About This Event

Join us at 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 23 for one of the region’s most-anticipated and hotly-contested tech events: The GeekWire Awards, presented by Wave Business. Continuing this great tradition, we’ll reveal the winners of the Pacific Northwest’s annual startup and technology awards, as nominated and chosen by GeekWire readers. Registration is free, with the Awards show livestreamed on YouTube and GeekWire.com. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind virtual event, with special guest appearances and other surprises!

Meet our finalists in 12 categories:

Startup of the Year; Next Tech Titan; Deal of the Year – IPO and Acquisitions; Deal of the Year – Funding; Startup CEO of the Year; Big Tech CEO; Innovation of the Year; Health Innovation of the Year; Geeks Give Back; Hardware/Gadget of the Year; UX Design of the Year and Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Schedule

January 22 - January 29

Nominations - Closed

Nominations closed

January 31 - February 6

Judges select finalists

Thank you to our member judges:

Regis Allen – CenturyLink, Perry Atkins – Baird; Kraig Baker – Davis Wright Tremaine; Venkat Balasubramani – Focal; Derek Baughman – Comdata; Geof Bowie – Sandler Sales Training; Andrea Brice – Afterwardz; Emily Cantrell – World Trade Center Seattle; Matthew Cole – Intuli; David Cromwell – David Wright Tremaine; Troy DeFrank – British Columbia Trade & Investment; Julie Denberger, Synapse Product Development; Jennifer Gehrt – Communique PR; Brett Greene – New Tech NW; Bill Hankes – Sqoop; Stijn Hendrikse – Kalungi; KC Herren – Baird; Yumi Huh, Marchex; Manish Jain– Trilogy Equity Partners; Mary Jesse – Alvarez & Marsal; Brent Johnson – KPMG; Wendy Kearns – David Wright Tremaine; Kevin Kutz – KK Strategies; Adam Lazara – Comcast; Minh Le – Silicon Valley Bank; Howard Lee – SoRSE Technology; Peter Lyster – KPMG; Justin Mcaleer – CenturyLink; Colleen Moffett – Communique PR; James Newell – Voyager Capital; Drew Olson – CenturyLink; Melissa Osvaldik – KPMG; Britt Provost – Accolade; Craig Quarders – CenturyLink; Michael Stevens – RWS Moravia; Shauna Swerland – Fuel Talent; Jordan Voss – Northern Trust; Ethan Waterman – Baird; Richard Wood – First Hill Partners