Cody Pawlowski

Cody Pawlowski is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FirstIgnite, an artificial intelligence software company based in the United States. He began his entrepreneurial career while studying at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, eventually dropping out of the academic institution to build his first technology startup on a full-time basis. As the co-founder of Convey, Pawlowski developed a specialized social listening platform that secured strategic outreach partnerships with multiple political campaigns and successfully predicted the outcome of the historic Brexit vote. In his current technical leadership role at FirstIgnite, he oversees the ongoing development of business intelligence tools designed to facilitate university technology transfer and commercialization. Pawlowski currently focuses on engineering advanced data analytics platforms that connect academic research institutions with corporate industry partners to bring new scientific breakthroughs directly to the commercial market.