{"id":271169,"date":"2026-08-24T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271169\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:52:07","slug":"reallist-innovators-2026-15-philly-tech-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271169\/","title":{"rendered":"RealLIST Innovators 2026: 15 Philly tech leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Philly is full of innovative people building cool tech and sharing it with their communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every year, we highlight these individuals, recognizing their work on our <a href=\"https:\/\/technical.ly\/series\/reallist-innovators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RealLIST Innovators<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After collecting <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSclmZIbV_EjbT0NViqc8fPlGLAi_QRlZKKxWUY7WwRaohM4rg\/viewform\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nominations<\/a> and reviewing our reporting, we curated a list of 15 technologists, scientists, developers and engineers making a difference. We also sent a survey asking them to share their journeys, what work they\u2019re most proud of and what they love about Philly tech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s list includes developers creating useful open-source projects, researchers making discoveries in cancer, AI pros and technologists who are active in the local scene. Check out the honorees who came before them on our past lists in reverse chronological order: <a href=\"https:\/\/technical.ly\/workforce\/reallist-innovators-2025-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/technical.ly\/professional-development\/reallist-engineers-2024-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2024<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/technical.ly\/software-development\/philly-reallist-engineers-2023\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2023<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/technical.ly\/software-development\/reallist-engineers-2022-philly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2022<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/technical.ly\/software-development\/reallist-engineers-software-most-influential-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2021<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/technical.ly\/software-development\/reallist-engineers-2020-influential-technologists-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2020<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/technical.ly\/software-development\/the-20-most-influential-technologists-in-philadelphia-reallist-engineers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meet this year\u2019s RealLIST Innovators below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t see the people above? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datawrapper.de\/_\/S3QzJ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View them in a new tab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philly is full of innovative people building cool tech and sharing it with their communities. Every year, we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[59388,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-271169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-featured-reallist","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}