In fall 2010, when we at Technical.ly first launched Philly Tech Week, our goal was to contribute to a more unified tech community in Philadelphia.

Back then, the independent creatives, advanced technologists, digital access advocates, future-thinking business leaders and entrepreneurs we spent our days interviewing seemed poised to collaborate, but hadn’t much yet. Philly Tech Week, then, was an in-person manifestation of what we were trying to accomplish with our daily reporting at Technical.ly.

By 2018, that original goal felt sufficiently accomplished. Of all the existing shortcomings of Philadelphia’s tech community, it no longer seemed that a lack of awareness was one of them. Publicly, we launched a new mission statement for Philly Tech Week, and internally, we set our sights on our 10th annual — which was due for May 2020. We had grand visions of our largest, most collaborative celebration of technology, entrepreneurship and innovation yet. One that would also mark a transition to a new era of PTW as an economic development driver at a new level, for which we at Technical.ly were not the right central organizer.

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