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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.

Nagea Astiarini Delaya

Kartini Chocolate
Founder and CEO
Charlottesville

3:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: We All Scream for Ice Cream CakeFull Wonderment Bakeshop and CreameryStephanie Connock Taylor

6:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Increasing Productivity and Workflow Using Digital ToolsFull Babylon Micro Farms OfficeLorraine Sanders

3:00pm EDT

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

7:00pm EDT

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

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

KEYNOTE: You've Got the PowerNow Open The Jefferson TheaterAtima Omara • Jenn Brown • Lennon Flowers • Steven Olikara

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

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

1:40pm EDT

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

2:00pm EDT

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

3:30pm EDT

Fueling the Next Wave: Food IncubatorsNow Open Common House - Vinegar Hall NorthMeagan McGinnes • Cullen Gilchrist • Andrew Ive • Brian Marks

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

7:00pm EDT

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

10:00pm EDT

Silent DiscoFull Old Metropolitan Hall

9:00am EDT

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

10:30am EDT

Clean Capital: Financing the Transition to Renewable EnergyNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Yann Brandt • Yuri Horwitz • Greg Montgomery • leap • Abundant Power

2:00pm EDT

Founding Stories - VISION: From success to scaleNow Open The Paramount TheaterNatalie Brzezinski • Steve Huffman • Jigar Shah • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Eric Martin

3:00pm EDT

Making Energy Efficiency SexyNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 4Lesley Fore • Abby Johnson • Cliff Majersik • leap • Sun Tribe Solar

4:00pm EDT

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

5:15pm EDT

SixFoxWhiskey Emancipation ParkSixFoxWhiskey

8:00pm EDT

The Broadcast Emancipation ParkThe Broadcast

9:30pm EDT

The Stone Foxes Emancipation ParkThe Stone Foxes

8:00am EDT

Telemetry Experimental Music SeriesNow Open Bridge PAI

11:00am EDT

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

1:00pm EDT

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

3:00pm EDT

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

5:10pm EDT

Kwame Binea Shakedown - Rock & Funk Emancipation ParkKwame Binea Shakedown

8:00pm EDT

The Skins - Soul & Pop Emancipation ParkThe Skins

9:15pm EDT

Mates of State - Pop Emancipation ParkMates of State

10:45pm EDT

ELBY Brass - Energetic Funk & Jazz Emancipation ParkELBY Brass

2:00pm EDT

Making It: a Discussion on Creative GrowthFull McGuffey Art CenterSam Gray • Sam Gray

3:10pm EDT

Adar - Soul & Jazz Emancipation Park

4:40pm EDT

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

7:00pm EDT

Porchella Belmont Neighborhood