Tennessee is experiencing unrivaled economic growth. In 2024, our state ranked 8th in the country for our growth rate. Much of this growth has been driven by rapidly expanding populations in Tennessee’s leading cities, Nashville and Memphis. The growth is no mystery. Nashville has spent decades crafting itself as an attractive cultural hub for music and a mecca for health care. Now, Memphis is making similar moves: shaping itself into a nationally recognized hub for technological innovation.
Memphis is already home to a quickly expanding tech scene. That burgeoning tech contributed $2.5 billion to the city’s economy in 2024 and supported thousands of jobs. Our city’s leaders have a vision to expand that investment even further. That vision — the “Digital Delta” — promises innovation, opportunity and growth for all Memphians.
If city leaders are truly committed to building a high-tech Memphis, we need to meet the moment and embrace AI. AI has taken the world by storm. It has helped more accurately diagnose cancer, enabled dairy farmers to improve the health of their herds, given supermarkets insights to cut food waste, and so much more…