2016 Forge Conference recap

On September 26th, 2016, hundreds of people came together at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia for the third annual Forge Conference, a one-day event created and organized by O3 World. This year was filled with a diverse group of speakers who all had something valuable to share. The attendees picked up tons of tips on a variety of topics from the curated speakers from companies like Mad*Pow, Odopod, Lyft, Comcast, Slack, and NASA. Furthermore, there was a special Q&A session with Philadelphia’s mayor, Jim Kenney.

Here are some great things some people have said about the event:

Had a fantastic time at #forgeconf -big thank you to the @o3world team. You created a delightful & memorable conference/speaker experience. – @alissadesigns Many thanks to O3 and all of the Forge Conference organizers! Such great content shared with great people. #forgeconf – @lijahogan Thx to @keitho3world @gadsbyo3world and the whole @o3world crew for hosting this fantastic #ForgeConf. Honored to be a part. – @albertpoon Serious props to the whole @ForgeConf @o3world team for putting on such an excellent #forgeconf! Speakers & attendees were ?. Thank you!? – @yopensiero Big thank you to @keitho3world + the whole @ForgeConf team for an incredible day! So many inspiring people & presentations! #forgeconf – @shannon_patrick

If you weren’t able to make it to this year’s sold-out event, don’t worry, we got you covered. This year, we’ve worked with our sponsor Hightail to create a space where a few of the speakers generously shared their presentation slides. This provided access to comment and review each Forge Conference speaker’s story. You can access their presentations at the 2016 Forge Conference Hightail page.

Did you know that #ForgeConf was the #3 trending topic of the day? Don’t forget to check out the #forgeconf twitter stream to relive all the action! Thank you to everyone in the community for making Forge Conference so successful and for all the tweets that helped fuel this recap!