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Friday
, October 30
Conference Room 1
10:00am •
The Next Song Starts in 14 Seconds: Embracing Chaos in Live Software
11:00am •
Human-AI Collaboration for a More Resilient Power Grid
1:00pm •
How to Be an AI Champion: Turning the person who got handed AI into the person who gets the credit.
Conference Room 2
10:00am •
Cybersecurity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
11:00am •
Rebuilding the Foundation: Change Management for Digital Transformation with AI-Powered Analytics
1:00pm •
Small But Mighty: How a Pittsburgh Company Is Using Technology To Fight Sex Trafficking Internationally
Conference Room 3
10:00am •
Community Is the Moat Now
11:00am •
Human-Centered Design in the Age of AV: Designing Technology That Feels Human
1:00pm •
The Bittersweet Lesson: Deliberate Implicit Structure and Tabular Data
Conference Room 4
10:00am •
AI Talent is Hiding in Plain Sight. Is it You?
11:00am •
Strategist, Systems Builder, Customer Whisperer: The Product Leader in the AI Era
1:00pm •
Venom in the Pipeline: Why Bad External Data Is Poisoning Your AI
Conference Room 5
10:00am •
Leveraging Academic Partnership for Competitive Advantage in Current Technology Space
11:00am •
Let Me Show You How The World Ends: Using Domain Storytelling to Survive Infrastructure Doomsday
1:00pm •
The Repricing: What AI Does to the Economics of a Business — and the Careers Built Inside It
2:00pm •
Live Test Session: ML Engineers: Put Perforated to the Test
Eat-N-Park VIP
3:00pm •
TechFest Happy Hour + 1 drink ticket and apps!
Former Spirit Store
10:00am •
Tim Rules for Surviving Tech: They're not what you think they are.
11:00am •
Code Tourists vs Owners
1:00pm •
AI Agents and the Return of the Spreadsheet
Hall of Colonials
10:00am •
AI-First Engineering in Practice: Moving Beyond Code Generation to Systemic Product Delivery
11:00am •
AI on the Front: How Autonomous Vehicles Will Shape the Conflicts of Tomorrow
1:00pm •
Beyond Connectivity: Building an Industry 4.0 Platform Ready for Industrial AI
Harshman Rotunda
10:00am •
Stop Just Writing Code: How AI Makes You a Better Product Engineer
11:00am •
Security Risks of NFC
1:00pm •
Replacing Third-Party Search with AI Agents: A Marketplace Case Study
Main Event Space: Peoples Court
9:00am •
Welcome + Keynote Starring Ralph CreweRalph Crewe, Co-Founder and Chief Communications Officer, Perforated AI. Writer and Producer at Practical Engineering (alongside host Grady Hillhouse), Host of Nerd Nite, Pittsburgh
2:00pm •
Unconference-Led by Colin Dean, Code & Supply
People's Gate
10:00am •
Reliable DevOps with Nix and NixOS
11:00am •
Agentic SDLC in Action using Project Squad and the GitHub Copilot CLI
1:00pm •
Beneath the Surface of the Docker Ocean
South Concourse
10:00am •
AI and Small Businesses
11:00am •
Rising Agent Orchestration Patterns for AI Coding
1:00pm •
The Leadership Skills Technology Cannot Replace
UPMC Events Center, UPMC Gate, Parking Lot 2
8:00am •
TechFest Parking LOT 2 (overflow LOT 1)
UPMC Gate Lobby
8:30am •
Registration @ UPMC Gate Lobby
West Concourse
10:00am •
Acquisition as a Career Path: What Happens When a Software Developer Buys a Trades Business
11:00am •
Future-Proofing Isn't About Technology. It's About People.
1:00pm •
From Developer Support to Product Marketing: Finding the Role Between Technology and Storytelling
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Friday
, October 30
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Infrastructure & Edge Computing
Less Data
The ML Challenge: More Performance
Engage with Big Ideas
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Ai + Robotics + National Security
Career Progression and Managing Up
Developer Tools for Immediate use
Industrial Ai and the Reinvention of Manufacturing
Infrastructure & Edge Computing
Keeping It Human
Keeping it Human; Workforce & Human-Centered Tech
Workforce & Human Centered Tech
Keynote
Live Demo and Discussion
All
Developer Tools for Immediate use
Industrial Ai and the Reinvention of Manufacturing
Infrastructure & Edge Computing
Keeping It Human
Networking
Present Problem – Solution – Impact
All
Ai + Robotics + National Security
Career Progression and Managing Up
Developer Tools for Immediate use
Infrastructure & Edge Computing
Keeping it Human; Workforce & Human-Centered Tech
The Next Wave of Autonomous Tech
Workforce & Human Centered Tech
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