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Tom Tom Festival 2019

THE BIG FESTIVAL ABOUT SMALL CITIES
Tom Tom champions civic innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship in America’s hometowns.

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7:00am EDT

Creative Ecosystems Conference: Check-In and Badge Pick-Up @ Violet Crown Box Office Violet Crown Applied Machine Learning Conference: Check-In and Badge Pick-Up Violet Crown

8:00am EDT

A Black Feminist Archaeology of AdornmentWAITLIST Common House: SouthAyana Flewellen Creative Ecosystems Conference: Networking Coffee Common HouseFUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park Applied Machine Learning Conference: Networking Coffee The Jefferson TheaterS&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Creative Ecosystems Conference Common HousePamela Abalu • Rhonda Bellamy • Anna Bentson • Krista Bradley • Junious Brickhouse • A.D. Carson • Marc Cheatham • Nicholas Cohen • Theresa Colvin • Sara Crickenberger • Melani Douglass • Rosamond Fletcher • Beth Flowers • Vanessa German • Robert Gipe • Marian Glebes • Alan Goffinski • Amy Grossmann • Noah Horowitz • Jeannie Howe • Gayle Jessup White • Kian Kamas • Jon Lohman • Renee Margocee • Andi Mathis • Michael Mikel • Lisa Murch • Cliff Murphy • Jan Newcomb • Michael Orlove • Ricky Parker • Sheri Parks • Steven Pedigo • Bill Royall • Pam Royall • Alison Russo • Walker Sanders • Sarah Sargent • Cathey Sawyer • Jim Walker • Michele Walter • Julie Walters Steele • Phillip Wiggins • Allison Wright • Kibibi Ajanku • Kristen Chiacchia • Lyn Bolen Warren • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park

8:30am EDT

Applied Machine Learning Conference Violet CrownJoaquín Alori • Will Badart • Derek Bivona • Carlos Blancarte • Ben Bland • Adam Blum • Drew Bollinger • Tom Brock • Taylor Brown • Tatyana Casino • Martin Chobanyan • Nate Day • Kimberly Deas • Pierre DeBois • Ryan Duve • Chris Eichelberger • Daniel Emaasit • Andrew Fast • Kashaun Finch • Miriam Friedel • William Goodrum • John Harris • Henry Harris • Elizabeth Harrison • Matthew Hendrickson • Sakshi Jawarani • Brad Johnson • Mo Johnson • Neeyanth Kopparapu • Anton Korinek • Olivera Kotevska • Stephen Levin • Steven Lott • Malcolm MacLachlan • Sean Mullane • Sarah Olson • Esther Onega • Bill Panak • Murugesan Ramakrishnan • Rakesh Ravi • Charu Rawat • Austin Rochford • Erin Ryan • Arnab Sarkar • Aman Shrivastava • Sameer Singh • Varshini Sriram • Anthony Teate • Renee Teate • Andrew Therriault • Samantha Toet • Alli Torban • Sri Vaishnavi Vemulapalli • Tianlu Wang • Courtney Whalen • Joy Williams • Vida Williams • Ken Zamkow • Michael Zelenetz • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

9:00am EDT

Art, Appalachia, and the Opioid Crisis: A Conversation with Robert Gipe Vinegar Hill TheaterAllison Wright • Robert Gipe • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park • UVA College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Case Study: Mural Arts Philadelphia Common House: SouthAlan Goffinski • Lisa Murch • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park Equity & Inclusion in Arts Communities Common House: NorthSheri Parks • Kibibi Ajanku • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park Data is Rarely Neutral: Bias in the Practice of Data The Jefferson TheaterVida Williams • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

10:00am EDT

Case Study: How did 4,000-person Lewisburg, West Virginia become a cultural hot spot? Common House: SouthRenee Margocee • Sara Crickenberger • Cathey Sawyer • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park History, Family, and the Role of the Institution in Modern Life: A Conversation with Melani Douglass Vinegar Hill TheaterGayle Jessup White • Melani Douglass • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park Now What: How Arts Communities Prepare for (and Deal With) Tragedy and Natural Disasters Common House: NorthAndi Mathis • Rhonda Bellamy • Jan Newcomb • Alison Russo • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park

