Archives: Speakers
Temple Lovelace
Dr. Temple S. Lovelace is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. Her research interests include social justice and equity through a disability inquiry lens, as well as innovative classroom based instructional and intervention strategies in the areas of academic… Read more »
Kelley Benson
Kelley Benson is the Director of Human Resources & Inclusion at Innovation Works (IW). In her role as an Inclusion Strategist Kelley works closely with the President and CEO to ensure that IW is maintaining its commitment to diversity in its programs. In her role… Read more »
Kristi Woolsey
Kristi is responsible for enabling organizations to support its people through physical and digital space. She focuses on discovering and defining the connections between environment, culture and outcome. She pulls together interdisciplinary teams to think deeply about the interaction between physical and virtual space, and… Read more »
Shivdev Rao
Shivdev Rao, MD is an Executive Vice President at UPMC Enterprises, where he has managed the provider facing portfolio of technology investments and R&D. Shiv has been overseeing R&D efforts at UPMC related to speech in healthcare. He recently cofounded a startup with partners from… Read more »
Alex Pazuchanics
Alex Pazuchanics serves as the Assistant Director of the City of Pittsburgh’s new Department of Mobility and Infrastructure. He managed Pittsburgh’s response to the USDOT Smart City Challenge, and now leads transportation planning, right-of-way management, and the response to emerging mobility in the City. Alex has… Read more »
Severin Hacker
Severin Hacker is the co-founder and CTO of Duolingo. He received a BS in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2006, a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014 and was selected by the MIT Technology Review as one of the top young innovators of… Read more »
Roberta Klatzky
Roberta Klatzky is the Charles J. Queenan Jr. Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is also on the faculty of the the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. She received a B.S. in mathematics from the… Read more »
Ariadna Font Llitjós
Ariadna Font Llitjós is Director of Product Development and Engineering at IBM Watson, where she now leads the Knowledge and Language Foundation teams and technologies world-wide, as well as Watson’s Discovery portfolio. With her teams, she is working infuse the Watson platform, solutions and applications… Read more »
Bill Peduto
William Peduto has been Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh since 2014. Since taking office, Mayor Peduto has lead a collaborative effort to make Pittsburgh a leading 21st Century city. Under Peduto’s leadership the City of Pittsburgh has played an active role in National League… Read more »
Andrew Masich
Andy Masich is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Senator John Heinz History Center and a commissioner (former chairman) of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The History Center is the largest history museum in Pennsylvania, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and accredited… Read more »
Phil Marzolf
Phil began his professional career as an integrated circuit (IC) designer, working on a variety of technologies ranging from the Spitfire server at SUN Microsystems, and the first commercial 3G cellular handset at Maxim. He was CTO of nSerial, a company focused on 10Gb/s (gigabit-per-second)… Read more »
Heather Tomko
Heather Tomko is a Research Coordinator in the Health Policy and Management department of the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health, where she is also pursuing a Masters of Public Health. Tomko is an alumna of Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied Mechanical… Read more »
Toren Finkel
Toren Finkel, MD, PhD, a physician-scientist renowned for his research on the basic science of aging, is the Director of the UPMC-University of Pittsburgh Aging Institute and a Professor of Medicine in the Pitt Department of Medicine’s Division of Cardiology. After earning a bachelor’s degree… Read more »
Jeanne Cunicelli
Jeanne Cunicelli has over 20 years of investment and advising in the life sciences industry. She is currently Executive Vice President at UPMC Enterprises where she leads business initiatives on behalf of the Immune Transplant and Therapy Center (ITTC), as well as broader translational medicine… Read more »
