OFFNews: “Appzio is Startup company of the year at BAIT awards”
Recently, our company was awarded startup of the year at the traditional annual awards of the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies (BAIT). We are happy that this event was covered by one of the most popular online news channels in Bulgaria- www.offnews.bg . Below you can find the English translation of the press material and for the original version in Bulgarian- click here.
“The ceremony was held under the patronage of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the President Rumen Radev who was present in person.
The innovative platform for developing mobile applications Appzio was awarded at the seventh annual ceremony of the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies (BAIT) as a startup of 2017. Appzio is a Bulgarian-Finnish project, which is on the way to establish a new standard for mobile app development. The company is part of Eleven Venture’s capital fund portfolio and has recently received second funding from one of the region’s largest banks to actively develop its international business.
‘We are thankful for this recognition. Appzio has been around since 2015 and has been developing successfully in a very competitive niche. Since the beginning we’ve been working hard on perfecting our technology. Last year alone we attracted dozens of customers which proved the quality of the platform. By far we kept a low media profile, but as of this year we are determined to make some noise and make more companies hear about us’.- shared Branimir.
Valeriy Simeonov awarded the Prize for the category “Significant Corporate ICT Project”. It was given to BGO Media for the HARP web-based information system for data management and complex processes related to medical research. The system is used by the UK Department of Health, over 100 UK committees and over 500,000 experts globally.
Denitsa Sacheva, Deputy Minister of Education and Science, presented the award “Journalistic contribution”. The award was given to Peter Georgiev from the Bulgarian National Television, who consistently and in depth brings attention to issues important for the ICT industry, the economy as a whole and the citizens.
Atanas Temelkov, Chairman of the State Agency for Electronic Management, gave the award in the category “State Administration”. The winner of the category is the Regional Administration — Plovdiv — for developing and implementing the inter institutional platform “Attend a safe school”. Through it the institutions encompass and retain in the education system children and pupils in mandatory preschool and school age from 5 to 16 years. The teams include a total of 900 representatives of all institutions.
Doncho Barbalov, Deputy Mayor of Sofia Municipality, presented the Prize for “Municipal Administration”. The winner in the category is the Municipality of Plovdiv — for the implementation of cloud platforms in the schools on the territory of the municipality, which is essentially a digitization of educational processes. Launched in 2017, the program will cover all municipal schools by 2019.
The tendency of reducing the age of young people who turn into Information Technology as a future professional development, is increasing.
This year, the competition marks a new record — for the smallest participant. The 10-years old Sonya Genova applied with a mobile app that had been developed by her and which contains questions about the main subjects in third grade. The jury decided to encourage the student’s achievement with a plaque and diploma. The contest sponsors and firms members of BAIT provided the prizes. Sonya Genova got the latest model tablet provided by ERP Bulgaria, glasses for virtual reality of Borica JSC and backpack from Musala Soft. The award was given by Vesela Kalacheva, Executive Director of BAIT.
For the second consecutive year, a student is the winner of the Youth Prize category and he also received additional prizes — virtual reality glasses from Borica JSC and a backpack from Musala Soft. Ilian Kordev, a student from TUES to TU-Sofia, won with his project for a security detection system based on the Linux operating system.
The winners in the other categories were:
Educational Award — Ministry of Education and Science for Educational Platform “YOUR HOUR”. Through it in 2017 over 314,000 students from 1st to 12th grade are engaged in additional activities.
Successful Bulgarian ICT product — Empire Online — for Kingdoms Online’s fully localized Arabic market. Only 2 months after publishing, it reaches up to 100,000 mobile gamers in the area.
For Company- pioneer in the use of advanced ICT solutions, Check Point Cardio was chosen. The company provides a complete ECG real-time telemonitoring system and other vital metrics and has a telemedicine center for 24-hour surveillance and patient diagnosis in real time, with more than 35,500 patient files.
DATECS was awarded with the company’s award for the best contribution to the image of Bulgarian ICT industry around the world. The company has been a world leader in the production of fiscal devices for 28 years, and in recent years has been increasingly active in the development and production of mobile payment terminals. The company’s products are exported to more than 100 countries from all continents. Over the last 5 years, the company has produced over 2,500,000 payment terminals.
The awarded participant with a Special Contribution Prize received a test-drive of Opel Insignia for one week and a weekend for two in Bansko.
The winners in each category received named plaques and certificates from BAIT, as well as prizes provided by Opel. Each of the winners will also be able to purchase books optionally with a voucher of 80 levas, provided by Ciela Norma. The winners of the awards already have electronic signatures B-Trust from Borica JSC, as well as cleaning materials for office equipment from Freckles.
The winners of the contest were selected among 127 candidates from 88 individuals, companies and institutions.”
