BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1H REFRESH-INTERVAL:P1H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:Central Standard Time END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260518T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260518T130000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:AI Across America: Nashville DESCRIPTION:J.P. Morgan Chase\, Nashville Entrepreneur Center\, Nashville Tech Council\, University of Tennessee\, Vanderbilt AI Law Lab\, Launch Tennessee\, and the Nashville Healthcare Council are partnering with SeedAI to present AI Across America: Nashville a single-day convening on Monday\, May 18th at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center\, focused on Tennessee's opportunity to lead in the next era of AI. The event will bring together leaders from academia\, state government\, industry\, and the startup community for an honest\, substantive conversation about what it actually takes to build a strong state AI ecosystem. Topics will include: -Tennessee's AI Action Plan and six months of implementation progress -Healthcare AI deployment in America's healthcare capital -The founders and investors shaping the state's AI startup ecosystem -State-federal coordination on workforce and R&D investment -The compute\, data\, and talent infrastructure Tennessee needs to competeAgenda9:00 9:30 AM: Registration & Welcome9:30 10:15 AM: Tennessee's AI Action Plan: Progress & PrioritiesDr. Jesse Spencer-Smith\, Interim Director and Chief Data Scientist\, Data Science Institute\, Vanderbilt UniversityAmanda Glover\, Director of AI Initiatives\, SCOREDr. Michael Torrence\, President\, Motlow State Community CollegeRoger Waynick\, Director of Artificial Intelligence\, State of TennesseeMark Williams\, Founding Co-Director of Vanderbilt AI Law Lab (Moderator)10:15 11:00 AM: State-Federal Coordination Workforce & R&D InvestmentDr. Anne Ho\, Director of AI R&D\, AI Tennessee & ORIEDChuck Layne\, Technology Advancement Director\, LaunchTNDr. Jasbir Dhaliwal\, Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation\, University of Memphis Dr. Dina Stroud\, Research Assistant Professor\, Office of Vice Provost for Research and Innovation\, Vanderbilt UniversityCommissioner Deniece Thomas\, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (Moderator)11:00 11:45 AM: Healthcare AI in PracticeNate Miller\, MD\, Executive Director for Regional Emergency Medicine\, Vanderbilt University Medical CenterEdmund Jackson\, CEO\, UnityAIMark Norton\, Founder & CEO\, Adele HealthApryl Childs-Potter\, CEO\, Nashville Health Care Council (Moderator)11:45 12:30 PM: Startup Ecosystem & AI InnovationTodd O'Boyle\, Executive Director\, US AI Policy\, J.P. Morgan ChaseEller Kelliher\, Chief Investment Officer\, LaunchTNKate Mead\, Founder & CEO\, Planning PartnerVishwesh Nath\, Sr. Applied Research Scientist\, Medical Imaging\, NVIDIASam Davidson\, CEO\, Nashville Entrepreneur Center (Moderator)12:30 1:15 PM: Building Tennessee's AI InfrastructureDr. Anuj Kapadia\, Section Head\, Advanced Computing Methods for Health Sciences\, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryDr. Vasileios Maroulas\, Associate Vice Chancellor and Director\, AI TennesseeKristin Darby\, Chief Information Officer\, State of TennesseeJosh New\, Director of Policy\, SeedAI (Moderator)1:15 1:30 PM: Closing & Next Steps1:30 2:30 PM: Networking Lunch X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

J.P. Morgan Chase\, Nashville Entrepreneur Center\, Nashville Tech Council\, University of Tennessee\, Vanderbilt AI Law Lab\, Launch Tennessee\, and the Nashville Healthcare Council are partnering with SeedAI to present AI Across America: Nashville &mdash\; a single-day convening on Monday\, May 18th at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center\, focused on Tennessee'\;s opportunity to lead in the next era of AI. \;

The event will bring together leaders from academia\, state government\, industry\, and the startup community for an honest\, substantive conversation about what it actually takes to build a strong state AI ecosystem. Topics will include:

 \;-Tennessee'\;s AI Action Plan and six months of implementation progress \;

 \;-Healthcare AI deployment in America'\;s healthcare capital

 \;-The founders and investors shaping the state'\;s AI startup ecosystem

 \;-State-federal coordination on workforce and R&\;D investment

 \;-The compute\, data\, and talent infrastructure Tennessee needs to compete

Agenda

9:00 &ndash\; 9:30 AM: Registration &\; Welcome

9:30 &ndash\; 10:15 AM: Tennessee'\;s AI Action Plan: Progress &\; Priorities

10:15 &ndash\; 11:00 AM: State-Federal Coordination&mdash\;Workforce &\; R&\;D Investment

11:00 &ndash\; 11:45 AM: Healthcare AI in Practice

11:45 &ndash\; 12:30 PM: Startup Ecosystem &\; AI Innovation

12:30 &ndash\; 1:15 PM: Building Tennessee'\;s AI Infrastructure

1:15 &ndash\; 1:30 PM: Closing &\; Next Steps

1:30 &ndash\; 2:30 PM: Networking Lunch

LOCATION:41 Peabody Street Nashville TN 37210 UID:e.4831.1463035 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260521T173015Z URL:https://members.technologycouncil.com/events/Details/ai-across-america-nashville-1733436?sourceTypeId=Hub END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR