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Tom Tom Founders Festival 2018

The Seventh Annual Tom Tom Founders Festival is a week-long celebration of innovators, visionaries, and artists who are shaping small cities. The Festival occurs at dozens of venues throughout downtown Charlottesville.

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9:00am EDT

Changes in Appetite: Pathbreaking Food BusinessesAlmost Full Common House - Vinegar Hall NorthCullen Gilchrist • Melody Koh • Christina Liva • Bryan Myers Designing HealthAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 6Matthew Trowbridge MD MPH • Chat Razdan • Emily Schutzenhofer • Schaeffer Somers Machine Learning Coffee Hour Violet Crown CharlottesvilleS&P Global • Capital One OPENING KEYNOTE: Our Towns: A 100,000 Mile Journey Into the Heart of AmericaNow Open The Jefferson TheaterDeborah Fallows • James Fallows • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

9:45am EDT

Applied Machine Learning Conference Violet Crown CharlottesvilleS & P Global • Capital One

10:00am EDT

Placing Bets on the Next Medical Breakthrough: Life Science InvestmentAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 6Bobby Chhabra • Bob Creeden • Kyp Sirinakis

10:15am EDT

KEYNOTE: Deep Learning & Computer GraphicsFull Violet Crown - Theater 5David Luebke • S&P Global • Capital One

10:30am EDT

ICA and RVA: Creating a Cultural LandmarkNow Open Welcome GalleryMichael Orlove • Melody Barnes • Charlottesville Area Community Foundation • RVA MAG Master Class: Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your CompetitionNow Open Old Metropolitan HallHenry Hwong • StoryWare • Willowtree Data and Trends for Ecosystem DevelopersNow Open Second Street GallerySean Carr, Ph.D. • Eva Doss • Melody Koh • Johnny Magdaleno • Christiana McFarland • Joe Whitchurch • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Capital One How Ready for Funding Are You?Full The Paramount Theater - Balcony LoungeRoss Baird • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Virginia is for Entrepreneurs • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Roundtable: Redefining Farm to TableFull Common House - Vinegar Hall NorthMarland Buckner • Bettina Ring • Greg Asbed • Dominic Barrett • Duron Chavis • Tom McDougall • Doug Pick • Sally Schwitters • Sam Speedie • Kristen Suokko • Tom Thompson • Ellen Moncure Wong • MB2 Solutions Case Study: Building a Talent Pipeline in Milwaukee, WIAlmost Full Guma GalleryMichael Hostad • Chio Cabrera • Ruth Harper • Joe Poeschl KEYNOTE: You've Got the PowerNow Open The Jefferson TheaterAtima Omara • Jenn Brown • Lennon Flowers • Steven Olikara Roundtable: Ageism in Public PolicyNow Open Common House - Vinegar Hall SouthMarta Keane • Ayn Welleford • Denise Bonds • Mozell Booker • Chip Boyles • Jonathan Davis • Heather Hill • Steve Nichols • Pamela Sutton-Wallace • Peter Thompson

11:00am EDT

Velotonomy: beyond Uber, shared bikes and autonomous cars Violet Crown - Theater 4Phil Tinn • S&P Global • Capital One Word Embeddings Under the Hood: How Neural Networks Learn from Language Violet Crown - Theater 5Patrick Harrison • S&P Global • Capital One New Frontiers in Digital MedicineAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 6Shaival Kapadia • Phil Bourne • Ethan Dmitrovsky

12:00pm EDT

Just Eat: The Future of FoodNow Open The Paramount TheaterJane Black • Greg Asbed • Melody Barnes • Seth Goldman • Beyond Meat

