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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.

PJ Harris

Totem
Co-Founder, CSO

5:00pm EDT

Community Potluck, hosted with the IX Art ParkNow Open IX Art ParkIx Art Park

7:00pm EDT

Partner Event: Cville Gives Grant NightNow Open Three Notch'd Craft Kitchen & BreweryPosner Wealth Management

8:00pm EDT

An Evening with John CleeseNow Open The Paramount TheaterJohn Cleese • Division of Perceptual Studies

9:45am EDT

Applied Machine Learning Conference Violet Crown CharlottesvilleS & P Global • Capital One

10:30am EDT

How Ready for Funding Are You?Full The Paramount Theater - Balcony LoungeRoss Baird • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Virginia is for Entrepreneurs • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

1:00pm EDT

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

1:40pm EDT

Empowering People and Thwarting MachinesFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Thom Miano • S&P Global • Capital One

2:00pm EDT

Partner Event: Financing Affordable HousingFull Water Street CenterMelissa Maddox Evans • Anthony Williams • Julie Anderson • Philip d'Oronzio • John Desmond • Susan Dewey • Mark Graham • Monica Hawkins • Heather Hill • Ned Howe • Sunshine Mathon • Anita Morrison • Audrey Oliver • Maurice Perry • Stacy Pethia • Linda Stanley • Aakash Thakkar • ACAC • Urban Land Virginia Institute

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

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: Brands in the Age of DistractionAlmost Full Downtown GrilleMargo Bulka • Z Bryant • Magnus Hierta • Darcey Lacy • Lindsey Norment • StoryWare • Willowtree • Sir Speedy

2:00pm EDT

The Future of JournalismAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 3Dahlia Lithwick • Jeff Carney • Steve Gibson • Brad Wolverton • The Daily Progress • University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences • C-Ville Weekly

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

7:00am EDT

Partner Event: Run for Autism 5K Charlottesville High SchoolVirginia Institute of Autism

12:00pm EDT

Block Party Emancipation ParkNew Belgium • C-Ville Weekly

11:00pm EDT

Downtown Parade & AfterpartyNow Open ZocaloELBY Brass • Zocalo

2:00pm EDT

Block Party Emancipation ParkNew Belgium • C-Ville Weekly