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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.

Mary Arritt

RVA MakerFest
Co-founder, Producer, Community Engagement & Program Manager
Richmond, Virginia Area

12:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Design Your MindFull Community Investment Collaborative OfficesWaverly Davis • Sabrina Feggans • Marga Odahowski • Community Investment Collaborative

7:00pm EDT

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

9:00am EDT

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

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

1:30pm EDT

Social Bias in Machine LearningAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 5Renee Teate • Emily Crose • Natalie Evans Harris • Vicente Ordonez • S&P Global • Capital One

2:05pm EDT

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

2:45pm EDT

Explainable AI: Key Techniques and Societal ImplicationsAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 5Mark Ibrahim • Ceena Modarres • S&P Global • Capital One

3:30pm EDT

CIT Lab: An Empirical View of the Art and Science of Entrepreneurship and InvestmentFull Second Street GalleryCenter for Innovative Technology (CIT) • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

5:00pm EDT

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

7:00pm EDT

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

9:00am EDT

Founding Stories - GRIT: Overcoming AdversityNow Open The Paramount TheaterNatalie Brzezinski • Mark Brzezinski • Bradford Manning • Leland Melvin • Bryan Smith • Mark Warner • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Eric Martin

10:30am EDT

The Founders Who Aren't: Inclusion in EntrepreneurshipNow Open Second Street GalleryCourtenay Siegfried • Chelsea Conrad • Shamaine Daniels • Knatokie Ford • desiree venn frederic • Brad Wolverton • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

12:00pm EDT

Founders Luncheon: STEAM Ahead: Inclusive InnovationAlmost Full Brasserie SaisonNatalie Brzezinski • Knatokie Ford • Leland Melvin • Lynchburg Economic Development Authority • Virginia National Bank

2:00pm EDT

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

3:30pm EDT

Roundtable: Virginia Is For Impact Investing LoversAlmost Full Second Street GalleryMatt Illian • Jen Giovannetti • Sandy Wiggins • Sydney • Ed Gerardo • Roberta Keller • Elena Loutskina • Alexander Neckles • Kathleen Neumann • Caroline Nowery • Stephanie Randolph • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

5:00pm EDT

Block Party Emancipation ParkNew Belgium • C-Ville Weekly