SUMMER 2026 / ACTIVE

Build the future from Philly.

A summer residency for AI builders in Philadelphia. Six residents, three mentors, twelve weeks. Real products, shipped in public.

RESIDENTS
06
MENTORS
03
DURATION
12 WEEKS

A residency.

Philly AI Lab pairs technologists, content strategists, and operators for a summer of building. Residents work on real products with real users. Sponsored by Trifecta Enterprises and based in Philadelphia.

// BUILD

Residents ship products in public over twelve weeks, with mentorship from working operators and engineers.

// LEARN

Hands-on work across the modern AI stack, from data pipelines to product surface to go-to-market.

// CONNECT

A tight cohort of builders across Temple, Drexel, and UPenn, plus the Philly tech community around them.

The residents.

Six builders shipping work together this summer.

TECHNOLOGISTS_IN_RESIDENCE [5]
CP
Christos Petridis
TEMPLE · PHD
MM
Mazen Moazzam
DREXEL · JUNIOR
JH
Jie Huang
TEMPLE · GRAD
DG
Daniel Gardner
INCOMING FRESHMAN
KB
Kushagra Behl
INCOMING FRESHMAN
STRATEGY_IN_RESIDENCE [1]
MS
Miya Sun
CONTENT · PRODUCT

Mentors & sponsor.

The operators guiding the cohort.

CM
Christie Mealo
SPONSOR
MA
Muji Akbar
TECH MENTOR
DZ
Diana Zhaxylykova
COMMUNICATIONS MENTOR