The Timmy Awards by Tech in Motion is an awards ceremony recognizing the best places for tech professionals to work in Chicago. While many tech awards are given to brilliant individuals and their technological advancements, the Timmy Awards aim to recognize those who employ those technologists, the companies and managers supporting and driving the innovation. And we want YOU to weigh in.
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When & Where will winners be announced?
Join us Thursday, September 21st at 1871 to celebrate the winning organizations and individuals at the 3rd Annual Timmy Awards Ceremony!
Timmy Award winners are determined by (50%) public voting and (50%) judge's voting. That means we need YOU to vote!
Event Schedule:
6:00-7:00: Meet & Greet (Cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, music, & interactive demos)
7:00-7:30: Award Ceremony
7:30-8:30: The Celebration (cocktails, photos, music and more)
2017 Timmy Award Host
Andy Boyle is a writer, web developer and speaker. His work has been in Esquire, NBC News, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The St. Petersburg Times and The New York Times Regional Media Group, where a project of his was cited in the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. He's currently the Director of Platform Architecture for Axios. When he's not teaching classes in digital storytelling or hosting workshops on creative problem solving, he gives talks whenever he can, usually involving funny gifs. Released by Penguin Random House in 2017, his first book, "Adulthood for Beginners: All the Life Secrets Nobody Bothered to Tell You," was called "a guide to being an adult in the modern age" by the Chicago Tribune and "Darn funny" by the Associated Press. He lives in Chicago with his way-too-fluffy cat Tiberius.
2017 Timmy Award Demo Companies
CRT Labs
The mission of the National Association of REALTORS’® Center for REALTOR® Technology is to track emerging technologies that will affect real estate, educate its members, advocate for the proper use of technology, and innovate when there is a gap between what is needed and what is available. In 2015, CRT established a lab to investigate smart home/internet of things devices, renewable energy, urban agriculture and building materials, as well as any other emerging technologies as they become evident. CRT is working with NGOs, vendors, national laboratories, universities and government agencies to help promote NAR as an agent for technology research and innovation.
Ari Kaplan is a leading figure in sports analytics and one of the few long-term baseball leaders with a proven track record at Fortune 500 companies. ‘The real Moneyball guy”, he is known throughout the Major Leagues for revolutionizing and modernizing player assessment, including being Tom Ricketts the first of his two direct hires in baseball operations (the other Theo Epstein), where he created and led their analytics and R&D departments before joining the Baltimore Orioles in 2012. Locally, he was CEO of Expand Beyond, a pioneering mobile software firm that raised over $16M in funding before being acquired. Crain’s Chicago Business named him a “40 Under 40”. Nationally, he received Caltech’s “Alumni of the Decade” distinction and Sports Illustrated named him a “Top 10 General Manager Candidate”.
Kaplan has worked with over half of all MLB organizations and many global sports media organizations, and his baseball career spans 27 seasons. He is a frequent keynote speaker sharing insights on how executives make data-driven decisions based on analytics, big data, and critical thinking.
InContext Solutions
InContext Solutions is the global leader in enterprise virtual reality (VR) solutions for retail. ShopperMX™, InContext’s cloud-based virtual reality platform, allows manufacturers and retailers to simulate real in-store shopping situations to ideate, evaluate and activate all types of retail concepts including merchandising, displays, and store layout—all within a VR store environment. Use of ShopperMX™ delivers substantial cost savings and reduces capital expenditures by allowing clients to test and evaluate ideas virtually—as opposed to doing so in physical stores—while reducing competitive visibility. ShopperMX™ can be accessed from a computer, mobile device, or with a head-mounted device through ShopperMX™ HIVE (Hi-Immersion Virtual Experience.) Founded in 2009, we provide a unique, in-depth perspective on what consumers see on the shelf, how this drives their purchase behavior, and why. Our virtual solutions are powered by ShopperMX™, the world’s first cloud-based virtual reality simulation and shopper insights platform that enables users to create and test new shopper experiences in hyper-realistic 3D virtual store simulations. InContext Solutions provides Retail Simulations for ideation, creation and modification of new in-store concepts; Shopper Intelligence tools to evaluate and generate insights by testing ideas before you invest; and In-Store Activation tools to gain buy-in, stand out from the competition with hi-impact visuals, and seamlessly activate concepts in-store. InContext enables enterprise-wide collaboration by taking a holistic approach to CPG and retail challenges, and provides the solutions and insights needed to make faster, smarter, more profitable business decisions.
