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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.

3:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: How to Bake Sprouted Grain BreadNow Open Moon Maiden's DelightsSidney Hall Community Workshop: We All Scream for Ice Cream CakeFull Wonderment Bakeshop and CreameryStephanie Connock Taylor

5:00pm EDT

Salsa Showcase IX Art ParkEdwin Roa Community Potluck, hosted with the IX Art ParkNow Open IX Art ParkIx Art Park Craft Cocktail Competition Downtown Mall

5:30pm EDT

Farm to Table Restaurant Week Downtown Mall

6:00pm EDT

Darrell Rose Musical Performance IX Art ParkDarrell Rose

7:00pm EDT

Partner Event: Cville Gives Grant NightNow Open Three Notch'd Craft Kitchen & BreweryPosner Wealth Management

5:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Under the Veil: Inside the Wedding IndustryFull Community Investment Collaborative OfficesWaverly Davis • Mark Hahn • Angelica Laws • Community Investment Collaborative Partner Event: Messy Democracy: From Founding Our Nation to Finding Our WayAlmost Full Old Metropolitan HallSarah McConnell • Sara Bon-Harper • Leslie Greene Bowman • Kat Imhoff • Presidential Precinct

6:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: A Brief History of PurpleNow Open Bridge PAIGolara Haghtalab Partner Event: Charlottesville Identity & Design CompetitionNow Open Jefferson School African American Heritage CenterBushman Dreyfus Architects Community Workshop: Increasing Productivity and Workflow Using Digital ToolsFull Babylon Micro Farms OfficeLorraine Sanders

6:30pm EDT

Community Workshop: You Knead to Learn about Good GlutenFull Great Harvest Bread CompanyAileen Magnotto • Great Harvest Bread Company

7:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Why Food Writing Matters: An Overview of the GenreFull The Pie ChestJenée Libby

9:00am EDT

Youth SummitNow Open The Paramount TheaterAce Callwood • UVA Curry School of Education • ReinventED Lab

12:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Design Your MindFull Community Investment Collaborative OfficesWaverly Davis • Sabrina Feggans • Marga Odahowski • Community Investment Collaborative Youth Summit: MakervilleNow Open IX Art ParkUVA Curry School of Education • ReinventED Lab

3:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Gutenberg: The Future of WordPressFull Studio IXTodd Wickersty • Page Wood • StoryWare

4:30pm EDT

Rivanna River Clean Up Rivanna River Company

5:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Listening Like You Mean ItFull Bridge PAILisa Rogoff

6:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Exploring the Art of Partner DancingNow Open Old Metropolitan HallEdwin Roa The Presidency at a CrossroadsNow Open The Paramount TheaterWilliam Antholis • Douglas Blackmon • Nicole Hemmer • Bill Kristol • John Negroponte • Neera Tanden • Miller Center at UVA

6:30pm EDT

Community Workshop: Developing Microenterprise to Employ Adults with Autism CitySpaceJason Brewster • David Kearon • Ethan Long • Micah Mazurek

7:00pm EDT

Crowdfunded Pitch NightNow Open The Jefferson TheateriLab • Citizen Burger Bar • Community Investment Collaborative • UVA Community Credit Union

8:00pm EDT

An Evening with John CleeseNow Open The Paramount TheaterJohn Cleese • Division of Perceptual Studies

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 Community Workshop: Coffee Roasting: Seed to CupFull Grit RoasterieTravis Mason • Grit Coffee

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 Partner Event: Affordable Housing in High Growth Small CitiesFull Water Street CenterLisa Sturtevant • Michelle Allen • William Huang • Rhoda Stauffer • Urban Land Virginia Institute 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 MIMA Improvisational Songwriting WorkshopNow Open Bridge PAI

11:05am EDT

Use of Deep Learning for Environmental Enteropathy Biopsy Image AnalysisNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 3Sana Syed • S&P Global • Capital One

11:20am EDT

A Modified K-Means Clustering Approach to Redrawing US Congressional Districts Violet Crown - Theater 4Jack Prominski • S&P Global • Capital One

11:30am EDT

Embed, Encode, Attend, Predict: A four-step framework for understanding neural network approaches to Natural Language Understanding problems Violet Crown - Theater 5Matthew Honnibal • S&P Global • Capital One

