Charlotte’s prestigious Blue Diamond Awards are back! Applications for the final two awards in the 2023-2024 series (Business Impact Corporation and IT Entrepreneur) opened on May 6th, learn more here .
Finalists and winners from our already announced awards in the 2023-2024 series are:
TechExec Community Impact Award Finalists: Kendra Neary, Accenture & TJ
Felice, Centric Consulting; Winner: Arno Czerveny, Wells Fargo
Cool Innovation Award Winner: American Tire Distributors, PolyAtom Team
Business Impact SMB Finalist: Swell Energy; Winner: Open Broadband LLC
Community Solutions Award Finalists: Dottie Rose Foundation, Nourish Up, Leading on Opportunity, Foundation for the Carolinas; Winner: E4E Relief
The Blue Diamond Awards recognize organizations that have developed innovative technologies to better realize their mission and achieve their business goals. As such, they provide a highly regarded way to celebrate and support Charlotte’s thriving technology community, critical as our city grows in its technological prominence. Under Apparo’s leadership, we have extended the Blue Diamond Awards. No longer one event, but rather a year-long celebration, the program now provides the technology community with six opportunities for leaders and practitioners to gather together in person to applaud recent accomplishments and share ideas and best practices. The wide variety of finalists and award recipients is one of the highlights of the Blue Diamond Awards. Our panel of judges include C-Suite technology leaders from Ally Financial, Honeywell, TIAA, Wells Fargo and more.
The upcoming awards open for nominations and applications are the Business Impact Corporation Award and the IT Entrepreneur Award. The Business Impact Corporation Award is for the company or organization of greater than 750 employees (in total, across all locations), or an individual or team from that company/organization, that achieves the greatest business value via the deployment and use of an information technology solution. This award will be presented in September of 2024 at our CXO Tech Insights forum. The IT Entrepreneur Award is for the individual entrepreneur who has turned a creative vision into a profitable and enduring business through the direct application of information technology. This award will be presented on November of 2024 at our CXO Tech Insights forum.
Apparo's CXO Tech Insights are a series of five technology networking and education forums in Charlotte, NC, gives CIOs and other IT professionals exclusive opportunities to delve into current technology challenges, explore innovative tech solutions, and engage in meaningful networking. Attendees gain valuable insights from technology industry leaders on current trends, business challenges, solutions and best practices, empowering them to stay ahead in today's rapidly evolving tech landscape. Ticket sales and corporate sponsorships support Apparo's mission of delivering vital nonprofit technology and process improvement solutions. As a result, lives are lifted in our communities. Learn more, read summaries of past Tech Insights, and register for the next event at apparo.org/corporations/cxo-tech-insights/ .
Apparo is a Charlotte-based nonprofit that delivers technology and business process improvement to nonprofits across the state (and beyond), so that they can work more effectively to improve lives in our communities. As a nonprofit ourselves, Apparo relies on the generosity of donors and corporations that provide skilled volunteers and underwriting for our work. To learn more about partnering with us, please visit apparo.org/corporations .
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