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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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Mbugua Karanja

5:00pm EDT

Craft Cocktail Competition Downtown Mall

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

7:30pm EDT

Bartenders BallNOW OPEN Old Metropolitan HallCarrie Meslar • River Hawkins • Morgan Roberts-Harrison • Kelly Cline • Cierra Biel • Reid Dougherty • Alec Spidalieri • Clay Tolbert • Andrea Rouillard • Joe Koscielniak • Shannon Cruse Ranson • Timmy Faillace • Catoctin Creek

8:00pm EDT

Music Matters Presents: Xhosa Collaborations and Makhanda at Dawn: a virtual link across the Atlantic with live arts in Makhanda (South Africa), and Charlottesville (VA). The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative gallery

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

11:00am EDT

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

1:45pm EDT

How to Tell Your Organization's Story to Get Media CoverageWAITLIST Community Investment CollaborativeCommunity Investment Collaborative • Matt Charles Public Relations

3:00pm EDT

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

6:00pm EDT

Untold Stories in Charlottesville: A Screening & Conversation with Local FilmmakersNOW OPEN Vinegar Hill TheaterSarad Davenport • Tanesha Hudson • Lorenzo Dickerson • Light House Studio & Vinegar Hill Theatre

9:00pm EDT

Summit Speakeasy at Commonwealth SkybarWAITLIST Commonwealth Restaurant & SkybarMojo Parker • Commonwealth Restaurant &amp

8:00am EDT

Ending Poverty in CharlottesvilleWAITLIST Common House: NorthFrank Friedman • Ridge Schuyler • Frank Squillace • Garreth McAdam • Network2Work at PVCC

9:00am EDT

Civic Innovation Conference: Opening Remarks The Jefferson TheaterDayna Matthew • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

10:00am EDT

Fireside Chat: Education, Opportunity, and the 21st Century Workforce Common House: NorthKristin Sharp • Chauncy Lennon • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost How Does Your City Prepare for Autonomous Vehicles? Violet Crown: Theater 2Cathy McGhee • T. Donna Chen, Ph.D. • David Hofert • Joe Iacobucci • Andrew Mondschein • Albemarle County • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost 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

11:00am EDT

How Data Helps Build Hometowns Residents Can Count On Violet Crown: Theater 2Zachary Markovits • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost Race, Class, and The Press: How New Journalism Models Can Help With Local Equity Conversations Violet Crown: Theater 3Giles Morris • Beena Raghavendran • Elliott Robinson • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

12:00pm EDT

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

12:30pm EDT

Creativity Between the Coasts: A keynote talk with Noah HorowitzNOW OPEN The Jefferson TheaterCarl Swanson • Noah Horowitz • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

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 The Eviction Challenge: How Do We Prevent Homelessness Before It Starts? Violet Crown: Theater 3Matt Pritchard • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost Workshop: Problem-Solving with Data & Analytics Vault VirginiaSheila Dugan • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

3:30pm EDT

Affordable Housing: Five Innovative Strategies Violet Crown: Theater 3Chip Boyles • Roy Decker • Monique Johnson • Sunshine Mathon • Rusty Smith • Chris Thompson • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

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

5:00pm EDT

Civic Innovation Conference: Networking Happy Hour Common HouseHartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

5:30pm EDT

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

8:00am EDT

Applied Machine Learning Conference: Networking Coffee The Jefferson TheaterS&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

Don't Stop Disbelieving Violet Crown: Theater 5Chris Eichelberger • 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

10:50am EDT

Automated Time-Series Model Selection at Scale Violet Crown: Theater 2Carlos Blancarte • William Goodrum • Henry Harris • 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

11:45am EDT

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

12:45pm EDT

Intro to ConvNets: The Backbone of Modern Computer Vision Violet Crown: Theater 2Joaquín Alori • 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 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

2:00pm EDT

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

2:50pm EDT

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

3:20pm 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

Ethics in AI Panel Violet Crown: Theater 5Mo Johnson • Anton Korinek • Tianlu Wang • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

3:50pm EDT

Machine Learning as a Tool to Address HIV Health Disparities Violet Crown, Theater 1Kimberly Deas • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute • Elder Research 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

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: 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

History of Vinegar Hill: Race & Inequality in CharlottesvilleNOW OPEN Vinegar Hill TheaterCharlene Green • Charlottesville Office of Human Rights • Light House Studio & Vinegar Hill Theatre

4:45pm EDT

Detecting Solar Farms Using Deep Learning Violet Crown: Theater 3Courtney Whalen • Astraea • CCRI • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

5:00pm EDT

Sake Making & Sake TastingWAITLIST North American Sake Brewery & RestaurantAndrew Centofante Applied Machine Learning Conference: Networking Happy Hour Violet CrownS&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

10:00am EDT

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 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

12:00pm 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 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 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

Kauffman Spotlight: Diversity & Opportunity in Your Ecosystem Violet Crown: Theater 3Elizabeth Freeman • Felecia Hatcher-Pearson • Fay Horwitt • John McElligott • Cecilia Wessinger • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

5:00pm EDT

Food Truck Roundup Market Street Park Block Party Market Street ParkAdar • Goose • Con Brio • The Fritz Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Conference: Networking Happy Hour Market Street ParkUVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

10:00pm EDT

Silent DiscoNOW OPEN The Jefferson Theater

10:00am EDT

Iron Chef CompetitionWAITLIST Charlottesville City MarketClare Terni • Harrison Keevil • Kathryn Matthews • Travis Lively • Leni Sorsense • Julio Quispe • Curtis Shaver • City Market • Cavalier Produce

12:00pm EDT

Craft Cville Market Market Street ParkCraft Cville Block Party Market Street ParkTrongone • Con Brio • Anthony Rosano and The Conqueroos • Roots of A Rebellion • Cville All Stars

10:45pm EDT

Elby Brass Downtown Parade Market Street ParkELBY Brass

11:00pm EDT

Elby Brass: After PartyNOW OPEN ZocaloELBY Brass

7:00pm EDT

Porchella Kick Off with Bridge PAIWAITLIST The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative galleryPotter's Cider • Bridge PAI