⑭Another fancy breakfast and morning talk on Entrepreneurship & Law @ K&L Gates Center, Downtown

Forgot how I got involved in the Pitt Entrepreneurship and Law Week events in late March 2012, but having the opportunity to have free breakfast in a nice downtown office building, K & L Gates Center, while taking in some words of wisdom from a practitioner as well as an advocate for social entrepreneurship law, +Kyle Westaway, was a great getaway from the basement study room of Hamburg Hall.

What’s more interesting is that I bumped into the excellent CMU CS doctoral candidate +Ben Towne, with who I had the chance to work on a Healthcare related innovation project. He taught me a lot about productivity, excellence, and more. It’s not a pleasant experience to know somebody else is better at so many things than I do. But what’s good coming out of it was that I had an enhanced motivation to keep working diligently and intelligently towards the goal out there, somewhere. 

This is a part of Pittsburgh’s charm, you pretty much can potentially bump into anybody anywhere, expected or unexpected. Maybe that’s why “Bad” guys are very few here in Pittsburgh, for they care too much of their positive public images, especially among their relatives or acquaintances, to do foolish things.

Beer winning trivia @ K&L Gates Center, Downtown

1. K&L Gates Center (long known as One Oliver Plaza and briefly as Free Markets Center and later Ariba Center), was completed in 1968. It has 39 floors, and rises 511 feet or 156 meters above Downtown Pittsburgh. The building sits at the intersection of Liberty Avenue, Sixth Avenue and Wood Street. By 2010, K&L Gates Law Firm has become the largest tenants of the building since its first entry in 2007.

2. The two major art pieces of the building (complementary to each other) are five illuminating “Light Columns ” and neon wall sculpture “Mobius Strip” , which were done by Welsh conceptual artist, sculptor, and filmmaker Cerith Wyn Evans in 2010.

Your ID @ Entrepreneurship & Law breakfast, K&L Gates Center

What’s the name of the river outside the window in the above picture?

+Justine Kasznica , the Executive director of the Innovation Practice Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, came to Pittsburgh in 2008. Which Ivy League school did she attend and graduate with a B.A.? Is it Yale or Harvard?