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| Jul 26, 2021 | More data, more bikes: An Azavea-built tool is improving city transit networks via data viz and public policy | Transport energy consumption is one of the leading contributors to greenhouse gases, and 40% of energy transport is derived from urban settings. As the climate change impacts of greenhouse gases become harder to ignore, many cities across t... |
| May 13, 2021 | Open-Source Data Could Fix Fashion’s Supply Chains. Here’s How | Readymade garments workers works in a factory during coronavirus pandemic in Gazipur on May 2, 2021. ... [+] (Photo by Ahmed Salahuddin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty Images |
| Mar 9, 2021 | Learn more about these hiring tech companies you can meet at NET/WORK 2021 | Looking to explore new career opportunities? You’ll find plenty at NET/WORK 2021, Technical.ly’s free virtual job fair on Thursday, March 18, from noon to 6 p.m. ET.
Organizations from across the mid-Atlantic will be there with real hiring ... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | ‘Life is a blob’: How this Azavea team has kept remote worklife human | 2020 was awful in this corner of the internet, too.
The world shrank. Who was accessible changed radically. We, and the people around us, by necessity took on different roles. Including at work.
On the short list of people I interacted with... |
| Sep 1, 2020 | It’s been a decade. Watch the preview video for the 10th annual Philly Tech Week | Innovation and invention are no stranger to Philadelphia.
That new thinking tends to come in new forms every generation. In the last decade, Philadelphia has seen an explosion of creative communities, from music and food to urbanism and the... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | The Philly Tech Week community events calendar is live. Here’s a sneak peek | Philly Tech Week 2020 presented by Comcast’s first round of our community calendar is live, with six events you won’t want to miss.
Behind the scenes, our many community event organizers have been working rapidly to pivot their events to ne... |
| Feb 24, 2020 | Find these hiring companies on Pro Row at NET/WORK Philly 2020 | When you walk into NET/WORK Philly 2020 on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at The Fillmore, you’ll be greeted by an enormous gathering of the area’s top hiring companies. And within that large group is an even more elite cohort — the Technical.ly Talent P... |
| Jul 12, 2019 | #Beetech: Azavea and Penn State made a tool to see ‘bee’s eye view’ of hive environments | Pennsylvania’s beekeepers can now get even closer to their six-legged friends.
In April, Penn State University, with the help of Callowhill-based geospatial technology company Azavea, released a new tool called Beescape where keepers can ge... |
| Feb 19, 2019 | Meet these 47 companies hiring tech talent at NET/WORK Philly on Feb. 26 | Dubbed the Super Bowl of job fairs, NET/WORK returns next week on Tuesday, Feb. 26, and The Fillmore Philadelphia in Fishtown is the place to be if you’re looking for a new opportunity in tech.
Come out for the annual event to connect with ... |
| Feb 7, 2019 | NET/WORK Philly is just weeks away. Here’s what to expect | You’re just about three weeks away from finding the job of your dreams: We’ve already signed on 33 companies for NET/WORK Philly and expect even more to join the event in the next couple weeks.
Now in our fifth year, NET/WORK has become the... |
| Feb 26, 2018 | 50 companies hiring Philly tech talent right now: Meet ’em Tuesday at NET/WORK | If you’ve been to any of the NET/WORK events in the past, then you already know, tomorrow, Feb. 27 at Fishtown’s Fillmore Philly is the place to be. Looking for opportunities or looking to connect with the broader tech community, we made th... |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Seer, URBN, Guru and BlackRock are looking to hire at NET/WORK 2018 | Eleven more companies have committed to NET/WORK 2018 in their search for Philadelphia’s top tech talent.
We’re exactly two weeks away from fifth annual tech job fair. If you’re looking to work with a local startup, Feb. 27 at Fishtown’s Fi... |
| Jan 29, 2018 | Revzilla, Azavea and Slalom are hiring at NET/WORK 2018. Will you be there? | Seven more companies have committed to NET/WORK 2018 in their search for Philadelphia’s top tech talent.
We’re almost a month away from fifth annual tech job fair. If you’re looking to work with a local startup, Feb. 27 at Fishtown’s Fillmo... |
| Apr 14, 2017 | Azavea is hiring a UI/marketing designer. Here’s what it’s like to work on their design team | UX Design Lead Matt Williams came to Azavea after running his own startup.
He stumbled upon Azavea in a way other team members have, at a tech job fair. After two years, Williams has been continuously challenged with every project. It’s wha... |
| Dec 22, 2015 | Azavea lands $1.5M federal grant to work on climate change tool | The federal government just made another investment in an Azavea product — one that deals with the impact of climate change.
The Callowhill mapping company, which has historically been a professional services firm but has developed four pro... |
| Jun 17, 2015 | Here’s the Philly Tech Week 2015 recap video | At the end of April, we wrapped up our fifth annual Philly Tech Week. With more than 25,000 people attending the week’s 150+ events, it was a stunning success.
