ITDatabase and Business Wire today highlighted numerous calls for speakers, awards and other opportunities and deadlines that tech industry communications and marketing professionals should be aware of, including:

New Opportunities

SD Times 100
Awards Info
http://www.sdtimes.com/content/about-sdtimes100.aspx

SIPNOC
Call for Speakers
http://www.sipforum.org/content/view/369/270/

Game Marketing Summit
Call for Speakers
http://www.gamemarketingsummit.com/summit/call-for-speakers/

New England Innovation Awards
Awards Info
http://www.sbane.org/the-innovation-awards/sbane-new-england-innovation-award-application/

Best Places to Work (Austin Business Journal)
Awards Info
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/nomination/36331

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Awards Info
http://www.ey.com/US/en/About-us/Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year

About.com Readers' Choice Awards
Awards Info
http://awards.about.com/

American Technology Awards
Awards Info
http://www.techamericafoundation.org/thetermans

LOGIN
Call for Speakers
http://loginconference.com/login-conference-2013-call-for-speakers/

MarketingSherpa Optimization Summit
Call for Speakers
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1130660/2013-Optimization-Summit-Call-for-Speakers

LinuxFest Northwest
Call for Speakers
http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/news/call-papers

SC13
Call for Posters
http://sc13.supercomputing.org/content/call-posters

Nearshore Nexus 2013
Call for Speakers
http://www.nearshorenexus.com/

Deadlines

(1/18)
IBM Impact Call for Speakers
https://www-950.ibm.com/events/tools/impact/impact2013ems/?CT=ISM0056

(1/18)
Semantic Technology & Business Conference Call for Speakers
http://semtechbizsf2013.semanticweb.com/cfp.cfm?pgid=40

(1/18)
CRM Evolution Call for Speakers
http://www.destinationcrm.com/conferences/2013/CallForSpeakers.aspx

(1/18)
JAX Conf Call for Speakers
http://jaxconf.com/

(1/19)
Global Supply Chain Summit Call for Speakers
http://events.nrf.com/supply13/public/Content.aspx?ID=20972

(1/20)
Best Places to Work (San Francisco Business Times)
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/nomination/6941

(1/22)
Supply Chain Innovation Award Competition
http://www.supplychainbrain.com/content/nc/research-analysis/supply-chain-innovators/single-article-page/article/submit-your-success-story-to-the-2013-supply-chain-innovation-award-competition/

(1/23)
Mobile Payments Conference
http://mobilepaymentconference.com/content/call-speakers?utm_source=BenchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=Dec_28_2012_Email_Copy&utm_medium=email

(1/25)
DMA Conference Call for Speakers
http://dma13.org/dma2013-call-for-speaker-proposal-is-now-open/

(1/31)
Edison Awards
http://www.eei.org/whoweare/Awards/Pages/EdisonAward.aspx

Tech Event PR Prep

(1/28)
DesignCon
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/355/

(1/29)
ITEXPO East
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/356/

(1/29)
DistribuTECH Conference & Exhibition
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/387/

(1/29)
M2M Evolution Conference
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/389/

(1/30)
BETT
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/352/

(1/31)
Macworld | iWorld
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/354/

(2/2)
FOSDEM
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/357/

(2/25)
Mobile World Congress
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/360/

(2/25)
RSA
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/383/

(2/26)
O’Reilly Strata
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/361/

(2/26)
Embedded World
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/362/

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