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May 1-2, 2025

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Glorious Charleston, SC

The South’s Tech Summit | Charleston Tech Week Anchor

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Explore revenue-generating advancements in the cutting-edge cosmos of technology

AI, ML & Data Analytics: Dive into the world of AI, where robots aren’t just taking over—they’re making our lives smarter, faster, and easier. AI is the co-pilot we need, from deep learning to digital assistants.

Service & Hospitality: Experience how AI is turning customer service into customer wow! From personalized experiences to robot concierges, tech is serving up innovation with a side of southern charm.

Healthcare: Get ready to learn how AI-driven diagnostics, wearable tech, and telemedicine are revolutionizing how we stay healthy—and maybe even live forever!

Supply Chain, Transportation & Energy: Whether it’s drones delivering your dinner or AI optimizing global logistics, this track explores the tech that’s ensuring everything gets from point A to point B at the speed of innovation.

Sales & Marketing: Say goodbye to boring campaigns! This track is all about leveraging AI and data analytics to craft marketing strategies that are more engaging than a cat on a unicycle.

Dig South’s Wild Pitch: The South’s Capitol of Capital. Pitch for a chance to win a $1,000,000 investment prize at Pegasus Tech Ventures Startup World Cup. Take the stage and show why you’re the Summit’s smartest investment. Apply here.

Cybersecurity & Defense: As we boldly go where no data has gone before, this track ensures your secrets stay safe in the digital universe. Explore the latest in cyber armor and defense tech.

30-Second AI Film Fest: Seen the latest AI video generation tools? Join CharlestonHacks to compete and showcase your creativity. CharlestonHacks collaborates with Dig South on this first-of-its-kind event as part of Charleston Tech Week.

Fintech, Legal & Blockchain: Money and law are getting a futuristic facelift. Blockchain, smart contracts, and AI-driven legal tools are rewriting the rules of finance and justice—no time travel required (but maybe trekcoin.)

Push boundaries. Stretch. Grow. Invent the future at Dig South Tech Summit, May 1-2, 2025. Contact us for opportunities: info@digsouth.com

$1,000,000 Wild Pitch
with startup world cup

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A CRYPTIC EVENING WITH AUTHOR BENJAMIN WALLACE

Thank you!

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Charleston County Economic Development logo
Digital Ignite logo
Quicksort logo

4:00 – 5:00pm

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4:00 – 5:00pm

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5:00 – 7:00pm

Charleston County Economic Development logo
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6:00 – 9:00pm

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7:30 – 8:30pm

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8:00am – 6:00pm

8:00 – 8:45am (Simons Center Patio)
Sponsored by: Java House

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9:00am – 4:00pm (Simons Center Atrium & Adjoining Rooms)

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ATRIUM – 1st FLOOR

Join the Topline founding team at their exclusive Gold Lounge at Dig South! Take advantage of the special event offer to update your professional profile, enhance your Topline Inferred Rate, explore the innovative tools included with Topline Gold membership, and get your complimentary professional headshot. PLUS Open Bar sponsored by Topline at GeekOut Finale Party!

About Topline.com:

  • Stephen Michael, Creator coach & Tech Content Creator
    Stephen Michael is an Atlanta-based content creator specializing in cinematic tech and lifestyle. He blends visual storytelling with accessible insights, helping aspiring filmmakers and photographers simplify complex tools and techniques. A North Carolina A&T graduate, Stephen uses his platform to educate, inspire, and connect with a growing creative community on Instagram, YouTube, and beyond.
  • Molly Goldrick – @mollygoldrick, Global Hackathon lead – Meta, independent lifestyle content creator
  • Bill Olson – @the.bill.olson
    Bill Olson is a top‑producing Charleston Realtor and content creator who uses video to build brand awareness, educate, and engage his audience. A passionate tech and AI enthusiast, he taps into these tools on a daily basis to streamline workflow and lighten his workload. Across his social media accounts, his innovative approach generates millions of views each month and attracts thousands of followers, many of whom he’s converted into clients.
  • Taylor Arent – @taylorarent
    Smith Spencer Real Estate & Independent Content Creator
  • Matt Peacock – @mpeacockmedia
    The Palm Social, independent content creator, photographer, and videographer
  • John Condlin – @johnchsrealtor
    Realtor & independent content creator
    John Condlin is a Charleston-based Realtor, content creator and Navy veteran helping people relocate and reimagine their lives in the Lowcountry. With over 5 years of experience and nearly 100 successful transactions, he blends deep market knowledge with creative storytelling to make real estate approachable and engaging. Through his popular videos and social media presence, John shares insights about moving to Charleston, navigating the housing market, and discovering life in the Southeast — all with a dose of authenticity and humor. When he’s not helping clients or creating content, you’ll find him volunteering locally, scouting out new restaurants, or searching for sharks’ teeth on the beach.

