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INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION
sponsored by the Curry School of Education
Innovation and education — Driving change for student, educators, and society
Bob Pianta is the Dean of UVA's Curry School of Education. Pianta's research and development work has created tools used in tens of thousands of classrooms across the country and in every Head Start program. He's now spearheading efforts to develop education schools as forces for innovation and impact in education.
Contemporary Technology in Education: broadband’s role in leveling the playing field.
Pam Moran is in her sixth year as Superintendent in the Albemarle County School System. She has had an extensive educational career in addition to teaching educational leadership and curriculum courses as an adjunct professor for the University of Virginia. Moran is president elect for the Virginia association of school superintendents.
Promoting the College Readiness of Black Male Student-Athletes
Paul C. Harris is an assistant professor in the Counselor Education program at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. His research interests include issues related to equity, access, and educational justice. Specifically, he explores the ways through which school counselors can facilitate educational success in Black males, particularly those participating in sports.
LEADERSHIP
sponsored by the Leadership Charlottesville Alumni Association
Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce
UVa’s Future and its National Impact
Teresa Sullivan served as provost and a vice president for academic affairs at two leading universities, before becoming the current president of the University of Virginia. In addition, she has written and co written six books and several scholarly articles in the field of sociology.
Industrial frontiers – Inventing the 100 mpg car
Oliver Kuttner played a fundamental role in the real-estate development of Charlottesville’s downtown area. He is also the inventor of the Edison 2, the $5,000,000 X Prize winner for making a super light car that reaches 100 mpg. Kuttner is an active participant in modern industrial practices and how they impact innovation
The Role of Connections: community networks and entrepreneurship
Toan Nguyen is the co-founder of the Community Investment Collaborative (CIC), a micro-financing group based out of Charlottesville. The endeavor seeks to re-imagine entrepreneurship and address issues related to funding small businesses.
New approaches to solving poverty - starting local from the ground up.
The former district director for Congressman Tom Perriello, Ridge Schuyler has since started the Orange Dot project, which addresses the local income deficit. By creating a hub that connects smaller, local businesses with larger more established ones, Schuyler hopes bridge gaps between them and enrich business life in Charlottesville.
TECHNOLOGY
Pioneering Medical discovery: Ultrasound and non-invasive surgery
Dr. Neal Kassell is a Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, where he served as department co-chair for nearly 10 years. Dr. Kassell has founded numerous private ventures and has published more than 450 scientific papers.
Clear Skies And Innovation - how liberating government data changes everything
Named by Barrack Obama as a “champion of change,” Waldo Jaquith is an open government technologist who has worked with diverse groups ranging from the Rolling Stones to the White House Office of Science and Technology
A graduate of the University of Virginia’s Darden School and an expert on growing online businesses, Adam Healey has successfully launched three separate Internet ventures including Hotelicopter and most recently Borrowed and Blue.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
“Future of Robotics - The Good the bad and the ugly”
Paul Perrone
Paul Perrone is a roboticist, author, public speaker, and entrepreneur. His creative work has been captured in numerous books, trade publications, print, televised, and film media. Currently he is working with rocker Neil Young to automate his 1959 Lincoln Continental “LincVolt,” and also helping plan an Autonomous Auto X Prize.
E*commerce and local food; how local food is Changing and why Charlottesville is at the heart of it.
Caesar Layton was the President of Arganica when it merged with Relay foods, becoming one of the more exciting start-ups to expand in Charlottesville. Caesar is interested in alternative methods for expanding the local food movement through CSAs and the return of the farmers market.
SPIRITUALITY AND THE LAW
Exoneration as Innovation - how Innocence is changing our legal system
UVA Law professor Brandon Garrett is interested in criminal procedure and wrongful convictions. His recent research is centered on studies of DNA exonerations and organizational prosecutions, examining the intersection of law and technology.
MLK Jr. and the Beloved Community: Love of Neighbor as Political Innovation.
Greg Thompson has been the senior pastor of Trinity Presbyterian since 2006. He is currently working toward his Theological Ph.D. at the University of Virginia exploring the implications of the Civil Rights movement on theology and modern politics.
Contemplation as Innovation - how the science of mindfulness is changing everything.
A professor of Religious studies, David Germano also serves as the co-director of the Tibet center and director of SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts Network of technological initiatives) at the university. He is concerned with the use of digital technology and the way it facilitates innovation in teaching the humanities.
SOCIAL CAPITALISM
New Solutions for Long Term Refugee Camps
Concerned with issues of global advocacy, assistant professor of Politics and Public Policy at the Batten School Christine Mahoney’s recent research focuses on global advocacy on behalf of the displaced, studying how rights for these individuals can be maintained.
Entrepreneurship in our Prisons: a new model for re-entry.
Ranked as a top five-research professor and a top 10-business professor, Darden’s Greg Fairchild has innovated the business world. Mostly recently, Fairchild launched the Prison Entrepreneurship program in Virginia correctional facilities
Sandy Riesky is the CEO of Apex Wind Energy, a leading US-based developer of commercial-scale wind energy facilities which have generated up to 5,000 megawatts of capacity.
Animals & Ethics: why changing our perceptions about what we eat matters.
Sahar Ahktar is a professor in the Corcoran Department of Philosphy at the University of Virginia. An author and essayist, her specialties are in political philosophy, bioethics, philosophy of economics.
CREATIVE PLACE MAKING
Experiencing Place: Dance as a tool for deeper understanding
An adjunct lecturer in the Dance Program at the University of Virginia, Katie Schetlick also serves as the co-director of the Movement Party and the Fleet Moves Dance Festival in Wellfleet, MA. Her research and performance examine daily phenomena, human interaction, unexpected movement, and the loss of relating to our immediate surroundings.
The Daily Habit of Innovation: the cultural side of new ideas.
Rick Hamilton works at IBM as a consultant and inventor in over 25 countries. In 2012, IBM led the world in patents filed, and Hamilton was the named inventor on 2% of them. With over 825 patent applications filed, he is the most prolific inventor in IBM history.
MEDIA
“Anti-trust suits and innovation. How does Competition impact innovation?”
A professor of law and chair of media studies at the University of Virginia, Siva Vaidhyanathan was named by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of academia’s best known scholars of intellectual property.
University faculty member Aaron Hill is an avid Virginian musician playing principal oboe in the Charlottesville and University symphony orchestras, English horn in the Roanoke Symphony orchestra and summers performing with the Wintergreen Festival orchestra.