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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.

Christian Hall

ChartIQ
COO
Charlottesville

9:00am EDT

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

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

Master Class: Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your CompetitionNow Open Old Metropolitan HallHenry Hwong • StoryWare • Willowtree

12:00pm EDT

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love Graph DatabasesFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Michael Zelenetz • S&P Global • Capital One

1:00pm EDT

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

1:20pm EDT

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

2:05pm EDT

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

2:45pm EDT

In Man's Image: Autonomy through Imitation LearningAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 3Bryce Freshcorn • S&P Global • Capital One

4:20pm EDT

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

4:30pm 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

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

7:00pm EDT

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

11:00am EDT

Founding Stories: Success to ScaleNow Open The Paramount TheaterMark Brzezinski • Eric Martin • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Shan-Lyn Ma • Nancy Twine

12:00pm EDT

Founders Luncheon: Brands in the Age of DistractionAlmost Full Downtown GrilleMargo Bulka • Z Bryant • Magnus Hierta • Darcey Lacy • Lindsey Norment • StoryWare • Willowtree • Sir Speedy

2:00pm EDT

Solving Design Problems with PrototypingAlmost Full Welcome GalleryKate Hofstra • Emily Flannery • Kristen Keiser • Todd Wickersty • StoryWare • Willowtree

3:00pm EDT

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

5:00pm EDT

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

2:00pm EDT

Partner Event: Gamecrafters of C'villeNow Open IX Art Park

7:00pm EDT

Porchella Belmont Neighborhood