2010 Technology Awards Gala

Photos from the 2010 Technology Awards Gala
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Photos by Arthur Fink Photography

Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Eastland Park Hotel Ballroom
157 High Street, Portland

The TechMaine Technology Awards Gala is the premier technology awards program in Northern New England. Since 2002, TechMaine has honored Maine businesses and individuals for their contributions to the state’s technology-reliant economy. The Technology Awards recognize the accomplishments of the state's technology sectors over the past year, and present awards to Maine's top technology companies and individuals. This event allows TechMaine the opportunity to highlight outstanding achievements and success stories from across the state. 

The Awards

Technology Awards

• Governor's Award for Technology Company of the Year
• Gazelle Company
• CxO of the Year
• New Technology of the Year
• Technology Innovator of the Year

Best of the Web Awards

• Corporate Image
• Arts & Entertainment
• Non-Profit
• E-Commerce

The Agenda

• 6:15 p.m. - Registration
• 6:30 p.m. - Reception & Networking (heavy hors d'oeuvres & cash bar)
• 7:30 p.m. - Awards Ceremony
  • EppyBird Presentation
              Creativity & Obsession: Innovation through Art & Science
  • Technology Awards
  • EppyBird Presentation
              Viral Marketing: Lessons from the Front Lines
  • Best of the Web Awards

Our Masters of Ceremony: EepyBird 

Fritz and Stephen are the mad scientists behind EepyBird.com. Fritz, the short, bearded guy, is also a professional juggler. Stephen, the tall, bald guy, is also a lawyer. Both these skills have proven useful in managing EepyBird insanity!

Stephen Voltz               Fritz Grobe

STEM Careers... Science..... Technology..... Engineering..... and Mentos

Fritz and Stephen will present:  

1. Lessons from the Front Lines of Viral Marketing

What are the ingredients of a successful viral video? EepyBird has spent the last five years developing and refining a proven, repeatable formula that has been honored with two Emmy Nominations and four Webby Awards.

Advertising Age called EepyBird’s first viral campaign “the most important commercial content of 2006.” Coca-Cola compared EepyBird’s second campaign to “a Superbowl ad at the fraction of the cost.” And EepyBird’s OfficeMax viral campaign saw a time-spent-with-brand equivalent to a Superbowl ad – plus two ads on the finale of American Idol.

These are the kind of results that many people don’t know are possible. And while these results are difficult to achieve, EepyBird has clear methods to help you get there.

Get unique insights into Lessons from the Front Lines of Viral Marketing from EepyBird, GoViral.com’s #1 Online Game Changers of the Decade.

2. Creativity and Obsession: Innovation through Art & Science

How do you take what you work with every day and find something new? How do you transform objects and ideas to create something unforgettable? For EepyBird, this is what their obsessive creative process is all about.

It’s a process rooted in EepyBird’s experience in science and in the circus (yes, Fritz has won five gold medals at the International Jugglers Championships). The common threads combine creativity with obsession. This process has led to their series of successful viral videos with Coke & Mentos, sticky notes, and more – videos that have now been viewed over 120 million times and been featured on Letterman, Mythbusters, The Today Show, and more.

In a series of clear steps, EepyBird shows how they take an idea from 1 to 10 to 100. Their process shows you how to take an idea from your first glimmer all the way to something extraordinary.

Explore Creativity and Obsession with the originators of The Extreme Coke & Mentos Experiments.

About Fritz 

Fritz Grobe left his mathematics studies at Yale University to perform as a juggler, and he soon took the juggling world by storm. He has won five gold medals at the International Jugglers Championships and set a world record for juggling way too many objects. In 2004, he created a leading role, and was the featured solo clown, in the Cirque du Soleil spin-off “Birdhouse Factory,” a show that The New York Times recently called “engrossingly entertaining… in a word, excellent!”

About Stephen 

Stephen Voltz was a street performer in San Francisco, doing shows as a magician, juggler, and fire eater, before becoming a responsible adult and going to law school at New York University. After sixteen years as a trial lawyer in Boston, he returned to performing with his one-man show “The Benefit of Doubt,” which premiered at San Francisco’s EXIT Theater. In 2000, he and Fritz met while studying physical theater at Celebration Barn, Maine’s international school for original theater.