RALEIGH – Dr. Joseph DeSimone, inventor and entrepreneur, and Tim  Humphrey, IBM’s top executive in North Carolina, were among the winners announced on the final day of the NC TECH Beacon Awards on Thursday.

Here are the final group of winners:

  •  Public Sector Project – Education Foundation of Caldwell County

o   Finalists: Education Foundation of Caldwell County, Town of Cary, UNC Charlotte – School of Data Science, NC Department of Administration, Division of Purchase and Contract, NC Department of Health and Human Services

  • Tech for Good – Education Foundation of Caldwell County

o   Finalists: Education Foundation of Caldwell County, Validic, MyWorkChoice, Lenovo, Datacaliper, OpiAid

  • Industry Driven – FinTech: Apiture

o   Finalists: Apiture, Spreedly, Q2, The Climate Service, Benekiva

  • Tech Woman of the Year

o   Joyce Weiland, CEO, SoftPro

  • Diversity, Equity + Inclusion: Jackrabbit

o   Finalists: Pendo, Clarkston Consulting, Jackrabbit, Blue Recruit, RadixBay

  • NC Headquartered Company of the Year: Pendo

o   Finalists: Bandwidth, Dude Solutions, insightsoftware, Pendo, AvidXchange, HZO

  • Tech Exec of the Year

o   Timothy Humphrey, IBM

  • Beacon Award

o   Dr. Joe DeSimone, Professor, Radiology – Rad/Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford

Winners announced on days one and two are listed in the following blog posts:

NC TECH honors startups, several firms, individuals with annual awards.

Bandwidth, Credit Suisse, Stratifyd, LearnPlatform, mesur.io, Lex Loci earn NC TECH awards