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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.

Alexander Struminger

Struminger & Company
Owner
Charlottesville, Virginia Area

alex.struminger.com/

Struminger & Company is a strategic digital communications consultancy focused on technology-enabled storytelling, narrative design and the practice of "Storytelling 3.0".

Alex lives in the rural village of Batesville, VA.

3:00pm EDT

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

6:00pm EDT

The Presidency at a CrossroadsNow Open The Paramount TheaterWilliam Antholis • Douglas Blackmon • Nicole Hemmer • Bill Kristol • John Negroponte • Neera Tanden • Miller Center at UVA

9:00am EDT

Changes in Appetite: Pathbreaking Food BusinessesAlmost Full Common House - Vinegar Hall NorthCullen Gilchrist • Melody Koh • Christina Liva • Bryan Myers

10:30am EDT

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

11:40am EDT

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

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

1:20pm EDT

The Art and Science of BieberfindingFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Alec Gosse • 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

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

3:25pm EDT

Training Drone Image Models with Grand Theft AutoFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Monica Rajendiran • 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

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

4:40pm EDT

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

5:00pm EDT

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

9:00am EDT

The Future of Energy StorageFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Julian Spector • Stephen Coughlin • Sun Tribe Solar

2:00pm EDT

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

3:00pm EDT

Corporate Demand: Changing the Energy EquationNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5JR Tolbert • George Ashton • Roger Ballentine • Sun Tribe Solar

4:00pm EDT

A Vision for Charlottesville Climate LeadershipFull Violet Crown - Theater 4David Toscano • Wes Bellamy • Grey McLean • Charity Pennock • Sun Tribe Solar

5:00pm EDT

Data and Energy Networking Happy Hour Violet Crown CharlottesvilleSun Tribe Solar

10:00am EDT

Iron Chef Competition Charlottesville City Market

4:40pm EDT

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

6:15pm EDT

Kendall Street Company - Jammy Rock Emancipation Park