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ThinkFest Preview: Amy Gutmann Discusses Penn’s Next Decade With Jim Gardner

Now in her 10th year as president of the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann has a decade of educational, institutional, and civic accomplishments behind her: […]

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ThinkFest Preview: Taney Dragons Coach Alex Rice on Uniting the City

Philadelphians were enthralled by a baseball team this summer, but it wasn’t the Phillies. The Taney Dragons advanced all the way to the Little League […]

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ThinkFest Preview: How Philadelphia Is Reinventing Medicine and Healthcare

Jefferson, HUP, Hahnemann, Temple, CHOP—Philly is undeniably a medical town. And while our landscape of top doctors, researchers, institutions and hospitals helps shape the medical community […]

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ThinkFest Preview: Ajay Raju Wants Philadelphia to Be a World-Class City

Ajay Raju doesn’t think small. He has ideas about building his law firm, storied Dilworth Paxson, into something new and different on the legal scene. […]

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Join M. Night Shyamalan, Christina Weiss Lurie, William Hite, and More at ThinkFest 2014

To state the obvious: Philadelphia is not a city that has a reputation for innovation. (See: bus tokens.) But while we might not have the […]

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ThinkFest Video: Introduction

Philadelphia magazine President David Lipson, and Editor Tom McGrath, kick off ThinkFest 2013, an event based around the ideas and innovations of Philadelphia’s business community, […]

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ThinkFest Video: Leigh Gallagher

Philadelphia native, journalist, and self proclaimed suburbologist, Leigh Gallagher, gives an informative talk about the major changes happening to the suburbs. The American dream is […]

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ThinkFest Video: Josh Kopelman

The growing start-up community in Philadelphia is a major point of interest in this interview with First Round Capital founding partner, Josh Kopelman, and Philadelphia […]

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ThinkFest Video: R. Eric Thomas

Playwright and stand-up dramedian, R. Eric Thomas, shares a life-changing moment of creative enlightenment through meeting his personal idol, Patti LaBelle. Living in Baltimore and […]

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ThinkFest Video: Pig Iron Theatre Company, Pt. 2

“What kind of world would you like to live in, in 200 years?” Benjamin Franklin asks the big questions, but would you expect anything less […]

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ThinkFest Video: Pig Iron Theatre Company, Pt. 1

“As actors, this is our job to say today I’m going to be somebody else, I’m going to see the world from a different perspective, […]

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ThinkFest Video: Frank Lee

Remember that game of Pong on the Cira Centre? Frank Lee helped create that Guinness Record winning, world’s largest video game. As Associate Professor of […]

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ThinkFest Video: Tracey Welson-Rossman

“The next Steve Jobs will be a girl.” That’s the motto of TechGirlz founder Tracey Welson-Rossman. Yet there is still a major lack of women […]

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ThinkFest Video: M. Night Shyamalan

Screenwriter, film director, producer, and Philadelphia native M. Night Shyamalan takes on the education problems in Philadelphia after publishing his first book, I Got Schooled: […]

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ThinkFest Video: Kathleen Kane

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who declined to defend PA’s Marriage Equality Ban, champions a progressive movement towards LGBT and educational equality in Pennsylvania. Kane […]