Pennovation Works convenes inventors, researchers and biz founders across 23 acres of office, lab and production space. That entrepreneurial ecosystem created by the University of Pennsylvania is next up on Technical.ly’s 10-week series spotlighting the innovators of Philly’s past and present ahead of Philly Tech Week 2020 presented by Comcast.

(Read about how jazz musician John Coltrane connects to REC Philly and how suffragettes and abolitionists Margaretta Forten and Lucretia Mott connect to PhillyCAM to get caught up on the series.)

In a space where ideas grow into products, it makes sense to connect our next PTW hub — which will host multiple events on Monday, May 4 — with the programmers of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), who helped an idea become the world’s first computer at Penn in 1946.

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