First Annual EETimes ACE Awards
Official Rules
No Purchase Necessary.
1. DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEST: EETimes' Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards will recognize outstanding achievements of people, products and companies that show leadership in the electronics industry.
2. HOW TO ENTER: Submit your EE Times ACE Awards nominations by completing the submission form online and following the instructions on the screen at ww.eetimes.com/ace. Individuals and companies shall nominate themselves and their products and executives, either directly or through an agent. Only products and services that have been first made available in the U.S. after July, 2003 will be considered. All required fields must be completed in order for the submission to be valid. Required fields are noted on the submission form.
Online entries may be submitted at www.eetimes.com/ace. Submissions will be accepted from 12:00 AM (PST) October 20, 2004 through midnight (PST) December 31, 2004. Alternatively, send the completed submission form, your name, company address (specify home or business), telephone number (specify home or business) and email address to 2005 EETimes ACE Awards, CMP Media LLC, 600 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, Attention: Christian Fahlen. The contest begins October 20, 2004. All entries must be received on or before midnight (PST) December 31, 2004. No purchase is necessary. A purchase will not improve your chance of winning.
You may nominate as many products and individuals, and you may enter as many of the categories as you like. Multiple entries for the same category will be judged separately.
3. ELIGIBILITY: This contest is open to nominees who do business in the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 years of age or older. Void where prohibited by law. All winners will be required to execute an affidavit swearing to compliance with these eligibility requirements. If you reside outside the U.S. or Canada, you may submit entries, but you are not eligible to win any prizes; however, EE Times reserves the right to post your entry in a showcase if in its sole discretion it deems it worthy of showcasing. Employees of CMP Media LLC, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, agencies and assigns, and their immediate family members (spouse and parents, children and siblings, and their spouses) as well as individuals living in the same household of each are not eligible. The contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and provincial laws and regulations.
4. CATEGORIES AND CRITERIA: One winner will be selected in each of the following categories.
Design Team of the Year: The winner will be selected based on the creative, efficient and inspiring project management capabilities of the team, which led to a significant contribution to the furtherance of technology, including:
The likelihood that the technology will make a significant impact in some sector of the electronic systems market.
A novel and engaging way in which the technology delivers features.
Techniques which led to faster design time and time to market.
Exceptional creativity and persistence demonstrated by the team in the face of technical or business hurdles.
The winning team does not have to be in one physical location.
Innovator of the Year: The winner will be selected based on the leadership, creativity and out-of-the-box thinking brought to technology, a product or a business, including:
Success in the initial phase of a technology, product or business.
The likelihood that a technology, product or business will have a significant impact in some sector of the electronics market .
Persistence shown in the face of technical, business and/or cultural hurdles.
The winner may be a researcher, engineer, manager, executive, venture capitalist or educator.
Executive of the Year: The winner will be selected based on the leadership, and technological and fiscal vision brought to a company, or business during a calendar year, including:
Outstanding growth in business, patents, alliances or design wins.
The ability to demonstrate success in the marketplace or the likelihood that the business will have a significant impact in some sector of the electronics market.
Persistence shown in the face of technical, business and/or cultural hurdles.
Emerging Company of the Year: The winner will be selected based on its demonstration of excellence in business and/or technology development, and the potential to become a technical or market leader in the global electronics industry, including:
The development of an innovative business model that has the potential to cause disruptive change in a key technology or product area.
The assembly of a team of "star" engineers and key executives who are putting in place new business ideas and technology development practices that challenge current and existing management wisdom in the electronics industry.
The ability to overcome unexpected challenges and setbacks in key business/technology processes in areas such as: financing and capitalization, human resources, engineering development and design, manufacturing, marketing, sales and/or distribution.
The ability to enter into and manage strategic partnerships that complement the company's own strengths in key business and technology areas.
The ability to lead and succeed in the domestic and global electronics market by delivering innovative engineering-based electronics products or solutions.
This category is open only to venture capital (or pre-IPO financed) start-up electronics manufacturing (device or system) companies in business for less than two (2) years.
Company of the Year - Large: The winner will be selected based on its professionalism, staff development and retention, customer focus, technical excellence and profitable growth, including:
The ability to exceed annual financial business goals and other market metrics set by management and/or third-party analysts for year-to-year performance.
Advancement in rank or market order to surpass its competitors and gain a significant new industry, product or technology leadership position recognized by one or more independent industry observers.
Introduction of a break-though product and/or technology that has the potential to alter the price/performance curve in a key product or technology area in electronics.
