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Signature Events
Beef Up Your Breakfast.
Held about 10 times a year since 1984, Breakfast Briefings are a staple in the diets of Pittsburgh professionals. The morning events present visionaries whose work sets the standards for best business practices around the corner and around the world.
Next Up:
Breakfast Briefing Featuring James Cashman, President and CEO, ANSYS, Inc.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
7 - 9:30 a.m.
Location: Rivers Club, 1 Oxford Centre, 301 Grant St #411, 15219
Join James Cashman, president and CEO, ANSYS, Inc. as he presents an overview of ANSYS and the role that the company plays in helping its customers to drive clean and green initiatives in today's competitive landscape. Because technology from ANSYS provides detailed insight into the behavior of designs, it is ideal for developing a wide range of products that can benefit the environment - inventing low-mileage and clean energy automobiles, tracking pollutant plumes, increasing efficiency of wastewater treatment plants, optimizing energy production from fossil fuels, and engineering safer and more sustainable buildings.
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Past Breakfast Briefing Speakers
Our Breakfast Briefing series, running for 25 years strong, has featured a tremendous who's who list of world renowned thought and business leaders.
Business Leaders
Chris Donahue, President and CEO, Federated Investors; Dr. Attila Molnar, President and CEO, Bayer Corporation; Markos Tambakeras, President and CEO, Kennametal, Inc.; Edward W. (Ned) Hill, Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Economic Development, Cleveland State University; Jim Sinegal, CEO, Costco; Randy Dearth, CEO, LANXESS; John P. Surma, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Steel Corporation; Dave Barger, CEO, Jet Blue; Matt Preschern, Vice President of Industry Communications, IBM; Doug Hall, Eureka! Ranch Founder; Paul O’Neill, U.S. Treasury Secretary and retired CEO, Alcoa along with John G. Craig Jr., Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editor; Rich Lunak, President and CEO, Innovation Works; Verne Harnish, Founder and CEO, Gazelles, Inc.
Government Leaders
Dan Onorato, Chief Executive of Allegheny County; Dennis Yablonsky, Secretary of Community and Economic Development, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Governor Edward G. Rendell, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Kathleen McGinty, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Have event-related questions? For more information, contact our Events Team at 412.918.4229.