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Current as of Feb. 19, 2026 1035 CT- Send events info to Milt Capps via LinkedIn.

FEBRUARY

Feb. 1 • 68th Annual GRAMMY Awards hosted on CBS and Paramount + by Trevor Noah. Details.

Feb. 2 • "State of the State Address" by Governor Bill Lee, widely broadcast via Facebook, Youtube and others. In his 2025 State of the State, the Governor stressed Tennessee's opportunity to serve as an innovation leader. Subsequent developments may play a role in the Governor's update. Related: TN BECF lists 2026 interest group-government events. Tennessee Technology Development Corporation dba Launch Tennessee confirmed for VNC it won't hold an "Innovation Week" this year, but does plan a Hill-oriented reception and some legislator meetings.

Feb. 3 • Palm Beach, Fla. - Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Dan Senor of ArkMedia and Elliott Investment Management discuss values-driven leadership for shaping the future of higher education, with added reference to VU "leading a reform movement to return universities to their central purpose of path-breaking research and transformative education." Program. Related info.  

Feb. 3 • Engineers meet Nashville Startup founders via The Lighthouse, details. 

Feb. 4  •  (Virtual) Tennessee Technology Advancement Consortium (TTAC) Maturation Grant Information Session, details.

Feb. 4 • VU Lecture Series on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats, Langford Auditorium, with speaker: Sir Richard Moore, KCMG, former chief of the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Details. Registration.

Feb. 5 • Nashville Health Care Council Wall Street View of Healthcare Industry, details.

Feb. 5 • SmartBusiness DealMakers Conference, Hillwood Country Club, Nashville, details TBA.

Feb. 7 • Music City Venue Alliance presents 15-venue "615 Indie Live" (MVAN) in Nashville, featuring 60+ indie artists, tickets and details.

Feb. 7 • Women in AI Summit, Vanderbilt University School of Law, by VU AI Law Lab, 8:30am-6pm, details.

Feb. 8-11 • Association of University Technology Managers annual meeting, Seattle, details.

Feb. 9 • Osaic W Forum for women in financial advisory services. Nashville venue tba. More.

Feb. 10 • (hybrid)  Life Science Tennessee offers primer on building a lifescience lab for a startup. See details and registration. Event begins inperson and via zoom at 3:30 PM Eastern time. The session is to be available for replay later via the LifeSciTN website. Physical attendees assemble at UT Knoxville Center for Precision Health.

10-11 • University of Tennessee Grand Challenges Summit, Drury Plaza Hotel, Franklin, Tenn. Related info.

Feb. 11 • Nashville EC CEO Sam Davidson addresses Hendersonville Rotary Club, register.

Feb. 11 • AgLaunch + LaunchTN offering AgLaunch Pitch Social (following the Farm Journal Top Producer Summit) in Nashville. Pitch: 3pm-5pm. Register here.

Feb. 12 • Oracle AI Experience Live Nashville, The Westin Nashville.

Feb. 12 • Pulaski's NOVA Entrepreneur Center and Giles County Chamber of Commerce holding meeting to explore interest in creating a "community shared kitchen," details here.

Feb. 12 • Session: How AI multiplies Founder output, led by Luke Thompson at Nashville Entrepreneur Center, sponsored by Comstasis, et al. Register.

Feb. 13 • Launch Tennessee 2026 Summer Internships application deadline, details here.

Feb. 14 • Vanderbilt University student competitors gather at VU Owen GSM, seeking to advance to global Hult Prize National stage.  

Feb. 15 • Nashville Women in Film & Television ALICE Awards and Dinner, details.

Feb. 16 • Former President George Washington's Birthday, "President's Day."

Feb. 17 • Japan-Tennessee Connections is subject of program at University of Tennessee Bakers School of Public Policy & Public Affairs, details.

Feb. 17-20 • National Religious Broadcasters expo and convention, Gaylord Opryland. Details.

Feb. 18 • Memphis-based Aglaunch and Ag Ventures Alliance of Iowa hold investor-only Ag demo day for cohort members AgFlowAI, Animal Deterrent Solutions, Novoclade, and Seismi. Potential investors may apply to attend the event. Inquire here.

Feb. 18 • Regional Main Street Food & Beverage Conference, convened by theCO regional entrepreneur center, Jackson, Tenn. Details.

Feb. 18 • Vanderbilt Startup Career Fair, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, details here.  RELATED: See VU founder speed-dating and soon to launch startup job board. Visit here.

Feb. 18 • Tennessee World Affairs Council, "Africa's Rise and Why it Matters to the U.S.", Speaker: Chidi Blyden MSc., details. Bass Berry offices.

