TFLEx Spring Workshop - Nashville, TN - April 20-21, 2026

“Make Better Decisions”

Dates: April 20–21, 2026
Location: Nashville, Tennessee

Workshop Overview

Transit Finance Learning Exchange (TFLEx) invites members to attend a two-day, in-person workshop focused on strengthening the finance function’s role in financial and accounting process improvement, system implementation, and change management. Sessions will emphasize practical strategies to support regulatory compliance, grants management, project reporting, and better decision-making across the agency.

Participation is limited to member agency staff only.
Vendors and sales representatives may not attend.
Potential members should contact TFLEx for information on eligibility.

Program Content/Learning Objectives

Finance is called upon to play a central role in gathering, analyzing and organizing data to meet agency accounting and regulatory requirements, provide information to agency management to oversee grants, projects, and day-to-day operations – with a view to long-term financial sustainability. Key steps include identifying ongoing improvement opportunities, determining changed obligations, understanding resultant requirements, and implementing new business processes and systems – in concert with change management. Transit finance officers from across the country will gather in Nashville to share strategies regarding the Finance role in accounting and financial process and system improvements, with a view to making better decisions.

Workshop objectives – After attending this conference, participants will be able to:

• Describe the Finance role in gathering, analyzing and organizing data to meet agency accounting and regulatory requirements and provide information to agency management.
• Identify ongoing improvement opportunities, and the process to determine resulting requirements.
• Determine past and desired Finance future state role in system implementation and change management.
• Explain system implementation pitfalls and victories experienced by sister agencies.
• Define the process to assess agency reporting and information requirements, identify options, and manage process changes.
• Illustrate and share best practices through structured, participative, conversation sessions with other transit agencies.

Participants will earn 14.0 CPE credits.

Field of Study: Finance
Prerequisites: None*
Advanced Preparation: None*
Program Level: Advanced
Delivery Method: Group Live

Transit Finance Learning Exchange is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org

Workshop Venue & Meeting Location

Hosted by: WeGo Public Transit, Nashville, TN

Meeting Location:
WeGo Central – Elizabeth Duff Transit Center
WeGo Central Meeting Room (3rd Floor Conference Room)
400 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Nashville, TN 37219

All workshop sessions and meetings will take place at WeGo Central. Please plan to arrive early enough to allow time for building access and wayfinding to the 3rd-floor conference room.

Workshop Schedule

Monday, April 20, 2026

• Workshop begins at 8:30 a.m.

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

• TFLEx Business Meeting: 8:00 a.m.
• Workshop sessions resume at 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast and lunch are included both days.

Lodging Information

Recommended Hotel:
Hotel Indigo Nashville – The Countrypolitan
315 Union Street
Nashville, TN 37201

• Reservations: 1-877-846-3446
• Front Desk: 1-615-891-6000
• Check-in: 3:00 p.m.
• Check-out: 11:00 a.m.

Please click here to register a room at the discounted TFLEx rate. Availability is limited, so early booking is encouraged.

Getting Between the Hotel and WeGo

Hotel Indigo is located in downtown Nashville and is walkable to the conference location.

*This program is at an advanced level of continuing education. Although no prerequisite course material is provided or work experience is needed to participate in this program, working knowledge of finance and public transportation practices and policies, and knowledge of the program topic, is required.

For information regarding refund, complaint and cancellation policies, contact Joe Costello, Costello Consulting, 708-606-0811 costelloconsultingcorporation@gmail.com.