2:00pm EDT

Freelancing: A Survival Guide to the Future of WorkAlmost Full Welcome GalleryJohn Reinhold • Ace Callwood • Anna Payne-Fife • Jeff Tennery • Claire Wasserman • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation KEYNOTE: Fighting Inequality with FinanceNow Open The Jefferson TheaterGreg Fairchild • Ross Baird • Peter Jackson • Jerry Nemorin • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Why It Pays to Startup in Small CitiesFull Second Street GalleryChris Harris • Kendall Morris • Will Morris • Mary Stargel • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Capital One Grow Different: AgTech and Urban FarmingNow Open Common House - Vinegar Hall NorthDuron Chavis • Jason Green • Christine Keller • April Philips • Jack Ross Bridging the Urban-Rural Economic DivideNow Open Guma GalleryChristiana McFarland Unleashing the Power of Public Prototyping: An Inside Look at Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors ChallengeNow Open The Paramount Theater - Balcony LoungeKatie Appel Duda • Maureen Devlin • Ryan Pierce • Jan Rader The Future of Patient CareAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 6Christopher Moore • Laura Barnes • Kimberly Deas • Miriam Friedel • Randall Moorman Roundtable: The Story of a PlaceFull Common House - Vinegar Hall SouthJessica Luck • Deborah Fallows • Roben Farzad • Miriam Gordon-Stewart • Enjoli Moon • Michael Orlove • Anne Helen Petersen • Ben Speggen • Brennan Gilmore • Nathan Moore • University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences • C-Ville Weekly

3:30pm EDT

Roundtable: Revitalizing Main StreetAlmost Full Common House - Vinegar Hall SouthWinona Dimeo-Edgar • Ric Cavender • Becky Ceperley • Juanita Hardy • Mona El Khafif • Johnny Magdaleno • Hana Passen • Melody Warnick Fueling the Next Wave: Food IncubatorsNow Open Common House - Vinegar Hall NorthMeagan McGinnes • Cullen Gilchrist • Andrew Ive • Brian Marks Teaching Skills That MatterNow Open Welcome GalleryKendall Morris • Evelyn Aissa • Jared Bigham • Michael Hostad The Death and Rebirth of Great American CitiesNow Open The Paramount Theater - Balcony LoungeAaron Renn • Anthony Williams The Future of the Community HospitalNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 6Amy Goldstein • Jonathan Davis • Tom Kleinhanzl • Mary Mannix • Pamela Sutton-Wallace KEYNOTE: Defending the Digital Space: Fake News, Hate Speech, and Big BrotherNow Open The Jefferson TheaterSiva Vaidhyanathan • Renee Diresta • Garrett Graff • Cathy O'Neil • University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences • C-Ville Weekly Tour: The Evolution of Industry at Woolen MillsAlmost Full Woolen MillsLee Catlin • Brian Roy • Albemarle County CIT Lab: An Empirical View of the Art and Science of Entrepreneurship and InvestmentFull Second Street GalleryCenter for Innovative Technology (CIT) • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Tour: The Surreal, Self-Driving FutureNow Open Pro Re Nata Farm BreweryLaura Bliss • Carlos Cardillo • T. Donna Chen • Paul Perrone • Phil Tinn • Albemarle County

4:25pm EDT

How to Beat the House - Predicting Football Results with Hyperparameter OptimizationNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Abhimanyu Roy • S&P Global • Capital One

4:30pm EDT

Comparing Baseline Statistical Control to Machine Learning Models in Evaluating Performance in IoT SystemsNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Derek Moore • S&P Global • Capital One

4:35pm EDT

Location Intelligence at Global Scale: Applying machine learning to maritime, ground transportation, and social media dataFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Anthony Fox • S&P Global • Capital One Imparting Privacy to Face Images: Designing Semi-Adversarial Neural Networks for Multi-Objective Optimization TasksNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 4Sebastian Raschka • S&P Global • Capital One

5:00pm EDT

Machine Learning Happy HourFull Violet Crown CharlottesvilleS & P Global • Capital One Life After Death with John Cleese and UVA DOPSNow Open The Paramount TheaterJohn Cleese • Bruce Greyson, M.D. • Jim B. Tucker M.D. • Edward Kelly, Ph.D. • Emily Williams Kelly, Ph.D. • Kim Penberthy, Ph.D. • Division of Perceptual Studies

8:00pm EDT

What Unites Us: Reflections on PatriotismNow Open The Paramount TheaterDahlia Lithwick • Dan Rather • University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences • C-Ville Weekly