Pittsburgh TechFest 2026

Pittsburgh TechFest 2026

10:00am EDT

Community Is the Moat Now Conference Room 3YJ Lin Cybersecurity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Conference Room 2Brad Messner, PhD • Michal Cieslak, PhD Reliable DevOps with Nix and NixOS People's GateMatt McHenry Stop Just Writing Code: How AI Makes You a Better Product Engineer Harshman RotundaPhil Webster

11:00am EDT

AI on the Front: How Autonomous Vehicles Will Shape the Conflicts of Tomorrow Hall of ColonialsJeremy Meola Human-AI Collaboration for a More Resilient Power Grid Conference Room 1Woody Shixiang Zhu Human-Centered Design in the Age of AV: Designing Technology That Feels Human Conference Room 3Greg Cunneyworth Rebuilding the Foundation: Change Management for Digital Transformation with AI-Powered Analytics Conference Room 2Sourav Bhattacharyya

1:00pm EDT

How to Be an AI Champion: Turning the person who got handed AI into the person who gets the credit. Conference Room 1Doogie Levine • Dan Simklins Small But Mighty: How a Pittsburgh Company Is Using Technology To Fight Sex Trafficking Internationally Conference Room 2William "Rocky" Oberti The Bittersweet Lesson: Deliberate Implicit Structure and Tabular Data Conference Room 3Sylesh Suresh