99U Local: Philadelphia
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We’re thrilled to invite you to join us for an intimate, new 99U talk series about how to kill it in your creative career.
The program will feature three short talks offering practical creative career and business advice from exceptional Philadelphians who are making ideas happen.
Come for the road-tested, no-bullshit advice. Stay for the drinks and networking!
The Speakers
Conrad BennerStreets Dept
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Conrad Benner is the Founder and Editor of StreetsDept.com (http://streetsdept.com/), a Philadelphia-based photo-blog that highlights and celebrates street art, graffiti, and urban exploration. Conrad's blog has been named one of the “Best Blogs for Travellers” by The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/travel/blog/2013/oct/04/best-blogs-for-travellers-boston-philadelphia-baltimore), and his photography highlighted by Mashable (http://streetsdept.com/2015/02/13/streets-dept-featured-on-mashable-today/) and Instagram (http://streetsdept.com/2014/10/27/streets-dept-selected-as-instagram-suggested-user/), as well as printed in Time Magazine (http://streetsdept.com/2011/06/17/oh-shit-son-im-in-time-magazine/) and the Encyclopedia Britannica (http://streetsdept.com/2012/03/15/oh-hey-dad-i-know-you-dont-know-what-a-blogger-is-but-now-im-published-in-the-fucking-encyclopedia-britannica/). Winner of the 2011 “Geek Culture Journalism (http://streetsdept.com/2011/08/21/streets-dept-winner-of-the-2011-geek-culture-journalism-award/)” award, and named "Best Art Curator" in 2014 by Philadelphia Magazine (http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/07/24/best-philadelphians-2014/), Benner has used his growing influence to affect change in his community. Most notably with his successful #SEPTA247 (http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/essayworks/66926-septas-late-night-experiment-a-huge-step-forward-into-philadelphias-future) campaign in 2014, which pushed the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) to reintroduce weekend evening service to the City of Philadelphia's elevated and subway trains. Born and raised in Fishtown, Conrad is a life-long Philadelphian excited for the future of the city and ready to help push it forward in any way he can.
Danielle CohnSenior Director, Entrepreneurial Engagement, Comcast
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Danielle Cohn leads Comcast NBCUniversal's ongoing engagement with and support of startups, incubators, co-working spaces and individual entrepreneurs in her hometown of Philadelphia and other cities. She’s also helping to design a collaborative entrepreneurs' resource center and accelerator program that will be located inside the new Comcast Innovation & Technology Center when it opens in 2018.
As the former Vice President of Marketing & Communications for the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau for more than a decade, she led the charge to create a new narrative for Philadelphia; supported by an open source graphic identity derived from the short code PHL, now used by more than 80 public, private and non-profit organizations in promoting and growing business in the City.
An Old City Philadelphia resident, she is on the boards of Philadelphia Academies and Philly Startup Leaders.
Dan MallSuperFriendly
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DAN MALL is a creative director and advisor from Philly. He’s the director of SuperFriendly (http://superfriend.ly/), a design collaborative that brings exquisite creative direction & design to world’s most important and interesting organizations. Dan is an enthralled husband & dad and co-founder of Typedia (http://typedia.com/) (an encyclopedia for typefaces) and Businessology (http://www.businessology.biz/) (a podcast and workshop series teaching designers how to run better businesses). He writes about design and other issues onTwitter (http://twitter.com/danielmall) and on his industry-recognized site, danielmall.com (http://danielmall.com/).