Creator Awards Nashville

With special guest judges Ashton Kutcher,

Florida Georgia Line and Dia Simms

Musical performances from G-Eazy and more...

Thursday, September 13

5 - 11pm Marathon Music Works

1402 Clinton St, Nashville, TN 37203

The Creator Awards is coming to Nashville. Watch local innovators pitch for over $700,000 in funding and link up with potential employers at our job fair. There will be an after party to celebrate creators who are making an impact in their communities and around the world. RSVP now for your free ticket (tickets limited). This event is for guests 21+.

16:30

SHUTTLES TO MOTORWERK

Shuttles depart every 30 minutes starting at 16:30 and ending at 18:30 from the following locations:

Sony Center: Bellevuestr opposite Sony Center, 10178

Hackescher Markt: Bus stop on 'an der Spandauer Brucke', 10785

Event Details

4:30-7:30PM

Shuttles to Venue

Shuttles to the venue will leave from 901 Woodland St. and One Nashville Place every 30 minutes from 4:30pm until 7:30pm.

5PM

Doors Open: Job Fair + Pop-up Market

Mingle with recruiters and explore opportunities at our job and skills fair, shop for handmade wares at the pop-up market, and get your headshot taken in the portrait studio.

7:30PM

Awards Ceremony

Clear your calendar - It's going down! You're invited to take part in the festivities. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

9:30PM

After Party

Celebrate our winners with live musical performances and late-night eats.

Ticket Sales Are Closed

What to Expect

Join us for the Nashville Creator Awards featuring a job fair, pop-up market, and live music to celebrate the winners. Because big ideas deserve big celebrations.

Job Fair

See who’s hiring and make genuine connections with forward-thinking companies in your area. Even if you’re not looking for a job at the moment, it doesn’t hurt to network—who knows what opportunities may come up in the future. Make sure to set up your Jobbio profile. You will need this on the day!

Pop-up Market

Shop for one-of-a-kind goods like jewelry, cards, and home decor from designers, makers, and artists in your area. While you’re at it, why not strike up a conversation about their process or inspiration? You might just make a new friend.

Awards Show

The awards ceremony is the main event, the reason we’re all here, the moment of glory where dreams become reality. Watch as visionaries in your area take the stage, pitch their ideas, and win funding to take their projects to the next level. Goosebumps guaranteed.

After Party

Big ideas are worth celebrating, and what’s a celebration without performances by creators of every genre? From DJ sets to musical acts that will make you want to get in the groove, there’s no doubt that you’ll be entertained.

Finalists

Contract Canvas

Business Venture Finalist

Chris Brown &

Chad Elliott

Co-founders

Contract Canvas makes it easy for freelancers to make and sign legally enforceable digital contracts. Unlike traditional contracts, our contracts are designed for humans, not lawyers.

Ground

Business Venture Finalist

Melissa Long

Chief Journalism Officer

Our team’s core belief is that accurate, verified and reliable news should be accessible to everyone in a democracy. Ground is the revolutionary AI-powered platform that delivers on that mission and more with a seamless mobile experience.

Loomia

Business Venture Finalist

Janett Liriano

CEO

Loomia’s mission is to build an enchanted, connected and intelligent ecosystem that reaches new frontiers from the bottom of the ocean to outer space. We create magical products through innovative, active materials to bring comfort, safety and confidence to the human experience.

Prommus

Business Venture Finalist

Anthony Brahimsha

Founder & CEO

We go beyond beans to something you can believe in! We took our family’s Middle Eastern recipes and crafted them using clean ingredients, added protein and created an easy way to snack with substance. For every container sold, we give back. A small yet mighty way to make a difference.

Queen of Raw

Business Venture Finalist

Stephanie Benedetto

CEO & Co-Founder

Chemicals from textile production are destroying your drinking water. Queen of Raw is a marketplace for textile producers to sell unused textiles to brands and creators, saving over 4 billion gallons of water by 2025 and turning pollution into profit.

The Peach Truck

Business Venture Finalist

Stephen Rose & Jessica Nienaber Rose

Co-founders

The Peach Truck exists to share the joy of fresh Georgia peaches nationwide.

Found In Translation

Nonprofit Finalist

Maria Vertkin

Founder & Executive Director

Found in Translation is medical interpreter job training program empowering low-income bilingual women to achieve economic security through their language skills, and improving healthcare access. Immigrants face high poverty rates; meanwhile medical errors resulting from language barriers are costly and even deadly. Aligned, these two problems can solve each other.

Everybody Dance Now!

Nonprofit Finalist

Olakunle Oladehin

Executive Director

Everybody Dance Now! is a national nonprofit using hip hop dance to educate, inspire, and build community. Through hip hop culture, we engage a wide range of young people and close the opportunity and achievement gaps that disproportionately affect low-income residents and communities of color. We promote equity, empowerment, and healing through the arts.

Girl Develop It

Nonprofit Finalist

Corinne Warnshuis

Executive Director

Girl Develop It (GDI) creates welcoming, supportive opportunities for women and people underrepresented in tech education to learn web and software development skills. Through classes, projects, and events, GDI students develop code, confidence, and community across a network of over 60 chapters with more than 100,000 members.

Melanie Faye

Performing Arts Winner

"My vision is to build a career as an independent musician both in song and in structure — writing, performing and releasing my own music to serve as an example for anyone who dreams of picking up a guitar and telling their own story.”

Finalists

Biblotech

besiness venture finalist

Khaled Kayed