Commercial Product or Service of the Year

Concur
Nominated for Concur Travel & Expense

Concur is the world’s leading provider of on-demand Employee Spend Management services. Concur unites and streamlines travel and expense, and invoice processes.

INRIX
Nominated for INRIX Connected Services

INRIX is the leading provider of accurate real-time, historical and predictive traffic information in North America and Europe, with over 68 customers and industry partners.

Visible Technologies 
Nominated for TruCast®

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

Pet Holdings, Inc.
Nominated for I Can Has Cheezburger?

Pet Holdings specializes in creating communities of passionate users who compete to create the funniest viral content. We make people happy for 5-minutes per day.

Picnik
Nominated for Picnik

Picnik is an online photo editor that gives real people photo-editing superpowers, giving anyone the ability to quickly and easily edit, enhance, share and print photos from any Internet browser on any computer platform.

Wetpaint
Nominated for Wetpaint

Wetpaint powers socially published websites that let anyone collaboratively create, collect, and organize content to build an online community around whatever they’re passionate about.

Breakthrough Start-up of the Year

Apptio
Nominated for Apptio

Apptio is the leading IT Cost Optimization solution providing better understanding of the true TCO of IT services, driving a reduction in IT costs and better decision making.

LiquidPlanner
Nominated for LiquidPlanner 1.0

LiquidPlanner is the first and only online project management software to incorporate ranged estimates and statistical probability to deliver schedules that can be trusted.

Ontela
Nominated for Ontela PicDeck

Ontela provides a ridiculously simple solution that automatically saves every camera phone picture a user snaps to their e-mail, PC, and web photo albums.

Service Provider of the Year

AdReady™, Inc.
Nominated for AdReady®

AdReady makes the creation and management of sophisticated online display advertising campaigns incredibly easy and effective for advertisers and publishers of all sizes.

Azaleos Corporation
Nominated for Azaleos OneStop Services™ 

Azaleos services provide 24x7 remote outsourcing for Exchange e-mail -- enabling simplified low cost monitoring, management & add-on services with on-premise data security.

Cobalt 
Nominated for Automotive Digital Marketing Platform

Cobalt is the leading provider of digital marketing services for the automotive industry. Cobalt provides services to over half of all automotive dealers in the U.S.

Best use of Technology in the Government, Non-profit or Educational Sector

eCityGov Alliance
Nominated for Shared Procurement Portal

eCityGov is dramatically improving local government services by exploiting technology to align business practices across jurisdictions that result in seamless, consistent services for citizens and businesses.

Snohomish County Planning & Development Services
Nominated for The Inspection Improvement Project

The Inspection Improvement Project uses technology available today to provide great customer service for how inspections are requested, documented and results communicated.

South Sound Health Communication Network
Nominated for Clarity Health Referral Management

Service SSHCN provides secure information handling and clinical tools that enable community based physicians and their staffs to provide personal, effective and coordinated healthcare.

Technology Innovator of the Year

Don Ledford, VANTOS, Inc.
Don Ledford is the CTO of VANTOS, Inc.  Don, an industry veteran in software architectures and component assembly, has over two decades of deep knowledge with recognized innovations and proven expertise in enterprise software.

Darrin Massena, Picnik
Darrin is the Co-Founder & CTO at Picnik.  Darrin has developed software for the last 28 years. Prior to Picnik, Darrin co-founded Spiffcode and was a development manager at Microsoft for 11 years, where he was a "Leonardo DaVinci Award" winner.

Matthew Parks, Visto Corporation
Matthew Parks is the Senior Director of Product Management at Visto.  Matthew has 15+ years of product marketing management in wireless, Internet and converged spaces.

Technology Leader of Tomorrow

Aaron Love – St. Therese School, 8th Grade
Matthew McMillan – St. Therese School, 7th Grade
Israel Zemeadim – Washington Middle School, 8th Grade 

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