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Planning your marketing roadmap for 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee? Known for music, healthcare, tourism, and a booming startup environment. Here are 10 events:
1. Digital Summit Nashville
Description: A staple in the Digital Summit series, featuring digital marketing, SEO, social media, email, analytics, content marketing, and more.
Date (2025): Likely Spring or Fall
Location: Music City Center or a major downtown venue
Website: Digital Summit Nashville
Who Should Go: Digital marketers, social media managers, brand strategists, and local agency folks.
Past Speakers: Representatives from Google, Moz, HubSpot, and local Nashville brands.
2. Nashville American Marketing Association (NAMA) Conference
Description: Hosted by AMA Nashville, focusing on branding, digital transformation, data analytics, and creative marketing strategies.
Date (2025): Often Spring or Fall
Location: Downtown hotels or event venues
Website: AMA Nashville
Who Should Go: Marketers, agency professionals, students, and corporate brand teams.
Past Speakers: Execs from healthcare giants (HCA), music industry marketers, and local ad agencies.
3. Nashville Entrepreneur Week (Marketing & Growth Track)
Description: A multi-day festival highlighting entrepreneurship, often with sessions on branding, social media, and startup growth hacking.
Date (2025): Likely Fall
Location: Coworking spaces, innovation hubs, or the Nashville Entrepreneur Center
Website: Nashville Entrepreneur Center
Who Should Go: Founders, marketers, investors, small business owners, and local tech enthusiasts.
Past Speakers: Local startup founders, marketing gurus, city officials, and musician-entrepreneurs.
4. Social Media Week Nashville
Description: Part of the global SMW series, focusing on influencer marketing, content creation, platform trends, and brand community building.
Date (2025): Often Spring
Location: Downtown Nashville venues
Website: Social Media Week (check for Nashville edition)
Who Should Go: Social media managers, PR professionals, brand storytellers, and digital agencies.
Past Speakers: Local music industry social leads, platform experts, brand managers from restaurant/hospitality.
5. Music City Marketing Summit
Description: Focuses on music/entertainment marketing, brand sponsorships, and creative campaigns in the Nashville music industry.
Date (2025): TBA
Location: Music industry event spaces or the Country Music Hall of Fame conference area
Website: Check local music industry associations or Eventbrite
Who Should Go: Music marketing managers, artist managers, brand sponsors, and event producers.
Past Speakers: Record label marketers, venue promoters, brand partnership leads, and event PR reps.
6. Nashville Health Care Marketing Conference
Description: Given Nashville’s status as a major healthcare hub, this event highlights hospital marketing, patient engagement, and healthcare branding.
Date (2025): Likely mid-year
Location: Convention centers near Downtown or midtown medical campuses
Website: Check SHSMD (AHA) or local healthcare marketing orgs
Who Should Go: Hospital marketers, healthcare PR, clinic administrators, and agency professionals specializing in health.
Past Speakers: Executives from HCA, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, insurance comms directors, and patient advocacy experts.
7. PRSA Nashville Annual Conference
Description: PR-centric but includes integrated marketing, social media, brand reputation, and crisis communications.
Date (2025): TBA
Location: Downtown Nashville hotels or conference venues
Website: PRSA Nashville
Who Should Go: PR practitioners, marketing managers, nonprofit comms, and brand strategists.
Past Speakers: Local media personalities, PR agency founders, communications leads from major Nashville-based companies.
8. Nashville E-commerce & Retail Forum
Description: Addresses e-commerce, omnichannel marketing, logistics, and direct-to-consumer strategies for retailers in Middle Tennessee.
Date (2025): TBA
Location: Music City Center or local hotels
Website: Retail TouchPoints or local chamber events
Who Should Go: Retail marketers, brand managers, e-commerce entrepreneurs, and supply chain professionals.
Past Speakers: Local store owners, D2C brand founders, marketing automation vendors, distribution experts.
9. Nashville Technology Council Marketing Innovations Summit
Description: A local tech council event focusing on marketing tech, AI, data analytics, and digital disruption in Middle Tennessee.
Date (2025): Likely late Winter or early Spring
Location: Tech council headquarters or major conference centers
Website: Greater Nashville Technology Council
Who Should Go: Marketing ops, CMOs, data analysts, and SaaS product teams.
Past Speakers: Local tech executives, martech vendors, big data experts, and marketing strategists.
10. Vanderbilt / Belmont University Marketing Speaker Series
Description: Local universities hold speaker events on brand management, digital marketing, and entrepreneurial marketing, open to students & public.
Date (2025): Various
Location: Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management or Belmont business school halls
Website: Vanderbilt Owen or Belmont University Business
Who Should Go: Students, alumni, local marketers, corporate sponsors.
Past Speakers: Marketing professors, brand executives, local startup founders, and corporate alumni.