The current Innovation Council Vice Chair moves onto the leadership track as the Chamber rolls out its FY27 board, currently chaired by Regions Bank's Rob Stivers.
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InfluenceHer Summit capitalizes on time management as a superpower
The InfluenceHer Summit concluded on Thursday, March 27 at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens.
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Some federal regulations are creating costly roadblocks for small manufacturers trying to break into government contracts — and the Small Business Administration wants to hear about it.
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The winners and honorable mentions span across eight states and work in engineering, forging, machining, metallurgy and smart manufacturing.
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Co-founders Mohamed Omar and Saleban Olow leaned on a viral marketing campaign and GitHub momentum to launch Memvid, a self-hosted memory layer for AI agents.
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A Crossville-based propulsion company is part of a newly awarded federal defense contract aimed at giving the U.S. military a new kind of unmanned strike capability.
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PreTel is also the previous first place winner of the PYA Ballard Innovation Award, and recipient of $50,000 worth of cash and in-kind services.
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A breath-analysis device built from COVID research is now targeting cattle bovine respiratory disease, but the Tennessee startup's ambitions go far beyond the pasture.
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The report is unambiguous on this point: workforce readiness, not innovation capacity, is the primary constraint on Knoxville's tech growth.
