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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.

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Asif Mehedi

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

10:15am EDT

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

11:00am EDT

Word Embeddings Under the Hood: How Neural Networks Learn from Language Violet Crown - Theater 5Patrick Harrison • S&P Global • Capital One

11:30am EDT

Embed, Encode, Attend, Predict: A four-step framework for understanding neural network approaches to Natural Language Understanding problems Violet Crown - Theater 5Matthew Honnibal • S&P Global • Capital One

12:00pm EDT

Rapid NLP Annotation Through Binary Decisions, Pattern Bootstrapping and Active Learning Using Prodigy and spaCyFull Violet Crown - Theater 5Ines Montani • S&P Global • Capital One

1:00pm EDT

Real-time, Streaming Anomaly Detection for Cybersecurity with Redis-MLFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Andrew Fast • S&P Global • Capital One

1:20pm EDT

The Art and Science of BieberfindingFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Alec Gosse • S&P Global • Capital One

2:00pm EDT

Why It Pays to Startup in Small CitiesFull Second Street GalleryChris Harris • Kendall Morris • Will Morris • Mary Stargel • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Capital One

3:55pm EDT

Learning From Billions of News Reading SessionsNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Andrew Montalenti • S&P Global • Capital One

4:35pm EDT

Intro to Wikidata, the Database for Wikipedia and Wiki Projects Violet Crown - Theater 5Lane Rasberry • S&P Global • Capital One

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

Founding Stories - CREATIVITY: Building Outside the BoxNow Open The Paramount TheaterMark Brzezinski • Vincent Kadlubek • Willowtree • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

11:00am EDT

Founding Stories: Success to ScaleNow Open The Paramount TheaterMark Brzezinski • Eric Martin • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Shan-Lyn Ma • Nancy Twine

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

Master Class: Growth HackingFull Old Metropolitan HallJoshua Anton • Brett Gibson • Bryan Myers • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

5:00pm EDT

Tech Mixer Emancipation ParkArcheMedX • CoConstruct • Covintus • CvilleBioHub • GovSmart • HRDL, Inc. • iLab • MDV-SEIA • Silverchair • StoryWare • Ting • Totem • vlncomm • Generation 180 • Lynchburg Economic Development Authority • Indoor Biotechnologies • Community Investment Collaborative • Frederick Maryland Chamber of Commerce • Richmond Window Corporation • Roanoke Regional Partnership, Blacksburg Technology Council • Virginia Diodes • Focused Ultrasound Foundation • S&P Global • Locus Health • Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine • Eric Martin • Capital One • The Front Porch • Perrone Robotics • Woods Rogers • Sigora Solar • Sun Tribe Solar • Sir Speedy • Charlottesville Women in Tech • Jefferson Technology