3:00pm EDT
3:00pm EDT
5:00pm EDT
5:00pm EDT
Community Potluck, hosted with the IX Art Park
Sponsors
The IX Art Park is a public, non-commercial, interactive space for spontaneous dreaming – for residents, visitors, families and solo acts.
Indulge your eyes, ears, mind, heart and soul. It’s all about possibility. And the power of collective creativity. The IX Art Park marks...
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5:00pm EDT
5:30pm EDT
6:00pm EDT
7:00pm EDT
Partner Event: Cville Gives Grant Night
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For generations of families and institutions, Davenport has been a trusted financial advisor, empowering them to steward their wealth with wisdom and confidence.
Employee owned and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, with offices throughout the mid-Atlantic, Davenport offers...
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5:00pm EDT
Community Workshop: Under the Veil: Inside the Wedding Industry
Sponsors
The Community Investment Collaborative initially grew from the personal experience of Toan Nguyen, owner of C’ville Coffee during the recession. After numerous conversations, a workgroup of 48 people with nonprofit, business and education backgrounds came together to better understand...
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Workshop Leaders
Communications & Engagement Director, Community Investment Collaborative
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Founder, Harvest Moon Catering
5:00pm EDT
Partner Event: Messy Democracy: From Founding Our Nation to Finding Our Way
Moderators
Executive Producer of With Good Reason, Virginia Humanities
Sarah is executive producer and host of the weekly public radio show and podcast With Good Reason. With Good Reason, a production of Virginia Humanities, features lively conversations with the best minds at Virginia's public colleges and universities. The program is heard on 98 public...
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Speakers
Executive Director, James Monroe's Highland
Sara Bon-Harper is Executive Director of James Monroe's Highland. Research she directs there has recently discovered a lost presidential home and transformed the understanding of that property. Highland’s work offers an opportunity to re-examine Monroe and his time and place, building...
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President, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Leslie Greene Bowman is President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and operates the UNESCO World Heritage site, Monticello -- the home of Thomas Jefferson. She has spearheaded the Foundation’s vision to bring history forward into national and global dialogue, propelling...
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President and CEO, Montpelier Foundation
Under the leadership of President and CEO Kat Imhoff, Montpelier has become a leader in the research of slavery in the Early Republic, and garnered the attention of patriotic philanthropist, David M. Rubenstein, whose $10 million gift in 2014 jumpstarted efforts to reconstruct the...
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Sponsors
The Presidential Precinct is a Physical and Virtual destination for young leaders to learn how others have built successful civil institutions, to debate the issues surrounding successful nation building, and to collaborate with others facing similar challenges.
By partnering...
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6:00pm EDT
6:00pm EDT
6:00pm EDT
6:30pm EDT
Community Workshop: You Knead to Learn about Good Gluten
Sponsors
This Great Harvest Bread Co. in Charlottesville is a dream come true — our dream! Our passion for great tasting, nutritious bread, and our desire to run a community-based business, led us to Great Harvest. They have been making great bread for communities across the U.S. for over...
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Workshop Leaders
Owner, Great Harvest Bread Company
Beginning her career in Western Pennsylvania as an interior plantscaper, evolving into a supermarket owner, and creating the first whole grain vegetable pasta on the market, Aileen and her husband Michael have now settled into Charlottesville as Great Harvest Bakery owners. Attracted...
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7:00pm EDT
9:00am EDT
Youth Summit
Speakers
CEO, Painless1099
Ace Callwood is the co-founder and CEO of Painless1099, a smart platform that manages 1099s, benefits, and taxes for independent contractors and their clients. Prior to Painless1099, Ace co-founded Coffitivity, an ambient sound app that was one of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 Sites of...
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Sponsors
We want Charlottesville to be the shining example of what the future of school can look like for everyone.How we're getting thereWe're working towards this mission by empowering students and designing custom curricula for educators and clients.We're also training education innovators...
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Advancing Society. Together. As the 18th Ranked School of Education we create a positive and lasting change - in the classroom, in the lab, in the community, and in the world at large.
12:00pm EDT
Community Workshop: Design Your Mind
Sponsors
The Community Investment Collaborative initially grew from the personal experience of Toan Nguyen, owner of C’ville Coffee during the recession. After numerous conversations, a workgroup of 48 people with nonprofit, business and education backgrounds came together to better understand...
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Workshop Leaders
Communications & Engagement Director, Community Investment Collaborative
CEO, MARGA LLC
Marga Odahowski is a speaker, corporate coach, and author. Marga’s mission is to bring the integration of research and practical skills to individuals to facilitate wellbeing and creativity. Marga has a MSE in Counseling Education and served on the faculty at University of Virginia...
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12:00pm EDT
Youth Summit: Makerville
Sponsors
We want Charlottesville to be the shining example of what the future of school can look like for everyone.How we're getting thereWe're working towards this mission by empowering students and designing custom curricula for educators and clients.We're also training education innovators...
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Advancing Society. Together. As the 18th Ranked School of Education we create a positive and lasting change - in the classroom, in the lab, in the community, and in the world at large.
Wednesday April 11, 2018 12:00pm - 2:15pm EDT
IX Art Park
3:00pm EDT
Community Workshop: Gutenberg: The Future of WordPress
Speakers
President, Storyware
As President of Storyware, Todd oversees business development, marketing, operations, and finance. In addition, Todd helps clients with digital strategy, user research, wireframes, and front-end development.Todd co-founded Storyware in 2013 after years of running his own consulting...
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Sponsors
We are a team of experienced, creative, and hard-working designers, developers, and strategists who are passionate about our craft.
Workshop Leaders
Partner, Storyware
As CTO of Storyware, Page oversees all technology efforts, services, and projects. He is passionate about web performance, responsive workflows, and delivering digital products that delight users at every step of the way.Page joined Storyware in the fall of 2014 as a front-end developer...
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Wednesday April 11, 2018 3:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Studio IX
4:30pm EDT
5:00pm EDT
6:00pm EDT
Community Workshop: Exploring the Art of Partner Dancing
Workshop Leaders
Artist-in-Residence, Zabor Dance
Founder of The Dance Spot and Co-founder of the Charlottesville Salsa Club, Edwin O. Roa is native of Bogota, Colombia who moved to the US in 1995. He has been teaching dance for over 20 years, and has devoted his career to the study of partner dance. He currently works as an adjunct...
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6:00pm EDT
The Presidency at a Crossroads
Moderators
Director & CEO, Miller Center
William J. Antholis serves as Director and CEO of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship. Immediately prior, he served as managing director at The Brookings Institution from 2004 to 2014. Antholis is...
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Senior Fellow, The Miller Center
Blackmon is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, and co-executive producer of the acclaimed PBS documentary of the same name. He recently served as Host and Executive Producer of the...
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Speakers
Assistant Professor of Presidential Studies, The Miller Center
Hemmer is an assistant professor in presidential studies at the Miller Center, and works in the Center's Presidential Recordings Program. She is also a contributing editor to
US News & World Report , co-host of the popular history podcast
Past Present, and co-editor of the Washington Post's Made by History. Hemmer’s first book, Messengers of the Right, charts the history of conservative media activism in the United States...
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Founder and Editor at Large, The Weekly Standard
William (Bill) Kristol is the founder and editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard. He is also a regular on ABC’s This Week and previously led the Project for the Republican Future.
Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates and Former First Director of National Intelligence, George W. Bush Administration
Ambassador Negroponte held government positions abroad and in Washington between 1960 and 1997 and again from 2001 to 2008. He has been Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq. In Washington he served twice on the National Security Council staff...
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President & CEO, Center for American Progress
Neera Tanden is the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, where she focuses on how to expand opportunity for all Americans. Tanden has also served in both the Obama and Clinton administrations, as well as on presidential campaigns.
Sponsors
The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history and strives to apply the lessons of history and civil discourse to the nation's most pressing contemporary governance chal...
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6:30pm EDT
Community Workshop: Developing Microenterprise to Employ Adults with Autism
Workshop Leaders
i.Lab, Darden
Jason directs the i.Lab Incubator program while also leading the mentor community and other i.Lab initiatives. He is a CodeX Fellow for the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics and the co-founder of Nimbus Law, which provides solutions for virtualizing legal teams and tracking client...
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Dave Kearon is Director of Adult Services for the nationwide advocacy organization Autism Speaks. He has a background in psychology and special education. His work at Autism Speaks focuses on national initiatives promoting solutions for the needs of individuals with autism and their...
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Executive Director, Virginia Institute of Autism
Ethan Long holds a Ph.D. in child clinical psychology, and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. He has delivered more than 100 presentations and workshops, nationally and internationally, related to autism and developmental disorders. Dr. Long is responsible not only for VIA’s...
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Associate Professor, Curry School of Education
Micah has broad clinical experience in psychological assessment and intervention, with specific expertise in assessment and treatment of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. She has also been active in efforts to enhance quality of care through training, and capacity-building...
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Wednesday April 11, 2018 6:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
CitySpace
7:00pm EDT
Crowdfunded Pitch Night
Sponsors
At Citizen Burger Bar, we believe kicking back with a tasty burger and a beer is one of life’s essential liberties. To secure that sacred right for the people of Charlottesville we teamed up with a few exceptional nearby farms and designed a menu around locally produced, top-tier...
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The Community Investment Collaborative initially grew from the personal experience of Toan Nguyen, owner of C’ville Coffee during the recession. After numerous conversations, a workgroup of 48 people with nonprofit, business and education backgrounds came together to better understand...
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The W.L. Lyons Brown III Innovation Laboratory, or i.Lab at UVA, is a University of Virginia-wide initiative with the mission of supporting entrepreneurs and innovators both on and beyond the UVA Grounds. To accomplish this mission, the i.Lab provides programs, funding, workspace...
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The UVA Community Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial cooperative owned by individual members, like you. Our strength is in our membership. Our goal is to help you reach your financial goals. Your financial success propels our growth and enables us to offer better products...
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8:00pm EDT
An Evening with John Cleese
Speakers
Founder, Monty Python
Monty Python icon, actor, author, playwright, Minister of the Silly Walk, and black humor extraordinaire has had a prolific career since the 1960s, continuously pushing boundaries in entertainment, and challenging audiences in the way they think and laugh.
Sponsors
Founded in 1967 by Dr. Ian Stevenson, the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) is the oldest and most productive university-based research group in the world devoted exclusively to the investigation of phenomena that challenge current physicalist brain/mind orthodoxy – including...
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9:00am EDT
Changes in Appetite: Pathbreaking Food Businesses
Moderators
CEO, Union Kitchen DC
As CEO and Co-Founder of Union Kitchen, Gilchrist has partnered with food businesses of all sizes to grow and accelerate their success. He also oversees the operations and management of Union Kitchen’s accelerator program as well as Union Kitchen’s commercial kitchen, distribution...
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Speakers
Venture Partner, NextView Ventures
Melody is a Venture Partner at NextView Ventures based in its New York office. Prior to joining NextView, Melody was Head of Product at Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN). Melody joined Blue Apron as the first product hire when the company was 18 months old with 20 HQ employees. She helped scale...
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Founder, Yay Lunch
Christina started in food editorial reviewing restaurants as an Editor for Zagat/Google, and served as the Food & Travel Editor of goop where ran the test kitchen alongside Editor-in-Chief Gwyneth Paltrow and ate her way through everywhere from Tokyo to West Marin. She later headed...
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Chief Operating Officer, [solidcore]
Bryan is the Chief Operating Officer for [solidcore]. In his role as COO, Bryan works to ensure that our Studio Managers and Coaches deliver an exceptional experience for our clients and leads the effort to bring [solidcore] to new communities all over the country.
Food,
Summit
- Festival (FREE), Included in Summit Badge, or Individually Ticketed Summit
9:00am EDT
Designing Health
Moderators
Associate Professor, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Dr. Trowbridge is a physician | public health researcher at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine and a nationally recognized researcher on the impact of the built environment (architecture, urban design, transportation planning) on public health. He currently, leads...
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Speakers
Co-Founder and CEO, Care+Wear
Chat Razdan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Care+Wear, a leading provider of innovative healthwear. The son of a doctor, Chat created Care+Wear to dedicate himself to improving patient lives. Having recognized the growing need to bring innovation and design to the healthcare industry...
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UVA Medical Student, UVA Medical School
Emily Schutzenhofer is a fourth-year medical student at UVA School of Medicine and a UVA Medical Design student fellow. She applies Human-Centered Design to meet challenges in healthcare and global health with innovation and empathy.
Architect, Assistant Professor, UVA School of Architecture
Schaeffer is training a new generation of architects, planners, clinicians, and policy makers to reflect health and well-being in decisions that shape the built environment. Schaeffer's dual background in Aerospace Engineering and Architecture drives his work translating the languages...
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9:00am EDT
Machine Learning Coffee Hour
Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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9:00am EDT
OPENING KEYNOTE: Our Towns: A 100,000 Mile Journey Into the Heart of America
Speakers
National Correspondent, The Atlantic
JAMES FALLOWS has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for more than thirty years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among other publications. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World...
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Author, Contributing Writer, Dreaming in Chinese, The Atlantic
Deborah Fallows is the author of two books that report on the people, culture, and values in the communities of two different countries, China and the U.S. The first, Dreaming in Chinese, is based on 4 years of living and working in China. The newly-released Our Towns: A 100,000...
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Sponsors
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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9:45am EDT
Applied Machine Learning Conference
Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
We provide intelligence that is essential for companies, governments and individuals to makedecisions with conviction.
10:00am EDT
Placing Bets on the Next Medical Breakthrough: Life Science Investment
Speakers
Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. A. Bobby Chhabra is the Division Head of Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery and is the hand and upper extremity consultant for the University of Virginia Department of Athletics. He maintains a busy clinical practice and along with his administrative and teaching activities, has...
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Managing Director, UVA LVG Seed Fund
Bob Creeden, Managing Director of the UVA LVG Seed Fund & New Ventures at the UVA Licensing & Ventures Group (LVG) supports the creation of high-quality ventures based on University technologies and leads the day-to-day operations of the $10 million investment fund. Since joining...
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Managing Partner, Epidarex Capital
Ms. Sirinakis has more than 25 years of experience in creating and growing companies both as an early-stage venture investor and a senior executive in various technology and life science companies. As the Co-founder and Managing Director of Epidarex Capital, she is responsible for...
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10:00am EDT
Community Workshop: Coffee Roasting: Seed to Cup
Sponsors
Grit Coffee was born out of a hardworking spirit and a love for serving people. We are steadfast in our search for the best coffees from the best farms doing their best work to serve the communities around them, and we roast those beans with care and intentionality to be enjoyed by...
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Workshop Leaders
10:15am EDT
KEYNOTE: Deep Learning & Computer Graphics
Speakers
VP Graphics Research, NVIDIA
Dr. David Luebke helped found NVIDIA Research in 2006 after eight years on the faculty of the University of Virginia. Today he runs NVIDIA's research efforts at the intersection of computer graphics, machine learning, and virtual & augmented reality. Together with his colleagues David...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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10:30am EDT
ICA and RVA: Creating a Cultural Landmark
Moderators
Director, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Artist Communities, International Activities, National Endowment for the Arts
Michael Orlove has been Director of Artists Communities, Presenting and Multidisciplinary Works and International Activities for the National Endowment for the Arts since 2012. Previously, Orlove spent 19 years as senior program director for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs...
