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TechAwards 2010: Race to Renewal to honor the region’s top technology companies at fifth annual event
Annapolis, MD – February 22, 2010 – Finalists for the fifth annual TechAwards 2010: Race to Renewal emerged with great success to demonstrate impressive growth and community service in a year hit hard by severe economic downturn.
The Chesapeake Regional Tech Council received nearly 30 submissions this year from a variety of accomplished technology businesses throughout the Annapolis-Washington-Baltimore area. In a blind voting process, a 14-member selection committee spent two weeks examining the nominations and criteria and then voted on the top contenders.
The finalists have had a wide range of accomplishments this year. Some companies’ achievements were global, developing systems that have helped to save over 26,500 lives around the world in distressed situations, including downed airplanes and sunken ships or revolutionizing the way that the intelligence community sifts through data, particularly important in light of the recent Christmas Day terrorism incident; while others focused locally, inspiring the next generation of tech talent. One organization combined green IT and cloud computing trends to cut power consumption by 52 percent, save thousands of dollars from its energy bills and realize sales growth of more than 5 percent. Another company grew by a staggering 150 percent in 2009 while yet another increased staff from 197 to 303 to support a 57% growth in revenue.
According to Chesapeake Regional Tech Council Executive Director, Kris Valerio, “While it is hard to predict exactly how swiftly the region will rebound economically, TechAwards 2010 finalists demonstrate that technology innovation and entrepreneurialism are at the heart of the region’s race to renewal!”
The CRTC TechAwards is a celebration that has increasingly uncovered some of the great stories and innovations in the Chesapeake region's technology community. Past winners have included a wide range of companies, from innovative start-ups to well-known industry leaders. Finalists for the 2010 celebration are listed below.
The Tech Company of the Year Award is given to a company that has achieved significant milestones in the past year and demonstrates itself as a recognized force in the local technology community. Finalists include:
Techno-Sciences, Inc.
Techno-Sciences, located in Beltsville, MD, is a world leader in Satellite Aided Search and Rescue systems, and Integrated Maritime Surveillance Systems (IMSS).
Vision Technologies, Inc.
Glen Burnie, MD-based Vision Technologies provides IT/IP Support services to federal and enterprise clients in all 50 states, Europe and South America, focusing on enterprise architecture design and implementation, network infrastructure, security, help desk services and data center support services.
Zenoss
Annapolis, MD-grown Zenoss is a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy IT enterprise management products. Zenoss Enterprise is a single model-based product that enables organizations to seamlessly manage physical, virtual and cloud based infrastructure with unprecedented power, agility and value. Leveraging a commercial open source model, Zenoss products monitor over one million network and server devices daily and are used in over 25,000 organizations in 180 countries around the world.
The Innovator Award recognizes a company that best exhibits new technologies, innovative strategies for business partnerships, and maximizing, enhancing and advancing technology in the Annapolis-Washington-Baltimore area. Finalists include:
Kaulkin Information System, Inc.
Located in the Chesapeake Innovation Center in Annapolis, MD, Kaulkin Information System’s KISTrack product is a Software-as-a-Service Cloud Computing (SaaS | Cloud) technology platform specifically designed for compliance-centric and heavily-regulated market sectors. KISTrack integrates 5 application modules named TrackFile, TrackFlow, TrackMail, TrackBatch and Track Cash that address government and industry-specific workflow, data/document management, compliance and risk mitigation challenges.
Vapotherm Inc.
Vapotherm Inc. is a medical device technology company on the Eastern Shore of MD. The company is the innovator of high flow humidified air delivery technology through nasal cannula. It's latest product to market this year is Precision Flow, the first high flow therapy device to integrate humidification, gas blending, flow control, and full alarm functionality into a single device for the delivery of nasal cannula inspired gases.
Zenoss
Also nominated in the Tech Company of the Year Category (see above), Annapolis-based Zenoss has made a statement going head-to-head with and winning against traditional industry players, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, CA, and BMC, and growing by a staggering 150 percent in 2009, despite a sluggish economy.
The Tech Service Award goes to an area company whose core business is around providing services in and for the technology community, and recognizes a continued commitment to customer retention. Finalists include:
ANALYSYS
ANALYSYS is a Baltimore-Washington based provider of information technology (IT) services, specializing in support for small and medium sized businesses. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to answer all the needs of IT departments with constrained resources or limited knowledge, and organizations with no internal IT department who prefer to outsource their information technology management.
G-Security
Located in Greenbelt, MD, Gsecurity, Inc., is a Cyber Security and Green Technology firm serving clients operating in the most demanding and sophisticated environments where security and privacy are assigned the highest priority. Using proven methodologies, G-Security delivers results-oriented solutions across a range of offerings, including security policy development, security audit services, IT design, eDiscovery, cyber crime investigations, project management, ERP implementation, energy audits, and green technology consulting.
