2025 Featured Speakers and Moderators
Roozbeh Aliabadi
- Co-Founder, ReadyAI & World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth (WAICY)
Gregg Behr
- Executive Director, The Grable Foundation; Founder and Chair, Remake Learning
Jerome Bettis
- Pro Football Hall of Famer, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist
Jimyse Brown
- Executive Director, Moonshot Museum
Jason Brown
- Henry Buhl, Jr., Director, Kamin Science Center & Vice President, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Haroon Choudery
- Co-Founder and CEO, Autoblocks AI
Lisa Dughi
- Chief Executive Officer, NAF
Ed Gainey
- Mayor, City of Pittsburgh
Michael Golden
- Vice Dean of Innovative Programs and Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Mary Beth Green
- Chief Innovation Officer, Sheetz
Meg Hamel
- Vice President, Education at HolonIQ
Todd Keruskin
- Chief Revenue Officer, Graduation Alliance
Sirisha Kuchimanchi
- Dr. Sirisha Kuchimanchi, Founder & CEO, Sahita Technologies
Soundar Kumara
- Allen, E., & Allen, M., Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering & Co-Founder of Lightscline
Lance Lindauer
- Co-founder & Executive Director, Partnership to Advance Responsible Technology (PART)
Po-Shen Loh
- Carnegie Mellon Math Professor; Social Entrepreneur and Inventor; Former USA Math Olympiad Team Coach
Chris Mattmann
- President and Co-Founder, Mattmann.AI
Patrick Methvin
- Director of Education, Postsecondary Success, Gates Foundation
Khalid Mumin
- Former PA Secretary of Education & Chief of Strategy, Education Partnerships and Global Development of MindUP | The Goldie Hawn Foundation
Jennifer Nash
- Head of Education Impact - US, LEGO Education
Dominic Papa
- Global Advisor on Digital Workforce Readiness, N50 Project
Kostas Pelechrinis
- Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
Olga Pogoda
- Chief Operating Officer, KEF Robotics
Dr. Michael Reed
- President, Pennsylvania College of Technology
Nayli Russo
- PharmD, MBA, Strategist & Success Coach
Audrey Russo
- President and CEO Pittsburgh Technology Council & Fortyx80
Andrea Tapia
- Dean of the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State
Wayne Walters
- Superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools
Dr. Bradley Webb
- Dean of Engineering Technologies, Pennsylvania College of Technology
Erik Widner
- Vice President of Technical Operations, Exus North America
Esther Wojcicki
- Journalist, Educator, and "Godmother of Silicon Valley"
