Online Voting For Automation Alley Awards Now Open

TROY – Award finalists for the Automation Alley 15th Annual Awards Gala have been selected, and online voting will be open to the public until Sept. 18 to help determine a winner in each of five categories.

Automation Alley, Michigan’s largest technology business association, celebrates Southeast Michigan’s thriving tech economy each year at its awards gala, an event that consistently draws some of the region’s most influential leaders in business, government and academia.

Finalists are chosen from a list of nominees in each award category, and an online voting process contributes to the final selection of winners.

“The awards gala is one of my favorite Automation Alley traditions,” said Automation Alley Executive Director Ken Rogers. “It’s a night devoted to those who are driving the tech economy in this region, and their stories are never short of inspiring. It continues to be my honor to recognize the talent and innovation rooted right here in Southeast Michigan.”

The Automation Alley 15th Annual Awards Gala will be at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester, Mich. on Oct. 2. The event includes gourmet dinner, an after-party featuring the S3 Cigar Patio, a craft beer tasting bar featuring select Atwater Brewery beers, live entertainment, and the newly added “Innovation Alley,” a rare collection of technology artifacts from the Detroit Historical Society.

The price to attend the 15th Annual Awards Gala is $200 per person for members and finalists, $275 perperson for non-members, or $1,750 for a table of 10. To purchase tickets, visit automationalley.com/awardsgala, call 800-427-5100 or [email protected].

The 2015 award finalists are:

Outstanding Educational Initiative Award

DASI Solutions

D.R.I.V.E ONE

Logicdrop

Startup of the Year

Halley Orthopedics

Jacar Systems, LLC

MagWerks LED

Excellence in International Business Award

NuStep, Inc.

Orion Test Systems and Automation

Rugged Liner Inc.

Advanced Manufacturer of the Year

Lighthouse Molding

Loc Performance Products, Inc.

SurClean

Technology Company of the Year

Altair

Delphi Automotive, PLC

Tata Technologies

To vote for an award finalist online, go toautomationalley.com/awardsgala.

About the Author: Mike Brennan

Founder of Michigan News Network, and serves as CEO, as well as Editor & Publisher of MITECHNEWS.COM. Brennan has worked since 1980 as a technology writer at newspapers in New York, NY, San Jose, CA., Seattle, WA., Memphis, TN., Detroit, MI., and London, England. He co-founded and served as managing editor of Pacific Rim News Service (SEATTLE), which developed a network of more than 100 freelance journalists in 17 Asia-Pacific countries.