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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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Sharon Barker

5:00pm

Craft Cocktail Competition Downtown Mall

12:30pm

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

8:00pm

The Future of Cannabis: A Headlining Conversation about Legalization The Paramount TheaterNOW OPENJohn Hudak • Jenn Michelle Pedini • Steven Hawkins • Jane West • Hope Wiseman

9:00pm

Rapture After Party with the Mammoths Rapture Restaurant & Night ClubNOW OPENThe Mammoths • Night Club

8:00am

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

8:30am

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

Data is Rarely Neutral: Bias in the Practice of Data The Jefferson TheaterVida Williams • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

10:15am

Auto-What? A Taxonomy of Automated Machine Learning Violet Crown: Theater 2Adam Blum • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

10:30am

Featured Student Research Lightning Talks: Cyber Harassment Detection and Prediction of User Blocks in Wikipedia Violet Crown: Theater 4Charu Rawat • Arnab Sarkar • Sameer Singh • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute Featured Student Research Lightning Talks: Detection of Malicious Cyber Activity at University of Virginia using Machine Learning Violet Crown: Theater 4Rakesh Ravi • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

10:50am

A Deep Learning Approach to Meme Generation Violet Crown: Theater 5Murugesan Ramakrishnan • Sri Vaishnavi Vemulapalli • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

11:15am

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in The Supply Chain Violet Crown: Theater 5Bill Panak • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

11:45am

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

12:45pm

Intelligent Virtual Assistants - The Good, Bad, and Ugly Violet Crown: Theater 5Olivera Kotevska • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

1:05pm

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

2:00pm

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

2:50pm

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

3:25pm

Modeling and Forecasting Hospital Workforce Supply to Improve Outcomes Violet Crown, Theater 1John Harris • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute • Elder Research

3:50pm

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

4:25pm

Licensing: It's for All Projects, Yes Even Yours Violet Crown: Theater 4Matthew Hendrickson • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

5:00pm

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

8:00am

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 • CO.STARTERS • 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 • Joseph 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

8:45am

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

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

11:00am

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

12:00pm

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

12:45pm

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

2:30pm

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

Funding in the Golden Age of Biotech Violet Crown: Theater 4Carleen Bowers • Jill Carroll • Jason Fuller • 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

5:00pm

Block Party Market Street ParkAdar • Goose • Con Brio • The Fritz

6:30pm

The Slate Political Gabfest Live Show The Paramount TheaterNOW OPENEmily Bazelon • Jamelle Bouie • John Dickerson • David Plotz

12:00pm

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

10:45pm

Elby Brass Downtown Parade Market Street ParkELBY Brass

11:00pm

Elby Brass: After Party ZocaloNOW OPENELBY Brass

2:00pm

Block Party Market Street Park100 Proof Band • The Judy Chops • Free Union

7:00pm

Porchella Belmont NeighborhoodNOW OPENPotter's Cider • Bridge PAI