Biography
James Kenney became the 99th Mayor of Philadelphia on January 4th, 2016, after 23 years as an at-large member of the Philadelphia City Council.
Technical.ly Coverage (72 posts)
- Mayor Kenney, Comcast’s David Cohen will join PSL’s Diversity Dinner 2017
- Philly will enter national bid process to house Amazon’s new HQ
- Delphic Digital’s office expansion gets the Mayor Kenney ribbon-cutting treatment
- 5 takeaways from Jim Kenney’s Mayoral Tech Town Hall
- Mayor Kenney is back for another Q&A during Philly Tech Week 2017
- Mayor Kenney on his #SXSW trip: ‘Tech has to be part of the conversation’
- #SXSW roll call: Here are some Philly faces already in Austin
- Mayor Kenney sees StartUp PHL’s Call for Ideas as a way to support immigrants
- Comcast to Kenney: Veto wage discrimination bill, or else
- Mayor Kenney is headed to SXSW along with 14 Philly tech companies (so far)
- 5 ways to make the Philly tech scene more inclusive: #DiversityDinner16
- Mayor Kenney spoke at this event celebrating military veteran founders
- 5 takeaways from Mayor Kenney’s love letter to the tech community
- Philly’s Microsoft Reactor is finally open for business. What’s next?
- StartUp PHL just issued its latest Call for Ideas. Here’s how you can apply
- Amazon gave out $10,000 in school supplies to a North Philly school
- Mayor Kenney did a DIY version of ‘Mean Tweets’ for his birthday
- Insurance startup Margo gets a visit from Mayor Kenney
- Hear from Technical.ly’s Juliana Reyes on this Committee of Seventy podcast
- Curalate announced as DNC’s first local official technology provider
- Margo wins PSL power lunch with Mayor Kenney, stakeholders
- Comcast donates $105K for 3D printers at 3 Philly rec centers
- Scenes from Entrepreneur Expo 2016
- Mayor Kenney wants startups in every neighborhood
- Mayor Kenney’s ideal tech town
- Here’s your chance to ask Mayor Kenney anything about tech
- The battle over civic innovation inside Philadelphia City Hall
- City of Philadelphia releases employee salary data
- Local politicians came out for Code for Philly’s DemHack hackathon
- Story Bellows has some hard-won advice for keeping civic innovation alive in Philly
- On the Market: Lead Mayor Kenney’s workforce development team
- Where’s the open data for Mayor Kenney’s proposed budget?
- Kenney’s budget proposes $150K for StartUp PHL ‘Call for Ideas’ grants
- Under Kenney’s proposed budget, wage tax would be at lowest rate since 1975
- When it comes to tech, Curalate CEO wants Mayor Kenney to be like Nutter
- Mayor Kenney’s dream app is a tool for reporting street harassment
- 10 key takeaways from Mayor Kenney’s transition report
- ‘We just need to be better storytellers’: Tomorrow Tour on Philly’s startup future
- These high schoolers scanned Mayor Kenney and then 3D-printed him
- Mayor Kenney and the tech scene are in that awkward, getting-to-know you phase
- Mayor Kenney’s press team is using MailChimp to send out announcements
- Meet the woman who keeps Mayor Kenney’s Twitter weird
- Tim Wisniewski will remain Chief Data Officer under Mayor Kenney
- Here are the 12 stories we obsessed over this year
- Mayor Nutter cut the ribbon at SEER Interactive’s jaw-dropping new office
- Care about the future of your city? Steal these 10 ideas from civic-tech leaders
- What will Mayor-elect Jim Kenney’s innovation team look like?
- Our interview with Mayor-elect Jim Kenney
- Yo, Mayor-Elect Jim Kenney will keynote our Rise civic innovation conference
- Mayoral candidate Jim Kenney is helping out with Code for Philly’s sustainability hackathon
- Jim Kenney is speaking at an event that aims to turn more women into angel investors
- Hey, Jim Kenney: Tech means something to more of Philly than you may realize
- Mayoral candidate Jim Kenney is hosting an Instagram meetup
- Mayoral candidate Jim Kenney visits Bluecadet
- Watch video of the #PTW15 Mayoral Forum and see if these survey results make sense
- Open data, municipal WiFi and, um, online bill pay? The mayoral candidates talk tech at #ptw15
- Open data, StartUp PHL and 5 other things Philly’s mayoral candidates all agree on
- This is how Philly tech will influence the mayoral election
- How tech savvy are Philly’s 2015 mayoral hopefuls? We did some Googling
- How tech fits in to the Chamber’s new campaign for job creation
- City Council will make N. 3rd Street officially ‘N3rd Street’
- Verizon visits new FiOS customers with Valentine’s Day treats in tow
- 16 of 17 Philadelphia City Council members are on Twitter
- Councilman Jim Kenney on $29k Chatterblast digital strategy contract: using staff would do same work “at a much higher cost”
- 5 reforms in Philly tax policy that every freelancer and small business owner should know [VIDEO]
- Tax reform legislation passes City Council committee, would exempt first $100k in city business receipts
- DATA CRUNCHED: how the country’s first community open data catalog got done
- Rich Negrin: City Managing Director running 311, PhillyStat and city IT on the future of Philly open gov [Q&A]
- Jim Kenney: expanded college internships could move forward city priorities, like open gov
- Councilman Jim Kenney on tax policy amid a recession
- Jim Kenney, City Councilman, on Philly 311 today, tomorrow and what is holding it back
- Two City Council members want to sue Twitter, Facebook over flash mob