Feb. 18-21 • Safari Club International convenes Gaylord Opryland Hotel, details.

Feb. 19 • Nashville Small Business & Brands Meetup, presented by Stripe and Pilot, no charge, registration subject to approval. 0830-1000 CT. Address TBA. Details.

Feb. 19 • Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce Economic Outlook breakfast, Westin Chattanooga, details here.

Feb. 19 • Climate Wiser (Julia Polk) and Greenwell Project (Reed Omary) first "Coffee, Energy & Health" meetup, at Glasshaus, 8a-9:30a details here.

Feb. 19 • During AAOP annual meeting in Nashville, Marion Hagstrom, VU School of Engineering PhD student, is to present "semi-powered knee control solutions" for "backward walking and cycling." She also explores design and control of "affordable microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knees." AAOP Meeting & Symposium. Speakers.

Feb. 19 • Greater Nashville Technology Council Awards Ceremony @ Country Music Hall of Fame, details.

Feb. 19-20 • Life Sciences: Phase Capital Frontiers Summit (II), Noah Liff Opera Center, details.

Feb. 19-20 • Southern Private Equity Conference, SBIA, JW Marriott, Nashville, details. 

Feb. 20 • (Virtual) 'First Look' at 2025 Cohorts of Jumpstart Foundry, Nashville. Signup here.

Feb. 22-25 •  ViVE 2026, Los Angeles. Details. Global Health Connector.

Feb. 23-24 • 2026 Remote Patient Monitoring Conference, Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, details.

Feb. 23-24 • Experity's Urgent Care Connect, Grant Hyatt Nashville. (Aligned with concurrent Urgent Care Startup Conference)

Feb. 23-28 • • •  Tennessee Songwriters Week here. Qualifying rounds in 7 TN cities are in February 2026. The winning songwriter is to perform at The Bluebird Cafe, March 30, 2026. Cosponsors of Songwriters Week are Tennessee Department of Tourist Development, The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) and VML, Inc., Inc. Competition rules.

Feb. 24 • LifeScience Tennessee "Day on Capitol Hill" a legislative briefing and individual meetings with elected officials and staff. Registration here.

Feb. 25 • Montgomery (Ala.) TechLab Defense Accelerator demo day for Defense and Dual-Use Innovation, register.

Feb. 25 • Changemakers Summit focused on commercial real estate executives in community. Speakers include Nashville EC's Sam Davidson. Register.

Feb. 25-27 • Tennessee Bankers Association, Credit Conference. Omni Hotel Nashville. Details.

Feb. 26  • Chattanooga Design Studio presents CIVIQ program on "The Power of the Commons." Details.

Feb. 26-28 • Nashville Hematology Conference and Poster Competition, Country Music HOF & Museum, Omni Nashville.

Feb. 27 • Knoxville Capitol Connections legislative update, 9am-10am EST, Knoxville Chamber, details.

Feb. 28  •  Deadline: Applications for Spark Mobility Lab operated by TN Advanced Energy Business Council and UT Spark Innovation Center. Details. Program runs April 20-24.

MARCH

March 1 • Johnson City Chamber and Founders Forge begin taking applications for the Avante Bootcamp, details here.

March 1-3 • UA Huntsville 3rd Annual Business of Space, Huntsville, details.

March 4 • Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Tech Talent Solutions Forum, focus: collaboration on the tech-talent pipeline, register.

March 4 • UT Chattanooga: Culturally Inclusive Care: Caring for Aging populations. Among the topics: "potential program integration across health and allied disciplines on components that address health disparities with an emphasis on aging populations." Register (free).

March 4  •  Mid-TN Tech talent development is focus of forum convened by Nashville Innovation Alliance and allies, 8:30-10:00am, Details.

March 5 • Louisville: KY Inno Startups to Watch, ET: 4:30-6:30pm. details.

March 6-7 • DataTune Conference, data, analytics, AI, and more at Belmont University, Nashville details.

MARCH 7 • Business Connect Brunch, JW Marriott Hotel Downtown, with dozens of sponsors, details here.

March 9-12 • HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, Las Vegas. Details.

March 10 • TN Gov. Bill Lee addresses Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce event, The Pinnacle, 7:30am-9:30am. Details.

March 10 • Northern Mid-TN opportunity Zones update, details here.

March 11-13 • AiPEX Annual Conference - Insuretech, Fintech: iPipeline digital solutions and services, JW Marriott Nashville.

March 12 • The Company Lab, et al, convene for "Quantum in Action", 10am-2pm ET, UT Chattanooga Wolford Center, details.

March 12-18 • South by Southwest SXSW Innovation Conference, Austin, more here.