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Speakers
Co-Director, Democracy Initiative & Professor of Practice, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
Melody Barnes is co-director for Policy and Public Affairs for the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia. She is a Professor of Practice at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and Distinguished Fellow at the School of Law.From 2009 until January 2012, Melody was Assistant...
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Sponsors
The Community Foundation was established in 1967 as an engine for positive change in Charlottesville and the surrounding counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson and Orange. We work with local residents, non-profits, as well as public and private organizations...
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RVA Magazine is the #1 Independent Media in Virginia. RVA Mag is all about community empowerment. How do we do this? By delivering new and innovative ways to tell stories from our city and Commonwealth. In doing so, we give our readers an immersive experience which lives at the intersection...
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10:30am EDT
Master Class: Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your Competition
Speakers
Principal, Cunningham Collective
Henry Hwong has over 24 years of experience in technology and consulting for venture-backed startups and public companies. He is an expert in product strategy, pricing, corporate innovation and marketplaces. While at Cunningham Collective, Henry has led a number of marketing and brand...
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Sponsors
We are a team of experienced, creative, and hard-working designers, developers, and strategists who are passionate about our craft.
Creating beautiful digital products engineered to drive growth for the world’s leading brands.
10:30am EDT
Partner Event: Affordable Housing in High Growth Small Cities
Moderators
Senior Visiting Fellow, Urban Land Institute
Lisa served as Vice President for Research for the National Housing Conference (NHC) between 2013 and 2016. Prior to NHC, Lisa served as Deputy Director of the Center for Regional Analysis and Associate Research Professor at the George Mason University School of Public Policy.
Speakers
Inclusionary Housing Program Manager, City of Boulder, Colorado
A city of Boulder planner for over fifteen years, Michelle is currently Boulder’s Inclusionary Housing Program Manager. Michelle has extensive experience in developing and implementing Boulder’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance and related regulations and policies including taking...
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Director of Housing, City of Pasadena
Mr. Huang is the Director of the Housing and Career Services Department for the City of Pasadena. The department provides a wide array of housing, homeless, and employment programs, as well as funding for social service and economic development activities with an annual budget of...
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Affordable Housing Program Manager, Park City, Utah
Rhoda J. Stauffer manages affordable housing programs for Park City Municipal Corporation, a resort town of 7,885 that has an economy based on welcoming up to 50,000 daily guests in ski season. Park City has an inclusionary housing program that has produced 275 units to date. The...
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Sponsors
At the Urban Land Institute, our mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. ULI Virginia, a district council of the Urban Land Institute, carries forth that mission as the preeminent regional real...
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10:30am EDT
Data and Trends for Ecosystem Developers
Moderators
Executive Director, Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
Sean D. Carr, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Professor Carr provides administrative leadership for an endowed...
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Speakers
President & CEO, The Launch Place (TLP)
Eva Doss is the President and CEO of The Launch Place (TLP), a venture development organization located in Danville, VA and in the Research Triangle Park, NC. The Launch Place invests in innovative start-ups with the potential to create economic impact in the Dan River Region from...
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Venture Partner, NextView Ventures
Melody is a Venture Partner at NextView Ventures based in its New York office. Prior to joining NextView, Melody was Head of Product at Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN). Melody joined Blue Apron as the first product hire when the company was 18 months old with 20 HQ employees. She helped scale...
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Communications Manager, Urban Manufacturing Alliance
Johnny Magdaleno is the communications manager for the Urban Manufacturing Alliance. He writes policy reports, leads grant applications, writes and distributes press releases, and works with UMA's partners on a variety of writing and research projects. Johnny also works as a journalist...
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Research Director, National League of Cities
Christiana K. McFarland is the Research Director of the National League of Cities, the nation’s largest advocacy, resource and research organization dedicated to strengthening cities. She directs the organization's research agenda and conducts NLC’s major research initiatives...
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Vice President, Capital One
Joe Whitchurch is currently Head of Innovation for Capital One Small Business, leading a team creating best-in-class tools, technology and servicing experiences to help small businesses succeed.
Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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10:30am EDT
How Ready for Funding Are You?
Moderators
President, Village Capital
Ross Baird is an entrepreneur and investor who is best known for finding, developing, and backing entrepreneurs and ideas overlooked and undervalued by mainstream markets. He co-founded Village Capital in 2009, and has invested in over 100 entrepreneurs in the last decade, and supported...
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Sponsors
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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Whether you’re a high-tech entrepreneur in Alexandria or a farmer in Abingdon, Virginia is for Entrepreneurs is here to make sure you’ve got a shot.Virginia is for Entrepreneurs connects entrepreneurs seeking financing with investors looking for opportunities and support resources...
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10:30am EDT
Roundtable: Redefining Farm to Table
Moderators
Cofounder & Principal, MB2 Solutions
Marland Buckner serves as Cofounder and Principal of MB2 Solutions LLC, an impact development firm.From 2001 to 2008, Buckner was Director of Federal Government Affairs for Microsoft Corporation in Washington, DC. Prior to Microsoft, Buckner served in several Congressional staff roles...
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Speakers
Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, Office of the Governor
Governor Ralph S. Northam appointed Bettina Ring in 2018 to serve as the fourth Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry for the Commonwealth of Virginia. In this capacity, she supports the Governor’s mission of building a strong Virginia economy in agriculture and forestry, two of...
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Scholars
Cofounder, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Greg Asbed, a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, is a co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and a principal architect of the Fair Food Program and the Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model, a breakthrough approach to verifiable corporate accountability recognized by observers...
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Executive Director, Shalom Farms
Dominic Gibbons Barrett is the Executive Director of Shalom Farms, a nonprofit in Richmond, Virginia focused on working with communities to increase access to healthy food and the support to lead healthy lives. He came to Shalom Farms from Palmetto Project in Charleston, SC where...
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Community Engagement Coordinator, Happily Natural Day
If you had a theme song, what would it be? Made You Look by NasWhat three things is your organization best at?Ag Education, Racial Justice, Food JusticeWhat is an ambition you hold for your organization's next chapter?Black Owned and Controlled Food Systens including Land Justice...
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Founder, 4P Foods
He is the founder of 4P Foods, a Benefit Corporation that works with over 200 local farms, delivering their sustainably produced food to customers in and around DC. The goal is to use food as a tool to create a more equitable, socially just and sustainable food system of tomorrow.Tom...
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CEO, FeedMore
Douglas “Doug” Pick joined FeedMore, Central Virginia’s core hunger-relief organization, as Chief Executive Officer in November 2012. Under his leadership, FeedMore is focused not only on nourishing the community but also on empowering lives. FeedMore collaborates with hundreds...
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Executive Director, Tricycle - Urban Ag Culture
Sally comes from a long line of family gardeners, farmers and cooks. She loves the process of growing seed to harvest, and sharing the preparation and celebration of good food with friends and family. For several years she ran programs and events for nonprofits in Northern California...
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Principal, Forth Bridge Associates
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Executive Director, Local Food Hub
Kristen came from the environmental and philanthropic world to become Executive Director of Local Food Hub in 2013. The hub is a non-profit organization that works with Virginia farmers to increase community access to local food. In addition to managing the aggregation and sale of...
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Associate Dean and Director of Global Programs, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech
Dr. Tom Thompson is Associate Dean and Director of Global Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech. He leads the college’s global mission to build partnerships, create opportunities, and serve globally.
VP of Growth and Development, FoodCorps
For more than two decades, Ellen Moncure Wong has helped connect philanthropic dollars with organizations driving major social and environmental change. Prior to joining FoodCorps, Ellen worked in resource development for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Coro New York Leadership...
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Sponsors
MB² (MB Squared) is a Washington, DC and Richmond, VA based public policy and domestic strategy firm co-founded by Melody Barnes and Marland Buckner. We deliver value for clients by providing strategic counsel that utilizes our teams’ decades long experience across the public...
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10:30am EDT
Case Study: Building a Talent Pipeline in Milwaukee, WI
Moderators
Executive Director, The Commons/MiKE
Michael Hostad is the Executive Director of Innovation in Milwaukee (MiKE) and co-founder of The Commons, which is an initiative of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. MiKE creates programs that lead to partnerships between corporations and emerging talent networks. The Commons is an...
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Speakers
Commons Alumna & Student, The Commons
Rocio Chio Cabrera has spent the last three years working to innovate small and large businesses in the Milwaukee area. She is an alumna of The Commons program where she founded a start-up and worked with ManpowerGroup's innovation project. She continues to participate in The Commons...
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Vice President Global Strategic Communications, ManpowerGroup
Ruth is responsible for strategic communications, research, thought leadership and content creation across ManpowerGroup’s 80 countries and family of brands - Manpower, Experis, ManpowerGroup Solutions and Right Management. Ruth also leads ManpowerGroup’s partnership with the...
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Cofounder, The Commons
After graduating from Marquette and MIAD in 2008, Joe Poeschl founded a web software design and development consultancy, where he lead the product design, project management and business strategy for web startups across the country. Joe also co-founded Startup Milwaukee, an organization...
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10:30am EDT
KEYNOTE: You've Got the Power
Moderators
Founder and CEO, Omara Strategy Group
Atima Omara is the Founder and CEO of Omara Strategy Group, a consulting firm she founded that provides training, coaching strategic political guidance to progressive political candidates, organizations and projects. I work with candidates from historically marginalized communities...
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Speakers
Executive Director, Civic Nation
Prior to her current role, Jenn was the founding Executive Director of Battleground Texas, a long-term project dedicated to increasing voter turnout in Texas. Before starting Battleground Texas, Jenn was the Field Director for the Obama campaign in Ohio in 2012. There she oversaw...
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Co-Founder, The People's Supper
Lennon Flowers is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Dinner Party, a community of more than 20- and 30-somethings who have experienced significant loss. In January 2017, she, together with partners at Faith Matters Network and Hollaback!, launched The People’s Supper...
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President and Co-Founder, Millennial Action Project
Steven is Founder & President of Millennial Action Project (MAP), the largest national, nonpartisan organization activating young policymakers in the U.S. Working with over 500 young lawmakers through “Future Caucuses” in state legislatures and Congress, MAP develops the next...
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10:30am EDT
Roundtable: Ageism in Public Policy
Moderators
CEO, JABA
Marta has been the CEO of JABA since April 2013. She came to JABA as COO in the Fall of 2012. She has made collaboration a focus of her tenure- both internal and external. The opportunities grow as JABA works to help people age in community, through providing services and support...
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Associate Professor and Chair, VCU Department of Gerontology
Dr. Welleford has taught extensively in the areas of Lifespan Development, and Developmental Gerontology, Geropsychology, as well as Ethical Decision Making and Human Values. As Associate Professor and Chair of VCU's Department of Gerontology, she currently works to #DisruptAgeism...
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Scholars
District Director, Thomas Jefferson Health District
Dr. Denise Bonds is the health director for the Thomas Jefferson Health District, a position she has held since 2015. She is a board certified internist with additional training in public health and women’s health.
Executive Director, Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission
Chip Boyles is Executive Director of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission in Charlottesville, Virginia. He oversees a regional government agency that provides local government assistance in the areas of transportation planning, housing, environmental and water quality...
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President, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
Jonathan Davis, FACHE, is the President of Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital. Davis has a strong belief in community engagement, currently serving on several community boards including the Thomas Jefferson Area-United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Virginia, Charlottesville...
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Chief Executive Officer, University of Virginia Medical Center
Sutton-Wallace joined the Medical Center in July 2014. She oversees the strategic direction and operations of all inpatient and ambulatory services of the medical center. Prior to arriving at UVA, Sutton-Wallace served as senior vice president of hospital operations at Duke University...
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Executive Director, Senior Center
In addition to my Senior Center position, I serve as the Chair of the Charlottesville Area Alliance: Working together towards an age-friendly community. In 2017, The City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County entered the WHO/AARP age-friendly network. The CAA vision is to be the...
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11:00am EDT
Velotonomy: beyond Uber, shared bikes and autonomous cars
Speakers
Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab - City Science Group
Phil Tinn, Research Scientist and co-lead of future mobility projects at MIT Media Lab, is a practitioner of innovation across scales and physical-digital media, with over 10 years experience in product, service, design, and organizational change strategies and execution.
Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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11:00am EDT
Word Embeddings Under the Hood: How Neural Networks Learn from Language
Speakers
Director, AI Engineering, S&P Global
Patrick W. Harrison serves as Director of AI Engineering at S&P Global, a business and financial intelligence provider, and started the AI Engineering group there. Working in a major company for which data is both the primary raw material and finished product provides an unusually...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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11:00am EDT
New Frontiers in Digital Medicine
Moderators
Chief Medical Officer, Monj
Shaival Kapadia, M.D. is a Richmond cardiologist with Bon Secours Medical Group. He is also a docpreneur cofounding two Richmond based startups, Iggbo and C3Nexus. Recently he joined Monj as Chief Medical Officer.
Speakers
Dean and Professor, School of Data Science, University of Virginia
Philip E. Bourne, PhD, FACMI is the Stephenson Dean of Data Science, Professor of Data Science and a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia.
Laboratory Director and President, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, I
Ethan Dmitrovsky, M.D., became director of the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and president of Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. in November 2017. He is the former provost and executive vice president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
11:00am EDT
11:05am EDT
Use of Deep Learning for Environmental Enteropathy Biopsy Image Analysis
Speakers
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, University of Virginia
Sana Syed, MD MS is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist with advanced training in Nutrition at the University of Virginia. She is on faculty at the University of Virginia in the Center for Global Health with an adjunct faculty appointment at the Aga Khan University, Department of Pediatrics...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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11:20am EDT
A Modified K-Means Clustering Approach to Redrawing US Congressional Districts
Speakers
Master's Student, UVA Data Science Institute
Jack Prominski is a Master’s Student in Data Science at the UVA Data Science Institute. His research centers around applying NLP techniques to scientific journal articles as part of a capstone project for the Public Library of Science. Prior to graduate school, Jack worked in e-commerce...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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11:30am EDT
11:40am EDT
Decrypting Crypto Fascist Symbolism With Tensorflow
Speakers
n/a, Speaker
Emily Crose has been working in the field of information security for over 10 years. Previously she has worked at the CIA, NSA, and US Army INSCOM. In her free time, she runs the Hacking History project and co-authors The Teletypist.
Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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11:40am EDT
Joining Separate Paradigms: Natural Language Processing and Deep Neural Networks to Characterize Neuronal Cell Type and Function
Speakers
PhD Candidate, University of Virginia
Cait Dreisbach is a PhD Candidate at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. She is a recent alumna of the Masters in Data Science program at the UVA Data Science Institute. Her research interests are in microbial genomics and women's health.
Master's Student, UVA Data Science Institute
Morgan Wall graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in May 2015 with a dual Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Economics. Following graduation, she worked in the field of Melanoma research at the University of Virginia Human Immune Therapy Center, investigating...