11:40am EDT

Decrypting Crypto Fascist Symbolism With Tensorflow Violet Crown - Theater 4Emily Crose • S&P Global • Capital One Joining Separate Paradigms: Natural Language Processing and Deep Neural Networks to Characterize Neuronal Cell Type and FunctionFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Cait Dreisbach • Morgan Wall • Ali Zaidi • S&P Global • Capital One

12:00pm EDT

Building an Applied Machine Learning Laboratory for Undergraduate Research and Education Violet Crown - Theater 4Anthony Teate • S&P Global • Capital One How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love Graph DatabasesFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Michael Zelenetz • S&P Global • Capital One Rapid NLP Annotation Through Binary Decisions, Pattern Bootstrapping and Active Learning Using Prodigy and spaCyFull Violet Crown - Theater 5Ines Montani • S&P Global • Capital One Just Eat: The Future of FoodNow Open The Paramount TheaterJane Black • Greg Asbed • Melody Barnes • Seth Goldman • Beyond Meat

1:00pm EDT

Real-time, Streaming Anomaly Detection for Cybersecurity with Redis-MLFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Andrew Fast • S&P Global • Capital One

1:05pm EDT

Can a Machine Be Racist or Sexist?Now Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Renee Teate • S&P Global • Capital One Two Years of Bayesian Bandits for E-CommerceAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 3Austin Rochford • S&P Global • Capital One

1:20pm EDT

The Art and Science of BieberfindingFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Alec Gosse • S&P Global • Capital One

1:30pm EDT

Social Bias in Machine LearningAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 5Renee Teate • Emily Crose • Natalie Evans Harris • Vicente Ordonez • S&P Global • Capital One

1:40pm EDT

Empowering People and Thwarting MachinesFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Thom Miano • S&P Global • Capital One

2:00pm EDT

Partner Event: Financing Affordable HousingFull Water Street CenterMelissa Maddox Evans • Anthony Williams • Julie Anderson • Philip d'Oronzio • John Desmond • Susan Dewey • Mark Graham • Monica Hawkins • Heather Hill • Ned Howe • Sunshine Mathon • Anita Morrison • Audrey Oliver • Maurice Perry • Stacy Pethia • Linda Stanley • Aakash Thakkar • ACAC • Urban Land Virginia Institute 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 Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of SycophancyNow Open Old Metropolitan HallDeborah Parker • Mark Parker • 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

2:05pm EDT

KEYNOTE: How to Fail Spectacularly at AnalyticsFull Violet Crown - Theater 5Antonia de Medinaceli • S&P Global • Capital One

2:45pm EDT

Explainable AI: Key Techniques and Societal ImplicationsAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 5Mark Ibrahim • Ceena Modarres • S&P Global • Capital One In Man's Image: Autonomy through Imitation LearningAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 3Bryce Freshcorn • S&P Global • Capital One The Florist, the GPU, and Deep Learning (DL/Computer Vision Intro) Violet Crown - Theater 4May Casterline • S&P Global • Capital One

3:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Brewing with Fruit INow Open Draft TaproomColton Peloquin • New Belgium Community Workshop: Intro to Ethical HackingNow Open SilverchairMike Erman • Silverchair

3:25pm EDT

Training Drone Image Models with Grand Theft AutoFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Monica Rajendiran • S&P Global • Capital One Harnessing Machine Learning to Enable DiscoveryFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Mikel Rodriguez • S&P Global • Capital One

3:30pm EDT

News Article Classification for Improving Estimates of Arrest-Related Deaths in the USNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Peter Baumgartner Partner Event: Community Engagement in Affordable HousingFull Water Street CenterLiz Chapman • Mark Graham • Charlene Green • Heather Hill • Janette Kawachi • Karen Klick • Audrey Oliver • Annie Stup • Urban Land Virginia Institute 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

3:55pm EDT

Learning From Billions of News Reading SessionsNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Andrew Montalenti • S&P Global • Capital One