March 13-15 • Tennessee House at SXSW Pitch - Austin - South By Southwest, details.

March 16-19 • TMC Transportation Technology Exposition, Music City Center, details.

March 17 • Nashville VC Fast Pitch event by Black Dog Venture Partners, CEO Scott Kelly, details. 

March 20 •  MTSU Forum on Growth and Regional Challenges, Murfreesboro, details here.

March 20-22 • 'What's the Big Idea' pitch finale and weekend in Knoxville, details.

March 24 •  Belmont University Entrepreneur Awards, celebrating alumni-founded businesses, to be held at Fisher Center for the Performing Arts on campus. Details forthcoming.

March 24 • (Hybrid) Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation presents 2025 Innovator of the Year Lecture by honoree Daniel Fabbri PhD of Brim Analytics, 12pm, Light Hall 208. For online attendance, register here.

March 24 • Pulaski, Tenn.-based NOVA Entrepreneur Center, allied with University of TN Research Foundation and with UT Southern, joins with Speer Entrepreneurship Initiative, UT Southern Department of Career Advancement for Student-Industry internship, experiential learning, etc. Details here.

March 24-26 • ARTISTS THRIVE Conference Nashville, Noah Liff Opera Center, details.

March 25-26 • AI Tennessee Summit - Nashville, Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum, details.

March 25-27 • (hybrid) Media Conference, Association of National Advertisers, Omni Nashville, details.

March 26 • "Leaders Conference" at Renaissance Hotel, Nashville, by Nashville Post (FreemanWebb Publishing), details.

March 26 • Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce Network+ Women with a featured speaker and a panel addressing 'Women at the Helm' experiences, details here.

March 29-April 1 • AI is among dozens of topics on the agenda during Society of Hospital Medicine CONVERGE conference, Music City Center.

March 31 • Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council (TAEBC) Annual meeting (Virtual), details TBA. 9am-1030am CT.

March 31 • International BioMass Conference & Expo, Gaylord Opryland, details.

APRIL

April 8 • Freedom Forum Freely Fest at Bridgestone Arena, 5:30pm, details here and here.

April 8-9 • UT Haslam College of Business Marketing and Sales Conference, Knoxville, details.

April 8-10 • Association for High Technology Distribution event focuses on enhancing "the productivity and efficiency of high technology automation solution providers / distributors (ASPs) and manufacturers through connection, collaboration, and education." Omni Nashville.

April 9 • FLY! Pitch Competition, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, details TBD. 3PM ET Max Fuller Theater on campus.

April 14 • "Bridge to Excellence 2026", Center for Nonprofit Excellence of Middle Tennessee, details here.

April 14-15 • Intrepid Investment Bankers and MUFG Global Healthcare Finance convene Healthcare RPM 26 (Revolutions Per Minute) at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame. Details. The Intrepid initiative is led by Nashville's Duncan Dashiff.

April 16 • Board meeting, Tennessee Technology Development Corporation dba Launch Tennessee.

April 16 • "What Investors need to know about Quantum," with moderator and panelists from Vanderbilt University, EPB (Chattanooga), IonQ. Greater Nashville Private Capital Association. All planned events.

April 16-17 • Direct Lending Conference by DealCatalyst, details. Grand Hyatt Nashville.

April 18-26 • San Francisco Climate Week, speakers to include Former VPUS Al Gore, more here.

April 19-21 • REAG M&A brokers' Exit Planning Summit, details. Gaylord Opryland.

April 20-21 • Southeast Venture Showcase, Renaissance Hotel Nashville. Related. Features dozens of startups spawned via iCorp and 21 top universities and national labs in the Southeast. 

April 21 •  Nobel Laureate and Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore delivers keynote address for San Francisco Climate Week.

April 21-23 • Angel Capital Association & Rockies Ventures Club convene Summit of Angel Investing, Westminster, Colo.

April 23-24 • Fourth annual Vanderbilt University Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. 

April 27-29 • BITCOIN 2026, Las Vegas.

April 27-30 • Environmental Markets Conference, Chattanooga, details.

April 28-30 • Siemens "Innovations for Healthcare" conference, Gaylord Opryland, Nashville. Deets.

April 28-30 • 2026 AAPCP National Healthcare Provider Compensation & Workforce Strategy Conference. Embassy Suites, Nashville.

MAY

May 6-10 • Business Professionals Association National Leadership Conference, Gaylord Opryland, details.

May 12 • TennSMART's Tennessee Smart Mobility Expo, GEODIS Park, Nashville. Details.

May 14-15 • Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Tennessee, MidSouth Capital Connection, Omni Nashville, details.

