The Agentic Road Show

The Agentic Road Show comes to the O'Hara Student Center on Thursday, October 22, for a full day on agentic AI. It's the first stop of a new national seminar series, hosted here in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh's Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership (HAIL). The day is built around a single question: what happens when AI systems move from answering questions to making decisions and taking action? That shift—from a tool that tells you things to one that actually does things—is what the whole day is about.

The schedule is a mix of formats rather than just a string of talks. There are keynotes, research presentations, innovation sprints, panels, enterprise case studies, and structured networking, and the whole thing closes with a reception at The Porch at Schenley. The lineup brings together a few different worlds: Philip Koopman, Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon, presents Edge Cases for Safety; Eric Kavanagh of The Bloor Group gives Generation Skeptical; Andy Hannah of Blue Street Data presents Venom in the Pipeline; and Dr. Hooman Rashidi talks AI in Medicine: From Research to Reality. Dr. Mark Brady, former Chief Data Officer of the U.S. Space Force, brings 6 Laws for Safe AI. Joining them are Shane O'Toole of Amazon, David Linthicum, Lou Simon of Uptima, and Morgan Templar of FirstCDO.

The venue is the O'Hara Student Center, a three-story Romanesque Revival building that opened in 1913 as the Concordia Club, one of the city's leading Jewish social clubs. The university bought it in 2009 and reopened it as a student center in 2011; these days it houses the Math Assistance and Writing Centres. The day runs from 8 AM to 5 PM in the Ballroom at 3900 O'Hara Street, and morning, afternoon, and full-day passes are available at agenticroadshow.com/store. Chicago, Austin, Boston, and San Francisco are listed as coming soon, so Pittsburgh is the first to host it.