EMC Announces Data Hero Awards

March 23, 2011

By Bio-IT World Staff

March 23, 2011 | EMC Corporation has announced the Data Hero Awards 2011, a far-reaching program to honor those individuals and organizations exploring innovative uses of Big Data technologies and techniques. These often-unsung Data Heroes are at the forefront of pioneering solutions that have a profound impact on the way individuals, organizations, entire industries and societies live and work. Initiatives like these are driving a new economy for jobs in a variety of industries, including the emerging field of data science.

Data Hero 2011 honorees, comprising the Data Hero Visionary Award and six Data Hero Awards for Technology Excellence across a range of industry sectors, will be announced at EMC World 2011 in Las Vegas, May 9-12. Submissions will be reviewed by a prestigious panel of independent judges, representing a cross section of the foremost Big Data thinkers and practitioners across business, academia and the media, including: Kevin Davies, Editor-in-Chief of Bio-IT World and the author of “The $1000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine”; Tom Davenport, President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology & Management, Babson College and Co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics; Susan Feldman, Research Vice President, Search and Discovery Technologies, IDC; and Dr. Michael Freed, Program Director, AI Center, SRI.

"The Big Data era has arrived," said Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President and CMO, EMC Corporation, in a press release. "Through the convergence of massive scale-out storage and next-generation analytics, businesses are seeing Big Data as a big opportunity. The EMC Data Hero Awards recognize business and IT leaders who have leveraged Big Data for competitive advantage.”

The Data Hero Awards 2011 categories are: 

  • Data Hero Visionary Award 
  • Data Hero Awards for Technology Excellence 
  • Web, Internet, New Media 
  • High Tech, Clean Tech/Green Tech 
  • Consumer Products 
  • Life Sciences, Health Care 
  • Government, Social Services, Education 
  • Energy, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing
  • Data Hero Awards 2011 submissions are due by April 22, 2011. Complete details and entry form can be found at www.dataheroawards.com.  

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