10:15am EDT

Social Media Sentiment Analysis with R - Bot or Not? Violet Crown: Theater 4Samantha Toet • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Auto-What? A Taxonomy of Automated Machine Learning Violet Crown: Theater 2Adam Blum • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Don't Stop Disbelieving Violet Crown: Theater 5Chris Eichelberger • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

10:20am EDT

The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Revolution is Open Source: Probabilistic Programming with PyMC3 Violet Crown: Theater 3Austin Rochford • Castle Hill Gaming • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

10:30am EDT

Featured Student Research Lightning Talks: Collective Biographies of Women - A Deep Learning Approach to Paragraph Annotation Violet Crown: Theater 4Sakshi Jawarani • Murugesan Ramakrishnan • Varshini Sriram • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Featured Student Research Lightning Talks: Cyber Harassment Detection and Prediction of User Blocks in Wikipedia Violet Crown: Theater 4Charu Rawat • Arnab Sarkar • Sameer Singh • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Featured Student Research Lightning Talks: derML: A Machine Learning, Image Recognition Mobile Application That Assists in Skin Cancer Detection Violet Crown: Theater 4Joy Williams • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Featured Student Research Lightning Talks: Detection of Malicious Cyber Activity at University of Virginia using Machine Learning Violet Crown: Theater 4Rakesh Ravi • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Featured Student Research Lightning Talks: Using TensorFlow Machine Learning to Develop and Train a Small-Scale Autonomous Vehicle Violet Crown: Theater 4Ben Bland • Kashaun Finch • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

10:50am EDT

A Deep Learning Approach to Meme Generation Violet Crown: Theater 5Murugesan Ramakrishnan • Sri Vaishnavi Vemulapalli • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Automated Time-Series Model Selection at Scale Violet Crown: Theater 2Carlos Blancarte • William Goodrum • Henry Harris • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Estimating Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models with Particle MCMC Violet Crown: Theater 3Taylor Brown • Castle Hill Gaming • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

11:00am EDT

Cheats Movement Podcast: Hip Hop in Higher Education Common House: SouthA.D. Carson • Marc Cheatham • Ricky Parker • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park How to Develop a Data-Driven Creative Placemaking Strategy for Your Community Common House: NorthSteven Pedigo • Anna Bentson • Rosamond Fletcher • Kian Kamas • Lynchburg Economic Development Authority • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park The Future of Work, Love, and Design: An Immersive Sound Experience with Design Pioneer Pamela Abalu and Violinist Andrei MatorinNOW OPEN Vinegar Hill TheaterPamela Abalu • Andrei Matorin • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park Love is the Bomb: Making Impact and Transformation Through BusinessNOW OPEN Old Metropolitan HallCamille Hautefort • Beatrix Ost • Elizabeth Suda • ARTICLE22

11:15am EDT

Using Google's BERT to Ask Financial Documents Questions Violet Crown: Theater 2Ryan Duve • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute "Becoming a Data Scientist" Live Podcast featuring Andrew Therriault Violet Crown: Theater 4Renee Teate • Andrew Therriault • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in The Supply Chain Violet Crown: Theater 5Bill Panak • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Pymc-Learn: Practical Probabilistic Machine Learning in Python Violet Crown: Theater 3Daniel Emaasit • Castle Hill Gaming • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

11:45am EDT

Applied Machine Learning Conference: Networking Lunch Violet CrownS&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

12:00pm EDT

Creative Ecosystems Conference: Networking Lunch The Jefferson TheaterFUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park Career & Life Design: Designing Your Path ForwardALMOST FULL Common House: NorthJulia Lapan • Marga Odahowski

12:30pm EDT

Love, Community, and Fine Art: A Keynote Talk by Visual and Performing Artist Vanessa GermanNOW OPEN The Jefferson TheaterVanessa German • The Fralin Museum of Art • UVA Arts • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park

12:45pm EDT

Deep Learning for Visual Recognition of Enteropathy and Addressing Tissue Staining Color Bias in Biopsy Slides Violet Crown: Theater 3Aman Shrivastava • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Intelligent Virtual Assistants - The Good, Bad, and Ugly Violet Crown: Theater 5Olivera Kotevska • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Intro to ConvNets: The Backbone of Modern Computer Vision Violet Crown: Theater 2Joaquín Alori • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute TensorFlow in R Programming, A Beginner's Primer Violet Crown: Theater 4Pierre DeBois • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

