Welcome to the SVS Showcase! Stephen Miller will kick off the day with a warm welcome, followed by Patrick Driscoll from Holland & Knight.
Start your day with a selection of pastries, fruit, and coffee while connecting with fellow attendees and preparing for a day of innovation and insights at the SVS Showcase.
Pinnacle Financial Partners is a leading Southeastern regional bank headquartered in Atlanta and Nashville, Tennessee, with operations across the Southeast. Pinnacle Financial advisors empower entrepreneurs, growth-stage companies, and venture investors to fuel expansion and achieve long-term success through comprehensive banking and advisory solutions tailored to the innovation economy.
Through flagship initiatives including the Tennessee Technology Advancement Consortium (TTAC), LaunchTN accelerates university technology transfer and commercialization statewide. TTAC provides faculty and student innovators with ideation support, proof-of-concept funding, SBIR/STTR assistance, and pathways to startup formation and industry partnerships—bridging the gap between academic research and market-ready ventures.
LaunchTN is Tennessee’s premier public-private partnership and the state’s dedicated hub for entrepreneurship and innovation. By delivering critical access to capital, commercialization resources, and strategic connections, LaunchTN empowers founders, researchers, and innovators to transform ideas into high-growth companies that drive economic impact across Tennessee and the broader Southeast region.
Wake Forest University is a private university in Winston-Salem whose commercialization path runs through Wake Forest Innovations and the Innovation Quarter, a life-sciences district anchored by the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Wake Forest Innovations manages intellectual property for the Wake Forest health system, Wake Forest University, and the Advocate Health system. The office protects inventions, builds commercial partnerships, and helps form technology companies. Its stated mission is to turn research into products. It sits in the Innovation Quarter.
Baylor College of Medicine is an independent health sciences university in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. Its commercialization path runs through biomedical discovery, with faculty research that already ranks among the nation’s most competitive NIH portfolios.
The University of Virginia, a premier public research institution in Charlottesville, Virginia, is a catalyst for innovation and entrepreneurship in the Southeast. Renowned for its interdisciplinary strengths in engineering, business, medicine, and data science, UVA drives economic impact through its robust entrepreneurial ecosystem.
