Nashville Technology Council

Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor:

XO Communications is a full-service provider of communications services for small and growing businesses, larger enterprises and carriers.

CIO of the Year – presented by KPMG
KPMG is an International Audit, Tax, Advisory Firm. One of the Big 4.

Start-up Company of the Year - presented by Baker, Donelson, Beaman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
The Baker Donelson eBusiness and Technology Law Group is a multi-disciplinary group of over 30 lawyers helping clients navigate the complex and wide-ranging issues of eBusiness and technology to realize its vast opportunities. We have a broad range of experience working with traditional business, companies incorporating technology, as well as B2B and B2C eCommerce companies, eHealth concerns, financial service companies, eSolutions providers, capital sources and infrastructure companies. The Group draws from the diverse experience of its members in international, securities, corporate, tax, litigation, public policy, health care, labor and employment, banking and intellectual property, to provide comprehensive solutions to eBusiness and technology issues.

IT Student of the Year – presented by HP Enterprise Services
HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work. No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world’s most powerful supercomputer installations. We offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers’ specific needs. www.hp.com

Green Company of the Year - presented by HealthSpring
HealthSpring is a community health plan delivering health care benefits and services.

Innovator of the Year - presented by LBMC
Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain, PC(LBMC) is a full service accounting and business consulting firm serving businesses and individuals with solutions in the areas of financial (tax, audit, business consulting,) human resources and technologies. The technology division, LBMC Technologies, provides a holistic approach to business challenges via its multiple practice areas of expertise: Business Systems, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Content Management, Business Intelligence, Software Development, Business Analysis, Project Management, Training, Technical Writing and Network Engineering. By providing multiple solutions under one roof, LBMC Technologies creates significant synergies for its clients, saving businesses time and money.

Social Media / Blogger of the Year – presented by RJ Young
The RJ Young Company has been in business since 1955 and is the fifth largest independent office products dealer in the United States with 13 branch locations in 5 states. Recently the industry magazine, “Office Dealer”, named the RJ Young Company on its prestigious list of the 50 Best Office Equipment Dealers in the United States. Our service department has won every major award offered in the industry for outstanding service. Our service programs have been so successful that independent dealers visit our company on a regular basis to observe and then implement their own programs.

Lifetime Achievement- presented by Comframe Software Corporation
ComFrame Software Corporation is one of the fastest growing software engineering companies in the Southeastern United States, delivering Elegant Enterprise EnablementTM solutions for customers in banking and finance, construction, energy and utilities, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, software development and other industries. Our precision practice domains include strategic business and brand management, business process and performance management, corporate planning and performance management, enterprise project and portfolio management and information integration and collaboration management, augmented by precision architecture and application engineering teams based in Nashville, Birmingham and Beijing. ComFrame embraces technologies from IBM, Microsoft and other industry leaders as key components of our core platform for enterprise elegance enablement.

Volunteer of the Year - presented by HCA
HCA Information Technology & Services provides broad IT services to the company. Those services include data center and network operations, customer support desk, security services, implementation services, and product development.

Software Programmer / Engineer of the Year – presented by eMids Technologies
eMids Technologies provides software development support services. Technology services provider to the enterprise.