| |  | | | | | | June 30, 2010 | | | | | |  | | | | Warm Entrance Pass |
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| | | | Wait, our headline sounds confusing. Let's just stick with the actual name: Hot Ticket Awards, the annual summer soiree honoring area techies last night at NVTC prez Bobbie Kilberg's McLean home. | | |  | | We'll get the winners out of the way, so we can meet the 500 people in attendance that didn't leave with shiny hardware. Congrats CustomInk.com (Hottest Bootstrap), ZoomSafer (Hottest Social Buzz), Agilex (Hottest Emerging Government Contractor), NISC (Hottest Exit), Broadsoft (Hottest International Company), Zenoss (Hottest Management Team), Living Social (Hottest Venture Capital Deal), and June 29, 2010 (hottest day). | | |  | | The other honor dolled out was the annual Bob Dinkel Hawaiian shirt contest, won by Chitra Gundlapalli (far right in the lovely pink dress). She's here with the rest of the finalists, who presumably spent the rest of the evening trying to figure out what exactly makes one Hawaiian shirt better than another. | | |  | | myRete's Stephen Smith, PointAbout's Scott Suhy, and Merill Lynch's Michael Ottomanelli. Stephen's company has an iPhone app that lets you find nearby users and connect with them based on similar interests (or ignore them if they look weird). Our camera doesn't do Stephen justice; he is really, really tall. Like in the neighborhood of 6-foot-9. He can still dunk . . . barely: "Somewhere over the last 10 years I lost six to eight inches on my vertical leap, so it's not as easy as it used to be." | | |  | | Cernium Corporation CEO Craig Chambers and SpeakerBox Communications' Katie Hanusik. Craig's company makes video surveillance equipment that can send you alerts if things run amok. The key, though, is the system only reports what you ask it, so a dude wearing in a ski mask in your backyard sends an alert, but your neighbor's cat doesn't. | | |  | | Argy's Mary Karen Wills and Joan Berghane, Alion's Tim Cook, and Cohen Mohr's Tenley Carp (the name rolls off the tongue). Tim says Alion is creating technology that eliminates the thermal fingerprint of sniper rifles to COTS technology. "Snipers can't be seen or heard, but a shot still registers heat; we're trying to make them completely invisible." And Joan tells us her son is going to college this fall to be a journalist. Godspeed, son. | | |  | | Gibson Dunn's Howard Hogan with the Verizon guys Duane Sibole and John Medlock. Duane sells Verizon technologies to businesses in the DC area, while John focuses on something called the federal government. Howard handles intellectual property law and says with the country's recent financial struggles, people are fighting to hold onto IP more than ever. He spent last weekend celebrating his daughter's graduation from kindergarten. Her reward: Pancakes and Toy Story 3, which, oddly, is how we spent our Saturday. | | |  | | How's this for putting your imprint on a company? SmartThinking CEO Kathy Clark had her management team (Joel Reiser, Christa Ehmann Powers, and Chuck Kleiner) came in matching shirts just in case one of them got separated from the herd. | | |  | | Dutko's Matt Schrader, Benchmark Executive Search's Jon Hamblin, Cooley's Katherine Ferguson and Argy's Jennifer Trax. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This newsletter is a journalistic news source which accepts no payment for featured interviews. It is supported by conventional advertisers clearly identified in the right hand column. You have been selected to receive it either through prior contact or professional association. If you have received it in error, please accept our apologies and unsubscribe below. © 2010, Bisnow on Business, Inc., 1323 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036. All rights reserved. | | |
