May 21: Green Drinks with Robots!

Pittsburgh Green Drinks hosts a talk by Sam Cancila and Ken Wolf on how Robots for Measurable Digital Information Enables Total Sewer Pipeline Integrity.

redzone robot


RedZone Robotics is setting a new industry standard in trenchless technology and field service automation by delivering innovative, semi-automated solutions that provide a more simply operated, more powerful, and more cost-effective method of sewer inspection and pipe rehabilitation decisions. RedZone’s patent-pending trenchless technology is the first commercial application of sensor-fusion technologies that utilize multiple sensor inputs to enact action, leveraging robotics and engineering expertise as well as focus on customers’ challenges RedZone’s robotic offerings significantly outperform existing products, tools and technologies due to their modular approach, simpler operation, faster execution and continuous operation in the assessment and evaluation of the wastewater infrastructure.


Sam Cancilla is the Vice President Regional Sales of RedZone Robotics Inc. and is based out of the world headquarters of the Pittsburgh, PA Office. He has over 19 years of experience in the water and wastewater trenchless technology industry from pipeline inspection to various inspection and rehabilitation technologies including cured-in place pipe rehab, pipe bursting, cement-mortar lining, in both gravity and pressure pipes. In addition, Mr. Cancilla has been involved with the development and implementation of the Responder multi-sensor robotic platform for advanced pipeline condition assessment and Solo autonomous pipeline inspection robot and is named on several patents for such innovative technologies. In addition, Mr. Cancilla has been involved with the condition assessment in over 100 of the largest major US and Canadian cities in excess of over 1,000,000 LF of large diameter pipes using the Responder robotic system. He has a B.S. of Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and is a member of various industry groups including NASSCO, ASTM, AWWA. WEF.

Ken Wolf ,VP of Sales and Marketing, is responsible for the global sales and marketing strategies at RedZone. He has specific expertise in deploying sales channels around robotic technologies, software and data services. Prior to joining RedZone Mr. Wolf was Vice President of Global Sales for Confluence Technologies, Inc., a Pittsburgh based global software firm serving the financial services industry with offices in London and Luxembourg. During his tenure, Confluence was recognized as one of Pittsburgh’s fastest growing companies. Earlier in his career he was Vice President of Strategic Account Sales for McKesson Automation where he led the sales efforts of the company’s robotics, hardware and software technologies. Mr. Wolf has lectured on sales process at the Carnegie Mellon University Don Jones School of Entrepreneurship, and in 2007 he was featured in a Harvard Business School Press book entitled The Point of the Deal, How to Negotiate when YES is Not Enough. Mr. Wolf received a B.A. in English from Providence College in Providence Rhode Island.

Come join us for a discussion about how robots are responding to the green call.


5-9 p.m. at Mitchell's Restaurant, Bar & Banquet Center 304 Ross St (at Third Avenue) Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Map & Directions For Port Authority Bus Routes, go here: http://www.portauthority.org

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Every month, people who work in the environmental field or have in interest in a greener planet meet up for drinks at places all around the world at informal sessions known as Green Drinks. We have a lively mixture of people from Non profit, academia, labor, government, media and business. Come along and you'll be made welcome. Just say, "are you green?" and we will look after you and introduce you to whoever is there. It's a great way of catching up with people you know and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so there's always a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organizing network.


These events are simple and unstructured. Make friends, develop new ideas, do deals and forge a new organic future. It's a force for the good and we'd like to help its spreading to other cities. Green Drinks meets on the 3rd Friday of each month from 5:00 - 9:00 PM...or later!! Put it in your calendar and count on it: Green Drinks is happening every month.

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