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WTIA releases finalists for Industry Achievement Awards
The Washington Technology Industry Association this morning released the finalists for the 15th Annual Industry Achievement Awards, with the winners to be announced at a big bash on March 4th at the Showbox SoDo. I am looking forward to the festivities, and as with past events I will be there with ballot in hand trying to forecast the winners. (Last year, I got half of the picks correct and the year before missed every one).
Here are the nominees:
-- Commercial Product or Service of the Year: Apptio, Concur, Talyst.
-- Consumer Product or Service of the Year: Cheezburger Network, COZI, Picnik.
-- Breakthrough Start-up of the Year: DreamBox Learning, Gist, VholdR.
-- Service Provider of the Year: Amazon Web Services, Azaleos Corporation, Hubspan.
-- Innovative Manufactured Product of the Year: Neah Power Systems, Inc., Pathway Medical Technologies, Inc., Powerit Solutions.
-- Information Technology Department Innovation of the Year: Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, WhitePages, Washington State Employee Credit Union.
-- Best use of Technology in the Government, Non-profit or Educational Sector: eCityGov Alliance, OneBusAway (in collaboration with the University of Washington), Pierce County Sheriff's Department.
-- Technology Leader of Tomorrow: Geneva Damper of Orca School, Ruby Damper of Orca School, Surafel (Sasu) Techane of St. Joseph School.
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