On April 3, with introduction from Councilmembers Oh and Quinones-Sanchez, a resolution officially naming April 4 - 12, 2014 Philly Tech Week will be read at City Council. The community is welcome to attend the resolution reading.
A discussion at City Hall to discuss growing Philly's entrepreneurial efforts and creative class.
By collaborating across disciplines and working with capital investment firms that fund novel and innovative ideas, the American Heart Association will serve as the convening organization for fostering dialogue and discourse among national leaders to affect change in diseases.
The Philly Robotics Expo (PRX) is an annual robotics expo that takes place during Philly Tech Week. This year's event includes tours of robotics labs at UPenn, workshops, the exhibitor hall, participation in FIRST Robotics Scrimmages, and seminars from UPenn and Drexel Professors and grad students.
Hackfit is a fitness-infused startup competition for innovative thinkers passionate about healthy living.
AIGA Philadelphia SPACE will feature interactive design and web animation for it's April exhibition, opening First Friday.
The day of awesome events is over, but not ready to go home yet? Come out for #PTW14 After Hours. Every night of the week, after all other events have concluded, gather with other attendees of Tech Week at a single neighborhood bar to compare notes, continue networking and wind down. No RSVP necessary; just show up.
Founded in 1976, PACS is a computer user group where members fix problems, share knowledge, and learn from each other.
This 2-day hack session will explore light and technology. On Saturday, we'll play with analog techniques that explore light, drawing and perception. On Sunday we'll use new digital technology to further our exploration.
In conjunction to the exhibition "NOISE: Electricity for Progress," Sam Cusumano and The Philadelphia Art Alliance will host an interactive workshop designed to illuminate the interconnectedness of science and nature.
Philly Student Startup Summit is a one-day conference organized by nvigor that aims to help students connect with top leaders in the startup community.
The Design Slam is a collaborative event in user experience design where participants compete in teams to develop the best design solution for a given challenge.
Enjoy hands-on technology exhibits, information tables and speakers and see a Black Inventions exhibit. Learn an Hour of Code.
The Philadelphia Podcasting Society is pleased to announce its first ever Meetup. Our group's goal is to build community amongst Philly-based podcasters through meeting and greeting, swapping stories, techniques and resources and being generally social.
Join the engineers from Carbide Labs as they cover the fundamentals of CNC manufacturing.
The RedSnake is a meeting where Rubyists and Pythonistas get together to throw down some hard tech and inspire each other and those new to programming, introduce Philly's top companies to Philly's top programmers, and raise recognition for Philly as a tech center.
Celebrate innovation & tech at the Philly Tech Week Kickoff event! RSVP for a chance to play the world's largest video game!
Baseball Hack Day is a hacking event where area baseball minds come together, form a team, and collaborate to create baseball-related projects to compete in a friendly one-day competition.
NextFab will be hosting an Arduino programming workshop. Participants will learn to program an Arduino controller to play Tetris® and other classic video games on an LED lit replica of the Cira Centre. Attendees need not have any experience, as the class will be taught for novices. At the end of the class, each student gets to take home their newly programmed controller!
GPS Bodies is an intermedia meditation on how relationships change when they are mediated through mobile dating apps. We present an immersive game experience for audiences to explore the nuances, complexities, and challenges that these Apps play in everyday lives.
Visit the companies, coworking facilities, maker-spaces and universities that are the backbone of Philly tech.
A second night of playing classic video games on the Cira Centre building, Guinness Certified as the world's tallest video game!
How to Create and Maintain Control of Smarter Mobile Apps with Real-Time UI Updates, A/B Testing, and Personalization Ready or not, the rise of smartphones and tablets are forcing organizations off the mobile device sidelines.
Panel focused on economic development and business taxes that affect the tech economy in Philadelphia.
OpenAccessPHL is a network of civic-minded, passionate, engaged and active Philadelphians working at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
This event brings together tech people from diverse backgrounds including gender, race, ethnicity, members of the LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities. We invite you to help us make a more creative and innovative tech community by joining the conversation.
Social media use by both individuals and businesses is exploding and the data collectible from users is plentiful and invaluable. With such priceless data available a few code lines away, the risk to the privacy of our information on social networks exponentially increases.
