Cody Pawlowski

Cody is the Co-Founder and CTO of FirstIgnite: the #1 tool for university-industry collaboration. While attending UIUC, he cofounded his first startup, Convey, and ultimately dropped out to pursue the venture full-time. The social listening platform predicted major elections such as Brexit and netted partnerships from political campaigns to drive outreach strategy. He's now focused on using AI to help research institutions partner with industry—getting more breakthroughs to market.