Pittsburgh TechFest 2026

Pittsburgh TechFest 2026

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10:00am EDT

Acquisition as a Career Path: What Happens When a Software Developer Buys a Trades Business West ConcourseSteven Orvis AI and Small Businesses South ConcourseWilliam V. Fullerton AI Talent is Hiding in Plain Sight. Is it You? Conference Room 4Frank Schlatterer Leveraging Academic Partnership for Competitive Advantage in Current Technology Space Conference Room 5Sasha Balobeshkina Tim Rules for Surviving Tech: They're not what you think they are. Former Spirit StoreTim Casey

11:00am EDT

Code Tourists vs Owners Former Spirit StoreLyle Seaman Future-Proofing Isn't About Technology. It's About People. West ConcourseTia Christopher Let Me Show You How The World Ends: Using Domain Storytelling to Survive Infrastructure Doomsday Conference Room 5Tyler Auerbeck Rising Agent Orchestration Patterns for AI Coding South ConcourseNathan Brake Strategist, Systems Builder, Customer Whisperer: The Product Leader in the AI Era Conference Room 4Rupali Sharma

1:00pm EDT

From Developer Support to Product Marketing: Finding the Role Between Technology and Storytelling West ConcourseMackenzie Albitz Replacing Third-Party Search with AI Agents: A Marketplace Case Study Harshman RotundaJoe Petrich The Leadership Skills Technology Cannot Replace South ConcourseDr. Ann Gatty The Repricing: What AI Does to the Economics of a Business — and the Careers Built Inside It Conference Room 5Ryan Frederick Venom in the Pipeline: Why Bad External Data Is Poisoning Your AI Conference Room 4Andy Hannah

2:00pm EDT

Unconference-Led by Colin Dean, Code & Supply Main Event Space: Peoples CourtColin Dean