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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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Michael Bender

Elevate
CEO
Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Www.elevatedata.com/

Business analytics and data science. Sales and marketing effectiveness. Customer engagement and digital transformation...

6:00pm EDT

Cville Gives Grant Night: Cocktail Hour MixerNOW OPEN Common House: NorthPosner Wealth Management

6:45pm EDT

Cville Gives Grant NightALMOST FULL Common House: NorthPosner Wealth Management

10:00am EDT

Recruiting Talent in a Tight Job MarketALMOST FULL Community Investment CollaborativeJim Powers • Nathan Swanson • Brendan Richardson • Brett Willsie • Community Investment Collaborative • Wellspring Workforce

1:00pm EDT

Social Innovation Challenge The Paramount TheaterUVA Curry School of Education • Manning Family Foundation • ReinventED Lab

3:45pm EDT

Hoos in the KitchenNOW OPEN Common House: NorthMelissa Palombi • Andy McClure • Walter Slawski • Laura Brown • Sarah Cramer Shields • Tanya Holland • Kate Collier

5:00pm EDT

Entrepreneurship Cup and Venture Showcase Cville Machine

8:00pm EDT

Free Screening of Black Panther and Community FundraiserNOW OPEN The Paramount TheaterAfrican American Teaching Fellows • Abundant Life • City of Promise

8:00am EDT

Ending Poverty in CharlottesvilleWAITLIST Common House: NorthFrank Friedman • Ridge Schuyler • Frank Squillace • Garreth McAdam • Network2Work at PVCC Civic Innovation Conference: Networking Coffee The Jefferson TheaterHartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

12:00pm EDT

Civic Innovation Conference: Networking Lunch The Jefferson TheaterHartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost Renewable Energy Conference: Networking Lunch Violet CrownCharlottesville Office of Economic Development • Advanced Energy Economy • Apex Clean Energy

1:45pm EDT

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

2:45pm EDT

Community Foundation Nation: Why Cities Need a Partnership between Public-Interest Tech and Community Philanthropy Common House: NorthJosh Yates • Elizabeth Grossman • Sutton Mora Hayes • Travis Rejman • Hana Schank • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost • UVA College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Workshop: Problem-Solving with Data & Analytics Vault VirginiaSheila Dugan • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

3:45pm EDT

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

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

10:15am EDT

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

12:45pm EDT

Intelligent Virtual Assistants - The Good, Bad, and Ugly Violet Crown: Theater 5Olivera Kotevska • 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

2:00pm EDT

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

2:50pm EDT

Applying Machine Learning to Dynamic Operations Violet Crown: Theater 4Tom Brock • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

3:20pm EDT

Get Your Results Seen & Understood More Quickly with Visual Metaphors Violet Crown: Theater 5Alli Torban • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

3:45pm EDT

Glass Boxes: Building Trust in Machine Learning for IIoT Violet Crown: Theater 4Brad Johnson • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

4:05pm EDT

Machine Learning on Mobile Violet Crown: Theater 4Tatyana Casino • 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 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

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 Ontology and Oncology: NLP for Precision Medicine Violet Crown, Theater 1Sean Mullane • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute • Elder Research

5:00pm EDT

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

6:30pm 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

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

8:00am EDT

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

10:00am EDT

Can You Curate a Town? Violet Crown: Theater 4Jennifer Miller • Jon Bier • Paul Yandura • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

11:00am EDT

Co-Creating an Ecosystem: University-Community Partnerships Violet Crown: Theater 5Sean Carr, Ph.D. • Elizabeth Cromwell • Roger Johnson • Adam Klein • 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

12:45pm EDT

The Beloved Organization and The Future of Work The Jefferson TheaterPamela Abalu • Chinedu Echeruo • Andrei Matorin • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • American Evolution • 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

2:30pm EDT

Do No Harm: Building Health Tech Companies to Help People Violet Crown: Theater 5Mylea Charvat • 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

3:30pm EDT

Building Virginia’s Tech-Talent Pipeline Violet Crown: Theater 5Jessica Sabbath • Archie Holmes • Michelle Marks • Stephen Moret • Julia Ross • StoryWare • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • UVa Engineering • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

5:00pm EDT

Startup and Innovation Fair Market Street Park Block Party Market Street ParkAdar • Goose • Con Brio • The Fritz

10:00pm EDT

Silent DiscoNOW OPEN The Jefferson Theater

10:00am EDT

Using Social Media Marketing To Expand Your BusinessALMOST FULL Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, Central BranchNatasha Kalergis • Hannah Watson • John Laudisio • Central Virginia SCORE

11:00am EDT

Trackless Trams: A Transformative Opportunity for Charlottesville? CitySpacePeter Newman

12:00pm EDT

CIC Showcase Market Street ParkCommunity Investment Collaborative

10:00am EDT

Charlottesville Mural Bike TourNOW OPEN The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative galleryCommunity Bikes • Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee • Bridge PAI • Peloton Station

2:00pm EDT

Block Party Market Street Park100 Proof Band • The Judy Chops • Free Union Gospel in the Park Market Street Park

7:00pm EDT

PorchellaNOW OPEN Belmont NeighborhoodPotter's Cider • Bridge PAI