Mid-South Hub Innovation Summit

View speeches from our innovative leaders, as well as the signing of the official Mid-South Hub constitution.

NASA Webinar: Space Entrepreneurship and Beyond

Learn about opportunities to get acquainted with programs to promote entrepreneurship for science, technology, and research applications at NASA and other potential funding opportunities. This webinar will feature how to work with NASA via a new funding opportunity launched for researchers and scientists that works directly with the Mid-South Hub.

Taking on South by Southwest (SXSW)

The SXSW Ideator Regional I-Corps Program, founded on the Sullivan Family Ideator Program, took a diverse group of participants from the Vanderbilt community—students, faculty, staff, and alumni—and collaborators from our broader Mid-South I-Corps Hub Ecosystem, including the University of Virginia, Tennessee State University, and GEM Fellow participants, to this year’s South by Southwest Festival-a global nexus of creativity and technology.

Mid-South Hub Innovation Summit

“The Mid-South Innovation Summit is the culmination of years of innovation effort, community development and entrepreneurial progress: The once-disparate innovation ecosystems across the Midsouth are now assembling together under one unified, inclusive innovation ecosystem.”

-Charleson Bell, Director of the NSF Mid-South I-Corps Hub

Mid-South Hub Summit Training

“The Mid-South Hub aims to ignite sustainable collaboration across the region by bringing resources, training and support to all who seek to create positive value change. We all, together, will create an atmosphere that incites regional shared prosperity.”

-Charleson Bell, Director of the NSF Mid-South I-Corps Hub