“March winds and April showers Bring forth spring (or May) flowers.”

Let’s hope this rainy weather we’re seeing today is for is setting us up for the May flowers we’re promised as we get three weeks closer to the 9th annual Philly Tech Week 2019 Presented By Comcast.

Now, here’s the short and long on what’s up this year :

• 🌷Every Spring, the cities biggest STEAM Festivals are just days apart. Our stars aligned in 2019 and we’re are over the moon that the Science Carnival powered by the Franklin Institute AND the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby have overlapping event days (May 4th + May 11th) with Philly Tech Week! Better yet, we were able to collaborate on a microgrant for Sculpture Derby makers and we cannot wait to see what they bring to the races! READ MORE

• 💥There’s 81 events on the PTW18 Community Calendar and 19 events to be confirmed! Get the inside scoop on events organized by community members to attend throughout the week, handpicked by the our team. Save these dates!

• 🖐️ more names you might recognize speaking at Introduced by Technical.ly, if you're looking for sessions that are sure to leave you inspired, click on their names below to see in what session they are speaking and get ready to dig in:
• Phil Charron, Think Company's Executive Vice President
• Kate Merton, Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation
• Brian Orrell, Chief Technology Officer of Pariveda Solutions
• Devetta James, SVP of Customer Operations of Amerisourcebergen
• Margaret Berger Bradley,  Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania

• 🏙️PLUS, did you know we have speakers representing 9 different states at Introduced? Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, California, New Jersey, New York, DC, Virginia and Nevada are all in the house!

• 👩‍💻Do you follow @PhillyTechWeek on Twitter? We’ve been sharing insider info about each community event that is finalized on the calendar. Check out the hashtag: #PTW19 to catch up on what you missed! We're also on the gram.

• 😱Our React workshop for this year’s Dev Conference has sold out! But don’t worry, we have a full day of programming for you from Grubhub, Guru, Vanguard, and a whole lot more — you can still snag tickets for only $20!

• 🙌We’re thankful for our latest sponsors aka Philly tech community true believers and ALL FIRST TIMERS! Say hello to Accenture, VA Tech University, PHLCVB, StratIS and Springboard Media!

• 🔥Through an extra generous media partnership, Philly Tech Week will take over the May 2nd issue of the Philadelphia Weekly!! For anyone that doesn’t know - the Philadelphia Weekly is the city’s leading alternative news source since 1971. You’ll want to snag a paper at any of the 40 locations open for PTW19 Kickoff Festival at First Friday in Old City!

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Read through the editorial coverage from this past week for the full picture of what's really good with @phillytechweek below. Have a great weekend!