1:05pm EDT

Collaboration between Data Scientist and Librarian/Project Manager Violet Crown: Theater 4Esther Onega • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Design of Semiconducting Materials for Photovoltaic Applications Using Python Machine Learning with Tensor Flow Violet Crown: Theater 3Anthony Teate • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Detecting The Unknown: Using Unsupervised Behavior Models To Expose Malicious Network Activity Violet Crown: Theater 2Will Badart • Sarah Olson • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Devops in Data Science Panel Violet Crown: Theater 5Miriam Friedel • Steven Lott • Ken Zamkow • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

1:25pm EDT

Getting Started with Robust Data Analysis - Setting Up a Data Warehouse without a Data Engineer Violet Crown: Theater 4Stephen Levin • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

1:45pm EDT

Building Trust in Arts Communities: How a Public-Private Partnership Built a Performing Arts Center in Greensboro—and a New Can-do Spirit for Action Common House: SouthWalker Sanders • Michele Walter • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park Live/Create/Repeat: How Do We Create Safe & Affordable Spaces for Artists? Common House: NorthMarian Glebes • Jeannie Howe • Jim Walker • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park The Value of the Folk Festival to Small Cities Vinegar Hill TheaterCliff Murphy • Junious Brickhouse • Amy Grossmann • Jon Lohman • Phillip Wiggins • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park

2:00pm EDT

How Can “Data for Good” Be Better? The Jefferson TheaterAndrew Therriault • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Ecosystem Building 101 Vault Virginia Virginia Council for CEOs Roundtables Vault Virginia

2:45pm EDT

Kite Making WorkshopWAITLIST Common House: SouthFederico Cuatlacuatl Building Next Gen Leadership: Programs that Develop Leadership Skills for Emerging and Mid-Career Arts Professionals Common House: NorthTheresa Colvin • Krista Bradley • Nicholas Cohen • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park

2:50pm EDT

Applying Machine Learning to Dynamic Operations Violet Crown: Theater 4Tom Brock • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Balanced Datasets Are Not Enough: Estimating and Mitigating Gender Bias in Deep Image Representations Violet Crown: Theater 3Tianlu Wang • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Using Triangulation to Evaluate Machine Learning Models Violet Crown: Theater 5Andrew Fast • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

2:55pm EDT

MRI Image Synthesis for the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease Violet Crown, Theater 1Neeyanth Kopparapu • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute • Elder Research

3:00pm EDT

A Line in the Sand: A Conversation with Burning Man Cofounder Michael “Danger Ranger” Mikel Vinegar Hill TheaterMichael Orlove • Michael Mikel • QuickFix • FUNd @ CACF Mid-Atlantic Angel Summit, presented by CITNOW OPEN Violet Crown: Theater 2Tom Weithman • Alex Euler • Gene Schleppenbach

3:20pm EDT

Exploring Music Signature Embeddings with Machine Learning using Google AI's Magenta Violet Crown: Theater 4Malcolm MacLachlan • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Get Your Results Seen & Understood More Quickly with Visual Metaphors Violet Crown: Theater 5Alli Torban • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

3:25pm EDT

Modeling and Forecasting Hospital Workforce Supply to Improve Outcomes Violet Crown, Theater 1John Harris • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute • Elder Research

3:45pm EDT

Glass Boxes: Building Trust in Machine Learning for IIoT Violet Crown: Theater 4Brad Johnson • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Ethics in AI Panel Violet Crown: Theater 5Mo Johnson • Anton Korinek • Tianlu Wang • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Art Builds Business Builds Art Workshop Common House: SouthBeth Flowers • Renee Margocee • Julie Walters Steele • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park How Collectors Can Help Your Arts Community Common HouseSarah Sargent • Kristen Chiacchia • Greg Graham • Pam Royall • Bill Royall • Lyn Bolen Warren • FUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park