Join members of Philly's mobile community in a lively mix of rousing keynote entertainment and engaging networking.
Join us for our inaugural Automated Testing Philly Meetup! We'll introduce the group and it's goals, host talks from Testing Enthusiasts, eat food and drink beer, and network.
Hear from Happy Cog and TEDxPhiladelphia, as they explore how they’re working together to curate a digital conference experience. Join us for an inside look at the intensive website redesign process.
If you’re in client service work, you’ve probably experienced the difficulties associated with defining and managing requirements through the life of a project, and beyond! Join Dave DeRuchie, Allison Fegel, and Patrick Marsceill from Happy Cog for a workshop on defining requirements in the digital age.
The day of awesome events is over, but not ready to go home yet? Come out for #PTW14 After Hours. Every night of the week, after all other events have concluded, gather with other attendees of Tech Week at a single neighborhood bar to compare notes, continue networking and wind down. No RSVP necessary; just show up.
Bootstrappers Breakfasts meetings are for founders of early stage startups. It is a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers.
SOLD OUT Come to this one-day workshop and build an application in AngularJS using Twitter Bootstrap, and integrate it with a Node.JS server-side data store.
PhillyForce is the local Force.com and Salesforce user group. The conference will include presentations about the platform, use cases, and useful tips.
With smartphones becoming a part of our identity and the convenience of carrying and using just one device, many have started using their personal mobile devices for work related tasks. This phenomenon, aptly dubbed "Bring Your Own Device", or "BYOD", raises a variety of legal issues both for the user and for the corporation.
A lunchtime panel discussing lessons on startup PR and how to connect with the right PR firms in the future.
Digital trends that marketers, agencies, content producers, and startups need to know.
Come see where your data lives. Inerail and 365 Main will be giving tours of the data center facility at 3701 Market Street.
Join with hackers, developers, creatives, entrepreneurs, story-tellers, and organizers from around Philly to work on apps, sites, and other technology projects by Philly, for Philly in this PTW edition of Code for Philly's weekly civic hacking workshop
The Market & Shops at Comcast Center are celebrating Philly Tech Week by offering a free seminar showcasing simple life hacks for work and play that will put an end to your mobile madness. JDMK Consulting will teach you how to extend your battery life, feed the family, set up a virtual office, and manage your kid’s schoolwork like a champ. For more on this new event series, visit www.themarketandshopsatcomcastcenter.com. #TSQUARED #PTW14
Join Femme & Fortune as they host an open panel and Q&A featuring three local entrepreneurial women to discuss their struggles and successes of being a female business owner.
Can you make data useful and beautiful? If so, then join us for some friendly competition during a night of fun and excitement - and some learning and development, too. Artists, data scientists, technology geeks, graphic artists, computer science nerds all come together for one hour to show their finest visualization of data sets.
Join us 52 floors above Philadelphia for an intimate conversation with extraordinary women in tech and tech startups, including Tracey Welson-Rossman, Ellen Weber, Julie Shapiro Esq, and Kathleen Cohen.
We’ve compiled an all-star panel to tell you the real deal – what it’s really like to work as a designer in a startup. You’ll hear horror stories, you’ll hear how it was the best choice ever made, and you’ll learn all the best practices.
This hands-on workshop is designed to teach individuals the basics of how to create a mobile app for the iOS platform and submit it to the App Store.
What happens to intellectual property created at a hackathon or startup weekend? A presentation on ways to avoid future conflict. Hosted by the Drexel Entrepreneurial Law Clinic and featuring an expert attorney panel.
We cleaned out our closets and brought all of our favorite video games from our childhoods. Come play all the classics! No RSVP necessary.
A panel of leading attorneys serving the the tech community discuss the legal issues relevant to startups during their early stages.
A panel of hackathoners will describe the hackathon experience to IT industry older types.
Join in on this conversation with the man behind the popular lifestyle blog, MarcusTroy.com. Find out why NIke, Puma, LL Bean, Sebago and Bentley all trust this influencer's voice to spread the word about their brands.
Join the PhilaMade creative community at Frankford Hall for a show and tell of just a few of the exciting emerging projects from creatives in the region.
