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Breakfast Briefings

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.

Breakfast Briefings

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.

Cost:
$40 Member
$175 Non-Member

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Notes from Our Last Breakfast Briefing

Check out the great presentations from Breakfast Briefing: Westinghouse and Nuclear Energy - The Reality of the Renaissance.
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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.

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Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference (TRETC) 2009

Find out how to gain your students' interest at the Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference (TRETC), which offers thought-provoking expert presentations, new technology previews and plenty of networking opportunities. Gain practical tools and key contacts to help you connect students with the technology tools of the future.

11.17.09

Doug Arent, Center Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Come and hear Doug Arent, NREL's Center Director speak on the current status and prospects of renewable energy and learn how they identify energy solutions through public and private partnerships.

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