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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.

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

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

11:00am EDT

Velotonomy: beyond Uber, shared bikes and autonomous cars Violet Crown - Theater 4Phil Tinn • S&P Global • Capital One Word Embeddings Under the Hood: How Neural Networks Learn from Language Violet Crown - Theater 5Patrick Harrison • 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

11:20am EDT

A Modified K-Means Clustering Approach to Redrawing US Congressional Districts Violet Crown - Theater 4Jack Prominski • 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

11:40am EDT

Decrypting Crypto Fascist Symbolism With Tensorflow Violet Crown - Theater 4Emily Crose • S&P Global • Capital One 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 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love Graph DatabasesFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Michael Zelenetz • S&P Global • Capital One 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

1:05pm EDT

Can a Machine Be Racist or Sexist?Now Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Renee Teate • S&P Global • Capital One Two Years of Bayesian Bandits for E-CommerceAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 3Austin Rochford • S&P Global • Capital One

1:20pm EDT

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

1:40pm EDT

Empowering People and Thwarting MachinesFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Thom Miano • 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

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 In Man's Image: Autonomy through Imitation LearningAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 3Bryce Freshcorn • S&P Global • Capital One The Florist, the GPU, and Deep Learning (DL/Computer Vision Intro) Violet Crown - Theater 4May Casterline • S&P Global • Capital One

3:25pm EDT

Training Drone Image Models with Grand Theft AutoFull Violet Crown - Theater 4Monica Rajendiran • S&P Global • Capital One Harnessing Machine Learning to Enable DiscoveryFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Mikel Rodriguez • S&P Global • Capital One

3:55pm EDT

Learning From Billions of News Reading SessionsNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Andrew Montalenti • 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 Understanding the Visual World through LanguageAlmost Full Violet Crown - Theater 4Vicente Ordonez • 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

4:20pm EDT

Recommendation Systems for Edge DevicesNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Tyler Hutcherson • S&P Global • Capital One

4:25pm EDT

How to Beat the House - Predicting Football Results with Hyperparameter OptimizationNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 5Abhimanyu Roy • 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

Imparting Privacy to Face Images: Designing Semi-Adversarial Neural Networks for Multi-Objective Optimization TasksNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 4Sebastian Raschka • S&P Global • Capital One Intro to Wikidata, the Database for Wikipedia and Wiki Projects Violet Crown - Theater 5Lane Rasberry • S&P Global • Capital One Location Intelligence at Global Scale: Applying machine learning to maritime, ground transportation, and social media dataFull Violet Crown - Theater 3Anthony Fox • 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

4:50pm EDT

Automatically Analyzing Earth Imagery using Deep LearningNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 3Joe Morrison • S&P Global • Capital One

5:00pm EDT

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

12:00pm EDT

Founders Luncheon: Reasons to Stay - Cities for Young FoundersNow Open ZocaloDaniel Willson • Steve Huffman • Hack Cville • The City of Charlottesville Office of Economic Development • Chamber Frederick • Eric Martin • Capital One

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