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Entries open for 2015 NZ Hi-Tech Awards
Entries open for 2015 NZ Hi-Tech Awards
Four new
categories introduced
Auckland, 5 December 2014 – Entries are now open for the 2015 NZ Hi-Tech Awards.
The Hi-Tech Awards recognise the achievers of the NZ Hi-Tech industry right from start-up and emerging through to the coveted company of the year which was won in 2014 by Orion Health. In addition, categories recognise excellence in the product space covering software, services, hardware and mobile.
The four new categories for 2015
include:
• Most Innovative Hi-Tech Agritech
Product
• Best Innovation Initiative
• Best
Technology Solution for the Public Sector
• Best
Technology Solution for the Creative Sector
NZ Hi-Tech Trust Chair, Wayne Norrie, “For 2015 we have revamped the categories, so as to reflect the changing nature of the industry. We’ve removed the export categories as just about every fast moving hi-tech company is or planning to export. We have brought in categories that recognise New Zealand rapid rise in the agritech and creative sectors as well as a category that recognise the great work taking place in the public sector”.
The aim of the Hi-Tech Trust is to acknowledge and recognise excellence within the New Zealand Hi-Tech industry which is the third largest export earner in the country, generating over $7 billion in annual revenue - a sector that is growing at twice the rate of the economy as a whole. The goal of the Hi-Tech Awards is to support the growth of this key industry.
Entries are securely reviewed by our high profile panels of local and international judges.
The 12 categories for the
2015 NZ Hi-Tech Awards are:
• PwC Hi-Tech
Company of the Year
• Cisco Hi-Tech Emerging
Company
• NZVIF Hi-Tech Startup
Company
• Callaghan Innovation Best Technology Solution
for the Creative Sector
• Duncan Cotterill Most
Innovative Hi-Tech Software Product
• New Zealand Trade
& Enterprise Most Innovative Hi-Tech Agritech
Product
• UK Trade & Investment Most Innovative Mobile
Technology product
• Grow Wellington Most Innovative
Hi-Tech Service
• IBM Best Innovation
Initiative
• Endace Most Innovative Hi-Tech Hardware
Product
• Fronde Hi-Tech Young Achiever
• Best
Technology Solution for the Public Sector
A full list of categories and entry criteria can be found at www.hitech.org.nz. All entries are submitted online.
Key
dates
• Entries for the 2015 Awards will close
at 5pm on 2nd March 2015
• Finalists
will be announced at simultaneous events in Auckland,
Wellington and Christchurch on 25th March
2015
• Winners will be announced at the Gala
Dinner in Wellington on 15th May
2015
About the NZ Hi-Tech
Trust
Established in 2009, The New Zealand
Hi-Tech Trust is a not-for-profit, voluntary organisation.
It is responsible for running the NZ Hi-Tech Awards
programme, including the Tait Communications Flying Kiwi
Awards, and conducting other programmes of work for the
benefit of the industry. www.hitech.org.nz
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