Now you can relive some of those good times with our video recap of Philly Tech ... |
| Feb 3, 2015 | These 51 Philly tech firms are hiring right now [NET/WORK] | Believe us, if you want a job in tech, you don’t need to leave Philly. More than 50 businesses, startups and organizations will be on hand next Tuesday, Feb. 10, for NET/WORK, our tech jobs fair at concert venue Union Transfer.
We have a fu... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Philly’s worst spot for bike thefts? Directly across from City Hall | That’s right: the majority of Philly’s reported bike thefts occur in University City or Center City. But the worst place to park your bike appears to be right across the street from City Hall.
That’s according to Gregory Kaminski’s Bike The... |
| Mar 10, 2014 | OpenStreetMap hackathon // #notatSXSW party // Game Dev Night [EVENTS] | Happy daylight savings.
This week: Hack OpenStreetMap, meet PeopleLinx cofounder Patrick Baynes and build video games (then tell us about it!). And celebrate our hometown spirit at our annual #notatSXSW party this Tuesday at Old City’s Phil... |
| Oct 30, 2013 | 9 Tech Companies Making The World A Much Better Place | Azavea
Robert Cheetham, CEO Azavea
Forget, for the moment, the Hollywood image of the greedy corporation on a mission to increase corporate profits at the expense of everything else.
Because there are a growing number of socially responsibl... |
| Jul 26, 2013 | How reporters used open data to tell the story of the building collapse [LINKS] | The Use of Open Data and Grassroots Efforts in Crisis Response [Azavea blog] “A couple of weeks ago, we experienced a tragedy here in Philadelphia; a badly mismanaged building demolition caused the deaths of several people. Out of this trag... |
| Jul 12, 2013 | Squatters use crowdfunding to buy West Philly house at auction [LINKS] | Squatters: PHA is about to auction our home [City Paper] “Squatters who live in a row home in West Philly are raising funds via indiegogo in anticipation of an upcoming auction of 200 Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) properties, which i... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | Azavea Summer of Maps 2013: nonprofits, apply for free geographic data analysis | Callowhill GIS firm Azavea has opened up applications for nonprofits for its second annual Summer of Maps fellowship. If you’re a nonprofit that has a project that could benefit from any kind of geographic data analysis, this is for you. Az... |
| Nov 20, 2012 | Police GIS: Philadelphia Police Department launches ‘biggest public safety GIS in the country,’ upgrading outdated, 90s-era system | A screenshot of the heat map feature on the Police Department’s new GIS software (click to enlarge). This one shows how often robberies have been committed throughout the city in a given time period. Check out what the old system looked lik... |
| Nov 5, 2012 | Smartest People in Philadelphia: 13 technologists Philly mag highlights | Vijay Kumar, Penn robotics professor, whom Philly Mag named one of the smartest people in Philadelphia. Photo by Jonathan Barkat via Philly Mag.
We don’t need to tell you, but yeah, duh: the Philly tech scene is full of insanely smart peopl... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | Pennsylvania Energy Economy Map: use this interactive map to see statewide energy ecosystem | Visualize the commercial energy landscape statewide with this map from Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners and Callowhill GIS firm Azavea.
Use the different filters to see energy sector companies and university assets in several sectors, ... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | Knight News Challenge Mobile: 10 local applicants range from Azavea & the Inquirer to local startups | The Knight News Challenge for Mobile stopped accepting applications last month and winners will be announced in early January. Out of the 525 applications, we counted 10 local applicants.
Check them out below.
the artblog’s Public, Crowd-So... |
| Sep 14, 2012 | OpenTreeMap: Azavea wins $450k federal grant to continue work on tree software | You can now map Philly’s trees on the go, and with some help from the federal government, local GIS firm Azavea hopes to grow its library of tree-planting tools.
Late last month, Azavea launched a mobile version of PhillyTreeMap, its crowds... |
| Aug 10, 2012 | Azavea launches open-source crime data tool [LINKS] | Police commish Ramsey to live-tweet National Night Out events [Philadelphia Daily News]
Azavea and Temple prof team up to pack digital heat against crime [Flying Kite] “It’s a new chapter in intelligence-led policing. Azavea, in partnership... |
| Jul 13, 2012 | Uber founder: Philadelphians just don’t realize ‘how awesome they are’ [LINKS] | Uber thinks it can woo Philadelphians with luxury car service [Philadelphia Inquirer] “Philadelphians just don’t realize ‘how awesome they are,’ [Uber founder] Kalanick later said in an interview. ‘And I’m losing my mind with that.’ The qui... |
| Jun 19, 2012 | City Licenses and Inspections department to launch web app this summer, another dubbed ‘License to Inspect’ to follow | For those of you keeping track of city-sanctioned, good government web apps, you may have noticed a prominent one that still hasn’t landed.
Last fall, a public-private partnership was set to launch ‘License to Inspect,’ a robust search tool... |
| May 4, 2012 | Univ. Richmond partners with Azavea to build Civil War emancipation geo web app, displays 3,000 events | In school, lessons about the emancipation of slaves during the Civil War tend to focus on the struggles of individuals — of Lincoln or soldiers or those enslaved.