A novel business or management practice that makes a significant contribution to improving the environment and/or quality of life for a region or country.
Excellence and leadership in business practices and management in some or all of the following areas: capitalization and financing, research & development, hardware and/or software design, product design, device or system manufacturing, human resources management, marketing, PR and media relations, sales, and distribution.
This category is open to companies with $1 Billion or more in sales for 2003
Company of the Year - Small/Medium: The winner will be selected based on its professionalism, staff development and retention, customer focus, technical excellence and profitable growth, including:
The ability to exceed annual financial business goals and other market metrics set by management and/or third-party analysts for year-to-year performance.
Advancement in rank or market order to surpass its competitors and gain a significant new industry, product or technology leadership position recognized by one or more independent industry observers.
Introduction of a break-though product and/or technology that has the potential to alter the price/performance curve in a key product or technology area in electronics.
A novel business or management practice that makes a significant contribution to improving the environment and/or quality of life for a region or country.
Excellence and leadership in business practices and management in some or all of the following areas: capitalization and financing, research & development, hardware and/or software design, product design, device or system manufacturing, human resources management, marketing, PR and media relations, sales, and distribution.
This category is open to companies who had under $1 Billion in sales for 2003
Most Promising New Technology: The winner will be a compelling electronic component or enabling technology selected based on its outstanding technical design, potential for market impact and demonstrated leadership in its area, including:
The ability to provide systems engineers with new and compelling capabilities and/or the delivery of existing features in a novel and engaging way.
The creation of significant savings in precious resources such as design time, system cost, space or power.
The incorporation of new electronics concepts/approaches or combination of existing concepts/approaches in a novel manner.
The likelihood that the technology will have a significant impact in some sector of the electronic systems market.
The establishment of a new technology, market or product category or direction that others are likely to follow.
Creativity and persistence in the face of technical or business hurdles encountered in delivering the technology.
5. JUDGING: A panel of EETimes editors will narrow down the entries to five (5) finalists in each category, based on the criteria set forth above. Finalists will be announced on January 28, 2005,and listed on the EETimes website at www.eetimes.com/ace. Winners will be determined from among the finalists by a panel of independent judges selected by CMP Media LLC. Judging will take place from January 31, 2005 through February 2, 2005, and winner will be announced at the EETimes ACE Awards dinner on March 9, 2005. The judges' decisions are final.
6. AWARDS: Awards will be presented and winning companies and individuals will be honored during 1st Annual Creativity in Electronics Awards dinner to be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA on Monday, March 9, 2005 in conjunction with CMP Media's Embedded Systems Conference. Award winners will be posted on the EETimes website at www.eetimes.com/ace on Friday, March 11, 2005. In addition to the title, winners will receive a crystal statuette (value under $500) and listed in the April 4, 2005 issue of EETimes. (Expenses of attending the Conference and Awards ceremony will be the responsibility of the winners.) You do not need to be present at the Awards dinner to win. For the name of the finalists and winners, available after March 9, 2005, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to:
First Annual EETimes ACE Awards
600 Harrison Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Attention: Christian Fahlen
There will be other EE Times ACE Awards given out during the Awards ceremony in categories other than those listed in Paragraph 3 which are not the subject of this nomination process, and which will be awarded in the sole discretion of EETimes.
7. CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION: By entering, participants (i) agree to be bound by these Official Rules and (ii) grant CMP Media LLC a royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to use and publicly display their entries for all advertising and marketing purposes, including promoting its web sites, products and services. Accordingly, no confidential information should be included in any entry. Submissions remain the property of the entrants; however, by entering, entrants consent to the use of their name and likeness for advertising, promotional and/or marketing purposes without additional compensation. (A Tennessee resident consents to the use of his name and likeness only if such Tennessee resident expressly consents to such use.) By entering, participants release and hold harmless CMP Media LLC, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents from any and all liability or injuries, loss or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with participation in this contest.
CMP Media LLC is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry of information including, but not limited to technical malfunctions, human error, lost/delayed data transmission, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, line failures of any telephone network, computer equipment, software or any combination thereof, entry materials that have been tampered with, or mail in entries that are illegible, late, lost, damaged, postage due or misdirected. CMP Media LLC is not responsible for any injury or damage to participants' or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any material in this promotion. Entries that have been tampered with or altered are void. CMP Media LLC reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this promotion if it becomes technically corrupted or if for any reason the Internet portion of the program is not capable of running as planned, including infections by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of CMP Media LLC that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this promotion.
This promotion shall be governed by the laws of the United States
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