With all tickets gone, TechWire Awards to be streamed live at WRAL.com

All the tickets are gone for WRAL TechWire’s fifth awards program on Tuesday night, so the event is going to be streamed live by our sister web site WRAL.com.

The program begins at 7 p.m. at Google Fiber’s new headquarters in Raleigh.

Check out the streaming at:

http://www.wral.com/business/video/16642737/

If you want to attend, you can register for the waiting list.

We will be handing out 12 honors in our TechWire Awards – six individual, six company.

Plus we’ll be introducing our first five TechWire Hall of Fame members.

And we’ll name Editor’s Choice Awards recipients.

Want more? For the first time we have a keynote speaker: Cindy Whitehead, who sold Sprout Pharmaceuticals for $1 billion. She’ll be talking about entrepreneurship.

HoF honorees

They are:

Monica Doss, who helped create the nation’s largest organization focused on startups and entrepreneurs: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development.
Dr. Charles Hamner, who was a driving force behind the growth of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and one of the nation’s largest life science industries.
Dr. Jim Goodnight, co-founder and CEO of Cary-based SAS, a growing global software and services firm that’s never had a year losing money since its founding on July 1, 1976.
Venessa Harrison, who started her career as a telephone operator and steadily rose through the ranks of Bell South/AT&T to become president of AT&T for North Carolina and who spearheaded a drive to make sure the state was among the very first to deploy AT&T’s growing fiber network.
Dennis Dougherty, often considered the founding father of the venture capital industry with the creation of Intersouth Partners in Durham.

TechWire Awards

More than 100 individuals and companies were nominated by WRAL TechWire readers. The finalists were selected after a review by a WTW awards committee based on nominations received.

Here are the finalists:

STARTUP AWARDS

Fastest Growing Startup (most potential)

Eco-Site
Republic Wireless
Textivia

Most Steady Startup (delivering success consistently)

Adwerx
Republic Wireless
ArchiveSocial

Best Emerging Startup (fast-growing startup emerging from stealth mode)

Eco-Site
RewardStock
Roundtable Analytics

Top Startup Director (CEO/Chairman)

Scott Moody, Co-Founder and CEO, K4Connect
Todd Olson, CEO, Pendo.io
Chris Chuang, Co-Founder and CEO, Republic Wireless

Startup Executive Leader (top leader/executive, not necessarily CEO but a COO, CFO, CIO)

Kevin Barry, Founder and COO, FilterEasy
Tatiana Birgisson, Founder and CEO, MATI Energy
Nate Frechette, Co-Founder and CTO, Dropsource

Most Noteworthy Startup Founder or Investor

Chris Heivly, The Startup Factory
David Gardner, Cofounders Capital
Mark Easley, Goldhat Advisors

ENTERPRISE

Highest Achieving Enterprise (established companies)

Bandwidth
IBM Watson
Sageworks

Most Steady Enterprise (delivering success consistently)

MetLife Global Technology Operations
Red Hat
Bandwidth

Best Emerging Enterprise (perhaps with IPO or exit potential)

Pendo.io
Validic
Bandwidth

Top Enterprise Director (CEO/Chairman)

Allen West, President and CEO, Railinic
David Morken, Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of Bandwidth
Jean Davis, President and CEO, MCNC

Enterprise Executive Leader (top leader/executive, not necessarily CEO but a COO, CFO, CIO)

Jesse Lipson, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Services BU at Citrix
Tara Fitzgerald, President, Clinical Development Services at INC Research
Will Aycock, General Manager at Greenlight Community Broadband

Most Noteworthy Enterprise Founders or Investors