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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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Brian Bassett

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Helping startups and enterprise organizations build their technological best selves.

11:00am EDT

Creating Users Not Addicts: Social MediaWAITLIST Community Investment CollaborativeJeremy Cherry • Community Investment Collaborative • Journey Group

3:00pm EDT

New Way of NetworkingWAITLIST Community Investment CollaborativeWaverly Davis • Jessica Norby • Linnea White • Community Investment Collaborative

8:00am EDT

Civic Innovation Conference: Networking Coffee The Jefferson TheaterHartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost Renewable Energy Conference Violet CrownChris Bast • Marcy Bauer • Steve Bowers • Sam Brumberg • Dianne Corsello • Stephen Coughlin • Carlos Curbelo • Erik Curren • Chip Dicks • Mary Jane Elkins • Hayes Framme • Harry Godfrey • Andrew Gohn • Mark Goodwin • Chris Gullickson • Katherine Hamilton • Francis Hodsoll • Erik Johnson • Nico Johnson • Katharine Kollins • Kenneth McFadyen • Karla Loeb • Elizabeth McGowan • David Murray • Angela Navarro • Will Reisinger • Sandy Reisky • Taylor Sloane • Tony Smith, Ph.D. • Rachel Smucker • David Toscano • Danny Van Clief • Elizabeth Weir • Devin Welch • Michael Wu • Apex Clean Energy Renewable Energy Conference: Networking Coffee Violet Crown

9:00am EDT

The Economic Development Opportunity of Renewable Energy Violet Crown: Theater 4David Murray • Mary Jane Elkins • Chris Gullickson • Kenneth McFadyen • GreeneHurlocker • Apex Clean Energy

10:00am EDT

Welcome, “New” Virginians: How Immigrants Contribute to a City’s Vitality Violet Crown: Theater 4David Bearinger • Seyoum Berhe • Chris Little • Emma Violand-Sanchez • Hartfield Foundation • Virginia Humanities • UVA Office of the Provost Energy Keynote: Katherine Hamilton The Jefferson TheaterKatherine Hamilton • Apex Clean Energy

11:00am EDT

Business Model Innovation in Clean Energy Violet Crown: Theater 5Nico Johnson • Mark Goodwin • Danny Van Clief • Elizabeth Weir • Devin Welch • Apex Clean Energy

12:00pm EDT

Civic Innovation Conference: Networking Lunch The Jefferson TheaterHartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

1:45pm EDT

A Conversation about Energy Storage Violet Crown: Theater 5Michael Lenox • Stephen Coughlin • Apex Clean Energy • Sun Tribe Solar

2:45pm EDT

Where We Are Headed: Virginia’s Energy Grid in 2030 Violet Crown: Theater 5Katherine Hamilton • Sam Brumberg • Dianne Corsello • Angela Navarro • David Toscano • Apex Clean Energy

3:45pm EDT

Flash Talks: 3 Big Ideas In Civic Innovation Common House: SouthAndreas Addison • Missy Benson • The Chattery • Shawanda Mason-Moore • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost How Do Small Cities Attract & Retain Talent? Common House: NorthJoshua René • Carolyn Kalantari • Paul Krutko • Christy Phillips • Christine Tarquinio • Albemarle County • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost Climate Change and the Benefits of Clean Energy Technologies Violet Crown: Theater 4Karla Loeb • Erik Johnson • Taylor Sloane • Michael Wu • Apex Clean Energy • Sigora Solar

5:00pm EDT

Civic Innovation Conference: Networking Happy Hour Common HouseHartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost Renewable Energy Conference: Networking Happy Hour Violet CrownCvilleREA • MDV-SEIA • Apex Clean Energy

5:30pm EDT

Hello Data, Meet the PeopleNOW OPEN Vault VirginiaGiles Morris • Sheila Dugan • Beena Raghavendran • Larry Terry • John Killeen • Charlottesville Tomorrow • Vault Virginia

8:00pm EDT

The Future of Cannabis: A Headlining Conversation about LegalizationNOW OPEN The Paramount TheaterJohn Hudak • Jenn Michelle Pedini • Steven Hawkins • Jane West • Hope Wiseman

9:00pm EDT

Rapture After Party with the MammothsNOW OPEN Rapture Restaurant & Night ClubThe Mammoths • Night Club

9:30pm EDT

The Future of Cannabis: VIP ReceptionNOW OPEN Old Metropolitan Hall

7:00am EDT

Applied Machine Learning Conference: Check-In and Badge Pick-Up Violet Crown

8:00am EDT

Applied Machine Learning Conference: Networking Coffee The Jefferson TheaterS&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

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

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

10:15am EDT

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

10:30am 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

11:15am EDT

"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 Using Google's BERT to Ask Financial Documents Questions Violet Crown: Theater 2Ryan Duve • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

11:45am EDT

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

1:05pm EDT

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

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

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

3:00pm EDT

Mid-Atlantic Angel Summit, presented by CITNOW OPEN Violet Crown: Theater 2Tom Weithman • Alex Euler • Gene Schleppenbach

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

4:05pm EDT

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

4:30pm EDT

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

5:00pm EDT

Immersion / Inversion: A Rivanna River Sensory EncounterNOW OPEN Vault VirginiaLewis & Clark Exploratory Center • Morgan McLeod • Chroma Projects • Vault Virginia 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

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

Crowdfunded Pitch NightNOW OPEN The Jefferson TheaterHackCville • iLab • Blue Ridge Bank • Community Investment Collaborative

