Baltimore Innovation Week Awards of 2013

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* 1. What is your email?

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* 2. Most Innovative Startup of the Year (what early-stage venture is most likely to disrupt its industry?)

Red Owl Analytics, the big data analytics startup

OrderUp, the digital franchising software company

Gliknik, the cancer-focused biopharmaceuticals company

Riskive, the predictive cybersecurity company

Clear Guide Medical, the ultrasound imaging device design company

Parking Panda, the parking reservation company

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* 3. Tech Business Success Story of 2013 (what established Baltimore tech business had the best year?)

Firaxis, the Sparks, MD-based video game firm to launch the next title in its XCOM series, called "the biggest game it's ever produced"

Millennial Media, the Canton-based mobile advertising giant, saw revenue climb since its 2012 IPO

Videology, the Locust Point-based video ad manager, raised $60M in funding to grow internationally

Sourcefire, the Columbia-based cybersecurity firm, was acquired by Cisco for $2.7 billion

Moodlerooms, the South Baltimore online learning management company, celebrated the one-year anniversary of its Blackboard acquisition

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* 4. Tech Mission Org of the Year (what mission-minded effort approached its mission with a new way of thinking?)

Cyber STEM Academy for supplementing STEM learning with a virtual environment

Digit All Systems for laptops for guns buy-back and expanded tech-literacy programming

Digital Harbor Foundation for its MakerCamp, Digital Harbor Tech Center and other continuing efforts

Code in the Schools for its computer-game programming classes for public schools

Mission: Launch for transitioning formerly incarcerated persons into entrepreneurship

Venture for America for expanding its entrepreneurship fellowship program to Baltimore

Baltimore City Public Schools for its expanded VEX Robotics programming and competitions

MdBioLab for making biosciences more accessible to high school students

Biophysics Research for Baltimore Teens and Medical Education Resources Initiative for Teens from Johns Hopkins University

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* 5. Economic Development Organization of the Year (what traditional authority aimed at spurring job growth has taken the most innovative approach?)

gb.tc

Chesapeake Regional Tech Council

Howard Tech Council

Greater Baltimore Committee

Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center

Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore

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* 6. Neighborhood or Community Group of the Year (what focused effort has done the most creative work in celebrating or improving its mission?)

Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute

Center for Urban Families

Downtown Partnership

Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance

Station North Arts and Entertainment Inc.

Visit Baltimore

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* 7. Investment Group of the Year (what funding organization had the biggest impact on Baltimore?)

Baltimore Angels

Grotech Ventures

InvestMaryland

New Markets Venture Partners

TEDCO (Maryland Technology Development Corporation)

Wasabi Ventures

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* 8. Design/Dev Firm of the Year (who is making the web a more beautiful, functional place?)

The Canton Group (cantongroup.com)

Cynergy (cynergy.com)

Fastspot (fastspot.com)

Friends of The Web (friendsoftheweb.com/)

idfive (idfive.com)

PlanIt (planitagency.com)

R2Integrated (r2integrated.com)

VIM Interactive (viminteractive.com/)

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* 9. Web/Radio Series or Podcast of the Year (what regular audio or video production best represents Baltimore?)

The City That Breeds' weekly podcast (citythatbreeds.com/podcast-2)

Color Me Funny comedy shorts (colormefunnycomedy.com)

Eli the Computer Guy's IT training videos (youtube.com/user/elithecomputerguy)

Baltimore Weekly, gb.tc's weekly video podcast (gb.tc/channels/baltimore-weekly/1)

The Lines Between Us, Maryland Morning's year-long multimedia series about inequality in Baltimore (www.wypr.org/category/podcast-keywords/lines-between-us)

The Stoop Storytelling Series (stoopstorytelling.com)

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* 10. Online Media of the Year (what web-based publication has best covered and rallied its community?)

Baltimore Brew (baltimorebrew.com)

Baltimore Crime (baltimorecrime.blogspot.com)

Baltimore Spectator (baltimorespectator.com)

Booze News from Community Law Center (communitylaw.org/booze-news)

What Weekly (whatweekly.com)

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* 11. Marketing Firm of the Year (what public relations or advertising company best represented new thinking in brand work?)

Evolve Communications

MGH

Nevins & Associates

RightSource Marketing

SPIN LLC

Abel Communications

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* 12. Colocation or Incubator Space of the Year (what physical collaborative location best encourages innovation?)

Baltimore Foundery

Baltimore Node

Betamore

bwtech@UMBC

Emerging Technology Center

Fab Lab Baltimore at CCBC

HotDesks

Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship

Social Innovation Lab @ Johns Hopkins University

TowsonGlobal Incubator

University of Maryland BioPark

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* 13. Most Innovative Place (what location best represents the innovation, technology and creative energy of the region?)