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Master's Student, UVA Data Science Institute
Ali Zaidi achieved a Bachelor’s in Neuroscience and Information Technology from George Mason University in Northern Virginia in May of 2017. During his time at George Mason University, he was involved in multiple research opportunities within the Krasnow Institute of Advanced Study...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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12:00pm EDT
Building an Applied Machine Learning Laboratory for Undergraduate Research and Education
Speakers
Professor, James Madison University
Dr. Anthony A. Teate is a tenured Professor in the School of Integrated Sciences located in the College of Integrated Science and Engineering at James Madison University, where he is also the Director of the Data Science and Applied Machine Learning Laboratory. His current areas of...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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12:00pm EDT
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love Graph Databases
Speakers
Data Insights Programmer, New York Presbyterian hospital
Michael works in Analytics at New York Presbyterian—one of the country’s foremost academic medical centers. When not working he can he found running or climbing with his two sons.
Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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12:00pm EDT
Rapid NLP Annotation Through Binary Decisions, Pattern Bootstrapping and Active Learning Using Prodigy and spaCy
Speakers
Founder, Explosion AI
Ines is a developer specializing in applications for AI technology. She's the co-founder of Explosion AI and a core developer of spaCy, the leading open-source library for Natural Language Processing in Python and Prodigy, an annotation tool for radically efficient machine teachi...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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12:00pm EDT
Just Eat: The Future of Food
Moderators
Journalist, Freelance
Jane Black is a Washington, D.C. food writer who covers food politics, nutrition and sustainability issues. She is particularly interested in how culture shapes what and how we eat and the emerging science of behavior change. Her work appears in the publications such as The Washington...
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Speakers
Cofounder, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Greg Asbed, a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, is a co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and a principal architect of the Fair Food Program and the Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model, a breakthrough approach to verifiable corporate accountability recognized by observers...
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Co-Director, Democracy Initiative & Professor of Practice, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
Melody Barnes is co-director for Policy and Public Affairs for the Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia. She is a Professor of Practice at the Miller Center of Public Affairs and Distinguished Fellow at the School of Law.From 2009 until January 2012, Melody was Assistant...
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Executive Chairman, Co-founder and TeaEO Emeritus, Beyond Meat, Honest Tea
Seth Goldman is Co-Founder & TeaEO Emeritus of Honest Tea and Executive Chair of Beyond Meat. Honest Tea is the nation’s top selling organic bottled tea, specializing in beverages that are organic and Fair Trade Certified™. Seth also serves on the board of Ripple Foods, the...
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Sponsors
We believe there is a better way to feed the planet. Our mission is to create mass-market solutions that perfectly replace animal protein with plant protein. We are dedicated to improving human health, positively impacting climate change, conserving natural resources and respecting...
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1:00pm EDT
Real-time, Streaming Anomaly Detection for Cybersecurity with Redis-ML
Speakers
Chief Data Scientist, CounterFlow AI, Inc
Andrew Fast is the Chief Data Scientist and co-founder of CounterFlow AI, where he leads the implementation of streaming machine learning algorithms on CounterFlow AI's ThreatEye cloud-native analytics platform for Encrypted Traffic Analysis. Previously, Dr. Fast served as the Chief...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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1:05pm EDT
Can a Machine Be Racist or Sexist?
Speakers
Data Scientist, HelioCampus
Renee M. P. Teate is a Data Scientist at HelioCampus, and the creator of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast and @becomingdatasci twitter account. She has worked with data for her entire career - designing relational databases, creating reports and analyses, and most recently developing...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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1:05pm EDT
Two Years of Bayesian Bandits for E-Commerce
Speakers
Chief Data Scientist, Monetate
Austin Rochford is Principal Data Scientist and Director of Monetate Labs. He is a founding member of Monetate Labs, where he does research and development for machine learning-driven marketing products. He is a recovering mathematician, a passionate Bayesian, and a PyMC3 developer...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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1:20pm EDT
The Art and Science of Bieberfinding
Speakers
Lead Data Scientist, Metis Machine
Alec Gosse comes to data science from a study of how infrastructure investment and mobility patterns interact to drive environmental impacts. Prior to joining Metis Machine as Lead Data Scientist, Gosse worked to build unsupervised place understanding by fusing social media, GIS...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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1:30pm EDT
Social Bias in Machine Learning
Moderators
Data Scientist, HelioCampus
Renee M. P. Teate is a Data Scientist at HelioCampus, and the creator of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast and @becomingdatasci twitter account. She has worked with data for her entire career - designing relational databases, creating reports and analyses, and most recently developing...
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Speakers
n/a, Speaker
Emily Crose has been working in the field of information security for over 10 years. Previously she has worked at the CIA, NSA, and US Army INSCOM. In her free time, she runs the Hacking History project and co-authors The Teletypist.
Chief Operating Officer, BrightHive
Both as Founder of Harris Data Consulting and COO of BrightHive, Ms. Evans Harris has dedicated over 16 years to driving the strategic use of data to answer some of our nation’s toughest questions and driving organizational success;
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Vicente Ordonez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning. He is a recipient of an IBM Faculty Award and a Google Faculty...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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1:40pm EDT
Empowering People and Thwarting Machines
Speakers
Data Scientist, RTI International
Thom Miano is a data scientist in the Center for Data Science at RTI International. Thom studies Artificial Intelligence as a multifaceted discipline, investigating the development of algorithmic architectures, the practical application of machine learning in health, education, and...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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2:00pm EDT
Partner Event: Financing Affordable Housing
Speakers
President & Chair, Charleston Redevelopment Corporation
Ms. Maddox-Evans also serves as the General Counsel for The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston, has led the Charleston County Housing and Redevelopment Authority as Chief Executive Officer and has spent several years advocating and developing affordable housing opportunities...
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Executive Director and CEO, Federal City Council
Tony Williams, the former Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999 – 2007), is the current Chief Executive Officer of the Federal City Council, an organization focusing the creative and administrative talents of Washington’s business and professional leaders on major problems and opportunities...
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Scholars PD
Principal/CEO, Pilot Mortgage, LLC
Vice President New Business, Enterprise Homes, Inc.
Ned Howe is Vice President of New Business for Enterprise Homes, Inc. In this role, he manages and supports development staff through the entitlement process, and pursues new development opportunities for rental and homeownership communities throughout the Mid- Atlantic region.
Executive Director, Piedmont Housing Alliance
Sunshine Mathon is the Executive Director of Piedmont Housing Alliance in Charlottesville, VA. Committed to deeply equitable and sustainable affordable communities, Sunshine has led the development of over 1,200 healthy, efficient homes in Texas and Virginia. As a nationally-recognized...
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Principal, Partners for Economic Solutions
I have been a land use economics consultant for 40 years with a particular interest in housing and neighborhood revitalization. I am preparing a Housing Needs Assessment for Charlottesville, combining demographic research, an assessment of the housing supply, review of housing market...
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Housing Program Coordinator, City of Charlottesville
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SVP / Business Banking Executive, Bank of America / Merrill Lynch
Senior Vice President, EYA
Aakash Thakkar serves as a Partner and Senior Vice President for Acquisition and Development at EYA. He is responsible for project leadership, including new deal sourcing, site selection, acquisition, financing, and development. He lives with his wife and 2 young children in Washington...
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Sponsors
ACAC provides a great fitness experience for members of all ages in a clean and safe environment. We are dedicated to the integration of medicine and fitness to improve community health by focusing on prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of lifestyle-related disease.
At the Urban Land Institute, our mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. ULI Virginia, a district council of the Urban Land Institute, carries forth that mission as the preeminent regional real...
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2:00pm EDT
Freelancing: A Survival Guide to the Future of Work
Moderators
President, RVA Magazine
John Reinhold is CEO, owner and President of Inkwell Ventures. Inkwell owns RVA Magazine, the biggest independent media in Virginia. Inkwell also owns Gayrva, the largest LGBT Media in Virginia. Some of John's other projects include: Gallery 5, RVAlution, Richmond Mural Project, RVA...
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Speakers
CEO, Painless1099
Ace Callwood is the co-founder and CEO of Painless1099, a smart platform that manages 1099s, benefits, and taxes for independent contractors and their clients. Prior to Painless1099, Ace co-founded Coffitivity, an ambient sound app that was one of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 Sites of...
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Associate Director, Future of Work Initiative, The Aspen Institute
Anna Fife serves as the Associate Director of Outreach and Engagement for the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative. Prior to the Aspen Institute, Anna worked in the executive office of Share Our Strength, a nonprofit organization focused on ending childhood hunger in America...
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Founder & CEO, Moonlighting
Jeff is one of the nation's leading experts on the gig economy. He is the Founder & CEO of Moonlighting, the first nationwide mobile marketplace where anyone can hire or be hired in any community in the country. Jeff has spent more than 25 years in leadership roles at Verizon, AT&T...
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Educator, Writer, Community Builder, and Founder, Ladies Get Paid
Named one of Entrepreneur magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women, Claire Wasserman is an educator and writer, focused on helping women grow their careers and their bank accounts. As the founder of Ladies Get Paid, Wasserman created an online community of over 60,000 women from all 50...
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Sponsors
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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2:00pm EDT
KEYNOTE: Fighting Inequality with Finance
Moderators
Professor, UVA Darden School of Business
Gregory Fairchild is the Isidore Horween Research Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and Associate Dean for Washington, D.C. Area Initiatives and Academic Director of Public Policy and Entrepreneurship. Fairchild serves as...
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Speakers
President, Village Capital
Ross Baird is an entrepreneur and investor who is best known for finding, developing, and backing entrepreneurs and ideas overlooked and undervalued by mainstream markets. He co-founded Village Capital in 2009, and has invested in over 100 entrepreneurs in the last decade, and supported...
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Portfolio Director, IDEO
Peter Jackson is a portfolio director at IDEO San Francisco, where he is focused on the intersection of consumer experience and organizational design. Prior to joining IDEO, Peter served as senior counselor to now U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and as the first Assistant Director for...
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Founder & CEO, LendStreet
Jerry is responsible for developing the strategic direction and overseeing the operations of LendStreet. Prior to founding LendStreet, Jerry worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in its Global Corporate & Investing Banking division, helping major companies restructure their debt...
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Sponsors
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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2:00pm EDT
Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy
Speakers
Professor of Italian, University of Virginia
Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia and coauthor, with Mark Parker, of INFERNO REVEALED: From Dante to Dan Brown
Professor of English, James Madison University
Mark Parker, Professor of English at James Madison University, is the coauthor with Deborah Parker of INFERNO REVEALED: From Dante to Dan Brown
Sponsors
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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2:00pm EDT
Why It Pays to Startup in Small Cities
Moderators
Senior Program Officer - Entrepreneurship, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Chris Harris is a senior program officer in Entrepreneurship for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he focuses on building and expanding the most effective entrepreneurial support models addressing critical barriers for entrepreneurs across the United States. The strategy...
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Speakers
Founder, Partner, Junior Founders Club, Authentic
Kendall Morris is a former teacher turned entrepreneur and parent of three great kids. Having launched her first business while home raising 3 kids, she successfully transitioned to co-founding an award winning digital marketing agency. Create Digital served many top clients such...
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CEO, EdConnective, EdConnective
Will Morris is the Founder and CEO of EdConnective. Will received his Masters of Education from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education. There he researched instructional coaching as a promising lever of teacher quality.
Director of Innovation District Programs, The Enterprise Center
Mary Stargel works in Chattanooga’s Innovation District to bring together the growing innovation community through programs and organizational collaboration.
Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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2:00pm EDT
Grow Different: AgTech and Urban Farming
Moderators
Community Engagement Coordinator, Happily Natural Day
If you had a theme song, what would it be? Made You Look by NasWhat three things is your organization best at?Ag Education, Racial Justice, Food JusticeWhat is an ambition you hold for your organization's next chapter?Black Owned and Controlled Food Systens including Land Justice...
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Speakers
CEO & Co-founder, Edenworks
Jason Green is CEO + Cofounder at Edenworks, a Brooklyn-based indoor agriculture company. Jason has spent his career at the nexus of hardware, software, and biology. Prior to Edenworks, Jason developed virtual reality-based neurorehabilitation technologies and served as a Howard Hughes...
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Head of Product & Marketing, Plenty
Christine Keller brings twenty years of consumer packaged goods expertise to Plenty, having worked with some of the largest food and produce companies in the world including Albertsons/Safeway, Chiquita, and Dole. Christine has also directed innovation projects for global brands such...
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President, April Philips Design Works
April Philips, FASLA, is a landscape architect, thought leader, artist, and author. She is founder of April Philips Design Works, an award winning landscape architecture firm whose work focuses on a fusion of nature, art, and technology. April is a national leader in both research...
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Co-founder, Beanstalk Farms LLC
Jack started Beanstalk with his brother, Michael, to create a sustainable abundance of food through technological innovations. He graduated from UVA’s engineering school in 2017 and is working on building a fully automated indoor farm, capable of growing pesticide free, non-GMO...
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2:00pm EDT
Bridging the Urban-Rural Economic Divide
Speakers
Research Director, National League of Cities
Christiana K. McFarland is the Research Director of the National League of Cities, the nation’s largest advocacy, resource and research organization dedicated to strengthening cities. She directs the organization's research agenda and conducts NLC’s major research initiatives...
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2:00pm EDT
Unleashing the Power of Public Prototyping: An Inside Look at Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge
Moderators
Government Innovation, Bloomberg Philanthropies
Katie Appel Duda co-leads Bloomberg Philanthropies' Government Innovation grant programs, which help city leaders and their teams in more than 250 cities around the world to better solve problems and share promising ideas that improve life for residents. Before Bloomberg Philanthropies...
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Speakers
Transportation Planner, City of Durham
I help people find their “car-lite” lifestyle, including advice on how to break-up or “ghost” their car. I would be nowhere, personally or professionally, without a smartphone. GPS and transit apps rule.
Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives, City of Hartford
As the Project Manager for Strategic Initiatives, Ryan works at the intersection of economic/community development, public policy, process improvement and innovation to help City of Hartford departments design initiatives and secure grant funds for implementation. Previously, Ryan...
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Fire Chief, Huntington WV Fire Department
A Native of Ironton, Ohio, Jan Rader joined the Huntington Fire Department in August of 1994. Ms. Rader is the first woman to reach the rank of Chief for a career department in the State of West Virginia. She holds an Associates Degree in Occupational Development from Marshall University...
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2:00pm EDT
The Future of Patient Care
Moderators
Associate Professor, University of Virginia, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health
Dr. Christopher C. Moore has been a consultant to the WHO on the management of critical illness. His NIH supported research includes animal models of sepsis pathophysiology and more recently the pharmacokinetics of TB therapy for patients with TB sepsis and TB meningitis in Mbarara...
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Speakers
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Laura Barnes is an assistant professor in Systems and Information Engineering and the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia. She directs the Sensing Systems for Health Lab which focuses on understanding the dynamics and personalization of health and well-being through...
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Health Data Scientist, Rutgers University
Kimberly is a Health Data Scientist Consultant who works with for and non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and government agencies, providing statistical and data analytical support to their programs. Formerly educated in Chemistry and Pharmacology at the University of...
