Don’t miss your chance to celebrate with Full Steam Ahead Award winners

Time is running out for you to get free tickets to Tuesday night’s Full Steam Ahead Awards celebration from WRAL TechWire. We will be handing out 12 awards and five life time service honors – as well as our engineer caps. (Dr. Charles Hamner took home TWO in 2012 ) Check out the list of finalists in this post – and be there to find out who wins.

We’ve also added some door prizes, including Durham Bulls tickets.

Plus there’s a $50 gift card from The Pit.

Attendees can drop their business card in a bucket for a chance to win.

The voting was heavy, and the final results were very close.

We have one tie, by the way.

And in some categories there are more than three finalists, which is a reflection of just how close the voting was.

Five Editor’s Choice Awards for lifetime service also will be awarded. We identified one earlier today – Dave Rizzo, the retired head of NC IDEA. (Check that story for hints about who the other winners are.)

So come to the party on Tuesday, April 26, at Motorco in Durham to salute the winners.

Tickets are free, but you must register.

The finalists in the Startup individual categories are:

Engineer

Kurt Taylor, NextGlass
Liz Tracy, HQ Raleigh
Joe Hayes, Reward Stock

Tycoon

Pierre Naude, nCino
Brooks Bell, Jesse Lipson, Christopher Gergen and Jason Widen, co-founders HQ Raleigh
Brian Fischer, Smashing Boxes
Michelle Haynes, Savii

Conductor