Philly New Technology Meetup #20 - 4 Seasons of Philly Tech - 2nd Holiday Event
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This will be our SECOND annual Holiday Extravaganza. Duane Morris is hosting us in their building, food and drink courtesy of our sponsors. Eisner Amper and Ben Franklin Technology Partners are once again supporting us by sponsoring some of the food and drink!
This year's theme will be to celebrate four seasons of Philly tech and innovation. We will have lightning talks from four local tech-lebrities each who made news in one of the four seasons.
5:30 - 6:00 Registration, Snacks
6:00 - 6:30 Four Seasons presentations
6:30 - 8:00 Drinks, food, networking
8:15 Happy Hour - Tir Na Nog
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Winter - Aleksandr Kushleyev (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandr-kushleyev-81458a34), KMel Robotics
Alex was Co-Founder of a young Philly startup that designed technology for unmanned aerial vehicles (drones). They sold to Qualcomm (http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2015/02/03/kmel-robotics-acquired-by-qualcomm-technologies.html)in February, stayed here, and are now building that company's local team.
Spring - Tracey Welson-Rossman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceywelsonrossman), ETE and WIT Conferences
This April marked the 10th anniversary of Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (http://2016.phillyemergingtech.com/) (ETE) Conference and the 4th Women in Tech Summit (http://womenintechsummit.net/philadelphia/), both of which Tracey helped co-found and put Philly tech on the national map.
Summer - Doug Baldasare (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougbaldasare), ChargeItSpot
Doug founded ChargeItSpot (https://chargeitspot.com/)in 2012 and announced this summer that it had raised over $4M in funding to continue growing its cell phone charging kiosk business.
Fall - Pranav Vishnu Ramabhadran (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranavvishnu), PennApps
Pranav is a student at Penn studying Management and Technology. He is the Director of PennApps (http://2015f.pennapps.com/), the nation's first student-run hackathon. This Fall they hosted their 12th event bringing together more than 2,000 students from around the world.
After the event, we'll have a happy hour at Tir Na Nog (16th between JFK and Arch). Cash bar and happy hour specials for PNTM. We hope you'll join us to continue the conversations and meet new people.
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