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Tom Tom Founders Festival 2018

The Seventh Annual Tom Tom Founders Festival is a week-long celebration of innovators, visionaries, and artists who are shaping small cities. The Festival occurs at dozens of venues throughout downtown Charlottesville.

LA

Liz Allen

VT / IPG
Business Manager

6:00pm EDT

The Presidency at a CrossroadsNow Open The Paramount TheaterWilliam Antholis • Douglas Blackmon • Nicole Hemmer • Bill Kristol • John Negroponte • Neera Tanden • Miller Center at UVA

9:00am EDT

OPENING KEYNOTE: Our Towns: A 100,000 Mile Journey Into the Heart of AmericaNow Open The Jefferson TheaterDeborah Fallows • James Fallows • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

10:30am EDT

Data and Trends for Ecosystem DevelopersNow Open Second Street GallerySean Carr, Ph.D. • Eva Doss • Melody Koh • Johnny Magdaleno • Christiana McFarland • Joe Whitchurch • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Capital One

12:00pm EDT

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

2:05pm EDT

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

4:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Design Thinking and Talent Development: For Job-SeekersFull Babylon Micro Farms OfficeCarolyn Kalantari • Julia Lapan

8:00pm EDT

What Unites Us: Reflections on PatriotismNow Open The Paramount TheaterDahlia Lithwick • Dan Rather • University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences • C-Ville Weekly

10:00pm EDT

Silent DiscoFull Old Metropolitan Hall

10:30am EDT

Master Class: Design the Future You LoveAlmost Full Common House - Vinegar Hall NorthUVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Marie Schacht

12:00pm EDT

Founders Luncheon: Dopesick - Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted AmericaAlmost Full Bashir'sBeth Macy

2:00pm EDT

Get Smart: Beyond the Buzzwords on Open DataFull Common House - Vinegar Hall SouthLiz Farmer • Zac Bookman • David Doyle • Andrew Kleine • Clarence Wardell

3:00pm EDT

Solving Civic Problems with DataNow Open The Paramount Theater - Balcony LoungeSheila Dugan

6:25pm EDT

Amasa Hines Emancipation ParkAmasa Hines

9:30pm EDT

The Stone Foxes Emancipation ParkThe Stone Foxes

1:00pm EDT

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

2:50pm EDT

Cville Allstars - Funk & Blues Emancipation ParkCville Allstars

11:00pm EDT

Downtown Parade & AfterpartyNow Open ZocaloELBY Brass • Zocalo

2:00pm EDT

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

3:10pm EDT

Adar - Soul & Jazz Emancipation Park

7:00pm EDT

Porchella Belmont Neighborhood