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

Facebook Studio Awards
Awards Info
http://www.facebook-studio.com/awards/index

ACE Awards
Awards Info
http://www.ubm-ace.com/

SF ADDY Awards
Awards Info
http://www.sfaddys.com/

IBC Innovation Awards
Awards Info
http://www.ibc.org/page.cfm/Action=Form/FormID=1/t=m

Mobile Payments Conference
Call for Speakers
http://mobilepaymentconference.com/content/call-speakers?utm_source=BenchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=Dec_28_2012_Email_Copy&utm_medium=email

Weblog Awards ("The Bloggies")
Awards Info
http://2013.bloggi.es/

Best of Enterprise Connect
Awards Info
http://www.enterpriseconnect.com/bestofenterpriseconnect/

Red Herring Top 100 Asia
Awards info
http://www.redherring.com/submit-a-company-asia/

Launch Festival
Call for Participation
http://festival.launch.co/index.html#top

KMWorld Conference
Call for Speakers
http://www.kmworld.com/Conference/2013/CallForSpeakers.aspx

OpenStack Summit
Call for Speakers
http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/call-for-speakers

Deadlines

1/4/13
Mobile Banking & Commerce Summit Call for Speakers
http://www.americanbanker.com/conferences/mobile/session-proposal.html

1/7/13
Gartner BPM Excellence Awards
http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/emea/business-process/excellence-awards.jsp

1/7/13
Network Computing Awards (UK)
http://networkcomputingawards.co.uk/?sf7996482=1

1/7/13
Smart Grid Companies to Watch
http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/news/Here-we-go-again-Nominate-smart-grid-Companies-to-Watch-in-2013-5375.html/#.UOYe8onjlZF

1/9/13
RSA Innovation Sandbox
https://ae.rsaconference.com/US13/survey/displaySurvey.do?surveyID=1001

1/10/13
Mdevcon Call for Speakers
http://mdevcon.com/posts/2012/11/06/call-for-papers/

1/11/13
AnDevCon Boston Call for Speakers
http://www.andevcon.com/AnDevCon_Boston/callforspeakers.aspx

1/11/13
Appy Awards
https://www.mediapost.com/appyawards/entry/add/

1/11/13
Red Hat Summit Call for Speakers
http://redhat.g2planet.com/summit2013/cfp

1/11/13
DesignVision Awards
http://www.designcon.com/santaclara/expo/designvision-awards.php

Tech Event PR Prep

(1/8)
CES
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/348/

(1/13)
NRF Show
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/353/

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

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

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

(1/29)
M2M Evolution
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/

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

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