Babs Carryer is the director of education and outreach. Her role encompasses programs to encourage and support innovation and entrepreneurship across campus to all students, post-docs, faculty, researchers and clinicians. Babs teaches the Benchtop to Bedside and Academic Entrepreneurship technology commercialization courses to researchers, clinicians… Read more »
Sydney is a Montreal native with a strong desire to grow the cities innovation ecosystem. Having completed his studies in Psychology, Business and Computer Science he developed a strong passion for emerging technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation. In 2012 Sydney became one of the co-founders… Read more »
Molly Wright Steenson is the Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Fine Arts; the K&L Gates Associate Professor of Ethics & Computational Technologies; and associate professor in the School of Design. She is the author of the book Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects… Read more »
Zico Kolter is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, with appointments in the Computer Science Department, the Institute for Software Research (in the Societal Computing program), and affiliated appointments with the Machine Learning Department, the Robotics Institute, and… Read more »
Christopher Martin is the Director of Engineering and R+D at Robert Bosch LLC, responsible for leading research and development at the Bosch Research and Technology Center (RTC) in Pittsburgh, PA. Chris and his team continuously scout for new opportunities across business sectors relevant for Bosch,… Read more »
Michael Martin is the Head of Communities at SignalFire, an early-stage, AI-driven venture capital fund where he produces programming for portfolio companies and the rising stars in the global AI talent network. In addition to his role at SignalFire, Michael is Co-Founder and Director of… Read more »
Rick Arturo has 25 years of experience in the enterprise data market. He has held sales and business development leadership roles at companies offering Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Cloud. He was the founder of Sonic Mountain, a SaaS company that provided an… Read more »
As Chief Innovation Officer of UPMC, a $17 billion world-renowned health care provider and insurer based in Pittsburgh, PA, Dr. Shrestha is responsible for driving innovation strategy, serving as a catalyst in transforming the organization into a more patient-focused and economically sustainable system. In addition… Read more »
Andrew Zaldivar is a Developer Advocate in Google’s AI group. Andrew develops, evaluates, and promotes tools and techniques that can enable communities to build responsible AI. Before joining Google AI, Andrew was a Senior Strategist in Google’s Trust & Safety group and worked on protecting the… Read more »
