Delaware Innovation Week kicks off on Friday, Nov. 11 and concludes on Saturday, Nov. 19.
The eight-day period will feature more than 20 events focused on technology and entrepreneurship with partners and sponsors from more than 30 local businesses, schools and organizations.
The Innovation Celebration, an awards reception, and closing party, will take place on Friday, Nov. 18 with community events ending the week the next day. Sponsor is Technical.ly, a technology news and events network.
“It’s our goal to make the week a true representation of all the many pieces and people who make up this vibrant and varied community,” said Christopher Wink, Technical.ly editorial director and co-founder. “Delaware Innovation Week presented by 1313 Innovation serves as a time capsule of who is part of the innovation conversation in the state.”
Many of the anchor events of #DIW16 will be organized by Technical.ly, in addition to an open community calendar of events from partners like the Chase Center on the Riverfront, the Vision Coalition of Delaware, the University of Delaware Horn Program for Entrepreneurship, DelawareLeadership.com in partnership with the John Maxwell Company, The First State Angels, the Technology Forum of Delaware, the Archer Group and others.
Among the anchor events of #DIW16 is Tech2gether, a day-long conference on Delaware’s innovative future organized by 1313 Innovation, the week’s title sponsor. 1313 Innovation is a coworking space located inside the Hercules Building in downtown Wilmington.
“As a convener of Wilmington’s innovation community, we know Delaware needs more traditions celebrating technology and entrepreneurship,” said Paul McConnell, the co-founder of McConnell Johnson Real Estate, LLC and 1313 Innovation. “That’s why we’re honored to be again the title sponsor and partner of Delaware Innovation Week.”
Here are some examples of the more than 25 events taking place during the week:
- Business Conference is a half-day conference for experienced and new entrepreneurs organized by Technical.ly that will feature morning introductory workshops for launching a business and an afternoon B2B matchmaking session called Technical.ly Introduced, followed by a happy hour. [Mon. Nov. 14, 12:30-6 p.m. at Young Conaway]
- Dev Conference is a day-long conference featuring morning introductory software programming courses, high-level afternoon tech case studies and an evening happy hour for those involved and interested in the technical fields. [Tues. Nov. 15, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m. at Delaware Tech’s Wilmington Campus.
- Tech2gether is a full day tech conference celebrating emerging technologies, thought leaders, and startup companies in Delaware organized by 1313 Innovation. Highlights include speakers, tech demos, a student pitch competition and maker experience. [Wed. Nov. 16, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, tech2gether.org]
- Innovation Celebration will feature a cocktail reception. The event will also have an interactive local technology expo, demo party, hors d’oeuvres, drinks and award winners.
