Now's the time to block off your calendar, and put a hold on that sweet spot in your living room (or lush backyard with a pool?). Here are this week's updates for the reimagined 2020 Philly Tech Week, Sept. 21-25.

EDITOR'S NOTES

• The Dev Conference agenda is here! Serious practitioners get a virtual tasting menu of technical specificity at the full-day, flex-style Developers Conference on Sept. 23. Learn more of what you know well, and lean into areas you want to explore more. Registration will open Aug. 27. 
  
• PTW20 Virtual honors Women's Equality Day. Next Wednesday the 26th is Medtech Day with Amplify Philly @ Home. We're celebrating with a prominent local woman in STEM. Join us at 2:10 for a fireside chat on "The State of Philly MedTech: Research, trends, and COVID-19". Register here and follow us on social to see who our guest speaker will be.   
• Finding a new job while playing trivia. In flip flops. So this happened last week. Technical.ly's annual Super Meetup went virtual and included a tech trivia game so intense our synapses left scorch marks. Hiring co's gave Tweet-worthy pitches to attract the best, and meetup group organizers summarized why they're so awesome. Why do we mention this? Perhaps, just perhaps, you'll see something like this in September.
• The return of our glorious historical figures. While #BeenInnovating is PTW20's tagline, it also speaks to this year's editorial recognition of local innovators and impactful change agents who have come before us. In this week's coverage, we explore what this generation of Philly activists can learn from the Black abolitionist James Forten. 

Here's a refresher on the week's tracks: ART: Where art and technology collide. Think: exhibitions, festivals, community initiatives, etc. SOFTWARE: Where engineers, programmers, designers, developers and project managers come together. GAMING: Where trends, strategies and the impact of esports, gamification and related efforts are discussed and defined.  MEDTECH: Cutting-edge technology, services, and solutions applied to medicine created to improve the quality of life. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Where professionals sharpen their skills, and organizations improve their support of employees. STARTUP: Where entrepreneurs, early-employees, investors and customers look for trends in starting and launching growth companies. IMPACT: Discussing topics that affect everyday citizens and the impact of technology on government and civil society. Get your bookmarking game on now. The tracks can be found here.

Article Roundup

As promised, here's a selection of some of our most-loved recent articles. We’ll get back to you with more updates and articles around this same time next week. 

• Here’s what the (virtual) PTW20 Technical.ly Developers Conference will look like

  By Katrina Gonzalez | August 17, 2020
  Get a look inside the Sept. 23 event's agenda for an all-virtual day of technical talks during the 10th annual Philly Tech Week presented by Comcast.
• Join these Philly tech groups at Super Meetup 2020 this Thursday
  By Julie Zeglen |August 12, 2020
  Meetup groups from Philly to DC represented at Technical.ly's first all-virtual meetup of meetups. Here are a few of the locals: Indy Hall, RLadies Philly, Ionic Philly and Philly Maker Faire.
  

• This art project will use a 7-story building as a sounding board for community voices

  By Michael Butler | August 12, 2020
  Running from Aug. 12 through 15, the civic engagement project led by Drexel University professor Frank Lee will project tweets about critical social issues onto a building at 33rd and Market.

• Meet these 13 hiring tech companies at the virtual Super Meetup 2020

  By Katrina Gonzalez |August 10, 2020
  Hundreds of technologists from the Mid-Atlantic will be convening for a very special Super Meetup. We created a rundown of participating companies who are hiring, and why you should check them out.

• How to handle fear at work? Make it a motivator, says Wil Reynolds

  By Paige Gross |August 3, 2020

  Our first installment with the Amplify Philly @ Home team features a fireside chat between Technical.ly CEO Chris Wink and Seer Interactive founder Wil Reynolds.

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