Fwd: And the Winners Are...

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> From: Trish Millines Dziko > Date: March 26, 2009 5:00:17 PM PDT > To: TAF Board of Directors > Subject: FW: And the Winners Are... >

> Hello Everyone- Last night’s WTIA event was SPECTACULAR! Three TechS
> tart students were up for the “Technology Leader of Tomorrow
> Award”. All three students did an excellent job at explaining their
> work and the process behind it. Very impressive! Israel Zemeadim w
> as the winner of the category. Here is link to the video interview t
> hat the WTIA produced prior to the event. http://www.techaccess.org/Partners/wtia2009.html >
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> Enjoy! >
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> Last night the Washington Technology Industry Association honored
> the winners of it's 14th Annual Industry Achievement Awards. This
> Celebration at the Paramount Theater marked the WTIA’s 25th annivers
> ary and recognized Washington's Technology community and innovations. >
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> WTIA would like to thank all of the sponsors, volunteers and guests
> who helped make the Industry Achievement Awards such a great
> success! Thank you to all of our finalists’ whose new technologies,
> applications and services continue to thrive and are ultimately what
> make the Washington technology industry sensational. >
> A special thank you to Lionfish for all their creative design,
> concepting, and branding of for this event, Seamless Event Solutions
> for their video & event production and their creative vision &
> execution of the enitre on-site look and feel, and CCS Printing for
> the printing of the event program and all event signage. >
> “For the first time ever, thousands of votes from the local technolo
> gy community determined this year’s IAA winners…to be named by
> your peers as one of our region’s best and brightest is a great hono
> r.” - Ken Myer, President & CEO of the WTIA. >
> Congratulations 2009 Industry Achievement Award Winners! >
> Commercial Product or Service of the Year >
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> Visible Technologies helps companies listen to and learn what
> consumers > are saying about them online via its comprehensive social media
> analysis > and participation software platform, TruCast. >
> Consumer Product or Service of the Year >
> Wetpaint powers socially published websites that allow anyone to
> collaboratively create, collect, and organize content to build an
> online community around whatever they’re passionate about. >
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> Breakthrough Start-Up of the Year >
> Ontela Provides a ridiculously simple solution that automatically
> saves every camera-phone picture a user snaps to their e-mails, PC,
> & Web photo albulms. >
> Service Provider of the Year >
> AdReady makes the creation and management of sophisticated online
> display advertising campaigns incredibly easy and effective for
> advertisers and publishers of all sizes. >
> Technology Innovator of the Year >
> Darrin Massena, co-founder and CTO of Picnik, has developed software
> for the past 28 years. Prior to Picnik, he co-founded Spiffcode and
> was a development manager at Microsoft for 11 years, where he was a
> “Leonardo DaVinci Award” winner. >
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> Best Use of Technology in the Government, Non-Profit, or Education
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> Snohomish County Planning and Development Services, The inspection > improvement project uses technology available today to provide great > customer service for how inspections are requested, documented, and > results communicated. >
> Technology Leader of Tomorrow >
> Israel Zemeadim, 8th grade, Washington Middle School created a
> Podcast production about how sound and music have helped the
> evolution of the human race. Israel really likes to know how things
> work. He also enjoys taking things apart and trying to fix them.
> Israel is interested in engineering, although he is not sure of what
> type yet. >
> > Click here to read quotes from the winners! >
> “We’ve watched the local technology community grow exponentially
> during our 25 years as an organization, and we believe this year’s w
> inners demonstrated that Washington continues to be a home for world
> class-innovations…We’re honored to be able to recognize these
> companies and individuals, and we look forward to seeing what great
> things they will do next.” - Ken Myer, President of the WTIA >
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> Elite Gamer Level > Conover Insurance > Darby & Darby P.C. > Kibble & Prentice > Robert Half Technology >
> Weekend Warrior Level > Attachmate > Aztecsoft > Benefit Solutions, Inc. > CCS Printing > CRG Events > CTED > F5 Networks > GrapeCity Inc. > Keiretsu Forum > Moss Adams LLP > Pacific Prestige > Pacific Real Estate Partners, Inc. > Seattle 24x7.com > SolutionsIQ > Summit Law Group > UW Computer Science & Engineering > Xconomy >
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