Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of Seattle 2.0 and its archival content. For more background, see this post.
By Jennifer Cabala
Every year Seattle Business Magazine honors our area’s biggest innovators — from industry veterans to up and comers. This year’s Top Innovators event is this Thursday at the Hard Rock Cafe. To honor Seattle’s startup culture the Seattle Business Magazine team is not only offering startuppers a discount, they are also letting us give away five tickets. Attendees will get appetizers, drinks and the opportunity to network with the winners including:
- Erez Barak – Optify
- Glen J. Bertini – Novinium
- Jackie Heinricher – Booshoot Gardens
- Alex Kipman – Microsoft
- Jeff and Martha Ledbetter – Kaleetan Pharmaceuticals
- Brad E. Meyers – BE Meyers Electro Optics
- Dustin Miller and Daniel Rossi – Nanocel
- Tom Nugent, Jordin Kare and Dave Bashford – LaserMotive
- Todd Ostrander and Dr. Minoru Taya – Vitriosic
- Schwetak Patel – UW Dept. of Computer Science
- John Peers & Lain Mackie – Lightfleet
- John Saw – Clearwire
- Jim Schlosser & Cody Peterson – Pacinian Inc.
- Karl A. Schoene, David A. Lamar and James A Batdorf – InEnTec LLC/S4
- Alexander Tokman & Sid Madhavan – Microvision
Congratulations to the winners Jennifer Wong, James Mak, Eric Huang, Lyndi Thompson and Erik Azar!
If you didn’t win you can still get a great deal. Just email chris.deco@tigeroak.com and mention Seattle 2.0 — you pay $25, half off!