1. 2014 ConnectED Award

Submission Deadline: Friday, Nov. 1, 2013

Awards Ceremony: February 2014, a part of the Connected World Conference

Thank you for completing the ConnectED Award application. Your responses to the questions below will help Connected World magazine understand the applicant.

The ConnectED Award honors individuals who have applied innovation and vision to successfully bring their ideas to the M2M and connected-devices marketplace.

Please note the following:

- This entry form cannot be saved to be completed at another time.

- The applicants chosen for this award must be present during the award ceremony in order to be eligible to win.

- This online ballot must be accompanied with the PDF payment/approval form, in order to be complete. This form can be found at the end of this ballot.

- The cost to submit for the ConnectED Award is $195.

- Any company that submits after the deadline of November 1 will be charged $220 per entry.

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* 1. Please complete the following information regarding the applicant.

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* 2. Please complete the following information in regard to the product that was developed.

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* 3. Please describe your entrepreneurial background and what has brought you to where you are today.

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* 4. Briefly describe your M2M solution/connected device and what factors led you to come up with the idea. Please specify the particular void you saw in the market and/or opportunity that encouraged you to develop your idea.

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* 5. Explain how you went about bringing your product/solution to market. Please explain if there were any partners, tech vendors, or other companies that helped you bring your product to market (e.g., development partners, wireless network, testing labs, module providers, etc.), and what role they played along the way.

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* 6. Please list a few hurdles you encountered during the process of bringing your product to market and how you overcame these hurdles.

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* 7. Please list a few successes you experienced along the way.

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