Summit Some More
10 Years of Making Space
Summit Recordings & Resources
Below you will find recordings from all keynote and breakout sessions from the 2026 Maker City Summit. Whether you attended live or are exploring the content for the first time, these sessions are meant to continue sparking ideas, conversations, and new paths forward for your creative practice or business.
Keynote Sessions
Breakout Sessions
The 2026 Maker City Summit marked a special milestone for our community: ten years of building, supporting, and celebrating Knoxville’s maker ecosystem.
While our original plans were interrupted by bitter winter weather, the spirit of this community showed up exactly as makers do best. We adapted. We improvised. We kept going.
Thanks to the flexibility of our speakers and attendees, the Summit transformed into a hybrid experience spanning several weeks, with sessions offered both in person and online. What could have been a setback became an opportunity to slow down, extend conversations, and make the content accessible to even more people.
We are grateful to everyone who helped make that pivot possible.
Our speakers rearranged travel and schedules. Our attendees embraced the change with grace. Our partners helped us keep the momentum going.
Thank You,
to our speakers, partners, sponsors, volunteers, and attendees who helped make this year’s Summit possible, especially as we navigated unexpected weather challenges.
Your willingness to pivot, adapt, and stay engaged reflects exactly what makes The Maker City community so strong.
We hope these sessions continue to inspire new ideas long after the Summit concludes.
Here’s to the next decade of making space