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February 20, 2025 | Tom Ballard

Group behind “Cincy AI Week” expanding to Nashville this year

Music City is one of six cities in the organization's planned expansion.

Cincy Inno reports that Nashville is in the bullseye for an artificial intelligence (AI) conference later this year thanks to the team behind “Cincy AI Week.”

According to the report, a group that is already hoping to turn Cincinnati into a hotbed for AI is expanding its three-day-long summit founded last year to several new markets – including a few of the fastest-growing metros in the U.S.

Summer Crenshaw and Zack Huhn, Co-Founders of the Enterprise Technology Association (ETA), are upping the event to eight total cities in 2025, six of which will host respective AI Week events for the first time.

The group will add Nashville along with Atlanta, GA; Tampa, FL; Louisville, KY; Syracuse, NY; and Washington, DC. AI Week also will return to Cincinnati and Columbus. Both celebrated inaugural events in June and September 2024, respectively.

Huhn admitted it’s an ambitious push. “Cincy AI Week 2024” drew nearly 1,500 attendees and more than 400 companies, ranking it among the largest in the Midwest, with a bigger turnout expected this time around. Each new respective event is expected to draw between 1,000 and 2,000.

This year’s “Cincy AI Week” is planned for June 10-12, 2025, at Union Hall. Ahead of that, ETA announced that the inaugural “Atlanta AI Week” would be held April 22-24 at the Atlanta Tech Village.



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