Saturday's Talks deal with Innovations in
Education (3PM)
Leadership (4PM)
Technology (5PM)
Entrepreneurship (6PM)
Sponsored by U.Va. Innovation
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Best-selling author, historian and radio personality Coy Barefoot is the Director of The Virginia History Lab , as well as the Executive Producer and Host of Charlottesville—Right Now! on NewsRadio 1070 WINA. Coy is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at UVA, where he teaches the history of the University, Charlottesville, and Virginia.
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INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION (3PM)
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.
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INNOVATIONS IN LEADERSHIP (4PM)
sponsored by the Leadership Charlottesville Alumni Association
Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce
A Culture of Leadership: leadership styles and how a culture of leadership strengthens an organization.
Teresa Sullivan is the University of Virginia’s eighth president. She came to U.Va. from the University of Michigan, where she served as the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. Ms. Sullivan is an expert on labor-force demography and an author or co-author of six books and more than 50 scholarly articles.
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
Harnessing the Power of Business to Benefit the Whole Community
Toan Nguyen is a graduate of the University of Virginia's Architecture and Darden School and is the co-founder of C'ville Central, a corporation that assembles small, women and minority owned companies so that they can win larger contracts from anchor institutions in the Charlottesville Region. He is also the co-founder of the Community Investment Collaborative (CIC), a micro-financing organization.
New approaches to solving poverty - starting local from the ground up
Ridge Schuyler graduated from the U.Va. School of Law and has served as the chief policy advisor to U.S. Senator Chuck Robb, as a program director for an internationally-renowned conservation group, and recently was the former district director for Congressman Tom Perriello. Ridge has since started the Orange Dot project, which addresses the struggles of families in Charlottesville striving to become self-sufficient, by creating a hub that connects smaller, local businesses with larger more established ones.
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INNOVATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY (5PM)
Pioneering Medical discovery: Ultrasound and non-invasive surgery
Neal Kassell, MD.is the founder and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation. Dr. Kassell, in addition, is Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia, where he served as department co-chair until 2006. He has published more than 500 scientific papers and book chapters.
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. He is exploring the commercial potential of unlocking government data sets, which in the past have driven innovations like GIS systems and the Weather Channel.
Emerging Technologies in Regenerative Medicine: Why you should love your fat.
Dr. Shayn Peirce-Cottler is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia and a past recipient of the MIT Technology Review's "TR100 Young Innovator Award". She works collaboratively to develop adult stem cell therapies for treating cardiovascular disease and complications of diabetes.
How to Build an Internet Startup from Scratch: Borrowed & Blue, A Case Study
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.
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP (6PM)
Sponsored by the Batten Institute at the Darden School Of Business
Future of Robotics - The Good the bad and the ugly
Paul Perrone is a roboticist, author, public speaker, and entrepreneur. His creative work has been captured in numerous books, print, televised, and film media. He’s recently been working with rocker Neil Young to automate his 1959 Lincoln Continental “LincVolt,”, helping plan an Autonomous Auto X Prize, and chairs an international automated vehicle standards committee.
*NOTE - The movie about Paul making Tommy, the automated robot car, will screen at Tom Tom. See the listing for AUTOPILOTS.
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.
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