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THE BIG FESTIVAL ABOUT SMALL CITIES
Tom Tom champions civic innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship in America’s hometowns.
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Mbugua Karanja
Monday
, April 8
5:00pm EDT
Craft Cocktail Competition
Downtown Mall
6:00pm EDT
Cville Gives Grant Night: Cocktail Hour Mixer
NOW OPEN
Common House: North
Posner Wealth Management
6:45pm EDT
Cville Gives Grant Night
ALMOST FULL
Common House: North
Posner Wealth Management
7:30pm EDT
Bartenders Ball
NOW OPEN
Old Metropolitan Hall
Carrie 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
Tuesday
, April 9
10:00am EDT
Recruiting Talent in a Tight Job Market
ALMOST FULL
Community Investment Collaborative
Jim Powers • Nathan Swanson • Brendan Richardson • Brett Willsie • Community Investment Collaborative • Wellspring Workforce
11:00am EDT
Creating Users Not Addicts: Social Media
WAITLIST
Community Investment Collaborative
Jeremy Cherry • Community Investment Collaborative • Journey Group
1:45pm EDT
How to Tell Your Organization's Story to Get Media Coverage
WAITLIST
Community Investment Collaborative
Community Investment Collaborative • Matt Charles Public Relations
3:00pm EDT
New Way of Networking
WAITLIST
Community Investment Collaborative
Waverly Davis • Jessica Norby • Linnea White • Community Investment Collaborative
6:00pm EDT
Untold Stories in Charlottesville: A Screening & Conversation with Local Filmmakers
NOW OPEN
Vinegar Hill Theater
Sarad Davenport • Tanesha Hudson • Lorenzo Dickerson • Light House Studio & Vinegar Hill Theatre
9:00pm EDT
Summit Speakeasy at Commonwealth Skybar
WAITLIST
Commonwealth Restaurant & Skybar
Mojo Parker • Commonwealth Restaurant &
Wednesday
, April 10
8:00am EDT
Ending Poverty in Charlottesville
WAITLIST
Common House: North
Frank Friedman • Ridge Schuyler • Frank Squillace • Garreth McAdam • Network2Work at PVCC
9:00am EDT
Civic Innovation Conference: Opening Remarks
The Jefferson Theater
Dayna Matthew • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost
10:00am EDT
Fireside Chat: Education, Opportunity, and the 21st Century Workforce
Common House: North
Kristin Sharp • Chauncy Lennon • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost
How Does Your City Prepare for Autonomous Vehicles?
Violet Crown: Theater 2
Cathy 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 4
David 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 2
Zachary 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 3
Giles Morris • Beena Raghavendran • Elliott Robinson • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost
12:00pm EDT
Civic Innovation Conference: Networking Lunch
The Jefferson Theater
Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost
12:30pm EDT
Creativity Between the Coasts: A keynote talk with Noah Horowitz
NOW OPEN
The Jefferson Theater
Carl 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: North
Josh 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 3
Matt Pritchard • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost
Workshop: Problem-Solving with Data & Analytics
Vault Virginia
Sheila Dugan • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost
3:30pm EDT
Affordable Housing: Five Innovative Strategies
Violet Crown: Theater 3
Chip 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: South
Andreas Addison • Missy Benson • The Chattery • Shawanda Mason-Moore • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost
How Do Small Cities Attract & Retain Talent?
Common House: North
Joshua 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 House
Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost
5:30pm EDT
Hello Data, Meet the People
NOW OPEN
Vault Virginia
Giles Morris • Sheila Dugan • Beena Raghavendran • Larry Terry • John Killeen • Charlottesville Tomorrow • Vault Virginia
Thursday
, April 11
8:00am EDT
Applied Machine Learning Conference: Networking Coffee
The Jefferson Theater
S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
9:00am EDT
Data is Rarely Neutral: Bias in the Practice of Data
The Jefferson Theater
Vida Williams • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
10:15am EDT
Don't Stop Disbelieving
Violet Crown: Theater 5
Chris Eichelberger • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
Social Media Sentiment Analysis with R - Bot or Not?
