ITDatabase and Business Wire today highlighted numerous calls for speakers, awards and other opportunities and deadlines that tech industry communications and marketing professionals should be aware of, including:

New Opportunities

The Digitals
Awards Info
http://thedigitalsawards.com/about

NFC World Congress
Call for Speakers
http://www.nfcworldcongress.com/call-for-papers-2013

Enterprise Search Summit
Call for Speakers
http://www.enterprisesearchsummit.com/Fall2013/CallForSpeakers.aspx

Cloud4SMB Expo
Call for Speakers
http://cloud-computing.tmcnet.com/conference/call-for-papers.aspx

Oregon TechAwards
Awards Info
http://www.techoregon.org/?page=2013AwardCategories

TechCrunch Disrupt NY
Speaking (deadline not specified)
https://docs.google.com/a/itdatabase.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGVxX0J6eUtZSkNVN0dWYThRb09GaHc6MA

Berlin Buzzwords
Call for Speakers
http://berlinbuzzwords.de/

DataWeek
Call for Speakers
http://www.dataweek.co/index/allspeakers

HPC Innovation Excellence Award
Awards Info
http://www.hpcuserforum.com/innovationaward/

StampedeCon 2013
Call for Speakers
http://stampedecon.com/agenda/call-for-speakers/

Data 2.0 Summit
Call for Speakers
http://data2summit.com/speakers

The Appsters
Awards Info
http://the-appsters.com/index.php/how-to-enter

The Cloud Channel Summit
Call for Speakers
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HWY9KS2

Deadlines

(2/15)
DEMO Mobile Application
https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=50263&categoryid=371548

(2/15)
OpenStack Summit Call for Speakers
http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/call-for-speakers

(2/15)
Campus Technology Innovation Awards
http://campustechnology.com/innovators

(2/15)
Cloud East Call for Speakers
http://cloudeast.net/ce2013/submissions/

(2/15)
HighEdWeb Call for Speakers
http://fl.highedweb.org/call-for-proposals/

(2/15)
Mobile Commerce World Call for Speakers
http://www.mcommworld.com/sanfrancisco/conference/call-for-papers.php

(2/15)
IEEE Cloud Call for Speakers
http://www.thecloudcomputing.org/2013/cfp.html

(2/15)
Statesman Social Media Awards
http://www.statesman.com/ssma/search/

(2/15)
The Realtime Conference Call for Speakers
http://realtimeconf.eu/call-for-speakers.html

(2/15)
CRM Excellence Awards
http://www.tmcnet.com/tmc/poty/default.aspx?AwardID=192

(2/15)
Data Center Manager of the Year
http://www.datacenterworld.com/spring2013/attend/networking-and-special-events/data-center-manager-of-the-year/

(2/17)
Chicago Code Camp Call for Speakers
http://www.chicagocodecamp.com/Speakers.html

(2/18)
Intersolar North America Call for Speakers
http://conference.intersolar.de/x-mkp/cfp/index.html?13

Tech Event PR Prep

(2/25)
Mobile World Congress
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/360/

(2/25)
RSA
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/383/

(2/26)
O’Reilly Strata
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/361/

(2/26)
Embedded World
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/362/

(3/3)
HIMSS
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/359/

(3/4)
LAUNCH Festival
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/366/

(3/5)
CeBIT
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/365/

(3/8)
SXSW
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/368/

(3/11)
SMX West
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/363/

(3/13)
PyCon
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/367/

(3/17)
OFC/NFOEC
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/364/

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