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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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9:00am EDT

Why Schools Need to Go Solar Violet Crown: Theater 3Erik Curren • Sandy Reisky • Tony Smith, Ph.D. • 2RW Consultants • Apex Clean Energy • Secure Futures Solar

10:00am EDT

Let’s Talk About Policing: Public Safety, Innovation, and Your Town Violet Crown: Theater 3Larry Terry • Harold Folley • Robert Jackson • Tommye Sutton • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

11:00am EDT

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

1:45pm EDT

What Role Should the University Play in Affordable Housing? Violet Crown: Theater 3Sheila Dugan • Stelfanie Williams • Hartfield Foundation • UVA Office of the Provost

2:45pm EDT

The Eviction Challenge: How Do We Prevent Homelessness Before It Starts? Violet Crown: Theater 3Matt Pritchard • 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

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

10:50am EDT

Estimating Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models with Particle MCMC Violet Crown: Theater 3Taylor Brown • Castle Hill Gaming • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

11:15am EDT

Pymc-Learn: Practical Probabilistic Machine Learning in Python Violet Crown: Theater 3Daniel Emaasit • Castle Hill Gaming • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

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

1:05pm EDT

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

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

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

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

4:25pm EDT

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

4:45pm EDT

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

10:00am EDT

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

11:00am EDT

Rural Rise Spotlight: Emerging Opportunities in Rural Communities Violet Crown: Theater 3David Hirsch • Tiffany Henry • Tina Metzer • Jennifer Simon • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

2:30pm EDT

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