Su Hawk, President of CSIA, and Rip Ripley, Co-chair of the DEMOGala Committee.

ReadyTalk, winner of the DEMOGala People’s Choice Award: conference anywhere, even from a ski lift!

Rob Dixon, President of Planet Telex: demos the MicroSoft Surface table

Nicole Skogg, CEO and Founder of SpyderLynk: The interactive nature of SnapTags.

Dr. Bill Burns, President and CEO of NexStep: RX Factor, a pharmacogenomic decision support system.

Andrés Espiñeira, President of Pixorial: Online home video editing and hosting services and the PitchPod, a DEMOGala special.

Ian Assacson, Intermap: Accuterra for the iPhone

Carol Mitchell, founder of CM Mitchell Consulting Corporation, and Magic Bob: the ‘magic’ of document management

Daniel Berry, President & CEO of CounterMind: created a special mobile voting application for the  DEMOGala People’s Choice Award.

John Gains, CTO of Denver Technology Inc.: Pedalelectric Vehicle.

Greg Byles, SVP of Sales for GTRI: Mobile platform security with Relevant Security

Richard Pollack, President & CO of Phase IV Engineering: Embedding RFID sensors from air planes to cows!

Karl Sproll, IT Depends:  Change and project management training for successful technology implementations

CSIA’s State of the IT Industry: Technology in Colorado

April 20, 2009 – to June 9, 2009

As the Official Podcast Sponsor of CSIA, we are catching up with past Apex Award winners. 2009 is also the 15 Year Anniversary of CSIA, so we are taking the interviewees “back in time” and exploring the changes on Colorado’s Technology landscape!

For more information or to register for this premiere event held on June 9th, visit coloradotechnology.org

Ida Lau and U.B. Ciminieri interview the 2009 Apex Award winners live at the event

We wrap up the series with two “Top Tech Executive” award winners, John Street of MX Logic and John Oechsle of IHS.  Hear what it takes to earn the top spot, their management philosophy, and key advice on staying the course through these tough economic times.

Founder and CEO of MX Logic, & 2008 “Top Tech Executive” Apex Award Winner

John Oechsle, SVP and CIO of IHS, & 2006 “Top Tech Executive” Apex Award Winner

Roy Dimoff talks about the early days of Via West and doing business in Colorado’s unique business environment.

Roy Dimoff, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of ViaWest, & 2008 “Outstanding Tech Company of the Year” Apex Award Winner