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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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Sharon Barker

5:00pm EDT

Partner Event: Messy Democracy: From Founding Our Nation to Finding Our WayAlmost Full Old Metropolitan HallSarah McConnell • Sara Bon-Harper • Leslie Greene Bowman • Kat Imhoff • Presidential Precinct

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

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

9:45am EDT

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

10:15am EDT

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

11:05am EDT

Use of Deep Learning for Environmental Enteropathy Biopsy Image AnalysisNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 3Sana Syed • S&P Global • Capital One

11:40am EDT

Joining Separate Paradigms: Natural Language Processing and Deep Neural Networks to Characterize Neuronal Cell Type and FunctionFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Cait Dreisbach • Morgan Wall • Ali Zaidi • S&P Global • Capital One

12:00pm EDT

Building an Applied Machine Learning Laboratory for Undergraduate Research and Education Violet Crown - Theater 4Anthony Teate • 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

2:05pm EDT

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

2:45pm EDT

The Florist, the GPU, and Deep Learning (DL/Computer Vision Intro) Violet Crown - Theater 4May Casterline • S&P Global • Capital One

3:25pm EDT

Harnessing Machine Learning to Enable DiscoveryFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Mikel Rodriguez • S&P Global • Capital One

4:00pm EDT

Using Deep Learning to Derive 3D Cities from Satellite ImageryFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Eric Culbertson • S&P Global • Capital One

4:15pm EDT

Mapping Deforestation Trends in the Brazilian Amazon Using Machine LearningAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 3Courtney Whalen • S&P Global • Capital One

4:30pm EDT

Comparing Baseline Statistical Control to Machine Learning Models in Evaluating Performance in IoT SystemsNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Derek Moore • 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

4:40pm EDT

Medical Education Content Categorization with MeSH TermsNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Michael Szul • S&P Global • Capital One

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

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

After August 12th: Freedom of Speech and Domestic TerrorNow Open The Paramount Theater - Balcony LoungeLandon Shroder • Alan Bradstock • Mary McCord • Abigail Spanberger • RVA MAG

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

3:00pm EDT

Founding Stories - PURPOSE: Founding for ImpactNow Open The Paramount TheaterMark Brzezinski • Zac Bookman • Renee Diresta • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Eric Martin

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

8:00pm EDT

The Broadcast Emancipation ParkThe Broadcast

9:30pm EDT

The Stone Foxes Emancipation ParkThe Stone Foxes

12:00pm EDT

Block Party Emancipation ParkNew Belgium • C-Ville Weekly

7:00pm EDT

Partner Event: Porchella Kick Off with Bridge PAI Bridge PAIBridge PAI