ATRIUM – 2nd FLOOR

9:00 – 9:05am (Emmett Robinson Theatre)

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9:05 – 9:45am (Emmett Robinson Theatre) Sponsor:

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10:00 – 10:25am (Emmett Robinson Theatre)
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10:00 – 10:25am
(Black Box Theater)
Sponsor: TBA

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10:00 – 10:25am (Recital Hall)
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ALBON
Founder: Tom Bessell
Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
Website: albon.com.au
At ALBON, we reverse climate change, empowering Australian businesses to reduce their environmental impact and drive sustainability.

BEEnevolent
Founder: Sade Shofidiya
Headquarters: Savannah, GA
Website: beenevolentapp.com
BEEnevolent provides IoT solutions for beekeepers experiencing colony loss. We design and sell high-technology beehives that mimic the bees’ natural environment and operate with minimal operator intervention or the need for high levels of skill and experience. We also provide support tools via an online community that encourages shared learning and interconnectivity amongst beekeepers and connects all in Environmental Justice. Additionally, we provide V/R trainings for apiculture workforce development.

CareHome
Founder: Aaron (AJ) Trelease
Headquarters: Wilmington, NC
Website: carehomehealthsolutions.com
CareHome Health Solutions is a wellness innovation company specializing in agetech to enhance the quality of life for seniors and their caregivers. Our flagship product, the Graciela, is a smart medication management device that leverages advanced technology, including 5G connectivity, to simplify and secure the process of dispensing medications. The device tracks schedules, ensures proper dosage, and provides real-time notifications to both users and caregivers if medications are missed or taken incorrectly.

CogBias AI
Founder: Anatoly Shilman
Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
Website: cogbias.ai
Our platform allows users to turn their unconscious cognitive biases from liabilities into assets. We provide a cutting-edge solution that surpasses traditional GPT-based platforms. Grounded in rigorous scientific research and advanced statistical techniques, our platform accurately detects cognitive biases and heuristics in market research questions, interviews, and email communications. By utilizing objective mathematical models based on linguistic feature frequencies, we deliver unbiased insights crucial for making informed strategic decisions.

Contextual
Founder: Andrew Brooks
Headquarters: Leesburg, VA
Website: contextual.io
Contextual is a fully managed, visual/low code platform for designing, developing and deploying complete AI Orchestration, AI Automation, and Agentic AI systems. From simply adding AI intelligence into existing tasks, functions, or processes to recreating entire systems with AI at the core or replacing underperforming SaaS or on-premise software, Contextual dramatically accelerates time-to-value and time-to-ROI. We specifically focus on enabling the tens of thousands of technology advisors, including Digital Agencies, Managed Services Providers and IT Consultants, who will sit at the center of the AI transformation for mid market companies across any number of industries.

10:30 – 10:55am (Emmett Robinson Theatre) – Sponsor:

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10:30 – 10:55am
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  • TBA
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Heartbeat Tech
Founder: Kristen Quinn
Headquarters: Charleston, SC
Website: heartbeattechsc.com
The Heartbeat Tech™ team is an interdisciplinary, diverse, and experienced team of surgeons, medical students, engineers, and designers who are collaborating to improve medical outcomes. Leveraging their first-hand experiences in the medical field as well as their Human-Centered Design training, the team is uniquely positioned to make lasting impacts on healthcare outcomes. The team functions at the intersection between healthcare and design and strives to create innovative solutions, one unmet need at a time.

HUB Healthcare
Founder: Charles Petrini-Poli
Headquarters: Raleigh, NC
Website: hub.healthcare
At HUB Healthcare, we provide an innovative software platform designed to enhance communication, optimize workflows, and improve patient outcomes across healthcare facilities. Our solution fosters seamless collaboration among providers, patients, and vendors, reducing inefficiencies and saving time. With tools for scheduling, inventory management, secure document sharing, and real-time analytics, HUB Healthcare ensures that every aspect of patient care is streamlined and effective. Join us in revolutionizing healthcare management for better, faster, and smarter patient care.

11:00 – 11:25am (Emmett Robinson Theatre)
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11:00 – 11:25am (Recital Hall)
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Quality Means Business
Founder: Michel Moravia
Headquarters: Boston, MA
Website: qmbdevices.com
QMB is revolutionizing the MedTech regulatory space with its innovative SaaS platform, QualiVerse. QMB’s QualiVerse is a Vertical SaaS, AI-native platform that revolutionizes the future-of-work for regulatory professionals in medical devices by de-risking and accelerating product development and market clearance/approval. 

Reel Analytics
Founder: Cory Yates 
Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
Website: reel-analytics.net
Reel Analytics (formerly Recruiting Analytics) is a sports data and technology company. We’re changing the game for athletes and sports organizations by using patented AI-powered computer vision technology to extract athleticism data from video, addressing the $18B misevaluation problem in collegiate and professional sports. Traditional evaluation tools like the stopwatch, the tape measure, and the scale haven’t evolved since the early 1900s, resulting in a staggering 67% misevaluation rate. This costs organizations billions in salaries, scholarships, and financial aid, while leaving millions of talented athletes unnoticed.