The day of awesome events is over, but not ready to go home yet? Come out for #PTW14 After Hours. Every night of the week, after all other events have concluded, gather with other attendees of Tech Week at a single neighborhood bar to compare notes, continue networking and wind down. No RSVP necessary; just show up.
Building the legal elements of intellectual property, trademarking, litigation, accounting and more.
MLeads team invites you to join Manish Gorawala, award-winning Philadelphia based IT entrepreneur turned innovator, as he introduces you to the possibilities and demonstrates how web and mobile marketing and sales management can set you on a new path to growth.
Can an app help those with visual disabilities see the world? A moderated panel and group discussion will highlight opportunities for access to technology, operational barriers to usage, adaptation and adoption, as well as product development.
A panel about making investments in Philly and along the northeast corridor.
Start-up game developer, PHL Collective, will be holding a game demo at Benjamin's Desk. Come by and try out our first title. Lunch is on us!
Learn about utilizing the Foundation framework and Sass together in Drupal harmony.
A multi-dimensional event with 16 speakers (keynote and panelists) covering topics on "how to" regarding the application of digital strategy within the advertising and communications industry.
Some of the most aesthetically pleasing sites are also the slowest, but you don’t have to limit yourself to square corners and solid background colors to speed up your Drupal site.
Celebrating our 3rd annual event with hands-on workshops hosted by MongoDB and StrongLoop, followed by an early evening speaker series with some of the most prominent talent in the Node community.
Presentations on the failures that led to success.
Camden Sound Bytes will explore the growing world of new tech and small business innovation occurring in Camden, NJ. Join us at Victor's Pub in downtown Camden from 4-6pm to help answer the question, "Why Choose Camden?" by defining what technology means for the future of Camden and by sharing opportunities that are available for start-ups looking to move to the City.
Join software developers, business owners, and city officials to learn more about what information the City makes public and how open data can support businesses, too.
Hang out, have a beer, and unwind after a great day of events. Share what you learned with fellow PTW’ers or just stop by and play a few games of pool, darts, or Xbox One.
In this two part panel series, entrepreneurs interested in social impact learn how to apply it in their ventures. You will hear directly from two panels of entrepreneurs across industries, how they developed their business idea, built a customer base and found the capital to grow.
SOLD OUT: The brewmasters at Bresslergroup, a product development and design consultancy in Center City, have been hard at work on an internal project linking our favorite things: beer, engineering, design, and technology.
Philly Blog Love hosts a discussion to find out how local tastemakers have grown their presence and seen business benefits by utilizing the digital space to build brand and create buzz.
Launch for exciting, new apartment search site looking to disrupt the Philadelphia apartment industry.
The Grey Lodge Pub in Mayfair, Northeast Philly will be celebrating Philly Tech Week withs +3<h Qu1220 (leetspeak for "Tech Quizzo").
Join us for a moderated panel discussion on how artists and galleries are collaborating to produce increasingly immersive works and non-traditional exhibitions.
Join GeoPhilly for a screening of short archival films related to mapping, cartography, and planning from as early as the 1940s. “Data for Decision†(1967), our feature for the evening, celebrates the first ever use of digital analytical map making.
Join Girl Develop It and Ladies in Tech at the CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia's coworking space to hear from women in the design and tech industries in Philadelphia who have boosted their careers through public speaking.
This is a weekly open house for Hive 76, where folks drop by to work on software, hardware, or any other DIY projects that may be of interest. No RSVP necessary.
The Entrepreneur Expo is your chance to connect with this community, whether you're an entrepreneur, a business, an organization or a community member.
This roundtable discussion will engage local and national experts in a conversation about Net Neutrality and Internet access as it impacts users, small businesses and Internet activists in Philadelphia and throughout the country.
The day of awesome events is over, but not ready to go home yet? Come out for #PTW14 After Hours. Every night of the week, after all other events have concluded, gather with other attendees of Tech Week at a single neighborhood bar to compare notes, continue networking and wind down. No RSVP necessary; just show up.
Spend a day hacking with Ken Rimple at Chariot as he shows you how to build a project using the Bower, Grunt, Yeoman and NPM tools to set up a client and server-side JS application.
