Above the Cloud: Pittsburgh and the Data Revolution
The Innovation Practice Institute's Investing in Innovation Series presents keynote speaker Andrew Moore, Director of Google Pittsburgh, presenting:
Above the Cloud: Pittsburgh and the Data Revolution
Gigabytes. Terabytes. Petabytes. Exabytes. For some, this is a foreign language. For others, it’s just Pittsburghese. No stranger to new languages, Pittsburgh is certainly no stranger to Big Data and the Cloud. Pittsburgh is home to an unparalleled talent pool in the areas of computer science and information technology and boasts a diverse market of industries that are increasingly reliant upon data collection and analysis. As such, Pittsburgh is uniquely positioned to become the global center for cutting-edge big data and cloud computing research and innovation.
Refreshments will be served.
Andrew Moore is the director of Google Pittsburgh and an engineering lead for Google’s efforts in commerce. Prior to joining Google in January 2006, Moore was a professor of robotics and computer science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. For more information, visit http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com.
PANELISTS
Moderator: Patrick Scanlon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
John Dick, CivicScience
Jerome Pesenti, Vivisimo
Kevin Perkey, 3 Rivers Connect
Robert Namestka, ScreamingData
PROGRAM
4:30–4:45 p.m. Registration and Networking
4:45–4:50 p.m. Welcome: Justine Kasznica
4:50–5 p.m. Opening Remarks by
U.S. Representative, Mike Doyle (Introduction by Jeff Letwin)
5–5:20 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Andrew Moore
5:20–5:25 p.m. Panel Introduction by Jeff Kovacs
5:25–6 p.m. Panel Discussion
6–6:30 p.m. Networking
This event is made possible through the generosity of Google Pittsburgh, Alpern Rosenthal and Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, LLP.
You must register to attend, as space is limited. To register, please fill out and submit this form:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE9xVGZMN2cwLXJUbXlZZUJNcmdwU3c6MQ
Directions and Parking:
Google Pittsburgh
Bakery Square
6425 Penn Ave., Suite 700
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Please park in the garage rather than the parking lot. Parking is free for the first 3 hours or after 5:00pm. If you will be here for more than 3 hours, please ask for a parking voucher from the receptionist at the Google front desk on the 7th floor.
Enter the office on the ground floor at the entrance between the parking garage and the office building.
Pitt Law’s Innovation Practice Institute (IPI) is a first-of-its-kind collaboration among a law school, the practicing bar, and local innovators and entrepreneurs. IPI reimagines how the legal profession can advance regional economic development and puts that into practice with cutting-edge research, new classroom models, hands-on mentoring of law students, and community engagement. The product will be a class of new lawyers who are uniquely positioned to participate in 21st-century innovation.
