Verizon Kicks Off Wireless Technology Innovation Awards in Southeast Louisiana
Small and Mid-Sized Businesses to Compete for $10,000 Prize for Innovative Use of Wireless Technology
Starting April 1, Verizon Wireless will begin accepting entries for its 2013 Wireless Technology Innovation Awards for small and mid-sized businesses located in Southeast Louisiana. The company invites businesses, non-profit groups and other organizations to showcase ways Verizon Wireless mobile technology solutions improve efficiency, save money and elevate customer satisfaction. Corporate sponsors for the awards program include Alcatel Lucent, Samsung, and Blackberry.
“Mobile technology is dramatically changing the ways small and mid-sized businesses operate,” said Krista Bourne, president – Houston/Gulf Coast Region, Verizon Wireless. “More than ever before, wireless technology can help businesses innovate, serve customers better, save time and cut costs. The Wireless Technology Innovation Awards highlight the creativity of our regional businesses and showcase the best practices that are making them more successful year over year.”
Judging Criteria
Participants should share initial business challenges and demonstrate how they creatively implemented Verizon Wireless solutions to solve problems with their business. Participants must topline the benefits of the solutions employed and explain how they have positively affected their business or organization.
One grand prize winner for organizations with up to 500 employees will earn a $10,000 cash award from Verizon Wireless and one runner up organization will earn a $5,000 cash award. The winning companies or organizations will be featured in a Verizon Wireless Technology Innovation Awards video, which will highlight each winner’s business, services and/or products and how they incorporated wireless technology into their business.
Verizon Wireless will accept entries for the Wireless Technology Innovation Awards April 1 through Aug. 31, 2013. Verizon Wireless executives and local business leaders will evaluate the entries and winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Oct. 22 at The Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, La.
For more information on the contest, visit the official Wireless Technology Innovation Awards www.vzwinnovationawards.com .