4:00pm EDT

Using Deep Learning to Derive 3D Cities from Satellite ImageryFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Eric Culbertson • S&P Global • Capital One Understanding the Visual World through LanguageAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 4Vicente Ordonez • S&P Global • Capital One Community Workshop: Brewing with Fruit IINow Open Draft TaproomColton Peloquin • New Belgium Community Workshop: How to Take a 360 PhotoNow Open Jefferson-Madison Regional LibraryDarius Nabors Community Workshop: Design Thinking and Talent Development: For Job-SeekersFull Babylon Micro Farms OfficeCarolyn Kalantari • Julia Lapan

4:15pm EDT

Mapping Deforestation Trends in the Brazilian Amazon Using Machine LearningAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 3Courtney Whalen • S&P Global • Capital One

4:20pm EDT

Recommendation Systems for Edge DevicesNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Tyler Hutcherson • S&P Global • Capital One

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

Intro to Wikidata, the Database for Wikipedia and Wiki Projects Violet Crown - Theater 5Lane Rasberry • S&P Global • Capital One 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

4:40pm EDT

Medical Education Content Categorization with MeSH TermsNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Michael Szul • S&P Global • Capital One

4:45pm EDT

Charlottesville Open Data Competition Winner Presentations Violet Crown - Theater 5

4:50pm EDT

Automatically Analyzing Earth Imagery using Deep LearningNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 3Joe Morrison • 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 Salsa Dance for Equality Central PlaceZabor Dancers Silverchair 25th Anniversary Reception SilverchairSilverchair

6:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Spotting Sensationalized Science in the NewsNow Open University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied ScienceScience Policy Initiative at UVA • Caitlin Donahue Wylie

7:00pm EDT

American Evolution Innovators CupNow Open The Jefferson TheaterAce Callwood • Jen Finn • Steve Huffman • Nancy Twine • American Evolution • S&P Global

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

10:00pm EDT

Silent DiscoFull Old Metropolitan Hall

8:00am EDT

Clean Energy Coffee and Networking Violet Crown CharlottesvilleSun Tribe Solar

9:00am EDT

The Future of Energy StorageFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Julian Spector • Stephen Coughlin • Sun Tribe Solar What’s Next for Energy Policy in Virginia?Now Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Tyson Utt • Katharine Bond • Hayes Framme • Angela Navarro • GreeneHurlocker • Generation 180 • Sun Tribe Solar Founding Stories - GRIT: Overcoming AdversityNow Open The Paramount TheaterNatalie Brzezinski • Mark Brzezinski • Bradford Manning • Leland Melvin • Bryan Smith • Mark Warner • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Eric Martin

10:00am EDT

Community Workshop: Building a Better CongressAlmost Full Babylon Micro Farms OfficeGreer Kelly Community Workshop: Handmade PaperFull UVA Papermaking StudioDavid Joo