The University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab imagined that there might ... |
| May 4, 2012 | Josh Kopelman is country’s sixth most valued tech investor [LINKS] | Philadelphia Venture Capitalists Kopelman and Oliva Make Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors [citybizlist] “Two Philadelphia based venture capitalists were named to Forbes Midas List of Tech Investors, which aims to single out the top 1... |
| Apr 27, 2012 | 10 takeaways from new City of Philadelphia Open Data Policy | As first reported by Technically Philly, Mayor Nutter signed yesterday an Executive Order pledging greater transparency through data releases.
Executive Orders are good at making clear top-level goals, but the hard work is left to be implem... |
| Dec 30, 2011 | Jim Querry: City of Philadelphia GIS is among country’s best [Q&A] | In 1996, when Jim Querry started at the then called and still evolving Mayor’s Office of Information Services, there was a single Internet connection, an Apple dial-up tool at 1234 Market Street.
“That’s where you met to get on the web,” he... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | What problems can be solved during Random Hacks of Kindness 2 this weekend? | The second local version of Random Hacks of Kindness to be held at Drexel University is this weekend. It’s the fourth global RHOK, which are held in cities throughout the world.
Like last June, the weekend hackathon is being kicked off with... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Hacks/Hackers Philly launches, will host first meetup to connect journalists, technologists | Hacks/Hackers, the grassroots national chapter-based organization that brings together journalists and technologists, now has a Philadelphia group.
Hacks/Hackers Philly, organized by Public School Notebook web editor Erika Owens and Azavea ... |
| Oct 5, 2011 | NEXT Septa: developer Reed Lauber launches subway, bus and trolley schedule app | Transit applications and the data that supports them have a way of inspiring those closest to their use.
Days before the first Apps for SEPTA hackathon, the latest in a tradition of mass transit tools for Philadelphians, is bubbling to the ... |
| Sep 12, 2011 | License to Inspect: two years later, City of Philadelphia L&I API will drive PlanPhilly transparency app | If the deadlines of today are worth more than the deadlines of the past, the City of Philadelphia is due to release before the end of the year the first, most comprehensive agency data API framework in its history. It will power an online t... |
| Aug 2, 2011 | Azavea releases source code for PhillyTreeMap.org, collaborative forest inventory tool | Every municipality is a little bit closer now to having a broader inventory of trees in its boundaries.
Less than two months after going open source with city data catalog OpenDataPhilly.org, Callowhill-based GIS shop Azavea has now release... |
| Jun 8, 2011 | Augmented Reality by PhillyHistory.org and Azavea launches on iPhone, Android | The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department.
In February 2010, the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digita... |
| Apr 13, 2011 | Predicting future crimes in Philadelphia | The term “crime prediction” often evokes the pop culture memory of Steven Spielberg’s 2002 science fiction film Minority Report. In the popular movie, the government polices its citizens with the help of a trio of psychic beings that can pr... |
| Apr 1, 2011 | Happy April Fool’s Day, Philadelphia | No, Technically Philly is not moving to New York to pursue an online news site in a new niche community, even if it meant the chance of running into Rupert Murdoch, pitching that media acquisition, and living the high life at News Corp.
Tod... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Augmented reality in Philly historic photos: Azavea and Philadelphia Department of Records smartphone details | As we already noted, GIS shop Azavea has received grant work to develop an augmented reality smartphone phototype with historical Philly photos. Now we get greater details:
…we’re currently hard at work investigating mobile augmented realit... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Startup Roundup: PennApps developers favor Android, PhillyHistory.org gets augmented reality | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Startup Roundup: Wharton restructures MBA program, news orgs get schooled by local | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Nov 10, 2010 | Startup Roundup: Red Tettemer acquires a “+ Partner”, vcopious makes big first moves | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Switch preview: Josh Marcus on the future of CommonSpace from Azavea | Many in Philadelphia’s technology community already know about CommonSpace. Josh Marcus wants you to know how the online mapping application came to be.
Switch Details:
When: TOMORROW, 10/6. 6 p.m.
Where: Levitt Auditorium, University of th... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Startup Roundup: Donation facilitation a trend; Kenexa acquires Salary.com for $80m | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | Azavea’s Cicero API goes international, GIS firm launches new website | Beyond dots on a map.
That’s the new tagline of GIS software firm Azavea, which has undergone a branding overhaul since it changed its name in March following a disputed legal claim.
As part of that move, last month, the shop based in the C... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | Startup Roundup: DreamIt grads get covered; new Startup Leaders-ship | Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Startup Roundup: HootSuite and Skullcandy pick Philly partners | Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Avencia becomes Azavea, relents on trademark dispute, to launch redesigned site | Robert Cheetham doesn’t want to change his name.
The founder of Avencia doesn’t want to be forced to develop a new brand for his Callowhill-headquartered GIS software firm.
“Avencia will now be known as Azavea – pronounced like “azalea”. Th... |
