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Tune in to TechVibe Radio on Sunday to learn more about Pittsburgh's presence at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Hear from Mike Harding, VP for Business Investment at the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, about the Building Approachable Autonomy in Pittsburgh panel discussion and overall take aways from the world's largest tech event.

Plus TechVibe's Jonathan Kersting brings you interviews of Pittsburgh companies from the showroom floor.

This is a podcast for tech and manufacturing  entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

Make TechVibe Radio part of your Sunday morning as we welcome BlastPoint CEO and CoFounder Alison Alvarez to tell us all about the Pittsburgh AI company's growth trajectory for 2024.

BlastPoint empowers companies to reap the benefits of $13T in predicted AI-driven gains by 2030 without the pain points. 

The BlastPoint Customer Intelligence Platform places AI-powered insights at the fingertips of business users, so companies don’t have to worry about securing in-house AI talent or addressing infrastructure readiness gaps in order to utilize customer AI.

This is a podcast for tech and manufacturing  entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

Carnegie Robotics made a literal splash at CES this year as Brunswick debuted its technology in its high-end boats.

Carnegie Robotics' Mike Embrescia explains how the company's advanced vision systems allow these million-plus-dollar boats to dock autonomously.

Since 2010, Carnegie Robotics (CRL) has focused its strength in two key areas:  Engineering autonomy for some of the world’s largest companies – and building the products, sensors and software that power autonomy. Learn more at https://www.carnegierobotics.com/.

This is a podcast for tech and manufacturing  entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

Aspinity Founder and COO Tom Doyle took a quick break from a busy day at CES 2024 to tell us more about the company's analog machine learning chips that are revolutionizing the architecture of always-on sensing devices that run on battery. 

Built using the company's unique RAMP™ technology platform, Aspinity’s ultra-low power, trainable and programmable analogML™ (analog machine learning) core delivers highly discriminating analog event detection that eliminates the digitization of irrelevant data and dramatically extending battery life for consumer, IoT, industrial and medical applications.

This is a podcast for tech and manufacturing  entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

Powercast's Hank Gasbarro tells us how the company's continuing mission is to provide wireless power solutions that increase the range and efficiency by which RF energy is converted into DC power, which can be harvested from dedicated and ambient sources.

Powercast won (3) Innovation Awards at CES 2023 for our $5 BOM cost RF transmitter. Learn more about Powercast at https://www.powercastco.com/.

This is a podcast for tech and manufacturing  entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

The Pittsburgh Technology Council and Pittsburgh Regional Alliance took to CES 2024 along dozens of Pittsburgh tech and innovation companies.

The Tech Council's Jonathan Kersting caught up with Hellbender's Brian Beyer as he details the importance of CES as a worldwide meeting ground to connect with customers and find potential new customers and/or partners.

Hellbender creates Computer Vision solutions for customers across multiple industries. Learn more at www.hellbender.com.

This is a podcast for tech and manufacturing  entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

The centerpiece of Pittsburgh’s CES premiere was the “Building Approachable Technology in Pittsburgh” on 1/9, underscoring the region’s world leadership in robotics and autonomy.

Moderated by Lenna Cominos, Executive Director, Corporate Partnerships at Carnegie Mellon University, the panel featured these industry experts: Sterling Anderson, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Aurora; Ed Olson, CEO, May Mobility; Patrick Mondi, CEO, Thoro.ai; and Micol Marchetti-Bowick, CTO, Velo.ai.

Ranging from established market leaders to growth-oriented startups, these companies reflect the diversity of the Pittsburgh region’s robotics/autonomy ecosystem, which is now 100+ companies strong and growing.

This is a podcast for tech and manufacturing  entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

Larry Gioia, Director of PwC Products & Technology | Innovation Hub R&D Lead, helps TechVibe Radio kick off the new year with a look at emerging technologies that will impact business.   Artificial intelligence, IoT, Blockchain, augmented, reality, virtual reality, advanced robotics, quantum computing and neuromorphic computing lead the list of essential technologies that Larry has in his sights.   Listen in and see how they could be potential game-changers for entire industries and your business, too. Tune in, geek out and start 2024 off in the know!

Fourth River Solutions (4RS), is a volunteer non-profit consulting group aimed to provide hands-on business experience to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) advanced degree (Masters and PhD) and post-doctoral trainees.

Mahmoud Khalil steps up to the One Mic Stand to tell you how the organization consults for local non-profit, early stage start-up companies, and university technology transfer groups to provide much needed rigorous research and analytics.

Among a variety of consulting services that Fourth River offers, it vets emerging technologies for feasibility to achieve successful market entry and profitability by evaluating key aspects of the technology, including value proposition, competitive advantages, and barriers to entry.

For its clients, Fourth River has consistently demonstrated that it can provide high quality service for a minimal price compared to a large for-profit consulting firm.

The U.S. Commercial Service is the trade promotion arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration. U.S. Commercial Service trade professionals in over 100 U.S. cities, including Pittsburgh, and in more than 75 countries help U.S. companies get started in exporting or increase sales to new global markets.

Ryan Russell of the U.S. Commercial Service and Jerry Pompa of Compunetix step up to the One Mic Stand to tell you how businesses of any size can use the U.S. Commercial Service to tap into global markets.

Learn how Compunetix has worked with the U.S. Commercial Service to get market analysis and one-on-one introductions to potential trade partners.