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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.

Enea Rrapokushi

S&P Global Market Intelligence
Associate Director, Research Ops
Charlottesville, Virginia Area

9:00am EDT

Machine Learning Coffee Hour Violet Crown CharlottesvilleS&P Global • Capital One

10:15am EDT

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

11:00am EDT

Word Embeddings Under the Hood: How Neural Networks Learn from Language Violet Crown - Theater 5Patrick Harrison • 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

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love Graph DatabasesFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Michael Zelenetz • 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

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

3:55pm EDT

Learning From Billions of News Reading SessionsNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Andrew Montalenti • 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

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

Machine Learning Happy HourFull Violet Crown CharlottesvilleS & P Global • Capital One

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

12:00pm EDT

Block Party Emancipation ParkNew Belgium • C-Ville Weekly

7:00pm EDT

Porchella Belmont Neighborhood