Pittsburgh TechFest 2025

— 4:00pm

Location:
In Person - Tepper Building, Carnegie Mellon University

Speaker:
Presented by the Pittsburgh Technology Council

Pittsburgh TechFest is a one-day event designed for technologists, developers, and engineers from Southwestern Pennsylvania to convene, explore and elevate. Hosted by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, the event features keynotes, technical talks, and panel discussions covering a broad range of topics in AI, software development, security, and career growth. The conference aims to provide a platform for learning, networking, and collaboration among professionals.

What you can expect in programming:

  • Present Problem – Solution – Impact
  • Storytelling with Data
  • Live Demo and Discussion
  • Engage with Big Ideas
  • Interactive Demo, Challenge, or Tech Workshop
  • Unconference – take away the structure and engage in an informal exchange of information and ideas between technologists

Topics are listed below and all development stacks are welcome.

  • UX as an Agile Role
  • Using AI tools in Business and Development
  • Keeping it Human (AI Related Ethics)
  • Career Progression and Managing Up
  • Home Labs and DIY Tech
  • Data Science
  • Mapping and Robotics
  • Developer Tools for Immediate Use
  • Front End Development (HTMX, Angular, React, Svelte, Vue, etc.)
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering
  • Personal Privacy and Security
  • Social Web (Fediverse)

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Keynote Speaker (and complete schedule of events)

Mike Rainey — Mike is a research scientist in the CMU Computer Science Department, School of Computer Science. Before CMU, he spent time at Indiana University, INRIA-Paris’s DeepSea/Gallium groups, and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, after finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Mike’s research sits at the boundary of programming-language design and high-performance computing. He co-created Heartbeat Scheduling and Oracle-Guided Scheduling, ways to keep parallel tasks balanced without wasting CPU cycles, and the Task Parallel Assembly Language, which carries those ideas down to the OS/assembly-language level. Lately he’s been collaborating on LoCal/Gibbon, a type-safe framework for working directly with serialized data, while also publishing on efficient graph algorithms, data structures, and language-support for multicore parallelism. His work shows up in venues like PLDI, POPL, PPoPP, ASPLOS, ICFP, and SC, and his open-source prototypes power experiments with tomorrow’s multicore software.

Join in!  TechFest Student, Faculty & Professional Attendees from all industries can engage in:

  • Inspiring keynote sessions.
  • A rich lineup of technical talks, panel discussions, and interactive demos covering topics like AI, software development, security, UX, ethics, DIY tech, data storytelling, and more.
  • Engaging unconference-style sessions—an open format designed for informal tech conversations and peer learning. All attendees will be encouraged to submit their ideas throughout the day for this exciting & immersive portion of the event.

Call for Proposal is Open
→ The submission deadline is 10 July 2025
→  All speakers will be notified of their acceptance on 17 July 2025
 → Submit Your Proposal HERE.

QUESTIONS?

Details:

  • This is an all day conference, enabling attendees to participate all day or to join in a particular conference sessions throughout the day, as schedules permit.
  • CMU Faculty Registration fee: $30.00 under the PTC Member price (includes continental breakfast, lunch buffet, conference refreshments and end of TechFest happy hour networking event)

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