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Director & Senior Scientist, Elder Research
Dr. Miriam Friedel has over a decade of experience with scientific modeling, predictive analytics, and software engineering in fields spanning theoretical physics, transportation, neuroscience, and telecommunications. Her unique background enables her to bridge the gap between complex...
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Chief Medical Officer, AMP3D
Randall Moorman, MD, is Chief Medical Officer of AMP3D (Advanced Medical Predictive Devices, Diagnostics, and Displays), a clinical cardiologist and Professor of Internal Medicine, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia.
2:00pm EDT
Roundtable: The Story of a Place
Moderators
Editor, C-VILLE Weekly
Jessica Luck is the Editor-in-Chief of C-VILLE Weekly, which produces the area's local weekly newspaper, as well as seven magazine titles.
Speakers
Author, Contributing Writer, Dreaming in Chinese, The Atlantic
Deborah Fallows is the author of two books that report on the people, culture, and values in the communities of two different countries, China and the U.S. The first, Dreaming in Chinese, is based on 4 years of living and working in China. The newly-released Our Towns: A 100,000...
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Host, Author, Full Disclosure on NPR One
Roben Farzad is the host of Full Disclosure on NPR One, contributor to PBS NewsHour and author of Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami (Penguin Berkley \ 2017).
Co-founder & Artistic Director, Victory Hall Opera
Australian soprano Miriam Gordon-Stewart has gained recognition across four continents for her powerful instrument and dramatic vulnerability, specializing in the repertoire of Wagner and Strauss. Described in the French press as “a genuine singer-actress”, she has performed over...
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Founder & Creative Director, Assistant Film Curator, Afrikana Film Festival, ICA @ VCU
Enjoli Moon specializes in creating platforms for filmmakers of color so that they may share their stories with world. She is the founder and creative director of the Afrikana Independent Film Fest and currently serves as the asst film curator, at the Institute for Contemporary Arts...
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Director, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Artist Communities, International Activities, National Endowment for the Arts
Michael Orlove has been Director of Artists Communities, Presenting and Multidisciplinary Works and International Activities for the National Endowment for the Arts since 2012. Previously, Orlove spent 19 years as senior program director for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs...
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Senior Culture Writer, BuzzFeed News
Contributing Editor, Erie Reader
At the Erie Reader, Erie’s independent alternative publication, he currently serves as a Contributing Editor. There, he authors in-depth features and occasional op-eds amongst other things, covering Erie’s political scene to urban development to innovation and more. Ben’s been...
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General Manager, WTJU 91.1 FM
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C-VILLE Weekly is a free newspaper with a weekly circulation of 23,000 copies distributed in Charlottesville and its surrounding counties. In addition, we publish seven magazines throughout the year: Abode, a monthly home and landscape magazine; C-BIZ, a quarterly business publication...
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2:05pm EDT
KEYNOTE: How to Fail Spectacularly at Analytics
Speakers
Co-Founder, Augmented
Antonia has spent the past two decades in all aspects of the data science industry. Starting out as a modeler, she applied machine learning algorithms to fraud detection, credit scoring, lead generation, and crime prediction problems among many others. She has worked with both commercial...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
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parent company of...
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2:45pm EDT
Explainable AI: Key Techniques and Societal Implications
Speakers
Machine Learning Engineer, Capital One
Mark Ibrahim is a machine learning engineer at Capital One's Center for Machine Learning.
Data Scientist, Capital One
Ceena Modarres is a Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer at Capital One. He works on ML interpretability research and natural language processing applications within the organization. He has a M.S. in Reliability Engineering and lives in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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2:45pm EDT
In Man's Image: Autonomy through Imitation Learning
Speakers
Senior AI Engineer, The MITRE Corp.
Bryce Freshcorn is an artificial intelligence engineer at the MITRE Corp. His current research interests are focused on computer vision applications for end-to-end modeling in autonomous systems and healthcare diagnostics. His other passion (born from his experiences in the defense...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
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2:45pm EDT
The Florist, the GPU, and Deep Learning (DL/Computer Vision Intro)
Speakers
Senior Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
Dr. May Casterline is a data scientist/image scientist/software developer with a background in satellite and airborne imaging systems. Her research interests include deep learning, hyperspectral and multispectral imaging, innovative applications of machine learning approaches to remote...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
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publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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3:00pm EDT
Community Workshop: Brewing with Fruit I
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3:00pm EDT
Community Workshop: Intro to Ethical Hacking
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Silverchair designs and builds websites to host scholarly content and creates specialized features and interfaces for interacting with that content. Founded in 1993, the company began as a packager for medical textbooks, changing shape over time and launching the Silverchair Platform...
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Workshop Leaders
Silverchair
Mike Erman was a Nuclear Reactor Operator on Submarines in the US Navy for 6 years but has spent the past 23 years doing systems and security engineering, forensics and incident response, and penetration testing in the commercial, Intelligence, and DoD communities. Mike has a Bachelor...
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Thursday April 12, 2018 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Silverchair
3:25pm EDT
Training Drone Image Models with Grand Theft Auto
Speakers
Data Scientist, CCRi
Monica Rajendiran is a Data Scientist at CCRi, where she researches and develops deep learning techniques for machine aided object detection and text generation in full motion video. When not working on personal machine learning projects, she’s running Charlottesville’s many hills...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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3:25pm EDT
Harnessing Machine Learning to Enable Discovery
Speakers
Director of Computer Vision Research, MITRE
Mikel Rodriguez leads computer vision research at MITRE, a federally funded research and development center. For the past fifteen years his main research passion and interest has been the exploration of how we can use AI and in particular computer vision to help us solve problems...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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3:30pm EDT
3:30pm EDT
Partner Event: Community Engagement in Affordable Housing
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Senior Associate, Grimm + Parker Architects
As an architect, I am passionate about creating buildings with purpose for society's most vulnerable populations and sensitive to the demanding standards required by agencies providing federal funding. Everyone is deserving of a safe, clean, peaceful space to call home.
Manager, Charlottesville’s Office of Human Rights
Charlene Green has over 30 years of experience in education, working as a teacher in elementary and secondary schools and as an assistant professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. She has been a trainer and consultant in Multicultural Education for the past 25 years. Charlene...
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At the Urban Land Institute, our mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. ULI Virginia, a district council of the Urban Land Institute, carries forth that mission as the preeminent regional real...
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3:30pm EDT
Roundtable: Revitalizing Main Street
Moderators
Managing Editor, Livability.com
Winona Dimeo-Ediger’s articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Country Living, NPR and Buzzfeed. She currently serves as the managing editor of Livability.com, a site that highlights the "unsung awesomeness" of small to mid-size cities in voice-driven articles...
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Speakers
Executive Director, Charleston Main Streets
Ric is the Executive Director of Charleston Main Streets, the city’s community & economic development agency focused on the East End and West Side Urban business districts. Since the programs' inceptions, the districts have experienced public and private investments totaling over...
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Consultant, Member of Charleston, WV City Council, Appalachia Funders Network, City of Charleston, WV
Becky Cain Ceperley is an at-large member of the Charleston, West Virginia City Council. Ms. Ceperley is employed as a consultant for the Philanthropy Engagement Project of Appalachia Funders Network.
Senior Visiting Fellow for Creative Placemaking, Urban Land Institute
Juanita Hardy is the ULI Senior Visiting Fellow for Creative Placemaking. Her work will support the Institute’s Building Healthy Places Initiative by deepening and broadening ULI’s focus on creative placemaking in its content and program areas, and through its District Council...
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Associate Professor, UVA School of Architecture
Mona El Khafif is an Associate Professor at UVA School of Architecture, co-author of ‘URBANbuild: Local/Global’ (with Ila Berman) and author of ‘Staged Urbanism: Urban Spaces for Art, Culture and Consumption in the Age of Leisure Society’ (German edition). She received her...
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Communications Manager, Urban Manufacturing Alliance
Johnny Magdaleno is the communications manager for the Urban Manufacturing Alliance. He writes policy reports, leads grant applications, writes and distributes press releases, and works with UMA's partners on a variety of writing and research projects. Johnny also works as a journalist...
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Associate Director, New America National Network, New America
Hana Passen is the Associate Director for New America’s National Network. Her responsibilities include project management for the Reinventing the Think Tank Initiative and coordinating New America’s growth into a nationally networked organization.
Freelance Journalist
Melody Warnick is the author of This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are (Viking, 2016), an exploration of the groundbreaking concept of place attachment. Described by Richard Florida as “an important book for so many people who are choosing their place to live,” This...
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3:30pm EDT
Fueling the Next Wave: Food Incubators
Moderators
Senior Reporter, Project NOSH
Meagan McGinnes is a foodie who shares her love of snacks as a senior reporter at Project NOSH—a trade publication by BevNET that covers natural, organic, healthy, or sustainable packaged food companies and products.
Speakers
CEO, Union Kitchen DC
As CEO and Co-Founder of Union Kitchen, Gilchrist has partnered with food businesses of all sizes to grow and accelerate their success. He also oversees the operations and management of Union Kitchen’s accelerator program as well as Union Kitchen’s commercial kitchen, distribution...
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Managing Director, Food-X
Andrew is the Managing Director at Food-X, #1 global food accelerator. While leading Food-X, Andrew has invested in 30+ early stage food companies across multiple business models including software, hardware, consumer products and biotech. Helping them with their strategies, launch...
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Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Belle Isle Moonshine
Brian serves as Chief Executive Officer of Bonfire.com, a custom apparel platform he co-founded in 2011 and as the Chief Strategy Officer of Belle Isle Moonshine, an American craft moonshine distillery that he co-founded in 2013.
3:30pm EDT
Teaching Skills That Matter
Moderators
Founder, Partner, Junior Founders Club, Authentic
Kendall Morris is a former teacher turned entrepreneur and parent of three great kids. Having launched her first business while home raising 3 kids, she successfully transitioned to co-founding an award winning digital marketing agency. Create Digital served many top clients such...
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Speakers
Executive Director, Reaching Higher NH
Evelyn Aissa is the Executive Director of Reaching Higher New Hampshire, NH’s leading nonpartisan public education policy resource. Evelyn has fifteen years of experience in development, health, and education policy research and political strategy. She also serves as a director...
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Executive Director, Chattanooga 2.0
Dr. Jared Bigham has worked as the state-wide Director of College & Career Readiness with TN SCORE, and before this, Dr. Bigham served as a K-12 supervising principal, a high school principal, and an elementary principal. Dr. Bigham has served on multiple state and national committees...
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Executive Director, The Commons/MiKE
Michael Hostad is the Executive Director of Innovation in Milwaukee (MiKE) and co-founder of The Commons, which is an initiative of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. MiKE creates programs that lead to partnerships between corporations and emerging talent networks. The Commons is an...
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3:30pm EDT
The Death and Rebirth of Great American Cities
Moderators
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Aaron M. Renn is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a Contributing Editor at its quarterly magazine City Journal.
Speakers
Executive Director and CEO, Federal City Council
Tony Williams, the former Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999 – 2007), is the current Chief Executive Officer of the Federal City Council, an organization focusing the creative and administrative talents of Washington’s business and professional leaders on major problems and opportunities...
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3:30pm EDT
The Future of the Community Hospital
Moderators
Staff Writer, Author, The Washington Post, Janesville: An American Story
Amy Goldstein is a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer at The Washington Post, where much of her work over 30 years has focused on social policy. She is the author of Janesville: An American Story, a close-up of a small Midwestern city that lost a slew of jobs when the nation’s...
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Speakers
President, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
Jonathan Davis, FACHE, is the President of Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital. Davis has a strong belief in community engagement, currently serving on several community boards including the Thomas Jefferson Area-United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Virginia, Charlottesville...
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President & CEO, Frederick Regional Health System
Tom assumed the role of President and CEO of Frederick Regional Health System in December, 2004. In the past twelve years, services and programs have expanded to include state-of-the-art advances in cardiac care, oncology, neonatal health, women’s services, surgery and wound ca...
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President & CEO, Augusta Health
CEO since 2008, Ms. Mannix has partnered with the community-based board of directors, management, medical staff and employee workforce to enhance the commitment of the hospital’s not-for-profit mission to promote the health and well-being of its community through access to excellent...
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Chief Executive Officer, University of Virginia Medical Center
Sutton-Wallace joined the Medical Center in July 2014. She oversees the strategic direction and operations of all inpatient and ambulatory services of the medical center. Prior to arriving at UVA, Sutton-Wallace served as senior vice president of hospital operations at Duke University...
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3:30pm EDT
KEYNOTE: Defending the Digital Space: Fake News, Hate Speech, and Big Brother
Moderators
Director of Center for Media and Citizenship, Center for Media and Citizenship at UVA
@sivavaid">Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia.He is the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018...
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Data for Democracy, Head of Policy
DiResta is a founding advisor to the Center for Humane Technology, Head of Policy at Data for Democracy, and an advocate for vaccination in California. She is a cofounder of Haven, a private marketplace for booking ocean freight shipments. Previously, Renee was a principal at seed-stage...
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Executive Director, Cybersecurity and Technology Program
Graff is a distinguished magazine journalist and historian, spending more than a dozen years covering politics, technology, and national security. Today, he serves as the director of the Aspen Institute’s cybersecurity and technology program, and is a contributor to WIRED, Longreads...
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Author, Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O’Neil is a regular contributor to Bloomberg View and wrote the book "Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy." She earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was a postdoc at the MIT math department, and a professor at Barnard College...
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C-VILLE Weekly is a free newspaper with a weekly circulation of 23,000 copies distributed in Charlottesville and its surrounding counties. In addition, we publish seven magazines throughout the year: Abode, a monthly home and landscape magazine; C-BIZ, a quarterly business publication...
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The University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciencesis the largest of the
University of Virginia's ten schools. Consisting of both a graduate and an undergraduate program, the College comprises the
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3:30pm EDT
Tour: The Evolution of Industry at Woolen Mills
Speakers
Economic Development Project Manager, Albemarle County
Lee has 25 years of experience in local government in Albemarle County, beginning in community relations in the Police Department and moving into areas including communications, community engagement, media relations, economic development and tourism among others. Her last position...
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Student, Monticello HS
Historic Renovation, Adaptive Re-use, Real Estate Development
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Albemarle County is one of the most attractive and desirable locations in Virginia, with excellent school systems, low crime and unemployment rates, and a wide range of cultural, historic and recreational activities which offer unique advantages for thriving businesses and for gracious...
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3:30pm EDT
CIT Lab: An Empirical View of the Art and Science of Entrepreneurship and Investment
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The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) creates technology-based economic development strategies to accelerate innovation, imagination and the next generation of technology and technology companies. Created in 1985, CIT, a non-profit corporation, plugs gaps at the earliest stages...
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Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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3:30pm EDT
Tour: The Surreal, Self-Driving Future
Moderators
Staff Writer, CityLab/The Atlantic
Laura Bliss is a staff writer at CityLab, covering transportation, infrastructure, and the environment. Her work also appears in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Los Angeles, GOOD, L.A. Review of Books, and beyond.
Speakers
Executive Director, Corporate Partnerships / Director, Nevada Center for Applied Research, University of Nevada, Reno
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Donna Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at University of Virginia. She currently serves on the Transportation Research Board's Committee on Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies and the American Society of Civil Engineers...