May 25 • Memorial Day.  

May 28-29 • Tennessee Valley Corridor National Summit, Chattanooga, details. 

May 28 • Banking Tech Awards,  New York City, details. Fintech.

JUNE 

June 4-7 • CMA Fest. Nashville. Details.

June 8-10 • Investment Company Institute ETF Conference, Renaissance Nashville Hotel, details.

June 15-18 • HLTH Europe, details tba. Amsterdam.

June 15-18 • Informa MedTech Summit, Berlin. Details.

June 23-26 • Forrester CX Summit (hybrid), Gaylord Opryland, Nashville.

June 24 • Sloss.Tech Pitch Competition, Birmingham, Ala., registration here. $135K aggregate prizes. Pitch-app window closes April 10, 2026.

June 24-26 • Higher EDTECH: Technosolutions Slate Conference, Nashville.

JULY

July 4 • 250th U.S. Independence Day. See the Semiquincentennial Commission info here.

July 13-16 • Cvent CONNECT (technology for meetings, events, hospitality) hits Music City Center after 2 years in Austin. Details here.

July 18-19 • Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix Race, Nashville, details.

July 22-24 • Xello convenes FUTURE WORLD 2026, "a national gathering of educators, employers, higher-ed leaders, and innovators defining what it means to be future ready." Omni Nashville Hotel, details here.

July 22-24 • National Conference on Gambling Addiction & Responsible Gambling 2026, Nashville (venue TBA). Registration opens April 8, 2026. More info.

July 26 •   https://www.musiccitygp.com/

July 27-29 • Third Party Administrators TPA Summit by Health Care Administrators Association. Nashville, venue TBA.

AUGUST

Aug. 5-6 • Global Business Summit, Memphis, details.

Aug. 5-7 • STR Inc. Hotel Data Conference.  Venue TBA.

Aug. 17-20 • SOLVER 2026 ASCEND, Embassy Suites Hilton,, Nashville. Financial Planning-Analysis solution provider.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 7 • U.S. Labor Day.

Sept. 8-10 • Semperis Hybrid Identity Protection HIP Conference, Nashville. Related.

Sept. 13-15 • McLeod Software User Conference, transportation and logistics, Nashville.

Sept. 14-15 • Nashville Health Care Council Sessions, details. (2025 recaps 1 & 2)

Sept. 14+(?) • TTDC LaunchTN's customary annual 3686 Festival and sidebar InvestTN Summit.

Sept. 15-Oct. 15 • National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Sept. 16 • Global Health Innovators conference, Nashville, The Cannery, homepage here, more info here.

Sept. 21 • HealthTrust Connect, Omni Hotel Nashville.

Sept. 22-24 • Behavioral Health Tech Conference, Gaylord Opryland, details here.

OCTOBER

October TBA • Epicenter Memphis holds DelTech II, dates + venue to be announced. More info.

Oct. 1-2 • Gov. Bill Lee's GOVCON annual conference, Chattanooga Convention Center, details TBA.

Oct. 18-21 • AdvaMed MedTech Conference, Boston, details.

Oct. 19-21 • America's Credit Unions annual Attorneys Conference, Conrad Nashville, details.

Oct. 20-22 • FINTECH: MultiState User Group, for banking executives who manage Fiserv, IBM or Unisys systems and solultions, Nashville, details TBA.

Oct. 27-28 • AMAZON Business Reshape 2026. Nashville. More info.

Oct. 27 • Salute to Excellence Awards 2026, Center for Nonprofit Excellence of Middle Tennessee, details.

Oct. 27-28 • Future of Freight Festival, FreightWaves, venue: The Signal, Chattanooga, more info.

NOVEMBER

Nov. 2-4 • AthenaHealth Thrive Summit, Nashville. Details.

Nov. 5-8 • Indie Memphis Film Festival. Details.

Nov. 6-8 • Startup Mountain Summit and The Pitch. More here.

Nov. 11 • U.S. Veterans Day.

Nov. 15-18 • HLTH Las Vegas, details TBA.

Nov. 17 • ITIF National Power Industry Trade-War Conference (U.S.-China face-off), in D.C., register here.

Nov. 26 • Thanksgiving. 

DECEMBER

Dec. 25 • Christmas Day observed.

2027 EVENTS

March 14-17  ViVE digital healthcare event. Details.

RESOURCES

✅ See programs offered via Launch Tennessee regional network partners.

✅ Founders Forge (Johnson City) 2026 pro-entrepreneur events, here.

✅ Previous VNC calendars. Venture Nashville news coverage. Submit comments via LinkedIn. VNC

. last updated 19 February 2026 1035 CST