Phorum is an annual tech strategy conference that gathers the nation’s leading minds and most innovative solutions around a single, trending topic. This intensive, one-day event includes insights from the nation’s most authoritative experts; up-close interaction with relevant technological solutions and learnings from business leaders with first-hand experience capitalizing on the trend.
Philadelphia’s tech economy is growing – players include emerging start-ups, robust firms that are strong and growing rapidly and the powerhouse Comcast. Join the Philadelphia Public Relations Association for a look at the region’s tech sector and its public relations opportunities.
We'll kick-off Commit, our year-long technology service pledge at this morning event. Volunteer a few hours with others in the Philly Tech Week community to help local nonprofits and citizens learn computer skills like resume building, word processing and more.
The Parent's Guide to Learning in the Digital Age is a day-long institute focused on providing knowledge and digital resources to empower parents who work in our public schools.
Do you have a great new business idea but no money to start it? If so, you can't afford to miss WURD's interactive panel discussion on Crowdfunding, the hottest way to raise money to turn your dream into reality.
If you want to know the difference between WiFi and Zigbee, and how that might apply to your project or product, this is the place to learn more.
Join us in Alteva’s Innovation Center to learn more about the critical tools necessary to ensure business continuity and productivity. In the midst of a disaster, advanced solutions for virtual desktops and unified communications can keep your business up and running with minimal impact.
Come celebrate UPstart's four years of operation, bringing together the diverse body of stakeholders who have been instrumental in our success. This event will present our companies and will give faculty, investors, entrepreneurs, media, and Penn administration the chance to connect to each other.
Please note that this event has been canceled, but you can see Christopher Rogers speaking on this subject at Rethink Philly Edtech on Thursday. As we move into an era marked by more open data sources, how can we begin to transfer this magic into the classroom, creating opportunity for students to be able to learn critical 21st century skills with real data about real problems and real needs?
Building a successful news website requires much attention to detail. Join AL DÃA for a panel discussion to get a behind-the-scenes look into the process, challenges, and solutions for building a large-scale, responsive, news website in Spanish and English.
If you like C, work in embedded development, or just feel like hanging out, come to our Embedded Schmebedded open house. We will have some beers and snacks, trade war stories, and even play some ping-pong or fussball.
If you’re into music, making music, or making things that make music, you won’t want to miss this! No RSVP necessary.
Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs, powered by Google for Entrepreneurs.
RJ Rushmore will discuss some of the ideas from his new ebook, Viral Art, which examines the intersection of street art and the internet. He argues that street art has always been shaped by communication technologies, and the internet has been a major factor in the development of street art over the last decade.
Heineken Green Room invites you, our esteemed members, to get up close and personal with some of the most progressive names in music and technology and party to the beats of Philly’s own !llvibe Collective and MICK (formerly Mick Boogie) - one of America's most in-demand DJ talents and a marketing, branding, and tech space entrepreneur.
Old City Philadelphia-based WebLinc is hosting a game show-inspired event based on the famous 1970’s TV show, Hollywood Squares. The event will be eCommerce and front-end UX focused and will feature some of the tech industry’s favorite community thought leaders, local celebrities and WebLinc’s very own industry experts.
Six EdTech leaders will each give a 10 minute talk about a powerful idea, experience, or project with the intent of making the audience think more deeply ('rethink') about a topic in educational technology.
I-SITE and PhillyCHI are pleased to host a technology and design-themed Quizzo as part of Philly Tech Week.
Democratization has been a longstanding hurdle within technology and the arts. In a city as diverse as Philadelphia, the lines between these industries are constantly coming within the entrepreneurial community, academic institutions and local corporations.
50onRed and Leadnomics are teaming up with Technically Philly, RJMetrics, and Baer Crossey to host a fun-filled mixer for tech savvy locals.
Happy Cog is partnering with Dribbble Philadelphia and Dribbble headquarters to host a meetup with other Dribblers, have a couple beers, and generally kick back and relax.
We’ll celebrate the Philadelphia launch of Rad Girls with a brief Q&A session from some of our featured ladies followed by cocktails.
Changes in the law and changes in technology will create opportunities and traps -- whether you’re a developer, a company, a creative or a consumer. Better mobile technology and new privacy laws will require new security applications.