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Founder, Perrone Robotics
Paul Perrone is the Founder/CEO of Perrone Robotics, Inc. He is an inventor, entrepreneur, and pioneer of software for driverless cars and mobile robots. He participated in historic Pentagon-backed races of self-driving vehicles in the Mojave Desert, and worked with rocker
Nei...
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Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab - City Science Group
Phil Tinn, Research Scientist and co-lead of future mobility projects at MIT Media Lab, is a practitioner of innovation across scales and physical-digital media, with over 10 years experience in product, service, design, and organizational change strategies and execution.
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Albemarle County is one of the most attractive and desirable locations in Virginia, with excellent school systems, low crime and unemployment rates, and a wide range of cultural, historic and recreational activities which offer unique advantages for thriving businesses and for gracious...
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3:55pm EDT
Learning From Billions of News Reading Sessions
Speakers
Founder/CTO, Parse.ly
Co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly, a widely-used real-time web content analytics platform. The product is trusted daily by editors at HuffPost, TIME, TechCrunch, Slate, Quartz, The Wall Street Journal, and 350+ other leading digital companies. Parse.ly helps companies understand the...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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4:00pm EDT
Using Deep Learning to Derive 3D Cities from Satellite Imagery
Speakers
Data Scientist, Astaea, Inc.
Eric Culbertson is a Data Scientist at Astraea, Inc. who is fascinated in applying recent advancements in deep learning to increase our understanding of the physical sciences. Before joining Astraea, Eric was an undergraduate physics researcher at both Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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4:00pm EDT
Understanding the Visual World through Language
Speakers
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
Vicente Ordonez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning. He is a recipient of an IBM Faculty Award and a Google Faculty...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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4:00pm EDT
Community Workshop: Brewing with Fruit II
Sponsors
Culture has become the new buzz word in business, and folks love to ask “what’s your culture like?” Here's the thing: culture isn't about what you say; it's about what you do. Company values that are posted to a corporation's website, or displayed on a poster in their lobby...
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Workshop Leaders
4:00pm EDT
4:00pm EDT
Community Workshop: Design Thinking and Talent Development: For Job-Seekers
Workshop Leaders
Dual Career Program Director, University of Virginia
Carolyn Kalantari is the Director of the UVA Dual Career Program, which works with spouses/partners of UVA employees and recruits who are seeking Charlottesville area employment. The Dual Career Program recently collaborated with the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and local...
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Director for Engineering Career Development, University of Virginia
Julia Lapan has more than fifteen years of higher education experience in career services, employer relations, and alumni development. After earning a master’s degree in Counselor Education/Student Affairs from the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, she served...
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4:15pm EDT
Mapping Deforestation Trends in the Brazilian Amazon Using Machine Learning
Speakers
Data Scientist, Astraea, Inc.
Courtney Whalen is a data scientist at Astraea, Inc., where she is using satellite imagery and machine learning techniques to answer complex global questions. She has been working as a data scientist for 5 years and has experience developing machine learning models across several...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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4:20pm EDT
Recommendation Systems for Edge Devices
Speakers
Data Science Engineer, Metis Machine
Tyler is a data science engineer at local startup, Metis Machine. He acquired a background in physics & mathematical statistics while studying in undergrad at UVa. Recently, his graduate studies culminated with an MS in data science from the UVa Data Science Institute. In his free...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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4:25pm EDT
How to Beat the House - Predicting Football Results with Hyperparameter Optimization
Speakers
Student, Data Science Institute at UVA
Abhimanyu Roy is a MS Data Science candidate at the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia. During his time there he has had the opportunity to work with Capital One's Machine Learning team and with the Center for Leadership Simulation and Gaming at UVA. Prior to this...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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4:30pm EDT
Comparing Baseline Statistical Control to Machine Learning Models in Evaluating Performance in IoT Systems
Speakers
Senior Technical Consultant, Independent IT Researcher
Derek Moore is an IT professional with experience in software and services in utilities, telecommunication, manufacturing and energy. A subject matter expert in system analysis and systems engineering, who has successfully implemented enterprise solutions for multinational and national...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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4:35pm EDT
Intro to Wikidata, the Database for Wikipedia and Wiki Projects
Speakers
Wikimedian in Residence, School of Data Science, UVA
Lane Rasberry is Wikimedian in Residence at the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia. His interests include consumer rights, open access, crowdsourcing, and coffee.
Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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4:35pm EDT
4:35pm EDT
Imparting Privacy to Face Images: Designing Semi-Adversarial Neural Networks for Multi-Objective Optimization Tasks
Speakers
Research, Michigan State University
Sebastian Raschka is a researcher at Michigan State University and Assistant Professor of Statistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison (starting in summer 2018) who develops new methods in computational biology as well as deep learning architectures to solve problems in the field...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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4:40pm EDT
Medical Education Content Categorization with MeSH Terms
Speakers
Principle Software Engineer, University of Virginia, School of Medicine
Michael Szul has spent almost two decades in software engineering in industries as diverse as insurance, energy, travel, and higher education. He has worked in both application and product development, as well as framework creation, code generation, API building, and machine lear...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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4:45pm EDT
4:50pm EDT
Automatically Analyzing Earth Imagery using Deep Learning
Speakers
Business Lead, Raster Foundry, Azavea
Joe Morrison leads business development for Raster Foundry, an open source platform for analyzing earth imagery on the web. His job is to help enterprise companies and NGOs to effectively combine earth imagery with analytical techniques, like deep learning, to make more informed decisions...
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Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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5:00pm EDT
Machine Learning Happy Hour
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We provide intelligence that is essential for companies, governments and individuals to makedecisions with conviction.
5:00pm EDT
Life After Death with John Cleese and UVA DOPS
Moderators
Founder, Monty Python
Monty Python icon, actor, author, playwright, Minister of the Silly Walk, and black humor extraordinaire has had a prolific career since the 1960s, continuously pushing boundaries in entertainment, and challenging audiences in the way they think and laugh.
Speakers
Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies, Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA
Jim B. Tucker, M.D., the Director of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, is a child psychiatrist who studies children’s reports of past-life memories. His book Return to Life was a New York Times bestseller.
Chester F. Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA
Bruce Greyson, M.D., is Professor Emeritus at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies. Since 1975 his research has focused on near-death experiences, resulting in more than 100 publications in academic journals and three edited books.
ABPP, Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA
Kim Penberthy, Ph.D., ABPP is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences UVA. Her research interests include studying the mind-body relationship, exploring human consciousness as well as extraordinary human abilities and mindfulness.
Professor of Research, Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA
Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D., of UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies was lead author of Irreducible Mind (2007) and Beyond Physicalism (2015), and is now doing neuroimaging studies of altered states and psi in exceptional subjects.
Assistant Professor of Research, Division of Perceptual Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA
Emily Williams Kelly, Ph.D., of UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies since 1978, has studied many kinds of experiences suggesting survival after death. She is co-author of Irreducible Mind, and editor of Science, Survival, and the Self.
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Founded in 1967 by Dr. Ian Stevenson, the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) is the oldest and most productive university-based research group in the world devoted exclusively to the investigation of phenomena that challenge current physicalist brain/mind orthodoxy – including...
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5:00pm EDT
Salsa Dance for Equality
Artists
Zabor is a teaching method based on the integration of multiple perspectives of partner dance instruction which I consider to be equally important to the proper development and formation of a great dancer. I place just as much emphasis on understanding history, musicality, and the...
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5:00pm EDT
Silverchair 25th Anniversary Reception
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Silverchair designs and builds websites to host scholarly content and creates specialized features and interfaces for interacting with that content. Founded in 1993, the company began as a packager for medical textbooks, changing shape over time and launching the Silverchair Platform...
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Thursday April 12, 2018 5:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Silverchair
6:00pm EDT
Community Workshop: Spotting Sensationalized Science in the News
Workshop Leaders SP
The Science Policy Initiative at UVA is a student organization empowering scientists and engineers to be more informed and involved in science policy. It was established for the express purpose of:1) Enhancing awareness among graduate students in engineering and science disciplines...
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Professor Wylie has researched how science and society interact at the universities of Chicago and Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and now at UVA. She focuses on the unwritten work and workers in research...
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7:00pm EDT
American Evolution Innovators Cup
Moderators
CEO, Painless1099
Ace Callwood is the co-founder and CEO of Painless1099, a smart platform that manages 1099s, benefits, and taxes for independent contractors and their clients. Prior to Painless1099, Ace co-founded Coffitivity, an ambient sound app that was one of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 Sites of...
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Speakers
SVP, Small Business Bank, Capital One
As the Head of Payments & Servicing for Capital One’s Small Business Bank, Jen brings a passion for small business and entrepreneurship. She leads COF’s community investments that support innovation in the region and serves as Vice Chairman of the Activation Council, which inspires...
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CEO & Cofounder, Reddit
Steve Huffman is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, the "front page of the internet" and fourth most visited site in the U.S. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Hipmunk, the popular online travel company. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman pursued his passion for programming...
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CEO, Briogeo Hair Care
Relying on her traditional, modest roots and deep-seeded passion for clean beauty, Nancy vacated her position as Vice President of the Commodities Sales division at Goldman Sachs, to follow her dream of becoming a natural beauty entrepreneur. Briogeo was inspired by a family tradition...
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AMERICAN EVOLUTION™ commemorates the 400th anniversary of several key historical events that occurred in Virginia in 1619 that continue to influence America today. Featured events, programs, and legacy projects inspire local, national, and international engagement in the themes...
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S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American
publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the
parent company of...
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8:00pm EDT
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
Moderators
Senior Legal Editor Slate, Slate Magazine
Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate, and in that capacity, has been writing their "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary...
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Speakers
President and CEO, Author, News and Guts, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
A news icon and pioneer of broadcast journalism, Dan Rather’s career has spanned more than six decades-- including 24 years as the anchor of CBS Evening News.
Sponsors
C-VILLE Weekly is a free newspaper with a weekly circulation of 23,000 copies distributed in Charlottesville and its surrounding counties. In addition, we publish seven magazines throughout the year: Abode, a monthly home and landscape magazine; C-BIZ, a quarterly business publication...
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The University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciencesis the largest of the
University of Virginia's ten schools. Consisting of both a graduate and an undergraduate program, the College comprises the
liberal artsand
humanities section of the University...
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10:00pm EDT
8:00am EDT
Clean Energy Coffee and Networking
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The solar space is dynamic, and keeping in front of advancements can be challenging. Sun Tribe Solar is a partner with the technical and financial expertise to help your organization take advantage of emerging opportunities to strengthen financial operations while reinforcing your...
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9:00am EDT
The Future of Energy Storage
Moderators
Staff Writer, Greentech Media
Julian is a San Francisco-based staff writer at Greentech Media, where he reports on energy storage, solar power, and the energy transition. He also has experience covering clean transportation, state and federal energy policy, and climate adaptation. Previously, Julian reported for...
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Speakers
CEO, Fluence
Stephen Coughlin leads the Fluence team and its efforts to accelerate energy storage adoption globally, to transform the way we power our world and ensure a more sustainable future.Before joining Fluence, Stephen led the AES Energy Storage business unit through a high-growth phase...
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The solar space is dynamic, and keeping in front of advancements can be challenging. Sun Tribe Solar is a partner with the technical and financial expertise to help your organization take advantage of emerging opportunities to strengthen financial operations while reinforcing your...
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9:00am EDT
What’s Next for Energy Policy in Virginia?
Moderators
Vice President of Development, East, Apex Clean Energy
Tyson leads Apex Clean Energy’s development team in the Eastern United States. He is responsible for the origination and development of wind and solar projects within PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE, and SERC markets.
Speakers
Senior Director, Dominion Energy
Katharine Bond is Senior Policy Director at Dominion Energy and Executive Director of the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation. She is the company’s public policy lead on renewable energy, serving as Senior Advisor for the Millennial Policy Initiative of the New Leaders Council...
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Government Relations & Communications Manager, Southeast, Orsted
Hayes Framme joined Orsted in November 2017 as Government Relations & Communications Manager for the Southeast. In this role, Hayes oversees state and local government outreach, stakeholder engagement, and increasing brand recognition to help power the Virginia economy entirely on...
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Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade, Office of Governor Northam
Angela Navarro currently serves as Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade under Governor Ralph Northam. In this role, she works on energy, housing, and economic development policies. Previously, she served as Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources under both Governor Northam and Governor...
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Generation 180 is a non-profit committed to advancing the transition to clean energy and supporting a cultural shift in energy awareness through original, engaging content, digitally-enabled campaigns, and an empowered volunteer network.
GreeneHurlocker, PLC, located in Richmond, Virginia, was founded in 2012 by Brian R. Greene and Eric W. Hurlocker, and currently provides a broad range of administrative law, business and corporate law, energy law, regulatory law and litigation legal services throughout the Mid-Atlantic...
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The solar space is dynamic, and keeping in front of advancements can be challenging. Sun Tribe Solar is a partner with the technical and financial expertise to help your organization take advantage of emerging opportunities to strengthen financial operations while reinforcing your...
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9:00am EDT
Founding Stories - GRIT: Overcoming Adversity
Moderators
CEO, Brilliant Minds Foundation and Symposium Stockholm
As the CEO of Symposium Stockholm and the Brilliant Minds Foundation, a two-day thought leadership-summit in Stockholm founded by Spotify founder Daniel Ek , and a 365-day-year-round movement, Brzezinski curates a global community of creative entrepreneurs who want to make change...
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Ambassador (ret.), Makena Capital
Ambassador (ret.) Mark Brzezinski is a Managing Director at Makena Capital Management, where he leads Makena’s sustainability efforts. Prior to joining Makena, Mark served as the first Executive Director of the White House's Arctic Executive Steering Committee and as the United...
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Speakers
Cofounder, Two Blind Brothers
Bradford and Bryan Manning are brothers on a mission to cure blindness. At the age of 7, they were both diagnosed with an eye disease that destroys central vision over time. To fight back, they left their former careers in finance to propel a small charitable clothing label, Two Blind...
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Astronaut, Leland Melvin LLC
From playing for the Dallas Cowboys to exploring outer space, Mr. Melvin’s story of perseverance and passion has inspired the next generation of explorers to pursue STEAM careers.
Cofounder, Two Blind Brothers
Bradford and Bryan Manning are curing blindness! Within one year they propelled a small charitable clothing company, Two Blind Brothers, into one of the fastest growing brands in the country with endorsements from Ellen DeGeneres, Ashton Kutcher, Richard Branson, NBC Nightly News...
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United States Senator
Governor Warner was elected to the United States Senate in 2008, where he serves on the Senate Finance, Banking, Budget, and Rules Committees as well as the Select Committee on Intelligence, where he is the Vice Chairman. The first in his family to graduate from college, Mark Warner...
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Director, Galant Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Virginia
Eric Martin’s twenty-five-year career includes successful operating experience as a Chief Executive (Software, Consumer Products & Services, Professional Services), Strategist (Global Consultancy Partner), Entrepreneur, Change Agent (Business Transformation, Turnarounds, and Start-Ups...
