ARCHIVED EVENTS

• Patent Pending: An Overview of the Patent Process for Inventors - Friday, August 7th • 8am-10am • 104 Mervis Hall, Pitt's Campus
  
  
• Expand Your Business Today: Develop Corporate and Government Purchasing Strategies - Wednesday, July 15, 2009 • 8:00 - 11:00 AM • University Club, 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
  
  
• First International Symposium on Quality of Life Technologies
  June 30 - July 1, 2009
  University Club, Oakland
  Sponsored by: Quality of Life Technology Center @Carnegie Mellon. Poster submission and general registration is open through May 30th!
  
  
• Search Engine Optimization Seminar with Kristopher Jones, president and CEO of Pepperjam
  Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 7:30am–10:30am
  Pittsburgh Athletic Association (PAA), Oakland
  
  
• Show me the money! SBIR/STTR: The Basics.
  Friday, May 15, 2009 - 8:00am-10:00am
  114 Mervis Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland
  
  
• VISION: An informative session on equity splits (RSVP by Wednesday May 13)
  Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 5:00pm
  Singleton Room, Robertson Engineering Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
  
  
• TiE-Pittsburgh presents An Evening of Entrepreneurship EXPERTISE
  Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m
  Pittsburgh Athletic Association, 4215 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh (Oakland), PA 15213
  Clicke here for more information.
  3 Best-Selling Authors Provide Their Takes on Entrepreneurship, Sales and Business Strategy! Mike Bosworth, Jill Konrath, and Dr. Tom Sant are three of the top-selling business authors in the world. You can meet and listen to all 3 in one evening! Do not miss this unique opportunity!
  TiE-Pittsburgh Charter Members, Members and Student Members - FREE
  Non-Members - $25 in advance, $30 day of event
  Student Non-Members - $10 with valid student ID
  For questions, please contact Berni Bishop Pirollo.
  
  
• First annual Global Game Jam. The Global Game Jam (GGJ), the first of its kind, takes place in the same 48 hours all over the world! starting at 5:00pm Friday, January 30, 2009 through 5:00pm Sunday, February 1, 2009, (all times local). The Pittsburgh chapter of the IGDA partnered with the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) to provide a local venue for this game jam! Your team can choose to develop for the pc, iPhone, or any platform.
  Please register early - There is a limit of 75 seats and a $10 fee.
  Kyle Gabler, Indie Developer of the World of Goo, will be keynoting the global event via internet broadcasting.
  Questions can be directed to Tracy Brown.
  
  
• DevHousePgh 7 Date: Thursday, January 29 at 5:30PM - 11:30PM
  Location: Remedy at 5121 Butler St., Pittsburgh (Lawrenceville), PA 15201.
  If you are a software coder and want to network, hack away, listen or present a lightning talk on any item of interest, then this is an event for you. Modeled after the successful San Francisco software hacking event Super Happy DevHouse, DevHousePgh puts a Pittsburgh spin on the event. Come take a walk back into Old Pittsburgh at Remedy's as a neighborhood bar and restaurant and look at new Pittsburgh through the lens of DevHousePgh 7. Free parking. Visit www.devhousepgh.org for more information or to let us know if you'd like to present a lightning talk. You can also sign up to receive Twitter updates from us at @devhousepgh. For inquiries contact kas@makinglaweasy.com or sean@lyricwiki.org
  
  
• The sixth DevHouse Pittsburgh will be held on December 4th at the Braddock Carnegie Library from 6pm to midnight. The Carnegie Library in Braddock is the first library built in America by Pittsburgh über-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. In homage to the unix text-editor, we'll be refering to this DevHouse 6 by roman-numerals: Vi.
  We need a fresh batch of Lightning Talks - Do you have a tech project you've been working on that you could share with other Pittsburgh geeks in about 5 minutes? Please email sean at lyricwiki.org to volunteer. We know there are interesting things being developed all over the 'burgh, and we want to hear about them!
  Address and Google Map
   
  
• Pittsburgh Innovates winners are:
  • Judges’ Award - The Differential Generator by John Kelley (pezzidamorestudios@live.com)
    The Differential Generator is a technological advancement that improves energy extraction from natural resources. The prototype was designed and built in the Southside of Pittsburgh.
  • Community Choice Award- Quasi by Interbots (seema@interbots.com)
    Quasi is an interactive animatronic character developed by Interbots, aspin-off company out of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center.Designed with emotional expression in mind, Quasi’s software allows him to interact with peopleentirely on his own or with the help of a human operator. Quasi was built in Pittsburgh while the members ofInterbots were attending graduate school at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center.
  • Audience Favorite Award- GTECH by Andrew Butcher (a.butcher@gtechstrategies.org)
    GTECH (Growth Through Energy and Community Health) is a social enterprisein Pittsburgh, founded by 3 graduates from the HeinzSchool of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon and the Executive Director ofSteel City Biofuels.
     
