Category: Speakers & Tracks

The third of WordCamp Philly 2019’s tracks is the Arch Street Track, which will be in the Tuttleman Gallery on the second floor of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It will feature design, theming, user experience, site performance and more.

The track is named for another of the streets that was part of William Penn’s city plan dating to the 1680s. Known as Mulberry Street at first, it was renamed Arch in 1854. The Betsy Ross House, U.S. Mint, Independence Mall and Chinatown are all found along Arch Street.

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The second of the WordCamp Philly 2019 tracks is the Race Street Track, one of the original streets from William Penn’s plan of the city dating to the 1680s. On Penn’s plan it was Sassafras Street; the name Race Street dates to the 1800s when it was used for horse races.

The track — which will include plenty about development, security, enterprise WordPress and headless CMS, but no horse racing — will be in the Sculpture Center on the second floor of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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This year we’re doing things a little differently with WordCamp Philly tracks. For previous events we dedicated our tracks to particular specialties — the Developer Track, Designer Track, and so forth. This year we moved away from that so we could include topics that don’t fit neatly into a category.

Instead, we have the Broad Street, Arch Street, and Race Street tracks to celebrate the locale of our WordCamp. The Broad Street Track, which will be in the auditorium on the lower level of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is named for one of the main thoroughfares running through and beyond Center City. Broad Street dates back to the colonial era and is one of the longest urban boulevards in the United States.
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