Marie Pelloni wants to keep talent in Pittsburgh — or at the very least in Pennsylvania.

To do that, she hosts free virtual recruitment events as the senior director of talent and workforce at Pittsburgh Technology Council.

When Argo AI, an autonomous driving technology company, shuttered in 2022, Ms. Pelloni said 350 of “the greatest minds” were suddenly jobless.

“We looked at each other and said, ‘We need to do something to try to retain this talent in Pittsburgh, to retain this workforce,’” Ms. Pelloni said. “So we kicked off this Dream Teams series.”

So far, Ms. Pelloni has hosted 11 of these recruitment events, including after layoffs at U.S. Steel and PPG Industries, or when Locomation, an autonomous trucking company, shut down in 2023.

When federal jobs nationwide started getti

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