    
• Come see if a Carnegie Mellon project wins $20,000!
  Pittsburgh Innovates is celebrating the finalists at: CityLive: An Innovation Contest
  November 24, 2008 at 6:30 PM
  Presentation followed by a reception at the New Hazlett Theater.
  RSVP to rsvp@citylivepgh.org - Map
  The future is being invented right here in Pittsburgh! The Pittsburgh Innovates contest sponsored by the Greater Oakland Keystone Innovation Zone allows people to show off their ideas that have a Pittsburgh connection. We will talk about the innovation economy here in Pittsburgh and showcase the best entries. Three judges from the Pittsburgh Innovates competition will be on a panel to talk about the finalists. The audience will be encouraged to ask the panelists questions and vote for their favorite of the finalists. Then we will wrap things ups by awarding $20,000 to the Judges’ award winner, $10,000 to the Community Choice award winner, and $1,000 to the Audience favorite. The event is free and open to the public! Invite your friends!
  

  Panelists:
  Jack Lew of Entertainment Arts
  Catherine Mott of Blue Tree Capital
  Mark Re of Seagate

• Unleashing Pittsburgh! Join us for a week of entrepreneurial events at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Everyone is invited! November 17-20, 2008
• AlphaLab is now accepting applications for its Winter/Spring 2009 cycle! The application deadline is October 30, 2008. AlphaLab is a catalyst for launching the next generation of software, entertainment technology and Internet-related companies. Created by Innovation Works, one of the nation's most active seed-stage investors, AlphaLab provides funding, free office space, expert business advisors and services through an intensive 20-week program in Pittsburgh. AlphaLab helps companies rapidly develop their technology, gain user feedback from early product releases, develop go-to-market strategies, and move toward successful commercial launch.
• Enter the Pittsburgh Innovates challenge -- a showcase of local, leading-edge technologies and innovations -- and win cash prizes ( $10,000 and $20,000) while connecting with judges from Disney Imagineering, Electronic Arts, Seagate and regional technology and gaming organizations. Deadline: Oct 26, 2008
• 3rd Annual South Side Game Studio Crawl (and Costume Spectacular)
  Date: Saturday October 25th
  Time: 4:00pm - 8:00pm
  Venue: Sim Ops Studios, Schell Games, Alpha Lab, SilverTree Media
  Cost: $10
  The Pittsburgh IGDA Chapter welcomes you to enjoy food and beverage while exploring South Side's game studios. We'll begin at Sim Ops Studios at 4pm and move our way up Carson St to Schell Games, Alpha Lab, and SilverTree Media. Last year we had people wear costumes and it worked out really well, so let's do it again! Prizes will be awarded at the end of the night.
  Registration and more information
  Addresses and map
• Show Me The Money! The Basics of SBIR/STTR: A Seminar by the Small Business Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh
  October 24, 2008 - 8:00- 10:00 AM - 104 Mervis Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Oakland- Seminar free of charge, but reservation required (ieeregistration@katz.pitt.edu)
• TiE Pittsburgh Entrepreneur’s Base Camp
  Oct 18, 2008 @ The University Center, Carnegie Mellon
  See pdf for more information
• Be part of the First Wild Pockets Game Jam 2008
  Oct 18 - Oct 19, 2008 @ The Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon
• Devhouse Pgh #5
  Date: October 2, 2008
  Time: 5:30PM - midnight.
  Venue: AlphaLab in the South Side - Pittsburgh's tech-startup incubator at 2325 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203.
  Come and present a lightning talk on technology issues you are interested in or looking for advice on. Lightning Talks will start at 7PM. Visit our website at devhousepgh.org to post a topic in advance or just drop by and present.
• Fall Mash-Up
  Tuesday, September 23rd • 5:30 pm • Doc's Place, Shadyside
• Carnegie Mellon's Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation will be co-hosting a networking event with Entrepreneurial Thursdays on March 20. This event will focus on robotics entrepreneurial endeavors, but is a good networking event for any entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs with CMU connections.
  Schedule and Directions
• Help Startups is pleased to be presenting a major event for all those interested in advancing entrepreneurial activities in the Pittsburgh region. For the first time ever top executives from five major entrepreneurial support organizations will participate in a panel discussion around the theme, "Where Do We Go From Here?" The event will be held on Tuesday, May 6th , from 5:30 - 7:30 pm, at the Rivers Club.
  Press release
  Registration
• AlphaLab is now accepting applications for the 2008 Summer/Fall program.  The application deadline is March 31, 2008.  To apply or sign up to join the user testing community, go to www.iwAlphaLab.org
• cityLive! Event - Not. Just. Dance!
  Speakers: Jacques d'Ambroise and Michele de la Reza
  Location: New Hazlett Theater
  Date and Time: January 16, 2008 6:30 p.m.
  Free! -- rsvp@nowall.com
• DevHouse Pittsburgh
  Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2007
  Time: 6:00pm - Midnight
  Venue: Rivers Club, One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA
  RSVP: Please register on the DevHouse Pittsburgh website.
  DevHouse Pittsburgh, is the first event of its kind in Pittsburg, targetted at software developers, and modeled after SuperHappyDevHouse in California, in the spirit of demoscene. The event is being organized by Jeff Hunter, who is a software developer at Apple's Pittsburgh Lab and is co-sponsored by InnovationWorks. All are welcome to attend.
• HURDLES to e-BUSINESS
  A Carnegie Bosch Institute Conference
  McConomy Auditorium - University Center - Carnegie Mellon University
  Thursday, October 11, 2007 • 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
  Commerce over the internet has grown in unprecedented ways and magnitude over the past decade. This conference will examine the frictions in this deployment of business over the Internet, by identifying both hurdles and solutions. Conference topics include better usability, spam, security, privacy and trust issues that span the spectrum of Internet commerce from B2C to B2B issues.
  The event features three leading experts from the industry.
  