8:00pm EDT

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

9:00pm EDT

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

7:00am EDT

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Conference: Check-In and Badge Pick-Up @ Violet Crown Box Office Violet Crown

8:00am EDT

American Evolution Innovators Cup: Networking Coffee Violet CrownAmerican Evolution Coffee Hour The Jefferson TheaterUVA Community Credit Union • GO Virginia Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Conference Violet CrownPamela Abalu • Joshua Anton • Ross Baird • Grace Belangia • Jon Bier • Jeanne Milliken Bonds • Carleen Bowers • Derrick Braziel • Marland Buckner • Tighe Bullock • Sean Carr, Ph.D. • Jill Carroll • Ric Cavender • Tom Chapman • Mylea Charvat • Tom Click • Mick Cornett • Elizabeth Cromwell • Matt Dunne • Chinedu Echeruo • Enoch Elwell • Roben Farzad • Jason Feifer • Elizabeth Freeman • Jason Fuller • Rick Gordon • Sameer Gulati • David Hall • Chris Harris • Imagene Harris • Felecia Hatcher-Pearson • Sean Henry • Tiffany Henry • Erika Herz • David Hirsch • Archie Holmes • Steve Hoang • Mitchell Horowitz • Anika Horn • Fay Horwitt • Denise Hubbard • Matt Illian • Roger Johnson • Erik Johnston • Joe Kapp • Bo Kemp • Adam Klein • Christine Lai • Stephanie Landrum • Kim Lane • Michael Lenox • Christopher Lloyd • Michelle Marks • Eric Martin • John McElligott • Evans McMillion • Tina Metzer • Jennifer Miller • Maegan Moore • Stephen Moret • Eric Parker • Chad Rogers • Julia Ross • Marco Rubin • Jessica Sabbath • Timothy Sands • Marie Schacht • Gene Schleppenbach • Joel Selzer • David Touve • Sean Washington • Brian Watson • Tom Weithman • Jayson White • Christina Winn • Dubby Wynne • Paul Yandura • Beth Zimmer • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Conference: Networking Coffee The Jefferson TheaterUVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • UVA Community Credit Union • GO Virginia

8:45am EDT

Rise of the Rest: Venture Capital Outside Silicon Valley The Jefferson TheaterJason Feifer • Sameer Gulati • David Hall • Sean Henry • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

10:00am EDT

Sylvia Earle, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalist In Citizen Leadership, Keynote AddressNOW OPEN Monticello's West LawnThomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello • Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, UVA An Emerging Profession: The Role of the Ecosystem Builder Violet Crown: Theater 3Chris Harris • Enoch Elwell • Larkin Garbee • Christine Lai • Beth Zimmer • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Ecosystem-Builder Case Study: MORTAR, Cincinnati Common House: SouthDerrick Braziel • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Let’s Talk About Amazon HQ2: How We Got Here + How the Rest of Virginia’s Cities Benefit Violet Crown: Theater 5Roben Farzad • Stephanie Landrum • Christina Winn • Stephen Moret • Timothy Sands • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

10:45am EDT

Four Big Ideas in the Ecosystem: Entrepreneurial Flash Talks Common House: SouthJoshua Anton • Grace Belangia • Anika Horn • Eric Parker • Marie Schacht

11:00am EDT

Accelerator Company Showcase, presented by CIT Common House: NorthMarco Rubin • Rick Gordon • Evans McMillion • David Touve • Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation How to Spot Entrepreneurship in Your Ecosystem with Entrepreneur Magazine’s Jason Feifer Violet Crown: Theater 4Jason Feifer • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

12:00pm EDT

Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Conference: Networking Lunch The Jefferson TheaterUVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

12:45pm EDT

Nation of 100 Austins: How Can Your City Become the Next Hot Metro? Violet Crown: Theater 5Michael Lenox • Mick Cornett • Jayson White • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

1:15pm EDT

The Future of Healthcare Innovation: The Intersection of Life Science, Data, and Technology Violet Crown: Theater 4Denise Hubbard • Steve Hoang • Chad Rogers • Joel Selzer • CvilleBioHub • Indoor Biotechnologies • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • UVA Economic Development • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • UVA Licensing & Ventures Group • ThermoFisher Scientific

2:00pm EDT

American Evolution Innovators Cup: Finals The Jefferson TheaterJason Feifer • David Hall • Tiffany Henry • Henry Hipps • Karen Jackson • Navin Thukkaram • American Evolution Connecting Virginia’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, presented by CIT Common House: NorthEd Albrigo • Robby Demeria • Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

2:30pm EDT

Kauffman Spotlight: Building Community-wide Buy-in and Advocacy Violet Crown: Theater 4Cecilia Wessinger • Tom Chapman • Anika Horn • Kim Lane • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Opportunity Zones: What You Need to Know for Maximum Impact Violet Crown: Theater 3Matt Illian • Bo Kemp • Jeanne Milliken Bonds • Erik Johnston • Maegan Moore • Sean Washington • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation • Royer Caramanis & McDonough

3:30pm EDT

Business and Historic Building Restoration in Urban Appalachia Violet Crown: Theater 2Tighe Bullock • Ric Cavender

5:00pm EDT

Slate’s Political Gabfest: VIP Pre-show Cocktail PartyALMOST FULL The Paramount TheaterEmily Bazelon • Jamelle Bouie • John Dickerson • David Plotz Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Conference: Networking Happy Hour Market Street ParkUVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

6:30pm EDT

The Slate Political Gabfest Live ShowNOW OPEN The Paramount TheaterEmily Bazelon • Jamelle Bouie • John Dickerson • David Plotz