Open call for events and sponsors for Philly Tech Week 2012 presented by AT&T

It’s that time again, Philadelphia.

Technically Philly has officially launched the open calendar of events for Philly Tech Week 2012 at PhillyTechWeek.com.

Events will take place Monday, April 23 through Saturday, April 28, 2012 with a kick-off weekend taking place April 20 through 22. We’re excited to launch the calendar with dozens of collaborative partners already onboard, and we’re eagerly anticipating the events that will come from Philly’s great tech community.

Philly Tech Week 2012 is presented by AT&T, the debut title sponsor, and is organized by Technically Philly. The annual week of events is intended to grow the impact of this innovative region through programming focused on technology, collaboration and improving Philadelphia. This year’s theme: “Making a better Philadelphia through technology.”

“AT&T is proud to be the first title sponsor of Philly Tech Week. We’re always looking ahead and we know our customers are too. They want to be amazed by ‘what’s next.’ It’s our job to support events and organizations that promote innovation and creativity in technology,” said Tiffany Baehman, vice president and general manager, AT&T, greater Philadelphia. “We recognize all that the Philly tech community has to offer and we are excited to see what the week brings.”

Technically Philly turned to Jarvus Innovations to develop PhillyTechWeek.com after the web development firm created the inaugural Philly Tech Week website and mobile application in 2011. The firm works with organizations like Consumer Reports, Philadelphia Eagles, The Roots and TEDxPhilly.

We’re launching with 23 events on the calendar, and several anchor events are confirmed thus far for Philly Tech Week 2012, including:

• A daily lunchtime speaker series at WHYY will take place again this year
• The week will be kicked-off by Startup Weekend, the entrepreneur bootcamp, followed by a block party hosted by globally-known coworking community Independents Hall
• Philly Tech Week’s Signature Event, a gala cocktail party, will gather hundreds of leaders in Philadelphia’s technology community
• The second annual Philly Robotics Expo will be held at Drexel University
• OpenAccessPhilly will provide lightning presentations on public-private partnerships
• Five Philly startups will compete for a prize pack at demo event Switch Philly
• The fourth annual BarCamp News Innovation, an annual, one-day unconference on journalism innovation, and the Open Gov Hackathon will be held at Temple University

To learn how to get involved with Philly Tech Week, read more after the jump.

Additional events will be independently organized throughout the region, and event organizers interested in participating with Philly Tech Week 2012 are encouraged to learn how to submit events for free to the calendar by visiting this website: http://bit.ly/organize_ptw2012

The week is currently supported by AT&T, Comcast, T-Mobile, City of Philadelphia, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Morgan Lewis, Temple University’s Center for Public Interest Journalism, Tropo, Jarvus Innovations, the University City Science Center, PHD Virtual, Corzo Center for the Creative Economy, Springboard Media, Chariot Solutions, Monetate, Razor Servers, SeaChange International and Goliath Technologies. Organizations interested in sponsoring should visit: http://bit.ly/sponsor_ptw2012

During the inaugural Philly Tech Week in April 2011, more than 4,000 people attended at least one of 65 events held throughout the city and surrounding counties. With more than 50 press hits across newspapers, radio, television and blogs, the week became an enormous opportunity for the partners involved in making it happen. For more about the inaugural impact, read our media kit: http://bit.ly/ptw2012_mediakit

If your organization or business would like to get involved with Philly Tech Week 2012 presented by AT&T, you can organize an event or become a sponsor.

START BY VISITING WWW.PHILLYTECHWEEK.COM
ORGANIZE AN EVENT: http://bit.ly/organize_ptw2012
BECOME A SPONSOR: http://bit.ly/sponsor_ptw2012
READ THE MEDIA KIT: http://bit.ly/ptw2012_mediakit