Philly Tech Week 2014, Presented by AT&T

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Civic 2014 Track Day

Monday, April 7
10am–8pm

Learn about how technology is impacting local government and civil society. Hackers, politicians, bureaucrats and citizens will meet to discuss the creative class, technology's economic impact and more.

RSVP to attend the full day of events, or select individual events. LOCATIONS VARY based on the event.

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Track Day Events

City Hall and the Free Library

Speakers

  • Elif Sen

    Elif Sen

    Elif is an economic analyst in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Her responsibilities include conducting the monthly Business Outlook Survey for nonmanufacturing firms, which asks participants about the direction of change in overall business activity and about the various measures of activity at their firms such as employment, orders, and prices. She also analyzes regional data for the Bank’s Third District, which includes eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware; these analyses are released on the Bank’s website.

  • Darlene Cavalier

    Darlene Cavalier

    Darlene Cavalier is an advocate for science literacy, a writer, and an entrepreneur. She is the founder of Science Cheerleader, a blog that promotes science in popular culture and plays on her former position as a cheerleader for the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team. She is also the co-founder of Science for Citizens, an online portal that aggregates Citizen science projects and enlists the help of volunteers to work on the projects.

  • Paul R. Levy

    Paul R. Levy

    Paul is the founding chief executive of the Center City District, serving in that capacity since January 1991. The CCD is a $19.4 million downtown management district, which provides security, cleaning, place marketing, promotion, and planning services for the central business district of Philadelphia.

  • Donna Harris

    Donna Harris

    Donna Harris is an active angel investor and a founding member of the K Street Capital angel network in Washington D.C. She also is co-founder of 1776, which convenes and accelerates startups from around the world by connecting them to the political, intellectual, social and financial leaders in Washington.

  • Josh Kopelman

    Josh Kopelman

    Josh founded Half.com in July of 1999, and led it to become one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000 — and Josh remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com business unit and growing eBay’s Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual gross merchandise sales. Josh founded First Round Capital in 2004 to reinvent seed-stage investing. And since that time the firm has invested in over 200 emerging technology startups – becoming one of the most active venture capital firms in the country. Josh was ranked 12th on Forbes 2013 “Midas List” of the top 100 tech investors.