Please complete the following information for you or someone else that you wish to nominate for the 2011 Nashville Technology Awards. Winners will be announced on October 27, 2011.
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The annual awards gala honors Middle Tennessee’s technology companies, leaders and innovators. Last Year’s event was sold out and this year we are expecting even more demand as the program continues to grow each year. Over 400 attendees gather each year for this night of celebration, food, and entertainment. The 2011 Technology Awards Gala will feature a “red carpet” entrance, VIP reception, dinner and the presentation of 12 prestigious awards. We will be back at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center this year.
Save the Date
October 27, 2011 | Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Nomination Deadline is June 3rd at 5:00 PM.
Nominations are open to your company, your boss, a colleague or yourself. Fill out the form below to make a nomination.
Award Categories
Volunteer of the Year
Green Award
IT Student of the Year
Start-up Company of the Year
Innovator of the Year
Social Media / Blogger of the Year
Software Programmer / Engineer of the Year
CIO of the Year
CISO of the Year
CTO of the Year
Company of the Year
Yesterday, we had the unique opportunity to visit in person with our friends in Memphis. I was pleasantly surprised by how much progress the entrepreneur and bio-sciences industry is making in Memphis. Below is a sampling of the organizations we met with yesterday:
Emerge Memphis – EmergeMemphis, the focal point for entrepreneurial activity in the Mid-South, is a general business and technology-based incubator.
Launch Memphis – LaunchMemphis was established by a group of Memphis area leaders to grow the city’s entrepreneurial community. Through events designed to highlight Memphis’ entrepreneurial activities, we hope to welcome and nurture new technology startup businesses.
Memphis Bioworks – The Memphis Bioworks® Foundation is bringing together public, private, academic and government entities in a collaborative effort to change the Memphis bioscience landscape. Established in 2001 as a nonprofit 501(c)(3), the Foundation’s is leading initiatives to expand upon the community’s current bioscience niches and demonstrated areas of leadership to create an internationally recognized center for the development and commercialization of bioscience technology.
University of Memphis Computer Sciences – The Department of Computer Science provides quality programs at all levels of study, and its faculty and students seek to excel in research, scholarship, and applications in fields where computation is of significant importance.
Zycron – The Z Team was one of the original founding companies of the Nashville Technology Council. They have a Memphis office run by Steven Howard Smith. Zycron is a customer-focused information technology services and solutions firm headquartered in Nashville, TN. Since 1991, Zycron has offered IT solutions to a broad client base and today is the primary provider for numerous Fortune 500 companies.
Travis Graham is the CTO of Sitemason, Inc. and joined the company in 2002. Prior to Sitemason, Graham worked at Telalink with several Sitemason founders and held a variety of technical positions at other companies throughout Nashville. At Sitemason, he leads Sitemason’s mobile apps division.
In the recent years, Graham played an instrumental role in the company completing a number of recent initiatives. In 2007, well before “cloud computing” became a major buzz word, Sitemason became one of the first software service providers to fully move its operations to “the cloud” when its platform was migrated to Amazon’s EC2 service. In 2008, Sitemason developed a comprehensive PHP-based template developer library for the Sitemason CMS, which significantly lowers the development time and cost typically associated with complex websites. In 2009, Graham created Sitemason’s first mobile app platform, which integrated iOS apps with the Sitemason CMS. This approach ties the app directly with the customer’s CMS, allowing text, events, photos, videos, and other content updates to occur within Sitemason and then get published directly to an iOS app.
Some of Graham’s accomplishments and interests outside of Sitemason include:
- At the age of thirteen, started building PCs from surplus components and sold them from his parents’ basement
- Has worked with the Internet long enough to remember what “Trumpet Winsock” was and created his first website in 1996.
- Graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Engineering (BA, Computer Science) in 2002
- Restores and repairs various icons from the early 1980s including classic coin-operated arcade games and DeLorean automobiles; he currently hold the top Google and Bing hit for “DeLorean restoration”
Winn Schwartau is an expert on security, privacy, infowar, cyber-terrorism and related topics . He is known not only for his trademark mustache and appearances at Defcon but also his provocative and original ideas that make audiences think, wonder and understand highly technical security subjects. He has written more than a dozen works on security topics. In other words, Schwartau attempts to make the importance of information security accessible to the average person. In 2002, he was honored as a “Power Thinker” and one of the 50 most powerful people in networking by Network World. In 2008, he was voted one of the 25 Most Influential People in the Security Industry by Security Magazine. For more information on Winn, please visit here.
Mr. Holland is Founder, President, and CEO of centresource, Inc., a Nashville, TN-based Web Interactive Agency. centresource is a full-service Interactive Agency assisting organizations that need to gain or maintain competitive advantage on the web or through mobile. They provide clients four essential services: strategy, creative, development, and on-going analytics. Notable areas of expertise include User Experience Design, Social Media, Web Applications, Content Management Systems, Flash, Pay-per-click, and Search Engine Optimization.
