{"id":31961,"date":"2018-05-20T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T03:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=31961"},"modified":"2018-05-20T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T03:48:35","slug":"iot-cloud-cybersecurity-innovation-awards-2018-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/05\/20\/iot-cloud-cybersecurity-innovation-awards-2018-finalists-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;IoT, Cloud &#038; CyberSecurity Innovation Awards 2018&#8217; finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>San Jose, California _ The finalists have been announced for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-55ZEA-4ZFCC1-34TSUC-1\/c.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IoT, Cloud &amp; CyberSecurity Innovation Awards 2018<\/a>. There will be three\u00a0<i>Hot Start Up\u00a0<\/i>awards for outstanding pre-IPO contestants, and three\u00a0<i>Innovation Leader\u00a0<\/i>awards for established companies currently offering the most ground-breaking and innovative products or services. In both cases, the three categories will be\u00a0<i>Cloud\/Datacentre<\/i>,\u00a0<i>IoT<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>CyberSecurity<\/i>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30737\" style=\"width: 632px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/tech-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30737\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30737\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/tech-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/tech-1.jpg 622w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/tech-1-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMAGE FROM PIXABAY.COM<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The winners will be announced and the awards presented on Thursday 24th May at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-55ZEA-4ZFCC1-34TSUD-1\/c.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NetEvents Global Press &amp; Analyst Summit<\/a>\u00a0Gala Dinner, including more than sixty of the key Technology Press and Analysts from across the globe. All award entry fees, plus donations during the Awards Gala Dinner, will be donated to three charities: Prostate Cancer Research, STEM and UNICEF.<\/p>\n<p>For each of the\u00a0<b>Hot Start Up award categories<\/b>\u00a0have been announced as follows in alphabetical order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Hot Start Up \u00ad\u2013 CyberSecurity:<\/i>\u00a0Fyde, JASK and Vectra<\/li>\n<li><i>Hot Start Up \u2013 Cloud \/ Datacentre:<\/i>\u00a0AISense Inc. Cohesity and DustPhotonics<\/li>\n<li><i>Hot Start Up \u2013 IoT:<\/i>\u00a0NetFoundry and PoLTE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finalists for these three\u00a0<i>Start Up<\/i>\u00a0categories will all be invited to give a short presentation at the NetEvents conference \u2018Shark Tank\u2019 session earlier that day. They will be addressing an audience comprising VCs, business angels, entrepreneurs and IT industry leaders \u2013 as well as industry media and analysts.<\/p>\n<p>For each of the\u00a0<i><b>Innovation Leader<\/b><\/i><b>\u00a0award categories<\/b>, three finalists have been announced for each category as follows, in alphabetical order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Innovation Leader \u2013 CyberSecurity:\u00a0<\/i>Cloudera, FireEye and ForeScout Technologies<\/li>\n<li><i>Innovation Leader \u2013 Cloud\/Datacentre:\u00a0<\/i>Apstra, Console Connect by PCCW Global and Skuid<\/li>\n<li><i>Innovation Leader \u2013 IoT:\u00a0<\/i>ForeScout Technologies, Greenwave Systems and NetFoundry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The three\u00a0<i>Innovation<\/i>\u00a0<i>Leader<\/i>\u00a0categories will be judged by a panel of leading technology press and industry analysts from around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>These awards spotlight outstanding innovation among today\u2019s most critical technology challenges, being presented at a high-profile dinner co-located with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-55ZEA-4ZFCC1-34TSUD-1\/c.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NetEvents 2018 Global Press &amp; Analyst Summit<\/a>, attended by more than 60 key Technology Press &amp; Analysts, representing 100+ publications from 35\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\">countries<\/a>\u00a0around the world. In just two days this event provides an exceptionally time and cost-effective opportunity for vendors to meet so many of the world\u2019s key technology business press and analysts in a series of scheduled face-to-face sessions \u2013 as well as a great way to be informed, to debate and discuss the latest hot topics and breaking IT news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach year we provide this very special opportunity\u201d says Mark Fox, NetEvents CEO. \u00a0\u201cEspecially for ambitious and enterprising start-ups \u2013 where else can one be seen and heard by so many key IT industry figures plus the world\u2019s top IT press and analysts? Add to that NetEvents\u2019 worldwide media partners, and you end up with industry-wide recognition from a massive global audience of C-Level and senior executives, VCs and media gatekeepers\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-55ZEA-4ZFCC1-34TSUD-1\/c.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NetEvents 2018 Global Press &amp; Analyst Summit<\/a>\u00a0is being held at the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose, California, USA, on 24 &#8211; 25 May 2018. All proceeds from the awards, plus profits and donations from the evening, will be donated to three charities: Prostate Cancer Research, STEM and UNICEF.\u00a0 The NetEvents awards program has to date generated over\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\">$130,000<\/a>\u00a0with 100% of the money going to charity.<\/p>\n<p>For details of the full NetEvents program of events, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dmtrk.net\/L9C-55ZEA-4ZFCC1-34TSUE-1\/c.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.netevents.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose, California _ The finalists have been announced for the\u00a0IoT, Cloud &#038; CyberSecurity Innovation Awards 2018. There will be three\u00a0Hot Start Up\u00a0awards for outstanding pre-IPO contestants, and three\u00a0Innovation Leader\u00a0awards for established companies currently offering the most ground-breaking and innovative products or services. In both cases, the three categories will be\u00a0Cloud\/Datacentre,\u00a0IoT\u00a0and\u00a0CyberSecurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[272,96],"class_list":["post-31961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-netevents","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}