In a post on Venture Hacks today, Nivi mentioned Startup Digest (link) as a place to see what events are going on in the startup world. Being interested in staying plugged in, etc. I checked out the list and (probably not surprisingly) Atlanta is about the only southern city even on the list.
Birmingham certainly has plenty of startup related events and several startup related entities, so maybe as we grow the profile of our local community we can become more of a player in the national scene.