Renoverse
Founder: Nola Solomon 
Headquarters: Charleston, SC
Website: renoverse.ai
Renoverse AI is renovation assistant built for homeowners to simplify the overwhelm and time wastage in planning renovations with an education layer to help them understand what they don’t know or answer any question they have along the way. Through an interactive and collaborative AI experience, homeowners can start projects (our MVP is bathroom) and design the space they want to renovate by leaning on the GenAI helper to guide them through decisions and generate ideas and visualizations that they can interact with and make changes to.

11:30am – Noon (Emmett Robinson Theater)
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11:30am – Noon (Black Box Theater)
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11:30am – Noon (Recital Hall)
Sponsor: TBA

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Noon – 1:15pm

1:30 – 1:55pm
(Emmett Robinson Theater)
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How We Do It

Outsyde maximizes the potential environmental and financial value of our properties by implementing a number of strategies:

  • Carbon Offsets
  • Forest Protection and Restoration
  • Mitigation Banks
  • Low-Impact Solar
  • Sustainable Forestry Recreation

1:30 – 1:55pm
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1:30 – 1:55pm
(Black Box Theater)
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2:00 – 3:30pm (Recital Hall)
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2:00 – 2:25pm (Emmett Robinson Theater)
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2:00 – 2:25pm (Black Box Theater)
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What if the key to avoiding burnout and unlocking sustained business success lies in leveling-up your consciousness?

Krissa Watry, Co-Founder and CEO of Dynepic, Inc., and the first-ever winner of Dig South’s Wild Pitch (2014), has faced the highs and lows of entrepreneurship—failure, sexism, self-doubt, and more. Her story isn’t about an “overnight success,” but rather about the grit, evolution, and sacrifices that come with years of hard work and learning.

In this talk, Krissa will share how embracing self-care, balance, and conscious leadership can help entrepreneurs navigate the inevitable challenges of building and scaling a business. Through her own journey, she will reveal four proven ways to level-up your mindset, foresee your business’s path, and harness inner strength to overcome obstacles.

Whether you’re just starting out or scaling your business, join us for a transformative session that combines spiritual growth and entrepreneurial wisdom to empower your journey. 

Krissa’s bio:

Krissa Watry, Co-Founder / CEO of Dynepic, Inc., is a US Air Force veteran, rocket scientist, and multi-preneur with more than a decade’s experience as a technology executive founding multiple companies and commercializing a multitude of hardware and software products. Krissa holds 15 patents and was named XR Leader of the Year in 2023.

Company description:

Dynepic, Inc. is a venture-backed technology company working to level up humanity by powering the future of multi-dimensional knowledge. Dynepic is recognized as a global leader in the eXtended Reality (XR) space and its MOTAR Platform serves the US military and Fortune 500 clients. Dynepic was named Best Metaverse Enterprise Solution in 2024 and is a two-time honoree on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America and the Vet 100.

Track: Biohacking, HealthTech, Wellness, Marketing

2:30 – 2:55pm: (Emmett Robinson Theater)
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2:30 – 2:55pm (Black Box Theater)
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3:00 – 3:55 pm (Emmett Robinson Theatre) Sponsor:

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3:00 – 3:25pm (Black Box Theater)

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3:30 – 3:55pm (Recital Hall) Sponsor:

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3:30 – 3:55pm (Black Box Theater)

4:00 – 4:45pm (Emmett Robinson Theater)
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4:30 – 6:00pm 
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Special Guests: “Silver Geeks” presented by Top Tier Media.

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Top Tier Media
We connect local business with local talent and local talent with opportunity. We strategically partner with local businesses in fashion, magazine publishing, nightlife, live events, and other creative adjacent industries to provide local freelancers opportunities to develop their portfolios and make meaningful connections.

6:30 – 8:30pm
Separate event at The Harbour Club at WestEdge, sponsored by
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Straight from the source

Why We Love Dig South Events

Avery Akkineni

Dig South is the perfect mix of people who are super techy, I know there’s rocket scientists here but there are also a lot of people who are builders and innovators, and entrepreneurs who are doing things like this incredible NFT gallery.

Avery Akkineni

President, Vayner3

The organization of DIG SOUTH was flawless.

Adam Ring

Global Head, IBM HP Accelerator

Paul Sparrow

DIG SOUTH provides excellent content that is both timely and insightful. Really solid stuff. My membership has proved time and again to be a great tool for networking and making significant connections across the region.

Paul Sparrow

CMO & Managing Partner, Chief Outsiders

My session on transportation innovations was a blast – my only complaint would be that 50 minutes went by awfully fast, we could talked for much longer. Great Speakers!

Henry Gabar

Staff Writer, Slate Moneybox

This is one of the only conferences in my life I’ve been to more than once. And I believe there is an enormous opportunity for some of the biggest brands and companies in the world.

Gary Vaynerchuck

CEO, VaynerMedia

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