Watch as some of Philadelphia's geekiest comedians battle against each other in a game of trivia, improv, and hilarity.
The day of awesome events is over, but not ready to go home yet? Come out for #PTW14 After Hours. Every night of the week, after all other events have concluded, gather with other attendees of Tech Week at a single neighborhood bar to compare notes, continue networking and wind down. No RSVP necessary; just show up.
Entrepreneurs know that the key to getting a big idea off the ground is access to start-up capital. Join us to learn what it takes to get the funding you need to move your business dreams forward with Gil Beyda.
Join other managers and executives in growing tech companies who are hiring for sales, marketing, software development, UI/UX, and other tech-oriented positions.
We'll discuss the latest technologies with our experts: Gene Marks (The Marks Group), Nicole Ksiazek (Fesnak) and Jeff Sumner (TechGuides Inc.).
CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community. Come this month for a talk from Eric Smith, the co-founder of Geekadelphia and the Philadelphia Geek Awards , as well as the social media and marketing manager at Quirk Books.
How does technology complement your efforts to bring about a healthy, socially-inclusive and sustainable food future? Explore this question and others with moderator Nic Esposito and panelists Mark Headd, Amy Laura Cahn, Ryan Kuck, and Paul Steinke.
Join faculty and students from the College of Computing & Informatics (CCI)—Drexel University’s newest college—and experience its outstanding computing and information research through hands-on activities and demonstrations in the areas of artificial intelligence, game development, cybersecurity and more.
Join Prism Engineering to touch, see, and feel the world's fastest growing additive manufacturing application: 3D printing.
The official City naming ceremony for N3rd Street - N3rd Street BBQ gathers all the great people and businesses making it happen in this innovative corridor of Philly.
The University of the Arts School of Music, in conjunction with WXPN and The Corzo Center for Entrepreneurship, present a series of esteemed professionals including Schooly D, NPR's Tom Moon, RJD2 and more sharing their thoughts and opinions on how the intersection of music and technology are influencing one another, and where their partnership might lead.
Respect The Technique is a two day panel discussion moderated by AfroDJiak. Friday’s discussion will cover technology and software development and it’s relationship with booming creative arts scene. Panelists include Karas Lamb, Bruce Campbell, Noel Gussen, George Lawrence, Jodie Saueraker.
Come out to the annual premiere Philly Tech Week Signature Event presented by AT&T, a cocktail reception meets an interactive local technology expo and demo party. This year's event will be held in the lobby and westside plaza of the city's tallest building.
Keep the fun going at one of Philadelphia's coolest bars for the official afterparty of the Philly Tech Week Signature Event.
The Philly Women in Tech Summit is an annual event that inspires, educates and connects women in the technology industry from the Philadelphia region.
Having tech troubles? Bring your uncooperative computer, tablet, smartphone, laptop, or just your questions! This event is a free-of-charge technical diagnosis and advice-giving session hosted by the student geniuses of Drexel University TechServ.
In conjunction to the exhibition "NOISE: Electricity for Progress," Sam Cusumano and The Philadelphia Art Alliance will host an interactive workshop designed to encourage experimentation and hands-on learning.
Students (girls from 6-9th grade) will learn the basics of GNU/Linux, the software on a computer that enables applications, and the computer operator, to access the devices on the computer to perform desired functions.
GPS Bodies is an intermedia meditation on how relationships change when they are mediated through mobile dating apps. We present an immersive game experience for audiences to explore the nuances, complexities, and challenges that these Apps play in everyday lives.
All the previous Hive76 jams wrap together IN ONE JAM! JAM. Vintage video gaming, DIY music, and member projects.
Day two of a panel discussion moderated by AfroDJiak. Saturday’s discussion will be delving into some solutions with regards to closing the digital divide and connecting the dots between social networks and the real world in a way that everyone can benefit. Panelists include Cheldin Barlet, Will Baptist, Bruce Warren, Maori Holmes, Khary Sharpe.
8static is Philadelphia's monthly chip music event, showcasing 8-bit music, hacked consoles, circuit bending & vintage electronic gear.
Sorry, this event has been postponed until further notice. Follow @n3rdst on Twitter for updates.
