Taylor Ford may have a degree in chemistry, but her passion and business is around all things technology. Her managed services company, I.T.'s 4 Me, brings information technology services to small and medium-sized companies at an approachable and understandable level. Taylor has an amazing story of following her passion and providing a valuable service.

Today's webcast is a must-see, as we welcome Gerardo Interiano, Head of Government Relations at Aurora, to update us on its latest progress in autonomous vehicle technology and the company's commitment to supporting the local community.

Gerardo and Aurora helped spearhead the Beyond the Laptops initiative back in April to raise funds and awareness for Pittsburgh Public School students in need of laptops. Find out how Aurora has been developing leading-edge tech and giving back to the community in this call!

Toni Murphy, Comcast Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Keystone Region, talks about Comcast's response to COVID-19. We discuss everything from Comcast's engineers keeping the network at top efficiency to special programs aimed to help customers get on-line and stay online with seamless service. Plus, Toni talks about the upcoming Athena Awards in September.

Qeexo develops machine learning solutions for highly constrained environments. Small, but powerful, Qeexo’s machine learning engines are lightweight, delivering high performance with an incredibly small footprint. This allows its models to run locally on devices without having to go to the cloud, making it ideal for low-latency applications in mobile, IoT, wearables, and automotive.

Integrated Village successfully launched the Meerkat Village pilot and is planning the full release for the summer of 2020.  

Meerkat Village is unique because it:

1. is designed to empower families and integrate service provision for children with social, emotional and behavioral needs; 
2. enables adults to communicate and develop strategies, define and document the use of those strategies on a single page, and collect outcome data with ease;
3. remains with each family until their child turns 18 at no additional cost. 

Find out what the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint means for Pittsburgh and the future of 5G,.

Learn about the winners of the 2020 CIO of the Year Awards. Plus find out how the vent worked in a virtual environment. 

Neighborhood Allies fosters Healthy Neighborhoods of Choice and Opportunity across Greater Pittsburgh. President Presley Gillespie tells us ho it makes life better for people and improves places and environments for all Pittsburghers to live by bringing hope, fresh ideas, expertise and resources and by accelerating, scaling and sustaining equitable, proven community change initiatives. Powered by Comcast!  

Today on Business as Usual, we are excited to welcome Dr. Utibe Essien MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a Core Investigator in the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion. Dr. Essien is also a board-certified internist, providing clinical care at VA Pittsburgh. Dr. Essien will discuss how COVID-19 is having a harsher impact on people of color. What does this mean moving forward as cases spike and the new school year begins? Dr. Essien has the insights on this and more.

Technology bootcamps have become a popular and efficient way to provide people with job-ready tech skills quickly and effectively. We're excited to have Josh Lucas, Co-Founder of Academy Pittsburgh, and Justin Driscoll, Campus Director at Tech Elevator, to overview how their respective organizations are helping people get skills and connecting them to employment opportunities in as little as three months.