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Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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10:00am EDT
10:00am EDT
10:30am EDT
Closed Session: A Systems Approach to the Opioids Crisis in Our Region
Speakers
Director of Prevention, Department of Behavior Health & Disability Services
Gail Maddox Taylor is the Director of the Office of Behavioral Health Wellness for the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services where she provides leadership in the development and implementation of comprehensive substance abuse prevention systems at the...
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Scholars FM
Vice President, Medical Affairs, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
LB
Executive Director, Region Ten
District Director, Thomas Jefferson Health District
Dr. Denise Bonds is the health director for the Thomas Jefferson Health District, a position she has held since 2015. She is a board certified internist with additional training in public health and women’s health.
Director of Humanm Services, City of Charlottesville
JE
Physician / Medical Director, Sentara Martha Jefferson Medical Group
WF
Chief Operating Office, Unviversity Of Virginia Medical Center
HH
Philanthropic Advisor, Hatcher Consulting
MH
Director, Louisa Counseling Services, RTCSB
MJ
Director, Women's Recovery Services, Region Ten Community Services Board
CEO, JABA
Marta has been the CEO of JABA since April 2013. She came to JABA as COO in the Fall of 2012. She has made collaboration a focus of her tenure- both internal and external. The opportunities grow as JABA works to help people age in community, through providing services and support...
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Coalition Director, Community Mental Healt and Wellness Coalition
GM
Director of Special Projects, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, University of Virginia Healthsystem
AM
Executive Director, Partner for Mental Health
JO
Medical Director, Region Ten CSB
DD
Director, Research Development, School of Medicine, University of Virginia
Dr. Driscoll’s research background and experience embodies a commitment to rigorous, team-based population health science with researchers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds. As a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist, his research combines anthropological and epidemiological...
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Executive Director, Center for Nonprofit Excellence
CR
PATH director, On Our Own , Charlottesville
AM
Certified Peer Recovery Specialist, Region Ten Community Services Board
KS
Mental Health First Aid Corps, AmeriCorps
ET
Executive Director, On Our Own
RW
BSN, RN-BC, University of Virginia Health System
EW
Program Manager of Prevention and Family Wellness, Region Ten CSB
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Established in 1969, Region Ten Community Services Board is part of a statewide network of 40 Community Service Boards working to provide mental health, intellectual disability and substance use services where they are needed – in the local community. An agency of local government...
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Friday April 13, 2018 10:30am - 10:45am EDT
CitySpace
10:30am EDT
Founding Stories - CREATIVITY: Building Outside the Box
Moderators
Ambassador (ret.), Makena Capital
Ambassador (ret.) Mark Brzezinski is a Managing Director at Makena Capital Management, where he leads Makena’s sustainability efforts. Prior to joining Makena, Mark served as the first Executive Director of the White House's Arctic Executive Steering Committee and as the United...
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Speakers
Founder, Meow Wolf
Vince Kadlubek is a Co-founder and the CEO of Meow Wolf, an art collective that has transformed into a remarkable, award-winning Arts Production Company. Vince is passionate about alternative realities and immersive storytelling.
Sponsors
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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Creating beautiful digital products engineered to drive growth for the world’s leading brands.
10:30am EDT
Designing Products with Purpose
Moderators PJ
Portfolio Director, IDEO
Peter Jackson is a portfolio director at IDEO San Francisco, where he is focused on the intersection of consumer experience and organizational design. Prior to joining IDEO, Peter served as senior counselor to now U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and as the first Assistant Director for...
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Speakers
Founder & CEO, Raheem AI
Brandon D. Anderson is the Founder of
Raheem AI, a secure and anonymous tool to report and review police interactions. The tech nonprofit builds feedback loops for cities to help identify where policing works well and where it can be improved. Raheem AI is sponsored by My Brother's Keeper Alliance, an initiative of the Obama Foun...
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Founder, PAKA
Kris Cody is the founder of PAKA, an alpaca wool sweater company that empowers Peruvian women. PAKA currently employs 17 women weavers and knitters full-time. The funds that Cody has raised will also pay the tuition for one Peruvian woman to attend college.
Cofounder and CEO, Transfernation
Hannah is the co-founder and CEO of Transfernation, New York City’s first tech-based, on-demand food donation service. Founded while she was still an undergrad, in the last two years, the organization has redistributed over 52,000 pounds of food to countless shelters in Manhattan...
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Founder, Cardborigami
Hovsepian is the Design Director at one of the largest developments under construction in downtown LA: Oceanwide Plaza, with the role to oversee the Design of the project and bring Oceanwide’s vision to life. She is also the founder and board chair of Cardborigami, a non-profit...
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Co-Founder, Mitscoots Outfitters
Tim Scott is the Co-Founder of Mitscoots Outfitters, a social enterprise on a mission to outfit and employ individuals transitioning out of homelessness. Leveraging his past military and ad world experience, Tim has has bootstrapped his company into 200+ retail partnerships with a...
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We are a team of experienced, creative, and hard-working designers, developers, and strategists who are passionate about our craft.
Creating beautiful digital products engineered to drive growth for the world’s leading brands.
10:30am EDT
Partner Event: Meeting the Need for Affordable Development
Moderators
Principal, Powe Studio Architects
Powe Studio Architects focuses on creating vibrant urban places in which to live and work. Founder, Gregory Powe, regularly designs affordable residences in urban infill neighborhoods, serving not-for-profit affordable housing organizations. Greg serves as Charlottesville Chair for...
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Speakers
Special Advisor, Jonathan Rose Companies
Vice President New Business, Enterprise Homes, Inc.
Ned Howe is Vice President of New Business for Enterprise Homes, Inc. In this role, he manages and supports development staff through the entitlement process, and pursues new development opportunities for rental and homeownership communities throughout the Mid- Atlantic region.
President & CEO, Habitat for Humanity for Greater Charlottesville
Dan has been the director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville since February 2009. His work with Habitat follows more than a decade of community service with local housing agencies. Under Dan’s leadership, Habitat was the first in the nation to transform a mobile...
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Senior Vice President, EYA
Aakash Thakkar serves as a Partner and Senior Vice President for Acquisition and Development at EYA. He is responsible for project leadership, including new deal sourcing, site selection, acquisition, financing, and development. He lives with his wife and 2 young children in Washington...
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Principle, Grimm & Parker Architects
Mel brings 25+ years of experience to our Residential & Urban Design studio, leading teams to effective solutions for our developer clients and the communities in which they work. Having delivered more than 50 residential projects, Mel has a deep understanding of the full array of...
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At the Urban Land Institute, our mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. ULI Virginia, a district council of the Urban Land Institute, carries forth that mission as the preeminent regional real...
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10:30am EDT
Clean Capital: Financing the Transition to Renewable Energy
Moderators
CEO, SolarWakeup
Yann is the Managing Editor of SolarWakeup, the most influential newsletter and podcast in the solar industry. 5 days a week, solar executives from around the world read Yann’s daily summaries that are his need to know topics. He hosts EnergyWakeup, an energy podcast and SolarWakeup...
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Speakers
CEO, Sol Systems
Yuri Horwitz, CEO, Sol Systems oversees strategic growth, performance, and investment strategy for the firm. His disciplined focus on developing intrinsic value within a portfolio of complementary business lines has led to steady strong growth for the company since its inception in...
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Managing Director, CleanSource Capital
Greg is Managing Director of CleanSource Capital, which designs and administers financing programs for energy efficiency, distributed generation, alternative fuels and water conservation projects under its SAVES platform.
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Abundant is a partner-oriented, dedicated group of people with expertise in building engineering, software development, IT, and data analytics . Our goal is to transform building performance by making analytics a long-term competitive advantage for the real estate market.Our mission...
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LEAP is a non-profit that matches you with the best programs, contractors, and financing options available in your area. You get valuable home upgrades like energy efficiency and solar panels – customized to your needs and budget. We help you understand your options, and we’re...
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10:30am EDT
The Darkest Hour: Leading through Natural Disaster
Moderators
Executive Director, MDV-SEIA
David Murray serves as Executive Director of the Maryland DC Virginia Solar Energy Industries Association, the state trade association for over 120 local solar energy firms. As Executive Director, David designs and implements legislative and regulatory campaigns related to state-level...
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Speakers
Mayor, City of Port Arthur
In 2016, Mayor Freeman made history, twice, in the City of Port Arthur. He was the first African American male to be elected. In addition, at the age of 40, he’s also the youngest person elected as mayor in the history of Port Arthur.
AL
President and Executive Director, The Solar Foundation
As President and Executive Director, Andrea sets the tone, provides overall management and strategic direction, and works closely with the Board to develop and implement high-level research and national educational initiatives that promote greater solar uptake.
Sponsors
The solar space is dynamic, and keeping in front of advancements can be challenging. Sun Tribe Solar is a partner with the technical and financial expertise to help your organization take advantage of emerging opportunities to strengthen financial operations while reinforcing your...
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10:30am EDT
A Better Startup Ecosystem for Student Founders
Scholars
Manager, UNCW CIE
Entrepreneur ecosystems, community engagement, applied learning, event management
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Director, Galant Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Virginia
Eric Martin’s twenty-five-year career includes successful operating experience as a Chief Executive (Software, Consumer Products & Services, Professional Services), Strategist (Global Consultancy Partner), Entrepreneur, Change Agent (Business Transformation, Turnarounds, and Start-Ups...
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Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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HackCville is a platform for experiential education and career development.HackCville trains students in high-demand skills and an entrepreneurial mindset. We accelerate our students’ ideas, projects, and startups through our experiential programs and tight-knit community.
10:30am EDT
Master Class: Design the Future You Love
Moderators
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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Provost, altMBA
Marie leads Seth Godin's altMBA, The Bootstrapper's Workshop and The Marketing Seminar. She believes in a culture of possibility, responsibility and creativity.Marie loves design and making things better. Prior to her work with Seth, she was the director of Hopscotch Design Festival...
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10:30am EDT
The Founders Who Aren't: Inclusion in Entrepreneurship
Moderators
Vice President of Communications, Alice
Courtenay leads Alice's external communication efforts, including marketing and public relations strategy, as well as impact partnerships. On the entrepreneurial front, Courtenay previously was owner and president of 20K Group, a global communications agency that worked with a diverse...
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Speakers
Creative Director, Causeway
Chelsea Conrad is the Creative Director at Causeway, a nonprofit social innovation studio in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Since 2014, Causeway has helped over 600 grassroots leaders develop and test their early-stage ideas so that they are prepared for growth. Chelsea is a graphic designer...
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Councilwoman, City of Harrisburg, PA
Shamaine is a champion for the rights of women and migrants in the United States and abroad. Over the years she has served various underrepresented communities, with Lozano, et al v City of Hazleton being her most recognized case to date. In politics, she is the first Latina to be...
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Founder & CEO, Fly Sci Enterprise
Dr. Knatokie Ford is Founder and CEO of Fly Sci Enterprise, an education and media consulting organization focused on leveraging the power of storytelling to promote social change, particularly in STEM fields. She recently completed service in the Obama Administration as a Senior...
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Founder/Chief Creative Officer/Cultural Strategist, Combing Cotton Co./Local Merchant Independent Retailers Association
Desiree Venn Frederic is an agent of alternatives. The Sierra Leonean born writer, social entrepreneur, public speaker, educator and installation artist is inspired by her transnational experiences. Through her work, the thought leader explores the commons and commoning discourse...
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Investigative Reporter, NerdWallet
Brad is part of NerdWallet’s public interest reporting team, whose goal is to uncover abusive practices in consumer finance. Since forming in December 2016, NerdWallet’s team has examined student loan scams, companies that have wrongly wrecked customers’ credit, and the country’s...
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Sponsors
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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10:30am EDT
Case Study: Strategic Action for Economic Opportunity in Frederick, MD
Moderators
Managing Partner, Digital Bard Video
Video Marketing Geek, Speaker, Podcast Host and StrategistWhitney Hahn is the managing partner of Digital Bard | Zesty Video Marketing in Frederick, MD, and leads a small, exuberantly geeky band of video marketers. We specialize in production and promotion for leisure and recreation...
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Speakers
President & CEO, Frederick County Chamber of Commerce
With 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors, Elizabeth Cromwell's background includes marketing, public relations, corporate partnerships, advocacy and large-scale event management. Previously, she was Director of Corporate and Community Partnerships for Frederick...
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Mayor, City of Frederick (Maryland)
Elected Mayor in 2017, O’Connor represents The City of Frederick on the Frederick Community Action Agency Board, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, the Legislative Committee of the Maryland Municipal League, and the Tourism Council of Frederick.
Director of Economic Development, Frederick County, Maryland
Helen began her career with Frederick County Government 25 years ago and was appointed to her current position in 2012. She has 20+ years of experience managing programs, staff and projects.
Founder & CEO, Yakabod
A "startup guy" at heart, with a passion to see his community prosper, Scott’s also active in the Frederick tech and business community through various board roles, including TechFrederick, the Frederick Innovative Technology Center, Inc. (FITCI), and others.
10:30am EDT
After August 12th: Freedom of Speech and Domestic Terror
Moderators
Managing Director, RVA Magazine
Landon Shroder is the Managing Partner and Editorial Director of RVA Magazine. Prior to that, he was a long-term foreign policy and intelligence professional who specialized in complex environments in Africa and the Middle East. He is also former writer and producer for VICE Media...
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Speakers
Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent
Alan Bradstock worked over 20 years as an FBI Special Agent and supervisor. He led the Louisville Field Intelligence Group, supervised teams in the FBI Counterterrorism Division, coordinated counterterrorism financing operations while assigned to CIA's Counterterrorism Center and...
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Fmr. Acting Asst. Attorney General Dep. of Justice, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection
Mary McCord serves as Senior Litigator from Practice at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. McCord was the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice...
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Candidate for Congress in VA-7, Abigail Spanberger for Congress
Abigail Spanberger is a candidate running for the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. Abigail began her public service career as a federal law enforcement officer working narcotics and money laundering cases with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service...
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Sponsors
RVA Magazine is the #1 Independent Media in Virginia. RVA Mag is all about community empowerment. How do we do this? By delivering new and innovative ways to tell stories from our city and Commonwealth. In doing so, we give our readers an immersive experience which lives at the intersection...
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10:30am EDT
From Search to Suggest
Moderators
Executive Director, Cybersecurity and Technology Program
Graff is a distinguished magazine journalist and historian, spending more than a dozen years covering politics, technology, and national security. Today, he serves as the director of the Aspen Institute’s cybersecurity and technology program, and is a contributor to WIRED, Longreads...
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Speakers
CEO and Founder, X-Mode
Joshua Anton (UVA-Comm 14) - CEO of X-Mode launched the Drunk Mode App in 2014, the living map for ‘when you go out'. Drunk Mode garnering over 2 Million users in eighteen months, stops you from making regrettable mistakes (drunk dialing) and keeps you safe (allowing you to find...
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Founder & CEO, TrackMaven
Allen Gannett is the founder and CEO of TrackMaven, the all-in-one marketing analytics platform which is used by brands including Microsoft, Marriott, and Saks Fifth Avenue. Gannett is also a writer with a regular online column for Fast Company and an upcoming book, "The Creative...
