If you stopped by Thursday evening’s Signature Event during Philly Tech Week 2020, you probably caught the celebration of our Technical.ly Awards winners, some Philly-centric innovation trivia and a special guest — Mayor Jim Kenney.

He stopped by to chat with us for a few, whilst holed up in his Old City home because 1.) he’s quarantining and 2.) our usually huge and dance-filled end-of-PTW party was indeed virtual because 3.) it’s 2020 and nothing seems to makes sense anymore.

Between history Qs like “What science fiction author lived for a time is West Philly?” and “What’s the name of the first Black American to enter space?” Kenney (who was on day five of 14 in quarantine) popped in to speak to the Technical.ly team and event attendees about voting, social media and the census.

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