About The Entrepreneur's Growth Conference:

Duquesne University's Small Business Development Center presents a day-long conference featuring workshops, networking opportunities and a trade show.

Cost: $139

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Agenda

Keynote Speakers

Raul Valdes Perez

Executive Chairman, Vivisimo

Raul led Vivisimo from when he co-founded it in June 2000 until June 2009, when he became executive chairman. During his tenure, he was recognized as a 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (North Central Region), top ten reader favorite for Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. magazine, twice a CEO of the year finalist by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, CEO Communicator of the Year by the Public Relations Society of America (Pittsburgh chapter) and an Outstanding Alumni Career Achievement by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before Vivisimo, Raul was on the Carnegie Mellon University computer science department faculty, where his research on new methods and applications of knowledge discovery led to publishing nearly 50 journal articles in natural, social and computer science. He has been a principal investigator on seven grants from the National Science Foundation, served on its advisory committee for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, and was an action editor of the journal Machine Learning. He currently serves on the boards of directors of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, the Pittsburgh World Affairs Council, and the Advisory Board of Safaba Translation Solutions. Raul received a Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon in 1991, where his adviser was Herbert A. Simon (Turing Award 1975 and Nobel Laureate 1978) and B.S. and M.S. degrees in information engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

2012 List of Workshops*

• Workshop Descriptions
• Speaker Biographies
• Agenda by Time