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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.

Stephen Tavares

Heidrick & Struggles
Partner
Greater New York City Area

6:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Increasing Productivity and Workflow Using Digital ToolsFull Babylon Micro Farms OfficeLorraine Sanders

12:00pm EDT

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

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

9:45am 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

11:00am 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

Just Eat: The Future of FoodNow Open The Paramount TheaterJane Black • Greg Asbed • Melody Barnes • Seth Goldman • Beyond Meat

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

3:55pm EDT

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

4:20pm EDT

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

4:30pm 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

5:00pm EDT

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

6:00pm EDT

Community Workshop: Spotting Sensationalized Science in the NewsNow Open University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied ScienceScience Policy Initiative at UVA • Caitlin Donahue Wylie

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

From Search to SuggestNow Open Violet Crown - Theater 3Garrett Graff • Joshua Anton • Allen Gannett • University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences • C-Ville Weekly

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

Solving Civic Problems with DataNow Open The Paramount Theater - Balcony LoungeSheila Dugan

4:00pm EDT

Case Study: Citizen-Centered Design in Gainesville, FLAlmost Full Welcome GalleryPeter Jackson • Anthony Lyons • Wendy Thomas • StoryWare • Willowtree

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

11:00am EDT

Community Workshop: Immersive Storytelling for VR and 360 FilmFull Jefferson-Madison Regional LibraryMona Kasra

2:00pm EDT

Making It: a Discussion on Creative GrowthFull McGuffey Art CenterSam Gray • Sam Gray