West Baltimore

Canton

Federal Hill

Fells Point

Harbor East

Downtown

Mount Vernon

Station North

Tide Point

Towson

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* 14. Most Innovative College or University (what higher education institution is best training the region's future leaders?)

Community College of Baltimore County

Coppin State University

Johns Hopkins University

Loyola University Maryland

Morgan State University

Maryland Institute College of Art

Towson University

University of Baltimore

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

University of Maryland, Baltimore

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* 15. Baltimore Tech Event of the Year (what event this year best captivated and represented the technology community?)

Pitch Across Maryland Startup Bus tour

Gamescape

Hack for Change

Rails Girls

Refresh Baltimore

TechBreakfast

TEDxBaltimore

Startup Weekend

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* 16. Meetup of the Year (what regular meeting most consistently brought technologists together in a meaningful way?)

Baltimore Lean Startup (http://www.meetup.com/Baltimore-LeanStartup)

Baltimore Mobile (http://www.meetup.com/baltimoremobile)

Bmore On Rails (http://www.meetup.com/bmore-on-rails)

Baltimore PHP (http://www.meetup.com/baltimorephp)

Baltimore SocEnt breakfasts

Baltimore-DC Javascript Users (http://www.meetup.com/baltimore-dc-javascript-users)

Data Science MD (http://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-MD/)

EdTech Baltimore (http://www.meetup.com/EdTechBaltimore)

TechBreakfast (http://www.meetup.com/TechBreakfast)

Tech & Social Change (http://www.meetup.com/Tech-Social-Change-Baltimore)

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* 17. Best Tech Product of the Year (what software or hardware developed here best showed new thinking?)

Mailstrom, the e-mail management software from 410 Labs

Wham City Lights, the portable-lightshow app used at concerts nationwide

Gado robot, the image-digitizing device from Project Gado

Brain Sentry Impact Sensor, concussion-detection device for football and other sports helmets

RealSpace, the 3D sound-capturing software from VisiSonics

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* 18. Artist of the Year (what creative leader is most challenging art and its delivery?)

Alex Ebstein, for her work as co-director of Nudashank Gallery in downtown Baltimore.

Alex Fine, for his illustrations featured weekly in the Baltimore City Paper.

Baltimore Rock Opera Society, for thrilling fans at eight sold-out shows of of MURDERCASTLE.

Dan Deacon, for helping expand the national and global reach of the mobile light-show app he founded, Wham City Lights.

Michael Owen, for his LOVE Project murals painted around Baltimore city.

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* 19. Civil Servant of the Year (what government official did the most for a more connected Baltimore?)

Heather Hudson, City of Baltimore Chief Data Officer, for her work expanding the OpenBaltimore data portal

Nick Mosby, District 7 Councilman, for organizing the Enough is Enough marches to protest violent crime

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of the City of Baltimore, for attendance at local tech events

Brandon Scott, District 2 Councilman, for his part in getting Comstat and other crime data online

Chris Tonjes, City of Baltimore Chief Technology Officer, for expanding the mission of the city IT department, including helping to organize Hack the Parks, the city's first civic hacking competition

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* 20. Civic Hacker of the Year (what technologist best used digital tools to inform or visualize Baltimore?)

Shea Frederick, for incorporating demographic and employment data into his interactive online map of Baltimore city's vacant properties, BaltimoreVacants.org.

Cham Green, for her map that overlaid Baltimore's 2013 homicides onto the location of Baltimore city's vacant properties.

Elliott Plack, for his map of Baltimore vacant properties and co-organizing the Reinvent Transit public transportation hackathon.

Chris Whong, for numerous video visualizations and CirculatorBuddy.com, which tracks Charm City Circulator bus locations in real-time.

Eliot Pearson, for helping develop AppsForBaltimore, an online database of civic applications available for Baltimore residents.

Jessica Ladd, for SoTheyCanKnow.org, a website that allows people to send anonymous e-mails to sexual partners to encourage them to get tests for sexually-transmitted diseases.

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* 21. Best Baltimore Voice of Innovation (who best takes Baltimore’s message of innovation to the wider world?)

Frank Bosnal III, venture capitalist

Kevin Plank, Under Armour founder

Mario Armstrong, TV news commentator

Sid Meier, video game pioneer

Vince Talbert, Bill Me Later founder

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* 22. Community Leader of the Year (who best represents the early-stage community of Baltimore in the region?)

Andrew Rose

Christine Johnson

Dave Troy

Deb Tillett

Greg Cangialosi

Jason Hardebeck

Heather Sarkissian

Jen Meyer (née Gunner)

Kate Bladow

Jess Gartner

Julie Lenzer Kirk

Mike Binko

Mike Brenner

Mike Subelsky

Paris Pittman

Rob Rosenbaum

Rodney Foxworth

Ron Schmelzer

Sarge Salman