10:30am EDT

Closed Session: A Systems Approach to the Opioids Crisis in Our RegionFull CitySpaceGail Maddox Taylor • F. Michael Ashby • Rosa Atkins • Kyle Austin • Lisa Beitz • Marny Bentley • Denise Bonds • Neta Davis • Kaki Dimock • Elizabeth Driscoll • David Driscoll, PhD, MPH • Thierry Dupuis • Joe Evans • William Fulkerson • Mary Davis Hamlin • Holly Hatcher • Jody Herndon • Matt Holland • Michelle Hottinger • Mary Jackson • Marta Keane • Rebecca Kendall • Martin Kumer • Albie LaFave • Gabrielle Marzani • Anna Mendez • Susan Morrow • Jennifer Oldham MD MPH • Cristine Nardi • Cyndi Richardson • Ronnie Roberts • Ann Mason Rumble • Katya Sracic • Nassima Ait Daoud Tiouririne • Dorothy Tompkins • Robert Tracci • Erin Tucker • Renae Vance • Tom VonHermert • Rebecca Wade • Emily Warren • Lori Wood • Region Ten Founding Stories - CREATIVITY: Building Outside the BoxNow Open The Paramount TheaterMark Brzezinski • Vincent Kadlubek • Willowtree • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Designing Products with PurposeFull Welcome GalleryPeter Jackson • Brandon Anderson • Kris Cody • Hannah Dehradunwala • Tina Hovsepian • Tim Scott • StoryWare • Willowtree Partner Event: Meeting the Need for Affordable DevelopmentAlmost Full Water Street CenterGregory Powe • Fred Harris • Ned Howe • Dan Rosensweig • Aakash Thakkar • Mel Thompson • Urban Land Virginia Institute Clean Capital: Financing the Transition to Renewable EnergyNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Yann Brandt • Yuri Horwitz • Greg Montgomery • leap • Abundant Power The Darkest Hour: Leading through Natural DisasterNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 4David Murray • Derrick Freeman • Andrea Luecke • Sun Tribe Solar A Better Startup Ecosystem for Student FoundersNow Open Old Metropolitan HallLaura Brogdon-Primavera • Hack Cville • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Eric Martin Master Class: Design the Future You LoveAlmost Full Common House - Vinegar Hall NorthUVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Marie Schacht The Founders Who Aren't: Inclusion in EntrepreneurshipNow Open Second Street GalleryCourtenay Siegfried • Chelsea Conrad • Shamaine Daniels • Knatokie Ford • desiree venn frederic • Brad Wolverton • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Case Study: Strategic Action for Economic Opportunity in Frederick, MDFull Common House - Vinegar Hall SouthWhitney Hahn • Elizabeth Cromwell • Michael O'Connor • Helen Propheter • Scott Ryser After August 12th: Freedom of Speech and Domestic TerrorNow Open The Paramount Theater - Balcony LoungeLandon Shroder • Alan Bradstock • Mary McCord • Abigail Spanberger • RVA MAG From Search to SuggestNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 3Garrett Graff • Joshua Anton • Allen Gannett • University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences • C-Ville Weekly Community Workshop: Design Thinking for the Greater GoodNow Open Guma GalleryRandy Salzman

10:45am EDT

Closed Session: Addressing the Crisis: Evidence-Based SolutionsFull CitySpaceEvan Behrle • F. Michael Ashby • Rosa Atkins • Kyle Austin • Lisa Beitz • Marny Bentley • Denise Bonds • Neta Davis • Kaki Dimock • Elizabeth Driscoll • David Driscoll, PhD, MPH • Thierry Dupuis • Joe Evans • William Fulkerson • Mary Davis Hamlin • Holly Hatcher • Jody Herndon • Matt Holland • Michelle Hottinger • Mary Jackson • Marta Keane • Rebecca Kendall • Martin Kumer • Gabrielle Marzani • Anna Mendez • Susan Morrow • Jennifer Oldham MD MPH • Cristine Nardi • Cyndi Richardson • Ronnie Roberts • Ann Mason Rumble • Katya Sracic • Nassima Ait Daoud Tiouririne • Dorothy Tompkins • Robert Tracci • Erin Tucker • Renae Vance • Tom VonHermert • Rebecca Wade • Emily Warren • Lori Wood • Region Ten

11:00am EDT

Founding Stories: Success to ScaleNow Open The Paramount TheaterMark Brzezinski • Eric Martin • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Shan-Lyn Ma • Nancy Twine Art Demo: Live Illustration with Andrew Stronge Telegraph Art & ComicsAndrew Stronge • Andrew Stronge

