School of Information Sciences

Technology, Entrepreneurship, Creativity (TEC) Conference

Sunday, February 9, 2014
9am to 5pm

Information Sciences Building
135 N. Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

This event is open exclusively to University of Pittsburgh students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Please RSVP to reserve your space!

The School of Information Sciences (the iSchool) at the University of Pittsburgh is proud to host the TEC Conference as the kickoff to our weeklong celebration of the Information Sciences: iFest 2014. Join us for a series of lectures and workshops on technology, entrepreneurship and creativity from 9am to 5pm.

Learn more about our TEC 2014 speakers!

Preliminary Schedule – check back for updates!

Start Time

End Time

Event(s)

9:00am

9:45am

Registration

9:45am

10:00am

Dean Larsen welcome speech

10:00am

10:50am

Josh Sager, Smith Brothers
Keynote Presentation – Creative Tinkering

11:00am

11:50am

Les Gies, TechShop
DIY movement, exploring and building

John Mahood, ImageBox
Running your own design company

12:00pm

1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm

1:50pm

Traci Thomas, MAYA
Human-centered design

Terry Clark, Terry Clark Photography
Creativity and small business

2:00pm

2:50pm

Becca Serr, MAYA
Human-centered design

James McGee, MD & William McIvor, MD
Technology-enabled learning – simulations in medical education

3:00pm

4:30pm

Workshops

HTML5+CSS3
Instructor: Josh Sager

Game Design
Instructor: Francisco Souki

Working with Arduino
Instructor: Dmitriy Babichenko