The second annual Pittsburgh Inno Fire Awards at the Assembly on Centre Avenue.
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About 150 prominent people in the tech and innovation community gathered at the Assembly in Bloomfield on Sept. 20 to honor the winners of the 2023 Pittsburgh Inno Fire Awards.
At the event, Red Whittaker, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is considered a pioneer in the area of field robotics, was honored as the Career Achievement Award Winner and received the Fire Awards Blazer.
To see photos from the event, click on the photos below:
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The second annual Pittsburgh Inno Fire Awards at the Assembly on Centre Avenue.
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Award winner Sandesh Sukumaran of Outcome Logic LLC and Manu Jayadevan.
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Lisa Geary of Dentons and Tina Seidelson and Kimberly Amey of Carnegie Science Center.
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Melissa Craig and Claire Kuzneski of Kuzneski Insurance Group network at the Inno Fire Awards.
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Daniel Stuart, Marcus & Shapira LLP, award winner Lindsay Stuart of Mamulux and Michael Stuart of CBRE.
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Arti and Devender Arora with their son, award winner Sankalp Arora of Gather AI.
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Chad Zwigart, Dynamic Manufacturing; Seth Fosmire, Ceeva; and award winner Ram Balasubramanian of Novasenta.
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The Assembly networking reception at the second annual Inno Fire Awards event.
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Andrew Hayhurst and Heidi Norman of City of Pittsburgh and award winner Trever Stoll of PGH Lab.
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Award winner Ira Moskowitz, Caren Ponty and James Myers of Pittsburgh Regional Alliance.
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The Assembly networking reception at the second annual Inno Fire Awards event.
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Jack Terrell, a senior at Sewickley Academy, second from left, and his family at the Inno Fire Awards.
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Award winner Emily Stewart of Belong For Me and her father, Pat Stewart.
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Presenting sponsor Justin Kaufman of PwC makes opening remarks at the Inno Fire Awards presentation.
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Pamela Gibbs accepts the Fire Award for Jim Gibbs, CEO of Meter Feeder.
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Terri Glueck accepts the Fire award for Jane Joseph of Innovation Works.
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Award winner Patti Rote of Girls of Steel and Carnegie Mellon University.
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Award winner Novasenta Inc. employees. Novasenta was a top funding category award winner.
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Kimberly Amey of Carnegie Science Center announces the student winners at Inno Fire Awards.
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William "Red" Whittaker and Kathy Whittaker applaude the student winners at Inno Fire.
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Video presentation of Career Achievement award winner, William "Red" Whittaker.
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Pittsburgh Inno reporter Nate Doughty presents William "Red" Whittaker with his Inno Fire blazer.
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Inno Fire Career Achievement winner William "Red" Whittaker accepts his award and makes remarks.
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To read profiles of all of the winners, view the 2023 Pittsburgh Inno Fire Awards page.