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Sponsors
C-VILLE Weekly is a free newspaper with a weekly circulation of 23,000 copies distributed in Charlottesville and its surrounding counties. In addition, we publish seven magazines throughout the year: Abode, a monthly home and landscape magazine; C-BIZ, a quarterly business publication...
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The University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciencesis the largest of the
University of Virginia's ten schools. Consisting of both a graduate and an undergraduate program, the College comprises the
liberal artsand
humanities section of the University...
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10:30am EDT
Community Workshop: Design Thinking for the Greater Good
Speakers
Advocate and Consultant, Design Thinking for the Greater Good
Randy Salzman, a long-time communications, creativity and journalism professor, has been writing about, teaching and consulting on design thinking since providing Dr. Jeanne Liedtka, help with her first book, The Catalysts, in 2008-9. Using her well-proven methodology, his latest...
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10:45am EDT
Closed Session: Addressing the Crisis: Evidence-Based Solutions
Speakers
Special Advisor for Opioid Policy, City of Baltimore
Evan Behrle is Special Advisor for Opioid Policy to the Baltimore City Health Department. He grew up in Baltimore and entered the department in 2016 as a Baltimore Corps Fellow. Prior to this role, Behrle been studying political philosophy at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar...
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Scholars FM
Vice President, Medical Affairs, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
LB
Executive Director, Region Ten
District Director, Thomas Jefferson Health District
Dr. Denise Bonds is the health director for the Thomas Jefferson Health District, a position she has held since 2015. She is a board certified internist with additional training in public health and women’s health.
Director of Humanm Services, City of Charlottesville
JE
Physician / Medical Director, Sentara Martha Jefferson Medical Group
WF
Chief Operating Office, Unviversity Of Virginia Medical Center
HH
Philanthropic Advisor, Hatcher Consulting
MH
Director, Louisa Counseling Services, RTCSB
MJ
Director, Women's Recovery Services, Region Ten Community Services Board
CEO, JABA
Marta has been the CEO of JABA since April 2013. She came to JABA as COO in the Fall of 2012. She has made collaboration a focus of her tenure- both internal and external. The opportunities grow as JABA works to help people age in community, through providing services and support...
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Coalition Director, Community Mental Healt and Wellness Coalition
GM
Director of Special Projects, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, University of Virginia Healthsystem
AM
Executive Director, Partner for Mental Health
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Medical Director, Region Ten CSB
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Director, Research Development, School of Medicine, University of Virginia
Dr. Driscoll’s research background and experience embodies a commitment to rigorous, team-based population health science with researchers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds. As a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist, his research combines anthropological and epidemiological...
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Executive Director, Center for Nonprofit Excellence
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PATH director, On Our Own , Charlottesville
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Certified Peer Recovery Specialist, Region Ten Community Services Board
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Mental Health First Aid Corps, AmeriCorps
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Executive Director, On Our Own
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BSN, RN-BC, University of Virginia Health System
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Program Manager of Prevention and Family Wellness, Region Ten CSB
Sponsors
Established in 1969, Region Ten Community Services Board is part of a statewide network of 40 Community Service Boards working to provide mental health, intellectual disability and substance use services where they are needed – in the local community. An agency of local government...
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Friday April 13, 2018 10:45am - 11:45am EDT
CitySpace
11:00am EDT
Founding Stories: Success to Scale
Moderators
Ambassador (ret.), Makena Capital
Ambassador (ret.) Mark Brzezinski is a Managing Director at Makena Capital Management, where he leads Makena’s sustainability efforts. Prior to joining Makena, Mark served as the first Executive Director of the White House's Arctic Executive Steering Committee and as the United...
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Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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Director, Galant Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Virginia
Eric Martin’s twenty-five-year career includes successful operating experience as a Chief Executive (Software, Consumer Products & Services, Professional Services), Strategist (Global Consultancy Partner), Entrepreneur, Change Agent (Business Transformation, Turnarounds, and Start-Ups...
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Speakers
Founder, Zola
Shan-Lyn Ma is CEO and Co-Founder of Zola, the wedding company reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience by combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology.
CEO, Briogeo Hair Care
Relying on her traditional, modest roots and deep-seeded passion for clean beauty, Nancy vacated her position as Vice President of the Commodities Sales division at Goldman Sachs, to follow her dream of becoming a natural beauty entrepreneur. Briogeo was inspired by a family tradition...
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11:00am EDT
Art Demo: Live Illustration with Andrew Stronge
Artists
Artist-in-Residence, Stronge Designs
Andrew Stronge is a commercial artist and graphic illustrator based in Charlottesville, VA, with over 10 years of experience in the screen printing industry. Though not all of his work is screen printed, the stylistic nature of production has heavily influenced how he has grown as...
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Workshop Leaders
Artist-in-Residence, Stronge Designs
Andrew Stronge is a commercial artist and graphic illustrator based in Charlottesville, VA, with over 10 years of experience in the screen printing industry. Though not all of his work is screen printed, the stylistic nature of production has heavily influenced how he has grown as...
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12:00pm EDT
Founders Luncheon: Art, Fantasy, and Mystery: Meow Wolf
Speakers
Founder, Meow Wolf
Vince Kadlubek is a Co-founder and the CEO of Meow Wolf, an art collective that has transformed into a remarkable, award-winning Arts Production Company. Vince is passionate about alternative realities and immersive storytelling.
Sponsors
The Community Foundation was established in 1967 as an engine for positive change in Charlottesville and the surrounding counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson and Orange. We work with local residents, non-profits, as well as public and private organizations...
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Whurk publishes a
free monthly magazine dedicated to Virginia's creative communities. A fierce supporter of independent culture since 2013, it features interviews and art from local painters, poets, sculptors, authors, musicians, thespians, chefs, brewers, filmmakers, and cartoonists. Distributed to hundreds of location...
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12:00pm EDT
Founders Luncheon: Brands in the Age of Distraction
Moderators
Senior Product Strategist, WillowTree
Margo is a Senior Product Strategist at WillowTree in Charlottesville, Virginia. She works with Fortune 500 clients (including HBO, Regal Cinemas, and Wyndham Hotels) to develop and hone concepts for mobile, web and IoT applications by performing user-centered research in tandem with...
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Speakers
Creative Director, Journey Group
Zack Bryant leads Journey Group’s digital studio—crafting web and video projects that are goal driven and people centered. He’s dogged about carving the right path from intention to outcome, pursuing results in which a few seconds on a screen give way to meaningful experiences...
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Founder & Executive Creative Director, Hue&Cry
Magnus Hierta is the Creative Director at The Martin Agency and Founder / ECD of Hue&Cry. From design to animation, advertising, architecture, photography, or any other creative field, he prefers not to think of each as a professional silo standing on its own. The act of applying...
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Founder & Creative Director, Watermark Design
Over the last 10 years, Darcey has grown Watermark Design into an award-winning branding and package design studio, serving businesses nationally, and gathering accolades from The Dieline and HOW Magazine, among others.
Interim Brand Director, Virginia Tourism Corporation
Lindsey Norment serves as the Interim Brand Director for the Virginia Tourism Corporation. In this capacity, she leads the Brand department to strategically execute the vision of the iconic Virginia is for Lovers brand. Ms. Norment was raised in Richmond, Virginia. She is a graduate...
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Sponsors
Decades of experience. Industry leadership. Attentive customer service. These & more define Sir Speedy Print, Signs and Marketing. For decades, companies have made us part of an iconic ritual: Got a challenge, go to Sir Speedy. Our people have a "whatever it takes" attitude. Add...
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We are a team of experienced, creative, and hard-working designers, developers, and strategists who are passionate about our craft.
Creating beautiful digital products engineered to drive growth for the world’s leading brands.
12:00pm EDT
Founders Luncheon: The Energy End Game
Moderators
Co-Founder, Sun Tribe Solar
As Co-Founder and Vice President of Business Development, Devin Welch is responsible for sales and marketing strategy for Sun Tribe Solar, Virginia’s fastest growing renewable energy solutions provider. Passionate about sustainability, Mr. Welch has spent his career championing...
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Speakers
President and Co-Founder, Generate Capital
Jigar Shah is the President and Co-Founder of Generate Capital. Jigar was the founder and CEO of SunEdison (NASDAQ: SUNE), where he pioneered “no money down solar” and unlocked a multi-billion-dollar solar market, creating the largest solar services company worldwide. After SunEdison...
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Sponsors
The Charlottesville Renewable Energy Alliance aims to establish Charlottesville as the renewable energy hub of the Southeast, to advocate for the growth of the renewable energy economy, and to support the community’s transition to sustainable energy practices.
By providing cutting edge solar and energy efficiency technology, world-class service and competitive pricing, Sigora Solar is leading our community and the world to a brighter energy future one home, business, school, and farm at a time. The Sigora family is committed to creating...
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The solar space is dynamic, and keeping in front of advancements can be challenging. Sun Tribe Solar is a partner with the technical and financial expertise to help your organization take advantage of emerging opportunities to strengthen financial operations while reinforcing your...
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12:00pm EDT
Founders Luncheon: Founding While Female
Moderators
Director of Research and Analysis, Association for Women in Science
Heather Metcalf, PhD is Director of Research and Analysis at the Association for Women in Science. She is also Director of AWIS' STEM to Market program, an inclusive STEM entrepreneurship and investing program funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. She has undergraduate degrees...
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Speakers
Data for Democracy, Head of Policy
DiResta is a founding advisor to the Center for Humane Technology, Head of Policy at Data for Democracy, and an advocate for vaccination in California. She is a cofounder of Haven, a private marketplace for booking ocean freight shipments. Previously, Renee was a principal at seed-stage...
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Founder, Investure
Alice Handy founded Investure in December 2003 where she currently serves as Managing Member. Investure serves as the investment office to non-profits where building a high-quality investment staff in-house is not economical or preferable. Investure provides a comprehensive, full-service...
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Founder, Zola
Shan-Lyn Ma is CEO and Co-Founder of Zola, the wedding company reinventing the wedding planning and registry experience by combining compassionate customer service with modern tools and technology.
Sponsors
1 Million Cups (1MC) is a simple way to engage entrepreneurs in communities around the world. Each week, the 1MC program offers two local entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their startups to a diverse audience of mentors, advisors and entrepreneurs.
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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Kauffman FastTrac® equips aspiring entrepreneurs with the business skills and insights, tools, resources, and peer networks necessary to start and grow successful businesses.
12:00pm EDT
Founders Luncheon: Reasons to Stay - Cities for Young Founders
Moderators
COO, HackCville
Daniel is the COO at HackCville, a hub for top U.Va. students pursuing entrepreneurial careers. He also is program director for HackCville's Elliewood Fellowship, a one-year program to enable top graduates to stay and start impactful ventures in Charlottesville. He was part of the...
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Speakers
CEO & Cofounder, Reddit
Steve Huffman is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, the "front page of the internet" and fourth most visited site in the U.S. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Hipmunk, the popular online travel company. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman pursued his passion for programming...
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Sponsors
Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and service to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients.
The Frederick County Chamber of Commerce is an association of businesses organized to ensure the economic and social vitality of Frederick County. We connect businesses and community through leadership, advocacy, and education.
Director, Galant Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Virginia
Eric Martin’s twenty-five-year career includes successful operating experience as a Chief Executive (Software, Consumer Products & Services, Professional Services), Strategist (Global Consultancy Partner), Entrepreneur, Change Agent (Business Transformation, Turnarounds, and Start-Ups...
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HackCville is a platform for experiential education and career development.HackCville trains students in high-demand skills and an entrepreneurial mindset. We accelerate our students’ ideas, projects, and startups through our experiential programs and tight-knit community.
The Office of Economic Development is the catalyst for public and private initiatives that create employment opportunities and a vibrant and sustainable economy.
Friday April 13, 2018 12:00pm - 1:40pm EDT
Zocalo
12:00pm EDT
Founders Luncheon: STEAM Ahead: Inclusive Innovation
Moderators
CEO, Brilliant Minds Foundation and Symposium Stockholm
As the CEO of Symposium Stockholm and the Brilliant Minds Foundation, a two-day thought leadership-summit in Stockholm founded by Spotify founder Daniel Ek , and a 365-day-year-round movement, Brzezinski curates a global community of creative entrepreneurs who want to make change...
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Speakers
Founder & CEO, Fly Sci Enterprise
Dr. Knatokie Ford is Founder and CEO of Fly Sci Enterprise, an education and media consulting organization focused on leveraging the power of storytelling to promote social change, particularly in STEM fields. She recently completed service in the Obama Administration as a Senior...
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Astronaut, Leland Melvin LLC
From playing for the Dallas Cowboys to exploring outer space, Mr. Melvin’s story of perseverance and passion has inspired the next generation of explorers to pursue STEAM careers.
Sponsors
What’s the secret behind prosperity for Lynchburg? Our diverse and dynamic community.Our community boasts a vibrant economy, nationally-ranked public schools and five colleges situated in historic and affordable neighborhoods, a world-class health care system, funky shops and fine...
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VIRGINIA NATIONAL BANK OPENED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE ON JULY 29, 1998 WITH MORE THAN 900 LOCAL SHAREHOLDERS.From the beginning, our mission has been to provide great personal service, local access to decision makers, fast response, and continuity in your relationship. As a true community...
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12:00pm EDT
Community Luncheon: Honoring Black America in the Public Realm
Moderators
Community Engagement Officer, Monticello
Gayle Jessup White became Monticello’s first community engagement officer in 2016. She is not only a direct Jefferson descendant, but is related to two well-documented families enslaved at Monticello - the Hemingses and the Hubbards.A former award- winning TV reporter, Jessup White...
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Speakers
Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund; Assistant Clinical Professor, Graduate Preservation Program, National Trust for Historic Preservation and University of Maryland
Brent Leggs is the Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund – a $25,000,000 fundraising and preservation campaign of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A Harvard Loeb Fellow, he co-authored "Preserving African American Historic Places," which is...
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Artist
Eto Otitigbe recently joined the team led by Howeler and Yoon Architecture to design the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at University of Virginia. The memorial will be a reflective gathering space that includes symbols of libation and liberation. Otitigbe's role on the design team...
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Mayor, City of Richmond
Levar M. Stoney was sworn in as Richmond's 80th Mayor on Dec. 31, 2016. He is the youngest mayor ever elected to serve the city. Mayor Stoney was raised in Virginia by his grandmother and his father, a janitor. A product of Virginia public schools, he grew up on free and reduced...
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The Office of the Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity assists and monitors all units of the University in their efforts to recruit and retain faculty, staff, and students from historically underrepresented groups and to provide affirmative and supportive environments...
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12:00pm EDT
12:00pm EDT
Founders Luncheon: Taking Back Healthcare
Speakers
Author, An American Sickness
Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, is the author of the 2017 New York Times bestseller, “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back.” She was a reporter and senior writer at the New York Times for 22 years, winning numerous awards for her coverage...
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Asso. Counsel Senior Director of External Affairs, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
Natassia Rozario is the associate counsel and senior director of external affairs at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the wellbeing of individuals facing the most complex health and social challenges. Since their inception...
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12:00pm EDT
Founders Luncheon: An American Story
Moderators
National Correspondent, The Atlantic
JAMES FALLOWS has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for more than thirty years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among other publications. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World...
