At the NTC Holiday Party on December 6, along with celebrating the holidays, every year, we take the opportunity of the amazing gathering to announce our final nominees for the upcoming NTC Awards. In 2018, the 9th Annual Awards are on January 25 at the Wildhorse Saloon — this year it will be 80s theme, cohosted by Martha Ivester and Derek Young.
A member of the NTC Awards planning committee oversees the nominee selection process, coordinating over 70 judges from across Middle TN, collecting and tallying the vote. This keeps the NTC staff out of the process and lets us enjoy the surprise as much as the rest of the tech community.
This year, the awards judges had their work cut out for them with some 300 nominations in 14 categories. They narrowed it down to the final three for each award.
Here are the final three NTC Award Nominees in each category:
CIO of the Year
Chris Bayham – Change Healthcare
David Houghton – Ingram Barge
Haden McWhorter – Premise Health
CISO of the Year
John Griffey – Metro Government of Nashville
Haddon Bennett – Change Healthcare
Joe Degati – Axial Healthcare
CTO of the Year
Paul Currie – HCA IT&S
Christopher Yancey – SmileDirectClub
David Ells – Watershed Systems
Community Leader of the Year
Joanne Eckton – Eckton Enterprises
Beth Hoeg – Trinisys
Charlie Apigian – MTSU
Company of the Year
Trinisys
Asurion
Edgenet
Data Scientist of the Year
Christi French – Digital Reasoning
Elizabeth Ann Stringer – Axial Healthcare
Faker Zouaoui – Asurion
Diversity Game Changer of the Year
Black in Tech Nashville
Asurion
Scripturally Sound
Emerging Company of the Year
Satchel Health
EvidenceCare
Hytch, LLC
Emerging Leader of the Year
Chris Boyd – Built Technologies, Inc.
Chris Redhage – ProviderTrust
Christopher Lane – Axial Healthcare
Infrastructure Group of the Year
mSignia
Watershed Systems
HCA Infrastructure Services & Operations
Innovator of the Year
Mike Butera, Ph.D. – Artiphon
Rob Watkins – Tennessee Justice Center
John Bass – Hashed Health
Software Developer/Architect of the Year
Alishah Novin – HPA – A Cognizant Company
Sergei Temkin – 360view
Jason Bunn – BlackBox Realities
Technology Student of the Year
Gabrielle Liu – Ravenwood High School
Andrew Kerley – Lipscomb University College of Computing and Technology
Fangzhou Sun – Vanderbilt University
Team of the Year
Paul Peterson – Virsys12
HCA IT&S Patient Identification Team
David Houghton – Ingram Connect Team at Ingram Barge
Congratulations to All the Nominees!