12:00pm EDT

Founders Luncheon: Art, Fantasy, and Mystery: Meow WolfNow Open The BebederoVincent Kadlubek • WHURK • UVA Arts • Charlottesville Area Community Foundation Founders Luncheon: Brands in the Age of DistractionAlmost Full Downtown GrilleMargo Bulka • Z Bryant • Magnus Hierta • Darcey Lacy • Lindsey Norment • StoryWare • Willowtree • Sir Speedy Founders Luncheon: The Energy End GameAlmost Full Downtown GrilleDevin Welch • Jigar Shah • Charlottesville Renewable Energy Alliance • Sigora Solar • Sun Tribe Solar Founders Luncheon: Founding While FemaleNow Open Red Pump KitchenHeather Metcalf • Renee Diresta • Alice Handy • Shan-Lyn Ma • FastTrac • 1 Million Cups • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Founders Luncheon: Reasons to Stay - Cities for Young FoundersNow Open ZocaloDaniel Willson • Steve Huffman • Hack Cville • The City of Charlottesville Office of Economic Development • Chamber Frederick • Eric Martin • Capital One Founders Luncheon: STEAM Ahead: Inclusive InnovationAlmost Full Brasserie SaisonNatalie Brzezinski • Knatokie Ford • Leland Melvin • Lynchburg Economic Development Authority • Virginia National Bank Community Luncheon: Honoring Black America in the Public RealmNow Open The Jefferson TheaterGayle Jessup White • Brent Leggs • Eto Otitigbe • Levar Stoney • Office for Diversity and Equity Founders Luncheon: Dopesick - Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted AmericaAlmost Full Bashir'sBeth Macy Founders Luncheon: Taking Back HealthcareNow Open Commonwalth RestaurantElisabeth Rosenthal • Natassia Rozario Founders Luncheon: An American StoryNow Open Hamilton'sJames Fallows • Amy Goldstein • Royer Caramanis & McDonough Partner Event: “How to Fix American Democracy: Part I" The Lawn at the University of Virginia (12-2 pm)Miller Center at UVA • University of Virginia

2:00pm EDT

Solving Design Problems with PrototypingAlmost Full Welcome GalleryKate Hofstra • Emily Flannery • Kristen Keiser • Todd Wickersty • StoryWare • Willowtree Life After CoalAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 4Heidi Binko • Dan Conant • Brandon Dennison • Adam Hastings • Nicole Steele • Sun Tribe Solar Master Class: The Creative CurveAlmost Full Common House - Vinegar Hall NorthAllen Gannett • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Get Smart: Beyond the Buzzwords on Open DataFull Common House - Vinegar Hall SouthLiz Farmer • Zac Bookman • David Doyle • Andrew Kleine • Clarence Wardell Sex in Public: Gender and Political OfficeNow Open The Paramount Theater - Balcony LoungeJennifer Wright • Jenn Brown • Atima Omara Collective Action for Public Health OutcomesNow Open Old Metropolitan HallElizabeth Beasley • Ryan Coonerty • Stephen Grubbs • Natassia Rozario The Future of JournalismAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 3Dahlia Lithwick • Jeff Carney • Steve Gibson • Brad Wolverton • The Daily Progress • University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences • C-Ville Weekly Founding Stories - VISION: From success to scaleNow Open The Paramount TheaterNatalie Brzezinski • Steve Huffman • Jigar Shah • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Eric Martin Partner Event: Affordable Housing DesignFull Water Street CenterMel Thompson • Gregory Powe • Kathleen Galvin • Andrew Gast-Bray • Laura Goldblatt • Ned Howe • Sunshine Mathon • Mike Osteen • Rush Otis • Brian Revere • Aakash Thakkar • Bruce Wardell • Urban Land Virginia Institute Master Class: The ABCs of Socially Responsible InvestingNow Open Second Street GalleryKathleen Neumann • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Community Workshop: Hydroponics: The Future of Food ProductionNow Open Babylon Micro Farms OfficeAlexander Olesen • Graham Smith • Babylon Micro Farms Partner Event: "How to Fix American Democracy: Part 2" Miller Center of Public AffairsMiller Center at UVA • University of Virginia Closed Session: Crafting a Regional Plan to Address to the Opioid CrisisFull CitySpaceRegion Ten • Denise Bonds • F. Michael Ashby • Rosa Atkins • Kyle Austin • Lisa Beitz • Marny Bentley • Denise Bonds • Neta Davis • Kaki Dimock • Elizabeth Driscoll • David Driscoll, PhD, MPH • Thierry Dupuis • Joe Evans • William Fulkerson • Mary Davis Hamlin • Holly Hatcher • Jody Herndon • Matt Holland • Michelle Hottinger • Mary Jackson • Marta Keane • Rebecca Kendall • Martin Kumer • Albie LaFave • Gabrielle Marzani • Anna Mendez • Susan Morrow • Jennifer Oldham MD MPH • Cristine Nardi • Cyndi Richardson • Ronnie Roberts • Ann Mason Rumble • Katya Sracic • Nassima Ait Daoud Tiouririne • Dorothy Tompkins • Robert Tracci • Erin Tucker • Renae Vance • Tom VonHermert • Rebecca Wade • Emily Warren • Lori Wood