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Staff Writer, Author, The Washington Post, Janesville: An American Story
Amy Goldstein is a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer at The Washington Post, where much of her work over 30 years has focused on social policy. She is the author of Janesville: An American Story, a close-up of a small Midwestern city that lost a slew of jobs when the nation’s...
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Sponsors
The attorneys of Royer, Caramanis & McDonough have decades of experience assisting clients in a wide range of legal specialties. We take personal interest in our clients and strive to provide efficient, effective and responsive representation in addressing their legal needs.
Friday April 13, 2018 12:00pm - 1:40pm EDT
Hamilton's
12:00pm EDT
Partner Event: “How to Fix American Democracy: Part I"
Sponsors
The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history and strives to apply the lessons of history and civil discourse to the nation's most pressing contemporary governance chal...
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In 1819 Thomas Jefferson fulfilled his lifelong ambition to create a better institution of higher learning, one that would prepare America's citizens to lead and govern the new nation. His University would be the first to engineer cross-disciplinary exchange between the sciences and...
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2:00pm EDT
Solving Design Problems with Prototyping
Moderators
Creative Services Director, Storyware
Kate Hofstra is a Brooklyn based digital strategist, designer and copywriter with a decade of experience in writing, research and creative strategy. With a knack for storytelling and an instinct for organization, she helps brands and nonprofits deliver smart and engaging online e...
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Speakers
Team Lead, Marketing Engineering, InVision
Emily Flannery is the Team Lead on the Marketing Engineering team at InVision. Cross-functional collaboration is what she loves most about her work — delivering solutions that meet and exceed their teams' goals and customers' expectations.
Designer, Pentagram
Kristen is a graphic designer based in Austin, TX. She joined the international design firm Pentagram in 2012, and her clients include Bumble, World Wildlife Fund, University of Southern California, The Contemporary Austin, Texas Society of Architects, CU Boulder, Santa Clara University...
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President, Storyware
As President of Storyware, Todd oversees business development, marketing, operations, and finance. In addition, Todd helps clients with digital strategy, user research, wireframes, and front-end development.Todd co-founded Storyware in 2013 after years of running his own consulting...
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Sponsors
We are a team of experienced, creative, and hard-working designers, developers, and strategists who are passionate about our craft.
Creating beautiful digital products engineered to drive growth for the world’s leading brands.
2:00pm EDT
Life After Coal
Moderators
Executive Director, Just Transition Fund
Heidi is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Just Transition Fund, which she created with her partner in April 2015. As a hybrid philanthropic entity, the Just Transition Fund provides direct investments, technical assistance, and data-driven analysis to help frontline coal...
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Speakers
Founder, Solar Holler
Dan Conant is a clean energy entrepreneur who is building a 21st Century energy industry in his native West Virginia. The company he founded, Solar Holler, is focused on bringing solar within reach of those who need it most, while simultaneously training the first generation of solar...
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CEO, Coalfield Development
Brandon Dennison, born and raised in West Virginia, is the founder and current Chief Executive Officer of the Coalfield Development Corporation. Coalfield Development has incubated five social enterprises and professionally trained over 300 unemployed people, many of them laid-off...
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Dean, Business, Mathematics, and Technologies, PVCC
Dr. Adam Hastings currently serves as the Dean of Business, Mathematics, and Technologies at Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC). A doctoral graduate from UVA’s Curry School of Education, Adam has spent the last fourteen years living and working in greater Charlottesville...
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Executive Director, GRID Alternatives Mid Atlantic
Nicole has led GRID Alternatives Mid Atlantic to install over 150 single-family rooftop solar systems, reach over 300 multifamily tenants with solar benefits, and launch the Solarworks DC program, which trains District residents in solar installation and career readiness skills. Prior...
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Sponsors
The solar space is dynamic, and keeping in front of advancements can be challenging. Sun Tribe Solar is a partner with the technical and financial expertise to help your organization take advantage of emerging opportunities to strengthen financial operations while reinforcing your...
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2:00pm EDT
Master Class: The Creative Curve
Speakers
Founder & CEO, TrackMaven
Allen Gannett is the founder and CEO of TrackMaven, the all-in-one marketing analytics platform which is used by brands including Microsoft, Marriott, and Saks Fifth Avenue. Gannett is also a writer with a regular online column for Fast Company and an upcoming book, "The Creative...
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Sponsors
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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2:00pm EDT
Get Smart: Beyond the Buzzwords on Open Data
Moderators
Public Finance Writer, Governing magazine
Liz covers fiscal policy including state and local budgets, tax policy and pensions. She’s also appeared on national programs such as NPR's 1A and CSPAN's Washington Journal.
Speakers
CEO and Co-Founder, OpenGov
Zac Bookman co-founded OpenGov in 2013. Today over 1,800 public agencies in 48 states leverage the platform to achieve better budgeting, improved performance, and comprehensive transparency. Before co-founding OpenGov, Zac served as Advisor to U.S. Army General H.R. McMaster on...
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Open Data Program Manager, City of Seattle
Doyle is the Open Data Manager at the City of Seattle, where he oversees the implementation of the City’s Open Data Policy and the development of the City’s Open Data platform. Previously, he had a long career at Microsoft where he managed software engineering and data science...
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President, Andrew Kleine Consulting
Andrew Kleine is a nationally recognized leader in budgeting for outcomes, long-term financial planning, Lean Government, and pension and health benefit reform. He consults, teaches and writes to help cities get better results from their available resources. Andrew served as Baltimore’s...
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Director of Repurpose for Results, Results for America
Dr. Clarence Wardell III is currently the Director of Repurpose for Results at Results for America, supporting Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities Initiative. In that role he works with mid-size cities across the country to help them use data and evidence to guide their programming...
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2:00pm EDT
Sex in Public: Gender and Political Office
Moderators
Author, Columnist, Author of Get Well Soon and It Ended Badly, Harper's Bazaar
Jennifer Wright is the author of It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Break-Ups in History and Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them. On a less historical note, she writes about issues facing modern feminists in the age of Trump for Harper's Bazaar.
Speakers
Executive Director, Civic Nation
Prior to her current role, Jenn was the founding Executive Director of Battleground Texas, a long-term project dedicated to increasing voter turnout in Texas. Before starting Battleground Texas, Jenn was the Field Director for the Obama campaign in Ohio in 2012. There she oversaw...
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Founder and CEO, Omara Strategy Group
Atima Omara is the Founder and CEO of Omara Strategy Group, a consulting firm she founded that provides training, coaching strategic political guidance to progressive political candidates, organizations and projects. I work with candidates from historically marginalized communities...
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2:00pm EDT
Collective Action for Public Health Outcomes
Moderators
Community Relations Lead, University of Virginia (UVA) Health System
Elizabeth joined University of Virginia (UVA) Health System to lead community relations in 2016. Elizabeth has over a decade of community health experience, having previously held positions focused in epidemiology and health promotion at the Thomas Jefferson Health District. The focus...
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Speakers
County Supervisor, Santa Cruz County
Ryan Coonerty, host of “An Honorable Profession” Podcast, is the Chair of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors. A two-time former Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz, he also the cofounder of NextSpace Coworking, a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, and co-author of The Rise of the...
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Vice President Clinical Affairs, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Stephen S. Grubbs, MD, FASCO Dr. Grubbs joined the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASC0) in July, 2015 as Vice President of the Clinical Affairs Department after 31 years as a practicing medical oncologist in Newark, Delaware at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center. He has been...
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Asso. Counsel Senior Director of External Affairs, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
Natassia Rozario is the associate counsel and senior director of external affairs at the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the wellbeing of individuals facing the most complex health and social challenges. Since their inception...
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2:00pm EDT
The Future of Journalism
Moderators
Senior Legal Editor Slate, Slate Magazine
Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate, and in that capacity, has been writing their "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns since 1999. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary...
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Speakers
Corporate Director, Berkshire Hathaway Media Group
Carney manages digital content initiatives to grow desktop, and mobile audiences, as well as audience engagement. Previously, Carney worked for the Omaha World-Herald, Des Moines Register and Associated Press. He also has been an adjunct journalism professor at Creighton University...
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Chief Financial Officer, The Washington Post
Steve Gibson is the Chief Financial Officer of The Washington Post, overseeing all financial and operational activities, including digital subscriptions and business development, for one of the most innovative and fastest growing digital media companies in today’s global market...
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Investigative Reporter, NerdWallet
Brad is part of NerdWallet’s public interest reporting team, whose goal is to uncover abusive practices in consumer finance. Since forming in December 2016, NerdWallet’s team has examined student loan scams, companies that have wrongly wrecked customers’ credit, and the country’s...
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Sponsors
C-VILLE Weekly is a free newspaper with a weekly circulation of 23,000 copies distributed in Charlottesville and its surrounding counties. In addition, we publish seven magazines throughout the year: Abode, a monthly home and landscape magazine; C-BIZ, a quarterly business publication...
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The Daily Progress is the sole daily newspaper in the vicinity of Charlottesville, Virginia. It has been published daily since September 14, 1892. The paper was founded by James Hubert Lindsay and his brother Frank Lindsay. The Progress was initially published six days a week; the...
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The University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciencesis the largest of the
University of Virginia's ten schools. Consisting of both a graduate and an undergraduate program, the College comprises the
liberal artsand
humanities section of the University...
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2:00pm EDT
Founding Stories - VISION: From success to scale
Moderators
CEO, Brilliant Minds Foundation and Symposium Stockholm
As the CEO of Symposium Stockholm and the Brilliant Minds Foundation, a two-day thought leadership-summit in Stockholm founded by Spotify founder Daniel Ek , and a 365-day-year-round movement, Brzezinski curates a global community of creative entrepreneurs who want to make change...
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Speakers
CEO & Cofounder, Reddit
Steve Huffman is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, the "front page of the internet" and fourth most visited site in the U.S. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Hipmunk, the popular online travel company. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman pursued his passion for programming...
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President and Co-Founder, Generate Capital
Jigar Shah is the President and Co-Founder of Generate Capital. Jigar was the founder and CEO of SunEdison (NASDAQ: SUNE), where he pioneered “no money down solar” and unlocked a multi-billion-dollar solar market, creating the largest solar services company worldwide. After SunEdison...
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Sponsors
Director, Galant Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Virginia
Eric Martin’s twenty-five-year career includes successful operating experience as a Chief Executive (Software, Consumer Products & Services, Professional Services), Strategist (Global Consultancy Partner), Entrepreneur, Change Agent (Business Transformation, Turnarounds, and Start-Ups...
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Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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2:00pm EDT
Partner Event: Affordable Housing Design
Moderators
Principle, Grimm & Parker Architects
Mel brings 25+ years of experience to our Residential & Urban Design studio, leading teams to effective solutions for our developer clients and the communities in which they work. Having delivered more than 50 residential projects, Mel has a deep understanding of the full array of...
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Speakers
Principal, Powe Studio Architects
Powe Studio Architects focuses on creating vibrant urban places in which to live and work. Founder, Gregory Powe, regularly designs affordable residences in urban infill neighborhoods, serving not-for-profit affordable housing organizations. Greg serves as Charlottesville Chair for...
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Scholars
Architect and City Councilor, Galvin Architects and Charlottesville City Council
Ms. Galvin is a registered architect with her own practice in Virginia. She’s been a lead urban designer on such projects as the Crozet Master Plan, Old Trail Village, and the Places29 Master Plan and Transportation Study and is currently adjunct faculty at the University of Virginia...
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Director of Planning, Albemarle County
Vice President New Business, Enterprise Homes, Inc.
Ned Howe is Vice President of New Business for Enterprise Homes, Inc. In this role, he manages and supports development staff through the entitlement process, and pursues new development opportunities for rental and homeownership communities throughout the Mid- Atlantic region.
Executive Director, Piedmont Housing Alliance
Sunshine Mathon is the Executive Director of Piedmont Housing Alliance in Charlottesville, VA. Committed to deeply equitable and sustainable affordable communities, Sunshine has led the development of over 1,200 healthy, efficient homes in Texas and Virginia. As a nationally-recognized...
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Senior Vice President, EYA
Aakash Thakkar serves as a Partner and Senior Vice President for Acquisition and Development at EYA. He is responsible for project leadership, including new deal sourcing, site selection, acquisition, financing, and development. He lives with his wife and 2 young children in Washington...
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Sponsors
At the Urban Land Institute, our mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide. ULI Virginia, a district council of the Urban Land Institute, carries forth that mission as the preeminent regional real...
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2:00pm EDT
Master Class: The ABCs of Socially Responsible Investing
Speakers
President, SerenityShares Investments
Please talk with me about Impact Investing and potential ways to invest using public equities.As President of SerenityShares Investments, the adviser to the SerenityShares Impact ETF (NYSE: ICAN), Kathy is in charge of day-to-day operations including partner relationships and compliance...
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Sponsors
Ewing Kauffman’s most enduring legacy to his community and the world is the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He established the Foundation with the same sense of opportunity he brought to his business endeavors, and, with the same convictions. Kauffman wanted his foundation to...
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2:00pm EDT
Community Workshop: Hydroponics: The Future of Food Production
Sponsors
The Micro-Farm is an automated system that combines form and function, using our proprietary environmental control technology to ensure optimal growing conditions for your plants, allowing anyone to grow fresh, sustainable and organic food in the comfort of their own home
Workshop Leaders GS
CTO, Cofounder, Babylon Micro-Farms
2:00pm EDT
Partner Event: "How to Fix American Democracy: Part 2"
Sponsors
The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history and strives to apply the lessons of history and civil discourse to the nation's most pressing contemporary governance chal...
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In 1819 Thomas Jefferson fulfilled his lifelong ambition to create a better institution of higher learning, one that would prepare America's citizens to lead and govern the new nation. His University would be the first to engineer cross-disciplinary exchange between the sciences and...
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2:00pm EDT
Closed Session: Crafting a Regional Plan to Address to the Opioid Crisis
Moderators
Established in 1969, Region Ten Community Services Board is part of a statewide network of 40 Community Service Boards working to provide mental health, intellectual disability and substance use services where they are needed – in the local community. An agency of local government...
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Speakers
District Director, Thomas Jefferson Health District
Dr. Denise Bonds is the health director for the Thomas Jefferson Health District, a position she has held since 2015. She is a board certified internist with additional training in public health and women’s health.
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Vice President, Medical Affairs, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
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Executive Director, Region Ten
District Director, Thomas Jefferson Health District
Dr. Denise Bonds is the health director for the Thomas Jefferson Health District, a position she has held since 2015. She is a board certified internist with additional training in public health and women’s health.
Director of Humanm Services, City of Charlottesville
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Physician / Medical Director, Sentara Martha Jefferson Medical Group
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Chief Operating Office, Unviversity Of Virginia Medical Center
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Philanthropic Advisor, Hatcher Consulting
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Director, Louisa Counseling Services, RTCSB
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Director, Women's Recovery Services, Region Ten Community Services Board
CEO, JABA
Marta has been the CEO of JABA since April 2013. She came to JABA as COO in the Fall of 2012. She has made collaboration a focus of her tenure- both internal and external. The opportunities grow as JABA works to help people age in community, through providing services and support...
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