3:50pm EDT

Points to Videos: Extracting Behavioral Information from Maritime Tracks Using Convolutional Neural Networks Violet Crown: Theater 3Martin Chobanyan • Astraea • CCRI • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Machine Learning as a Tool to Address HIV Health Disparities Violet Crown, Theater 1Kimberly Deas • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute • Elder Research

4:05pm EDT

Machine Learning on Mobile Violet Crown: Theater 4Tatyana Casino • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Mapping High-Voltage Infrastructure with Machine Learning + Humans Violet Crown: Theater 3Drew Bollinger • Astraea • CCRI • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

4:25pm EDT

Challenges in Clinical Big Data Research: A Case Discussion Violet Crown, Theater 1Elizabeth Harrison • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute • Elder Research Leveraging Transit Data to Identify Quality Locations for High Density Urban Development Violet Crown: Theater 3Nate Day • Astraea • CCRI • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Licensing: It's for All Projects, Yes Even Yours Violet Crown: Theater 4Matthew Hendrickson • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Lightning Talks: A Comparison of Neural Network Methods for Accurate Sentiment Analysis of Stock Market Tweets Violet Crown: Theater 5S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Lightning Talks: Building Data Science Microservices Violet Crown: Theater 5Michael Zelenetz • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Lightning Talks: Machine Learning vs. Medical Doctor: Predicting Patient Outcome to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Using Machine Learning Violet Crown: Theater 5Derek Bivona • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

4:30pm EDT

Lightning Talks: Moving Objects in Exoplanet Mission Data: Studying the Solar System and Protecting the Earth Violet Crown: Theater 5Erin Ryan • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute History of Vinegar Hill: Race & Inequality in CharlottesvilleNOW OPEN Vinegar Hill TheaterCharlene Green • Charlottesville Office of Human Rights • Light House Studio & Vinegar Hill Theatre Tiny Worlds Terrarium Party with WildrockNOW OPEN Kardinal HallPaige Lindblom • Wildrock • Great Outdoor Provision Co. • Fifth Season Gardening • Kardinal Hall

4:45pm EDT

Applied ML for Linking Diverse Datasets at S&P Violet Crown: Theater 4 Detecting Solar Farms Using Deep Learning Violet Crown: Theater 3Courtney Whalen • Astraea • CCRI • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Ontology and Oncology: NLP for Precision Medicine Violet Crown, Theater 1Sean Mullane • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute • Elder Research

5:00pm EDT

Sake Making & Sake TastingWAITLIST North American Sake Brewery & RestaurantAndrew Centofante Creative Ecosystems Conference: Networking Happy Hour Common HouseFUNd @ CACF • IX Art Park Applied Machine Learning Conference: Networking Happy Hour Violet CrownS&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Village School Art ShowcaseNOW OPEN The GarageThe Garage • The Village School Work/Space Open Studio and Pop Up: Opening Celebration Work/SpaceE.G. • Thicket Immersion / Inversion: A Rivanna River Sensory EncounterNOW OPEN Vault VirginiaLewis & Clark Exploratory Center • Morgan McLeod • Chroma Projects • Vault Virginia

5:30pm EDT

Crowdfunded Pitch Night Cocktail MixerNOW OPEN The Jefferson TheateriLab • Community Investment Collaborative

6:00pm EDT

American Evolution Innovators Cup - Welcome Reception The Omni Hotel CharlottesvilleAmerican Evolution

6:30pm EDT

Wild and Scenic Film Fest PrescreeningNOW OPEN Vinegar Hill TheaterLight House Studio & Vinegar Hill Theatre • Wild Virginia Crowdfunded Pitch NightNOW OPEN The Jefferson TheaterHackCville • iLab • Blue Ridge Bank • Community Investment Collaborative

7:00pm EDT

Impact Investor Cocktail Hour Common House

8:00pm EDT

Impact Entrepreneurs 2.0NOW OPEN The Jefferson TheaterCheis Garrus • Monica Logothetis • Christine Mahoney • Jill Royster • Meredith Shields

9:00pm EDT

The Tom Tom BashNOW OPEN The Paramount Theater After Party: The WhiskeyderoALMOST FULL The BebederoThe Bebedero • The Whiskey Jar