Ideas We Should Steal Festival® presented by Comcast NBCUniversal

 The media nonprofit Philadelphia Citizen searched far and wide to find true change-makers and innovators whose ideas could move the needle of progress and problem-solving in Philadelphia. We will call them revolutionaries if you will. The Philadelphia Citizen, whose calling is to engage the next generation of innovators, calls them participants in the Ideas We Should Steal Festival^® presented by Comcast NBCUniversal. For the seventh year, this impressive think tank of movers and shakers will convene for an opening reception and the main festival of workshops to inspire the future and potential in the city of firsts. Enjoy workshops by entrepreneurs, scholars, authors, philanthropists, and government leaders covering topics like human rights and housing. One workshop will include a film screening, Punch 9 for Harold Washington, about Chicago’s late, legendary first African-American mayor. The film will be followed by a conversation and live How to Really Run a City podcast recording with director Joe Winston; New Yorker writer, Princeton professor, and MacArthur “genius,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership; and podcast co-hosts former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, and Larry Platt, The Philadelphia Citizen’s co-founder. Attend one or both events. Register in advance; Thursday: $15; 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST. Opening Night, Fitler Club Ballroom 1 South 24th St., refreshments included, $15 discount on a ticket for the main event by using the code CITIZENFRIEND at checkout; Friday: $50; 9 a.m. EST to 4 p.m. EST, Main Festival at the Comcast Technology Center’s Ralph J. Roberts Forum, 1800 Arch St., includes lunch. thephiladelphiacitizen.org or https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/iwss/.