Violet Crown: Theater 4
Samantha Toet • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
10:50am EDT
Automated Time-Series Model Selection at Scale
Violet Crown: Theater 2
Carlos 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 4
Renee Teate • Andrew Therriault • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in The Supply Chain
Violet Crown: Theater 5
Bill Panak • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
11:45am EDT
Applied Machine Learning Conference: Networking Lunch
Violet Crown
S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
12:45pm EDT
Intro to ConvNets: The Backbone of Modern Computer Vision
Violet Crown: Theater 2
Joaquín Alori • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
1:05pm EDT
Collaboration between Data Scientist and Librarian/Project Manager
Violet Crown: Theater 4
Esther Onega • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
Detecting The Unknown: Using Unsupervised Behavior Models To Expose Malicious Network Activity
Violet Crown: Theater 2
Will Badart • Sarah Olson • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
Devops in Data Science Panel
Violet Crown: Theater 5
Miriam Friedel • Steven Lott • Ken Zamkow • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
2:00pm EDT
How Can “Data for Good” Be Better?
The Jefferson Theater
Andrew 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 3
Tianlu Wang • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
Using Triangulation to Evaluate Machine Learning Models
Violet Crown: Theater 5
Andrew Fast • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
2:55pm EDT
MRI Image Synthesis for the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease
Violet Crown, Theater 1
Neeyanth 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 4
Malcolm MacLachlan • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
Get Your Results Seen & Understood More Quickly with Visual Metaphors
Violet Crown: Theater 5
Alli Torban • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
3:25pm EDT
Modeling and Forecasting Hospital Workforce Supply to Improve Outcomes
Violet Crown, Theater 1
John Harris • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute • Elder Research
3:45pm EDT
Ethics in AI Panel
Violet Crown: Theater 5
Mo 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 1
Kimberly 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 3
Martin Chobanyan • Astraea • CCRI • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
4:05pm EDT
Machine Learning on Mobile
Violet Crown: Theater 4
Tatyana Casino • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
Mapping High-Voltage Infrastructure with Machine Learning + Humans
Violet Crown: Theater 3
Drew 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 1
Elizabeth 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 3
Nate Day • Astraea • CCRI • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
Licensing: It's for All Projects, Yes Even Yours
Violet Crown: Theater 4
Matthew 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 5
Derek Bivona • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
4:30pm EDT
History of Vinegar Hill: Race & Inequality in Charlottesville
NOW OPEN
Vinegar Hill Theater
Charlene Green • Charlottesville Office of Human Rights • Light House Studio & Vinegar Hill Theatre
4:45pm EDT
Detecting Solar Farms Using Deep Learning
Violet Crown: Theater 3
Courtney Whalen • Astraea • CCRI • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
5:00pm EDT
Sake Making & Sake Tasting
WAITLIST
North American Sake Brewery & Restaurant
Andrew Centofante
Applied Machine Learning Conference: Networking Happy Hour
Violet Crown
S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute
Friday
, April 12
10:00am EDT
Let’s Talk About Amazon HQ2: How We Got Here + How the Rest of Virginia’s Cities Benefit
Violet Crown: Theater 5
Roben 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: South
Joshua Anton • Grace Belangia • Anika Horn • Eric Parker • Marie Schacht
11:00am EDT
Accelerator Company Showcase, presented by CIT
Common House: North
Marco 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 5
Sean 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 4
Jason 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 Theater
UVA’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 5
Michael 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 Theater
Pamela 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 4
Denise 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 5
Mylea 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 3
Matt 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 3
Elizabeth 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 Park
Adar • Goose • Con Brio • The Fritz
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Conference: Networking Happy Hour
Market Street Park
UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
10:00pm EDT
Silent Disco
NOW OPEN
The Jefferson Theater
Saturday
, April 13
10:00am EDT
Iron Chef Competition
WAITLIST
Charlottesville City Market
Clare 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 Park
Craft Cville
Block Party
Market Street Park
Trongone • Con Brio • Anthony Rosano and The Conqueroos • Roots of A Rebellion • Cville All Stars
10:45pm EDT
Elby Brass Downtown Parade
Market Street Park
ELBY Brass
11:00pm EDT
Elby Brass: After Party
NOW OPEN
Zocalo
ELBY Brass
Sunday
, April 14
7:00pm EDT
Porchella Kick Off with Bridge PAI
WAITLIST
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative gallery
Potter's Cider • Bridge PAI
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