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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

The Economic Development Opportunity of Renewable Energy Violet Crown: Theater 4David Murray • Mary Jane Elkins • Chris Gullickson • Kenneth McFadyen • GreeneHurlocker • Apex Clean Energy

10:00am EDT

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

Your Legislators’ Role in Clean Energy Violet Crown: Theater 4Francis Hodsoll • Will Reisinger • Chip Dicks • Rachel Smucker • leap • SolUnesco • Apex Clean Energy

2:45pm EDT

Let’s Talk About Offshore Wind Violet Crown: Theater 4Elizabeth McGowan • Hayes Framme • Andrew Gohn • Katharine Kollins • Apex Clean Energy

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

10:15am EDT

Social Media Sentiment Analysis with R - Bot or Not? Violet Crown: Theater 4Samantha Toet • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute

10:30am EDT

Featured Student Research Lightning Talks: Collective Biographies of Women - A Deep Learning Approach to Paragraph Annotation Violet Crown: Theater 4Sakshi Jawarani • Murugesan Ramakrishnan • Varshini Sriram • MTEQ • S&P Global • UVA Data Science Institute 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: derML: A Machine Learning, Image Recognition Mobile Application That Assists in Skin Cancer Detection Violet Crown: Theater 4Joy Williams • 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 Featured Student Research Lightning Talks: Using TensorFlow Machine Learning to Develop and Train a Small-Scale Autonomous Vehicle Violet Crown: Theater 4Ben Bland • Kashaun Finch • 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

12:45pm EDT

TensorFlow in R Programming, A Beginner's Primer Violet Crown: Theater 4Pierre DeBois • 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

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

2:50pm EDT

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

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

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

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

4:45pm EDT

Applied ML for Linking Diverse Datasets at S&P Violet Crown: Theater 4

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

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

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

Kauffman Spotlight: Building Community-wide Buy-in and Advocacy Violet Crown: Theater 4Cecilia Wessinger • Tom Chapman • Anika Horn • Kim Lane • UVA’s Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business • Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

3:30pm EDT

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