  • 9:00 • Coffee
  • 9:30 • Welcome and Introduction
    Johannes Elling, Carnegie Bosch Institute and
    R Ravi, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Bosch Professor
  • 9:45 • Neel Sundaresan, Sr. Director and Head, Research Labs, eBay
    Community Computing: Tackling the Finding Challenge by its Long Tail
  • 10:45 • Kourosh Gharachorloo, Traffic Quality Team, Google
    Click Fraud - Anecdotes from the Frontline
  • 11:45 • Coffee Break
  • 12:00 • Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Yahoo! Research
    The Web Economy and its Relevance to the Intersection of Computer Science and Economics
  • For more information and registration, please visit www.tepper.cmu.edu/cbiconference or email ekrall@andrew.cmu.edu.
• Blue Knot Opening Event Featuring Biotech Companies
  Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2007
  Time:6:00pm - 9:00pm
  Venue:The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, 100 Technology Drive, Suite 400, Pittsburgh PA 15219, Click here for directions
  RSVP: Click Here to RSVP or email Jessica Ursiak at jursiak@UJFpittsburgh.org by October 3, 2007
  
  • The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse: Creating Wealth for the Region
    Presenting: John W. Manzetti, President & CEO
    
  • Blue Belt Technologies
    Presenting: Craig Markovitz, CEO
    
  • Neuro Kinetics, Inc.
    Presenting: Howison Schroeder, CEO
    
  • Coventina Healthcare Enterprises, Inc.
    Presenting: James (Chip) Hanlon, President and CEO
    
  • Blue Knot Pittsburgh is a networking group for Jewish professionals who share an interest in technology. Blue Knot groups across the country provide opportunities for their members to gather together for networking, educational programs, speaking events, and community activities. Blue Knot Pittsburgh connects with similar groups in 22 other U.S. cities and 1 in Israel.
    
• helpstartups.com launch party
  Date: Tuesday, September 18
  Time: 5:30pm - 8:00 pm
  Venue: McFadden's, Equitable Resources Building, North Shore
  Contact person: Gary Rosensteel grosensteel@helpstartups.com
  Block this date off on your calendar! We are planning the biggest (and best) launch party in Pittsburgh history. Join government, university, non-profit, foundation AND entrepreneurial leaders from all over southwestern PA, along with your fellow entrepreneurs, in a fun-filled evening in one of our city's new hot spots! Our private room opens on to the spacious patio overlooking the Allegheny River.
• Pop City Live! The topic: The First, the Best and the Only
  When: September 10, 2007 at 6:30 pm
  Where: @ the New Hazlett Theatre
  Cost: Free!
  rsvp@popcitymedia.com
• PITTSBURGH STEM SUMMIT 2007
  Enhancing Education Now for Pittsburgh's Business Future
  Date: Wednesday, August 15
  Time: 7:30am - 3:30pm.
  Venue: Omni William Penn Hotel, 530 William Penn Place, Downtown Pittsburgh
  Cost: $99
  RSVP: EVENTS@PGHTECH.ORG OR 412.918.4229
  Info: WWW.PGHTECH.ORG, Agenda, Mention in the Carnegie Mellon News
  Join regional professionals for the first conference in the Pittsburgh area to address the current and future workforce shortage within science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. Hear from keynote speaker Dr. Mae Jemison, a model for the importance of STEM careers. Jemison earned the distinction of becoming the first African-American woman to enter space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Shuttle Endeavor in 1992. Breakout sessions provide employers with information on existing Pittsburgh STEM programs and how their companies can get involved. Drive regional growth during working sessions to create action plans to help educators inspire students to pursue STEM careers.
  
• Entrepreneurs Network Social
  Date: Thursday, August 2
  Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  Venue: The Library, 2304 E. Carson St., South Side
  Cost: $20 members / $30 non-members
  RSVP: 412.918.4229 or email: events@pghtech.org
  You're an entrepreneur. You work hard to grow your business. You deserve a break! Join like-minded entrepreneurs and make new connections as the Pittsburgh Technology Council and TiE Pittsburgh present the Entrepreneurs Network Social. Enjoy hot food, cold drinks and engaging conversation at The Library, a newly renovated South Side restaurant and bar. But don't attend if you're in the mood for a long presentation: this event is strictly recreational!