The Tech Trailblazers Awards celebrate and reward innovations in the following areas: big data, cloud, emerging markets, mobile technology, networking, IT security, data storage, sustainable IT and virtualization.
The Tech Trailblazers Awards prize fund, projected to be worth in excess of $1m, is supported by sponsors and industry partners including AfriLabs, Amoo Venture Capital Advisory, beSUCCESS, bnetTV, China AXLR8R, the Cloud Security Alliance, Computing, The Data Chain, ExecEvent, GigaOM, The Green Grid, Innovation Warehouse, Launchpad Europe, Lissted, MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, Mynewsdesk, The Next Silicon Valley, Outsource, Prezi, RealWire, Silicon Cape Initiative, StarTau, Startup America, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), Tech in Asia, TechNode, TiE Silicon Valley, Wazoku, Ventureburn and VMware.
An exciting new prize this year for each category winner is to be nominated to attend Morgan Stanley’s invitation-only CTO Summit – a great opportunity for enterprise technology start-ups. In addition, GigaOM is offering all the early-bird entrants a chance to win a free ticket to the Structure:Europe conference.
All entrants to the Tech Trailblazers Awards get the chance to have their technology reviewed by some of the IT industry’s eminent influencers from around the world. The extensive judging panel reflects the Tech Trailblazers’ pioneering “community spirit” approach to enterprise IT awards.
For example, joining the esteemed judging panel this year is Julian Levy, Executive Director in Morgan Stanley's Technology Business Development group. Other new faces on this year’s judging team include:
– James Governor (@Monkchips), RedMonk,
– Derrick Harris (@DerrickHarris), GigaOM,
– Todd Embley, China AXLR8R (@chinaccelerator) and
– Storage blogger Hans de LeenHeer (@Hansdeleenheer).