Under Mr. Holland’s direction, centresource has experienced impressive revenue growth, is a leader in its market and has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Nashville Business Journal’s “Best in Business” award in the Emerging Business category (2006) and Goldline Research’s “10 Most Dependable Web Design Firms in the Central/Southern United States” (2007, 2008). The Nashville Chamber of Commerce selected centresource as a “Future 50” in 2008, 2009, and 2010, recognizing them as one of the 50 fastest growing companies in the city. Centresource also achieved noteriety in 2010 as .NET Magazine named them one of the top 3 design agencies in the world.
In 2004, Mr. Holland was recognized as one of Tennessee’s “30 under 30” leaders by Business Tennessee, and in 2006 he received the Young Entrepreneur Award from the Nashville Business Journal. He also received a Tech 20 Award from the Nashville Technology Council for being one of the city’s 20 most influential technology business leaders. In 2007, the Nashville Chamber of Commerce awarded Mr. Holland the prestigious “Nashville Emerging Leader Award” in Technology. In 2010, Nicholas helped create JumpStart Foundry, a progressive microfund dedicated to helping entrepreneurs turn their ideas into a reality.
Mr. Holland is an accomplished speaker and expert commentator on technology trends. His articles have appeared in a number of publications, including the Nashville Medical News and the Nashville Business Journal. Active in community and business organizations, Mr. Holland serves on the Boards of the Better Business Bureau, Nashville Technology Council, and Nashville Chapter of the American Marketing Association (NAMA). He is an active member of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, and serves as a CEO Champion for Nashville public education.
Mr. Holland graduated from Tulane University with a double major in Finance and Information Systems. At Tulane, he received the Dean’s Selection for Most Outstanding Student and was the Student Body President of the A.B. Freeman School of Business.
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Mayor of Techville 2011
March Madness is the time of year when final buzzers never seem to be heard fast enough; when there is always a Cinderella story; the excitement of winners and disappointment of losers can be heard around the world; and here at the Nashville Technology Council, the 2011 Techville Mayor is revealed.
The 2011 NCAA men’s tournament has been so unpredictable, ESPN has only 2 people of the 5.9 million plus with the correct Final Four teams. Who would have ever thought that 8-seed Butler, 11-seed Virginia Commonwealth, 3-seed Connecticut, and 4-seed Kentucky would be in the Final Four? Well, this blogger believed in her Big Blue team meeting UConn and has KY cutting down the nets in Houston. As far as Techville is concerned, even though Chris Hohl does not have KY as the Champion, right now he is definitely leading the Mayor race.
So, whether your team is staying on the bus to Houston or has packed up and gone home – be sure to return here next Tuesday as the 2011 Techville Mayor will be revealed.
Is your company on the map? Click here to register.
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TN2011Sponsors
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TN2011Schedule
Technology Nashville 2011 •May 4th at the Nashville Convention Center
Download the Technology Nashville Schedule HERE
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TN2011Speakers
Harry Jacobson, Founder, Tri-Star Technology Ventures
Dr. Jacobson is Chairman of MedCare Investment Funds and is a Principal in TriStar Technology Ventures,
a TNInvestco fund investing in early-stage health care opportunities. He is also a founder and managing
partner of the Health Care Investment Group.
Read full bio here.
Dr. John Doulis, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Dr. John Doulis assumed the role of Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Chief Operations Officer
of the Informatics Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in October 2005. In this role, he is the
single point of focus for the Informatics Center’s efforts to provide the most effective information technology
infrastructure to meet the needs of the diverse operating units that make up the medical center, including the
information systems, software engineering, technological integration and network services. The scope of
this infrastructure encompasses Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s education, research, and health
care missions.
Read full bio here.
Tod Fetherling, President & CEO, Nashville Technology Council
Katie Roney-Thomas, Community Health Systems
Brian J. Callaghan, CEO, Apex
Marcus Whitney, CTO/Co-Founder, Moontoast
Hunter Williams, Senior Vice President, Strategic Development/Distribution and
Research Operations, SESAC
BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
Hiring and Managing Millenials
Brian Callaghan, Founder and Co-CEO, Apex Systems (Moderator)
Katie Roney-Thomas, IS Human Capital Manager, Community Health Systems (Moderator)
Rachelle Holloman, Belmont University (Moderator)
Matt Lowney, Recruiting Manager, DaVita (Panelist)
Tori Lennon, Healthways (Panelist)
Choosing the Right Platform for Your Business: Security, Scalability, and Interoperability
Kate O’Neill, Founder & CEO, [meta] marketer (Moderator)
Michael Rhoden, Franklin American Mortgage Company (Panelist)
Brian Dailey, Founder, Realm 3 (Panelist)
Chris McPherson, Firefly Logic (Panelist)
Rick Bradley, OG Consulting (Panelist)
Strategic Role of Technology in the C-Suite
Bob Chaput, CEO, Clearwater Compliance (Moderator)
David Houghton, CIO, Advocat (Panelist)
April Marbury, CIO, Take Care (Panelist)
Jeff Fields, CIO, Magazines.com (Panelist)
John Kepley, CEO, Teknetex (Panelist)