3:00pm EDT

A Universal Language: Inclusive DesignNow Open Welcome GalleryLance Barrera • Jordan Devries • Shauna Keating • Julia Swenson • StoryWare • Willowtree Corporate Demand: Changing the Energy EquationNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5JR Tolbert • George Ashton • Roger Ballentine • Sun Tribe Solar Making Energy Efficiency SexyNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 4Lesley Fore • Abby Johnson • Cliff Majersik • leap • Sun Tribe Solar Master Class: Growth HackingFull Old Metropolitan HallJoshua Anton • Brett Gibson • Bryan Myers • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Solving Civic Problems with DataNow Open The Paramount Theater - Balcony LoungeSheila Dugan The Edge of EntertainmentNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 3Roben Farzad • Karen Seminara • University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences • C-Ville Weekly Founding Stories - PURPOSE: Founding for ImpactNow Open The Paramount TheaterMark Brzezinski • Zac Bookman • Renee Diresta • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Eric Martin Case Study: Getting a City Back to Good in Petersburg, VAAlmost Full Guma GalleryJack Berry • Nelsie Birch • Robert Bobb • Dileep Rajan • Tom Tyrrell Community Workshop: Jewelry Repair & ReinventionAlmost Full Mi OssaBecca Perea-Kane

3:30pm EDT

Partner Event: Affordable Housing Needs AssessmentFull Water Street CenterWes Bellamy • Chip Boyles • Kaki Dimock • Mark Graham • Anthony Haro • Jennifer Jacobs • Julie Jones • Janette Kawachi • Beth Kennan • Anita Morrison • Stacy Pethia • Elaine Poon • Rick Randolph • Mike Signer • Urban Land Virginia Institute Roundtable: Virginia Is For Impact Investing LoversAlmost Full Second Street GalleryMatt Illian • Jen Giovannetti • Sandy Wiggins • Sydney • Ed Gerardo • Roberta Keller • Elena Loutskina • Alexander Neckles • Kathleen Neumann • Caroline Nowery • Stephanie Randolph • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

4:00pm EDT

Case Study: Citizen-Centered Design in Gainesville, FLAlmost Full Welcome GalleryPeter Jackson • Anthony Lyons • Wendy Thomas • StoryWare • Willowtree A Vision for Charlottesville Climate LeadershipFull Violet Crown - Theater 4David Toscano • Wes Bellamy • Grey McLean • Charity Pennock • Sun Tribe Solar Master Class: Can Business Save the Planet?Now Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Michael Lenox • Sun Tribe Solar Roundtable: The 21st Century Chamber of CommerceNow Open The Paramount Theater - Balcony Lounge Master Class: Anatomy of a StoryAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 3Amy Goldstein • University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences • C-Ville Weekly

5:00pm EDT

Data and Energy Networking Happy Hour Violet Crown CharlottesvilleSun Tribe Solar Tech Mixer Emancipation ParkArcheMedX • CoConstruct • Covintus • CvilleBioHub • GovSmart • HRDL, Inc. • iLab • MDV-SEIA • Silverchair • StoryWare • Ting • Totem • vlncomm • Generation 180 • Lynchburg Economic Development Authority • Indoor Biotechnologies • Community Investment Collaborative • Frederick Maryland Chamber of Commerce • Richmond Window Corporation • Roanoke Regional Partnership, Blacksburg Technology Council • Virginia Diodes • Focused Ultrasound Foundation • S&P Global • Locus Health • Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine • Eric Martin • Capital One • The Front Porch • Perrone Robotics • Woods Rogers • Sigora Solar • Sun Tribe Solar • Sir Speedy • Charlottesville Women in Tech • Jefferson Technology Food Truck Roundup Emancipation Park Block Party Emancipation ParkNew Belgium • C-Ville Weekly

5:15pm EDT

SixFoxWhiskey Emancipation ParkSixFoxWhiskey

6:25pm EDT

Amasa Hines Emancipation ParkAmasa Hines

8:00pm EDT

The Broadcast Emancipation ParkThe Broadcast

9:30pm EDT

The Stone Foxes Emancipation ParkThe Stone Foxes

10:00pm EDT

Partner Event: Back That Thing Up Dance PartyNow Open The Jefferson TheaterThe Jefferson Theater

