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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.

Colleen Miller

Tom Tom Foundation
Associate Director
Charlottesville, Va

5:00pm EDT

Community Potluck, hosted with the IX Art ParkNow Open IX Art ParkIx Art Park

7:00pm EDT

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

5:00pm EDT

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

9:00am EDT

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

12:00pm EDT

Youth Summit: MakervilleNow Open IX Art ParkUVA Curry School of Education • ReinventED Lab

4:30pm EDT

Rivanna River Clean Up Rivanna River Company

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

8:00pm EDT

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

9:00am EDT

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

10:15am EDT

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

11:00am EDT

Velotonomy: beyond Uber, shared bikes and autonomous cars Violet Crown - Theater 4Phil Tinn • 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

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

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

10:00pm EDT

Silent DiscoFull Old Metropolitan Hall

8:00am EDT

Clean Energy Coffee and Networking Violet Crown CharlottesvilleSun Tribe Solar

9:00am EDT

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

10:30am EDT

Founding Stories - CREATIVITY: Building Outside the BoxNow Open The Paramount TheaterMark Brzezinski • Vincent Kadlubek • Willowtree • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

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: Founding While FemaleNow Open Red Pump KitchenHeather Metcalf • Renee Diresta • Alice Handy • Shan-Lyn Ma • FastTrac • 1 Million Cups • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

2:00pm EDT

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

3:00pm EDT

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

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

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

9:30pm EDT

The Stone Foxes Emancipation ParkThe Stone Foxes

7:00am EDT

Partner Event: Run for Autism 5K Charlottesville High SchoolVirginia Institute of Autism

10:00am EDT

Iron Chef Competition Charlottesville City Market

11:30am EDT

Partner Event: Walk a Mile for SARA Downtown Mall

2:50pm EDT

Cville Allstars - Funk & Blues Emancipation ParkCville Allstars

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

8:00pm EDT

The Skins - Soul & Pop Emancipation ParkThe Skins

9:15pm EDT

Mates of State - Pop Emancipation ParkMates of State

11:00pm EDT

Downtown Parade & AfterpartyNow Open ZocaloELBY Brass • Zocalo

2:00pm EDT

Artisanal Tom Tom Emancipation Park