Andy Hannah at the Agentic Road Show

PITTSBURGH, PA, October 20, 2026 (PittsburghNewsWire.com) — Andy Hannah, CEO and co-founder of Blue Street Data (BSD) and adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh, will speak at the inaugural Agentic Road Show on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, at the University of Pittsburgh. His Innovation Sprint, “Venom in the Pipeline: Why Bad External Data is Poisoning Your AI,” begins at 11:30 a.m. in the O’Hara Ballroom of the O’Hara Student Center.

The Agentic Road Show is a new national seminar series on agentic AI for enterprise leaders, researchers and practitioners. Pittsburgh is its first stop, hosted by Pitt’s Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership (HAIL). Chicago, Austin, Boston and San Francisco are listed as coming soon.

Hannah’s talk looks at a growing risk: as companies hand more work to AI agents, they rely more on data that may be wrong, outdated or unverified. Much of the data feeding AI comes from outside providers, and once it’s inside a company it tends to be trusted without anyone checking where it came from or how often it’s updated. When an AI agent acts on that data by itself, there may be no one in between to catch a problem.

In his session, Hannah will cover:

• Why better AI models won’t fix problems that start in the data

• Why data from outside providers is trusted by default, and why surface-level checks aren’t enough

• How Blue Street Data helps companies see the quality and source of outside data before they buy it and before their AI relies on it

“AI models keep improving, and so do the people using them. Most datasets, however, don’t. They are only as good as the day they were built. Too often no one measures their fit for use or provenance, especially when the data comes from outside providers. Even great AI models die on bad data, so it’s essential to know where your data came from and how strong it is,” said Andy Hannah, CEO and co-founder of Blue Street Data.

Event details

Event – Agentic Road Show, Pittsburgh

Date – Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026

Hannah’s session – “Venom in the Pipeline: Why Bad External Data is Poisoning Your AI,” 11:45 a.m., 20 minutes (morning program)

Location – O’Hara Ballroom, O’Hara Student Center, University of Pittsburgh, 4024 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Host – University of Pittsburgh Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership (HAIL)

TicketsMorning, afternoon and full-day passes at agenticroadshow.com

About Andy Hannah

Andy Hannah, CEO and co-founder of Blue Street Data (BSD), is creating an efficient marketplace for external data, a critical ingredient of AI models, with a mission to bring provenance, quality and cost transparency to the market. BSD is his fifth venture; he previously served as president of Liaison’s AI and Data Science unit after Liaison acquired Othot, the higher-ed AI company he co-founded in 2014, and he is an adjunct professor of analytics at the University of Pittsburgh and chair of the advisory board for Pitt’s Hub for AI and Data Science Leadership.

About Blue Street Data

Blue Street Data brings greater efficiency, transparency and trust to the external data market. As the independent intelligence layer between businesses and 3,000 data providers, Blue Street Data helps organizations discover, compare and select high-quality data for their specific business needs and use cases.

Data buyers can compare more than 10,000 datasets across quality, provenance, coverage and cost. By bringing external data management together across business units, the company helps organizations monitor data quality, control spend, increase visibility into external data usage and make better-informed decisions. The result is lower risk and greater return on data investments.

For data providers, Blue Street Data offers a clearer path to the right buyers. Its tools help providers commercialize new data products, demonstrate their quality and differentiate their offerings in a highly competitive market.

Discover, compare and evaluate high-quality external data at www.bluestreetdata.com.