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Philly daily roundup: Advanced manufacturing’s impact; Pitch at a PACT event; Apply for a Comcast accelerator

Plus, AI at Wharton opened registration for its Business and Generative AI workshop in San Francisco this fall.

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How manufacturing transforms local economies

Advanced manufacturing can have a positive impact on the environment, the economy and the surrounding communities if it’s done intentionally.

“The processes associated with advanced manufacturing enable clean, sustainable and safe production,” wrote Ken Malone, a cofounder and executive officer of Baltimore-based commercialization company Early Charm.

➡️ Read more about the social impact of advanced manufacturing

Useful help for entrepreneurs, good biz for lawyers

Do startup founders still need a lawyer in 2024, and have law firms’ views of startups changed over the past 20 years? Yes…and yes.

Ballard Spahr partner Kim Klayman writes about the topic often; her guest posts are regularly some of Technical.ly’s most popular articles. Tune in at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, July 31, as she joins Chris Wink on Builders Live to discuss her experiences with VC, private equity, family offices and corporate venture groups. The discussion should be useful not only for other startup lawyers, but anyone interested in content marketing in the innovation space.

➡️ Register to join us and ask questions live

News Incubator: What else to know today

• A Trump presidency would mean different things for tech policy than a Democratic one. [Technical.ly]

• PACT is accepting applications from companies to pitch at its Mid-Atlantic Capital Conference in October. [PACT]

• AI at Wharton opened registration for its Business and Generative AI workshop in San Francisco this fall. [AI at Wharton/Technical.ly]

• AI startups can now apply to be in the next cohort of Comcast’s LIFT Labs accelerator. [Comcast]

🗓️ On the Calendar

• Venture Cafe returns on July 25 with a workshop about storytelling in the science industry. [Register here]

• Health Tech PHL is hosting a meetup on July 25 to connect healthcare and tech professionals. [Sign up]

Sarah Huffman is a 2022-2024 corps member for Report for America, an initiative of The Groundtruth Project that pairs young journalists with local newsrooms. This position is supported by the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.

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