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:

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New Opportunities
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FreeStructure
Call for Speakers
http://freestructure.com/

CTIA Wireless
Call for Speakers
http://www.ctiaspeakers.com/c2013/main.cfm

Forecast (in conjunction with GigaOM Structure)
Call for Speakers
http://www.opendatacenteralliance.org/forecast2013/callforpapers

Bay Area's Best CIO of the Year Awards
Awards Info
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/nomination/16181

Tech & Innovation CEO of the Year (SF Business Times)
Awards Info
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/nomination/45511

Top Tech Execs San Diego
Awards Info
http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/San-Diego-Magazine/Top-Tech-Execs-Nominations-2013/

Big Data Summit
Call for Speakers
http://www.bigdatasummit.us/callforspeakers/

The Cloud Analytics Summit
Call for Speakers
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P83WLHT

Automotive Linux Summit Fall
Call for Speakers
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/automotive-linux-summit-fall/cfp

CTIA B!G Idea Awards
Awards Info
http://ctiait.ctia.org/bigIdea/2013/entry/

CTIA Emerging Technology Awards
Awards Info
http://ctiait.ctia.org/etech/2013/entry/?fuseaction=info.viewPage&pageName=categories

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Deadlines
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(2/22)
Technology Innovation Award (NAB)
http://www.nab.org/documents/events/awards/TechInnovation2013NomForm.pdf

(2/22)
Boston Code Camp Call for Speakers
http://www.bostoncodecamp.com/

(2/22)
WebRTC Conference and Expo
http://www.webrtcworld.com/conference/call-for-papers.aspx

(2/22)
IBC Innovation Awards
http://www.ibc.org/page.cfm/Action=Form/FormID=1/t=m

(2/22)
PA Tech Awards
http://www.techquestawards.com/award-categories/

(2/23)
Red Herring 100 Europe Awards
http://www.redherring.com/events/red-herring-europe/submit-a-company/

(2/24)
Shorty Awards
http://shortyawards.com/

(2/25)
Big Apple Awards (PRSA)
http://prsany.org/content.php?page=Awards

(2/28)
Green 15 (InfoWorld)
http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld-green-15-awards-757

(2/28)
NEXT Berlin Call for Speakers
http://nextberlin.eu/next13/call-for-participation/

(2/28)
Text Analytics World Call for Speakers
http://www.textanalyticsworld.com/call-for-speakers

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Tech Event PR Prep
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(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/

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

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