Who deserves kudos?

Baltimore, it's that time of year: The Technical.ly Awards are back, and we need your voice.

Technical.ly is again honoring some of the best work done in the past year in tech communities across the mid-Atlantic. These awards are your chance to shout out the success of local tech businesses, as well as the dedication of professional, technical and impact leaders, by way of public nominations and voting. Who's making your community better? What products and companies will most shape the future? Who's done the most work this year to widen tech's tent pool? (See who won in Baltimore in 2022.)

The categories are:

• Invention of the Year — What product, project or release this year is best poised to change their industry?
• Tech Community Leader of the Year — Who has most made this community better through coalition building, nonprofit work, access-minded initiatives, policymaking or other pathways?
• CTO of the Year — Who is leading groundbreaking technical work within their company or organization? (Similar titles beyond CTO will be accepted.)
• Tech Company of the Year — What promising startup or growth-stage company is tackling an interesting problem, shaping its industry or inspiring a brighter collective future?
• Culture Builder of the Year — What empathetic leader or organizer is making their workplace or professional group more inclusive, resilient or engaging? ("Leader" doesn't need to mean they hold a leadership title.)

[Nominate a person, company or product]

Submit your noms by 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 30. The newsroom will curate nominations to narrow them down to five finalists per category and announce a public vote in November. 

Our ultimate goal is to bring folks together and recognize the hard work that's been happening, as well as what remains to be done. Join us by telling us who should get the spotlight.

– Technical.ly Managing Editor Julie Zeglen (julie@technical.ly)