Proxibid, Ben Vu among AIM Institute award recipients

Proxibid and Ben Vu, the CEO and co-founder of SkyVu Entertainment, highlighted a list of companies and individuals recognized Tuesday night during The AIM Institute’s 2012 Technology Celebration Awards. Handed out by the Omaha-based AIM Institute, the awards honor area companies, individuals, educators and students for their outstanding contributions to the region’s information technology scene.…

Proxibid and Ben Vu, the CEO and co-founder of SkyVu Entertainment, highlighted a list of companies and individuals recognized Tuesday night during The AIM Institute‘s 2012 Technology Celebration Awards

Handed out by the Omaha-based AIM Institute, the awards honor area companies, individuals, educators and students for their outstanding contributions to the region’s information technology scene. 

This year’s award recipients were:

Proxibid, an Omaha-based real auction marketplace, joins past recipients like Sojern, Solutionary and Phenomblue as a Technology Company of the Year honoree. Vu, who runs an Omaha-based entertainment company that creates mobile social games, mobile gaming technologies and licensed consumer products, joins Hudl, Dick C.E. Davis II and George Sinos as a Technology Innovator of the Year recipient.

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In honor of AIM Institute’s 20th anniversary, the organization’s founding member companies were also recognized at the banquet. The honorees were: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, CenturyLink, First Data, First National Bank, Great Plains Communications, The Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, Lincoln Financial Group, Omaha Public Power District, the Omaha World-Herald, Peter Kiewit Son’s, Inc., the state of Nebraska, Union Pacific and Valmont Industries.
 
The awards were held in conjunction with Infotec, a business and IT conference that started Tuesday and concludes today at CenturyLink Center Omaha. Both the awards and the conference are put on by the AIM Institute, a nonprofit organization that empowers communities, organizations and technology.
 
 
Credits: Photo from aiminstitute.org.

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