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Pacific Northwest Wireless Summit presents awards

Posted by Rob Lewis on Mon, January 19, 2009 9:46 PM · Filed under Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria · Comments

The Pacific Northwest Wireless Summit wrapped up tonight with the Awards Gala at the Hyatt Regency. All in all the event was a huge success with some great networking thanks to 160 attendees compared to last year's 120. Mob4hire CEO Stephen King wrapped up Day One yesterday here and Techvibes blogger Warren Frey covered all the sessions today.

Thanks to Tagga, participants were able to vote for the Awards throughout the day in real time. Congrats to all the winners:

  • Best Nokia University Presentation: Karen MacLean of UBC
  • Best International Speaker: Tony Fish of AMF Ventures
  • Best Service Provider Investment Forum (SPIF) presentation: Mingleverse
  • Best Panel: Nokia University relations forum
  • Best Exhibitor: Verrus Mobile Technologies
  • Best Exhibitor Demo Pitch: Canpages
  • Best Keynote: Thomas Huseby of Seapoint Ventures
  • Best in Show: Verrus Mobile Technologies

Thanks to Michael Bidu and Christina Chowaniec of WINBC for putting on an excellent conference.

 
Company:
Wireless Innovation Network of British Columbia
Website:
http://www.winbc.org
Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

British Columbia is home to the wireless industry's leading players. BC's wireless cluster encompasses all areas of the wireless technology value... [more]

 
 
Company:
Canpages
Website:
http://www.canpages.ca
Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Canpages is Canada's fastest growing local search company. Providing a multimedia platform that focuses on relevant, local results, Canpages offers... [more]

 
 
Company:
Tagga Media
Website:
http://www.tagga.com
Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Tagga Media is a technology and services company building more connected, more successful cross-media campaigns with mobile. Tagga’s campaign... [more]

 
 
Company:
Verrus Mobile Technologies Inc.
Website:
http://www.verrus.com
Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Founded in 2000, Verrus has pioneered pay by phone services beginning with North America’s first pay by phone parking installation in 2001, and... [more]

 
 
Company:
Mingleverse Laboratories Inc
Website:
http://www.mingleverse.com
Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Mingleverse Mingle Room service is a next-generation, real-time, voice, video and multimedia communication platform that allows anyone,... [more]

 

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