RealLIST Innovators 2026: 15 builders behind Pittsburgh’s tech scene

From making AI safer to expanding green technology, meet the local scientists, developers and researchers turning big ideas into reality.

By: Alice Crow

Outlets: Technical.ly

Published: August 24, 2026

Words: 1,623

Last Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago

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A thriving tech hub requires doers — people who take ideas and make them real.

At Technical.ly, we celebrate those people as RealLIST Innovators, an annual list of engineers, developers, scientists, researchers, inventors and technologists working to make Pittsburgh’s ecosystem great. It’s a big tent that includes people who make the planet greener, keep humans more connected or build safer AI systems for everyday users, among many other things.

Technical.ly builds its RealLISTs …

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