The First Annual

AI Summer Summit

For Trades Business

A one-day event built for contractors, home service companies, and trade business owners who are done waiting to figure AI out. No hype. No theory. Every session is built for real-world implementation.

Friday

July 24, 2026

8:30 am - 5:30 PM CST

Nashville Entrepreneur Center

41 Peabody Street

Nashville, TN 37210

You're booked out. You're still stressed. Something isn't adding up.

The problem isn't effort. It's that too many parts of your business still depend on you doing them manually. This event is about changing that.

Generate more leads

Close More Jobs

Build Better System

Improve Customer Experiences

Recruit better employees

Increase Profitability

Reduce Operational Chaos

Get time back for what's important

What You'll Learn

Building systems that actually work

Using AI safely and responsibly

Marketing strategies that create trust

AI and IT infrastructure for growing business

AI-powered recruiting, hiring and team management

Financial System that improve profitability and cash flow

Using AI to create stronger human connections

Real world implementation examples and case studies

Featured Sessions

01

Building systems that works

02

Legal & Risk in the AI Era

03

Marketing That Creates Trust

04

AI + IT Infrastructure for Trades Businesses

05

AI + HR

07

AI + Human Connection

06

Finance & Money Systems

08

Real-World Implementation & Case Studies

09

Live Panel Discussion & Audience Q&A

Included with your Registration

Breakfast Networking

Access to All Educational Sessions

Live Panel Discussions and Audience Q&A

Networking with Contractors, Business Owners, Marketers, Technology Professionals, and Industry Leaders

DJ Leeah Faraa Throughout the Day

Parking Included

Lunch is not included. However, numerous restaurants and cafes are within walking distance.

Who Should Attend?

01 Home Service Business Owners

02 Trade Business Owners

03 Business Owners Ready to Grow

04 Contractors

05 Office Managers and Admins

06 Sales & Estimators

Title Event Sponsor

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Rengie Mendoza

Founder of Clienti

Award-Winning Growth Strategist for Local Service Businesses

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Clienti helps small businesses collect raving reviews from their happy customers. With over 400+ Clients, we have collected over 250,000 raving reviews in the past 7 years.

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Experience and Hospitality Sponsors.

A Special thanks to these sponsors who make all the little things possible.

Breakfast

Entertainment

Snacks

Photography

Parking

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Liz

Tipping

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Womble Bond Dickinson

[email protected]

+16154265566

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Jonathan Harrison

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Southwestern Insurance Group

[email protected] +16153269690

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Anton Jackson

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Rebuilding Together Nashville

[email protected]

+16159736789

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Lexie Thayer

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Human Interest

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+18452206106

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Maryalice Benvenuto

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Blind Corners

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+19168463833

Supporting Sponsors.

A Special thanks to these sponsors who make all the little things possible.

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Keith

Troup

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TAPPS

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+16158528895

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Jon

Petty

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Interlinc Mortgage Services LLC

[email protected]

+16159988299

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Kim Richardson

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CSH-HUB

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+13173452095

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Shea

Calabrese

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PartnerCo

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+16152435838

The Visionaries Behind the Mission

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Jared Crenshaw

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Jared Crenshaw is the visionary and driving force behind the AI Summer Summit, bringing together business leaders, trades professionals, entrepreneurs, and technology-minded people to explore practical ways AI can create real opportunity.

His work sits at the intersection of business growth, marketing, sales, automation, events, media, and relationship-building. Jared is focused on helping people and organizations solve meaningful problems, improve systems, build stronger partnerships, and achieve better results with less friction.

Grounded in the belief that trust, referrals, and influence are earned through value first, Jared is passionate about using better systems, better thinking, and better relationships to create more freedom, prosperity, and lasting impact.

Aaron Schroer

Tennessee Home Inspectors llc

+16155455660

Aaron Schroer is the founder of The Trusted Tradesmen and Trusted Trade Hub, owner of Tennessee Home Inspectors, and founder of PivotNest Labs. The AI Summer Summit is being developed in partnership with the Downtown Nashville Trade Hub, where Aaron is playing a key organizing and logistics role in bringing the event to life. Through the Trade Hub, Aaron and his team are helping provide the practical nuts and bolts behind the event, including planning resources, event structure, sponsor and speaker coordination, registration systems, follow up systems, promotional support, day of logistics, and the operational framework needed to turn the Summit from an idea into a well executed business event. Aaron’s focus for the AI Summer Summit is on systems of execution and order. His role is to help make sure the event is organized, professional, properly supported, and easy for speakers, sponsors, attendees, and partners to participate in successfully.

Liz Tipping

Womble Bond Dickinson

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Liz Tipping has more than 20 years of experience representing clients in civil, commercial, and criminal matters, with a primary focus on construction law. She has successfully tried cases in both jury and non-jury settings in state and federal courts and has advocated for clients at every level of the judiciary, including the Supreme Court of the United States. Liz brings deep industry insight and decades of litigation experience to support construction companies and small businesses throughout all stages of their operations. Her practice spans contract negotiation and drafting, risk management, dispute resolution, and litigation, with a practical, business-focused approach. An active member of both the legal and construction communities, Liz is affiliated with the Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel, National Women in Roofing, and the Lawyers’ Association for Women. She also teaches advocacy skills at programs offered by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), and serves as Program Director for NITA’s annual Deposition Skills Program in Nashville. Beyond her legal and construction work, Liz is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). In 2019, she co-founded the SCBWI MidSouth mentorship program alongside #1 New York Times best-selling author Sharon Cameron.

Gabrielle Goude

The Goude Group

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Gabrielle Goude is the CEO and co-founder of The Goude Group, an AI automation and operations consultancy based in Franklin, TN. She's spent 15 years inside growing businesses, including scaling a consulting firm past 200 clients, before turning to the problem she now solves every day: owners doing work by hand that AI should be doing for them. At the AI Summer Summit, she'll build a working AI employee live on stage, then return in Session 8 to demo automating that AI employee and show the room how to take AI to the next level. One-liner version: Gabrielle Goude, CEO of The Goude Group, helps business owners put AI to work. She'll build an AI employee live on stage, then show how to automate it in Session 8.

Speaker

Jennifer Renshaw

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Brand Mark Digital

Speaker

A-aron Peters

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Tech Squared Inc.

Speaker

Gabby Parker

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Genovations Consulting

Want to become a Speaker?

Technology should serve people not replace them.

Our mission is to help trades business use AI and automation to build better business, create better customer experiences, increase profitability, reduce stress and get more time back for the things that matter most.

Join us for the First Annual

AI Summer Summit

You've been meaning to figure this out.

This is the day to do it. One day, nine sessions, and a clear path forward for your business - built specifically for the trades.

Friday, July 24, 2026 | 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CST | Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Join the Downtown Nashville Trade Hub, a leading trade community Nashville professionals trust for local business networking and growth.