IntelliGenesis LLC
The mission of Columbia, MD-based IntelliGenesis is to develop operationally relevant and advanced technologies to improve the quality of knowledge creation for the intelligence community. IG solutions reach and support thousands of intelligence analysts across the US and in other parts of the world.
The Good Chip Award recognizes companies that are working to better the community, either through the technology it is developing or through community service and donations. Finalists include:
RelianceNet
Located in Annapolis, MD, RelianceNet is a provider of business technology solutions across the IT lifecycle, from planning to execution through total management. The underlying passion driving the company is helping people create bigger futures as demonstrated by their extensive stewardship and volunteer efforts; most notably CEO Pat Cooley’s engagement in the Boys & Girl’s Club of Anne Arundel County LET’S GO program as Head Coach of the highly successful Freetown Boys & Girls Club FIRST Lego League.
Richard Cerkovnik, Ph.D. / Anne Arundel Community College STEM Center
Richard Cerkovnik’s leadership of AACC’s STEM Center is helping the college achieve its vision of being “a premier learning community whose students and graduates are among the best-prepared citizens and workers of the world.” The center’s outreach and education efforts directly meet the college’s mission to “respond to the needs of a diverse community by offering high quality, affordable and accessible learning opportunities.”
LET’S GO - BGCAA (STEM)
LET'S GO, an acronym for Leadership, Engineering, Technology & Science Generating Opportunities is a program of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Annapolis and AA Co. started by retired engineer Dr. Corky Graham. The program is led and managed by dedicated volunteers from several local technology companies and Boys & Girls Club youth professionals and provides Club members the opportunity to explore technical disciplines and possible career paths through FIRST Lego League robotics, summer camp, field trips, course tutoring, career counseling and online learning.
In addition to the awards above, the Legend’s Circle Individual and Company awards will be given to an individual and a company respectively who are seen as stalwarts and supporters of the local tech community.
Event Details:
The winners of the awards will be announced at the 5th Annual TechAwards 2010: Race to Renewal awards program on March 25th, 2010, 6 to 9:30 pm at the Westin Annapolis Hotel, featuring Keynote address by, world class sailor, television commentator and author, Gary Jobson.
Tickets:
Just one week remains to save in registration with ‘Early-bird’ discount tickets, available for $95.00 until March 1st. From March 1st to March 24th, tickets will be $105 for CRTC members and $125 for non-members. Tickets purchased at the door will be $140 as available. Tables of 10 are available for $950. Registration, sponsorship information and additional details are available at: www.chesapeaketech.org/techawards .
Selection Committee:
The TechAwards 2010 Selection Committee includes Michael Ryan, President and CEO, South River Technologies; Kevin Lancaster, Managing Partner, The Winvale Group; Finley Foster, Executive Vice President & GM, AMERICAN SYSTEMS; Bill Graf, Commercial/Government Contracting Banking Officer, M&T Bank; Gregory M. Stone, Esq., Whiteford, Taylor & Preston; Robert Hannon, Chairman & CEO, Anne Arundel Economic Development Corp; Wanda Plumer, Director Business Development Retention & Expansion, Prince George's County EDC; James Poulos, Vice President of Technology Transfer & Commercialization Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO); Martha J. Connolly, Ph.D., Director, Maryland Industrial Partnerships, University of Maryland; Mike Richardson, VP, Wireless Applications, TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.; Bhushan Parekh, COO - CBayScribe, CBay Systems and Services Inc.; Adam Suri, Program Director of Operations, Division of Business and Enterprise Development, Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development (DBED); Jim Orndorff, Director of Engineering, SAIC Intelligence and Information Solutions Business Unit (IISBU); John Chiochetti, Owner, Technology Options Group.
About the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council
Founded in 1992, the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council (CRTC) energizes and propels the advancement of technologies with the exchange of ideas, expertise and business and partnership opportunities. The CRTC is a resource for visibility, connections, knowledge and education for technology companies in and around the Annapolis-Washington-Baltimore area, attracting new technology companies to the region and helping emerging technology companies grow and prosper in this increasingly dynamic environment. The CRTC is a non-profit membership organization supported by a grant from the Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation and enabled by membership and annual sustaining sponsorship. More than 250 businesses from the Annapolis-Washington-Baltimore area are members of the council, including many of the area’s well-known leading technology companies. For more information go to http://www.chesapeaketech.org.
About Gary Jobson:
http://jobsonsailing.com/
For further information:
Kris Valerio, Executive Director, Chesapeake Regional Tech Council
410-222-7410 ext 124, kris@chesapeaketech.org |