7:00am EDT

Partner Event: Run for Autism 5K Charlottesville High SchoolVirginia Institute of Autism Saturday Morning Market Charlottesville City MarketCharlottesville Parks & Recreation

8:00am EDT

Telemetry Experimental Music SeriesNow Open Bridge PAI Partner Event: Hacking DiversityNow Open Jefferson School African American Heritage CenterAce Callwood • Shauna Keating • University of Virginia

8:30am EDT

Partner Event: Affordable Housing Action SessionAlmost Full Water Street CenterGrant Tate • Urban Land Virginia Institute

10:00am EDT

Iron Chef Competition Charlottesville City Market Partner Event: Group Trail Ride Darden Towe ParkBlue Ridge Cyclery • Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine Partner Event: We Are Here Diversity FestivalNow Open IX Art ParkVanessa Braganza • Susan Bro • Khizr Khan • Office for Diversity and Equity

11:00am EDT

Community Workshop: Immersive Storytelling for VR and 360 FilmFull Jefferson-Madison Regional LibraryMona Kasra

11:30am EDT

Partner Event: Walk a Mile for SARA Downtown Mall

12:00pm EDT

McGuffey Open House McGuffey Art CenterMcGuffey Art Center Artisanal Tom Tom Emancipation Park Food Truck Roundup Emancipation Park Block Party Emancipation ParkNew Belgium • C-Ville Weekly

12:30pm EDT

Artist Lunch with James Johnson and Frank Walker Welcome GalleryJames Johnson • Frank Walker The Front Porch Jam Band - Roots Emancipation ParkThe Front Porch

1:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Personal DigitizationAlmost Full Jefferson-Madison Regional LibrarySarah Hamfeldt • Jefferson-Madison Regional Library

1:40pm EDT

Buddha Council Emancipation ParkBuddha Council

2:30pm EDT

Partner Event: Burnley-Moran Color Run Burnley-Moran Elementary SchoolBurnley-Moran PTO

2:50pm EDT

Cville Allstars - Funk & Blues Emancipation ParkCville Allstars

3:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Dance Workshop with Charlottesville BalletNow Open Charlottesville BalletCharlottesville Ballet

4:00pm EDT

Becca Mancari - Americana Emancipation ParkBecca Mancari

5:10pm EDT

Kwame Binea Shakedown - Rock & Funk Emancipation ParkKwame Binea Shakedown

6:25pm EDT

The National Reserve - Rock Emancipation ParkThe National Reserve

7:00pm EDT

Partner Event: Champion Brewery Metal Showcase Champion Brewing CompanyChampion Brewing Company

8:00pm EDT

The Skins - Soul & Pop Emancipation ParkThe Skins

9:15pm EDT

Mates of State - Pop Emancipation ParkMates of State

10:30pm EDT

Elby Brass Band - Downtown Parade Emancipation ParkELBY Brass

10:45pm EDT

ELBY Brass - Energetic Funk & Jazz Emancipation ParkELBY Brass

11:00pm EDT

Downtown Parade & AfterpartyNow Open ZocaloELBY Brass • Zocalo

2:00pm EDT

Making It: a Discussion on Creative GrowthFull McGuffey Art CenterSam Gray • Sam Gray Koda & the Drunken Allstars - Southern Rock Emancipation Park Artisanal Tom Tom Emancipation Park Partner Event: Gamecrafters of C'villeNow Open IX Art Park Food Truck Roundup Emancipation Park Block Party Emancipation ParkNew Belgium • C-Ville Weekly

3:10pm EDT

Adar - Soul & Jazz Emancipation Park

4:40pm EDT

Darrell Rose Power Trio - Afrikaan Emancipation ParkDarrell Rose & The Reggae Ambassadors

6:15pm EDT

Kendall Street Company - Jammy Rock Emancipation Park

7:00pm EDT

Partner Event: Porchella Kick Off with Bridge PAI Bridge PAIBridge PAI Porchella Belmont Neighborhood