Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency Director
Presenter

Betsy Couch

Knight Creative Communities Institute Executive Director
Presenter

Alan Hanstein

Challenger Learning Center Tallahassee Executive Director
Presenter

Ashleigh Kittrell

Second Harvest of the Big Bend Marketing and Communications Specialist
Presenter

Ed Murray, Jr.

NAI TALCOR Principal
Presenter

David Pollard

Tallahassee International Airport Director of Aviation
Presenter

Kathleen Spehar

Council on Culture & Arts Executive Director
Presenter

Taylor Wheaton

Visit Tallahassee Senior Sports Director