IT Awards Blog

As the first early-bird entry deadline for The 11th Annual American Business Awards, the premier business awards program in the U.S.A., approaches on Friday, November 16, we'd like to help you recognize your organization's achievements by highlighting our IT awards categories. If you haven't already done so, you can request your entry kit here and you will receive it right away.

The 2013 ABA IT award categories are:

• Information Technology Department of the Year
• Information Technology Team of the Year
• Information Technology Executive of the Year
• Technical Professional of the Year

Information to be submitted online for entries in these categories include:

• An essay of up to 525 words describing the nominee's accomplishments since January 1 2012,
• A biography of the nominee or the leader of the nominated department or team of up to 125 words, and
• Optional (but highly recommended), a collection of supporting files and web addresses that you may upload to our server to support your entry and provide more background information to the judges.

To help make the most out of your entries, we suggest reviewing the 2012 Gold information technology awards winners:

• Information Technology Department of the Year
  Achievers, San Francisco, CA
• Information Technology Team of the Year
  Travelport GDS, Atlanta, GA
• Information Technology Executive of the Year 
  Steve Levy, CEO, Verivo Software, Waltham, MA
• Technical Professional of the Year
  Douglas Grosvenor, DRC, Reston, VA

Want more ways to highlight your organization's IT efforts? We have several corporate awards categories that may be of interest including: app awards, live event awards, video awards, and website awards.

The entry deadline for the 2012 Stevie® Awards for Women in Business, the world's premier business awards for women executives, entrepreneurs, and the organizations they run, is quickly approaching on August 29. (If you haven't already done so, you can request your entry kit here.)

To help make the most of your IT awards entries, we suggest the following:  

1. Download our 10 Tips for Winning Technology Awards tipsheet. 
   Our tipsheet will provide helpful tips and tools for making the most out of your entries. 
2. Review past winners' entries.
   The 8th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business were presented in November 2011 in New York City, USA. Click here to view 2011 winning entries for website awards, app awards, video awards, and blog awards.

Winners of the 2012 competition will be celebrated at the ninth annual awards banquet on November 9 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York.

Need help? Contact us at help@stevieawards.com and we'll direct you to categories that are right for your organization.

The entry deadline for The 2012 International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards competition is quickly approaching on 16 May. (All individuals and organizations worldwide may submit nominations to The International Business Awards. If you haven't already done so, you can request your entry kit today.) Here we highlight three IT awards categories to help showcase your organization's emerging technology successes.

2012 IBA IT award categories include:

1. Information Technology Department of the Year
2. Information Technology Team of the Year
3. Information Technology Executive of the Year

Information to be submitted online for entries in these categories include:

• An essay of up to 500 words describing the nominee's accomplishments since January 1 2011,
• A biography of the nominee or the leader of the nominated department or team of up to 100 words, and
• Optional (but highly recommended), a collection of supporting files and web addresses that you may upload to our server to support your entry and provide more background information to the judges.

The 8th Annual International Business Awards were presented in October 2011 in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. 2011 information technology awards winners included PetRays, Quality Systems, Inc., and Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters.

Entries submitted after 16 May, through the final entry deadline of 27 June, will be assessed a late fee in addition to any entry fee. 2012 Finalists will be announced late July and 2012 IBA winners will be announced at the Seoul, South Korea awards ceremony on 15 October. Click here to see the complete IBA calendar.

Want more ways to highlight your organization's IT efforts? We have several corporate awards categories that may be of interest including: app awards, live event awards, video awards, and website awards.

As the entry deadline for The 2012 (10th Annual) American Business Awards, the premier business awards program in the U.S.A., quickly approaches on Wednesday, April 25,  we'd like to help you recognize your organization's achievements by highlighting our IT awards categories. If you haven't already done so, you can request your entry kit here and you will receive it right away.

The 2012 ABA IT award categories are:

• Information Technology Department of the Year
• Information Technology Team of the Year
• Information Technology Executive of the Year
• Technical Professional of the Year

Information to be submitted online for entries in these categories include:

• An essay of up to 500 words describing the nominee's accomplishments since January 1 2011,
• A biography of the nominee or the leader of the nominated department or team of up to 100 words, and
• Optional (but highly recommended), a collection of supporting files and web addresses that you may upload to our server to support your entry and provide more background information to the judges.

The following departments, teams, and individuals were honored with information technology awards at the 2011 ABAs:

• Information Technology Department of the Year
  Hallmark Services Corporation, Naperville, IL
• Information Technology Executive of the Year
  Carbonite, Inc., Boston, MA: David Friend, Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman
• Information Technology Team of the Year
  CIGNA Government Services, LLC, Nashville, TN: Rising to the Challenge
• Technical Professional of the Year
  High Performance Technologies, Inc., Reston, VA: Tom Simmavath, Team Lead

2012 ABA Finalists will be announced mid-May and the 10th Annual award winners will be announced at our tech awards ceremony in San Francisco on September 17th at the Julia Morgan Ballroom.

Want more ways to highlight your organization's IT efforts? We have several corporate awards categories that may be of interest including: app awards, live event awards, video awards, and website awards.