The 2024 GeekWire Awards are fast approaching on May 9 in Seattle, and we’ve released a limited number of individual tickets for the big event.
Join us in celebrating the top innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists and business leaders across the Pacific Northwest. We’ve named more than 50 finalists across more than a dozen categories, from Next Tech Titan to Startup CEO of the Year.
Winners will be announced live onstage at Showbox SoDo in Seattle, where we’ll gather for an evening that includes a welcome party with music, sit-down dinner, entertaining awards program, and fun surprises mixed in.
Grab your tickets while supplies last. And read about all the finalists in GeekWire’s coverage of each category:
- Startup of the Year: Kevala, Overland AI, Pictory, Shipium, SingleFile
- Startup CEO of the Year: These five leaders are taking their companies to new heights
- Geeks Give Back: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes
- CEO of the Year: These software veterans are taking on a variety of problems
- Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award
- Deal of the Year: Four startups raise cash and a biotech giant acquires a UW spinout
- Workplace of the Year: Startups employ various methods in their commitment to culture
- UX Design of the Year: Finalists help users across investing, data analysis and more
- Innovation of the Year: AI and telecom breakthroughs dominate GeekWire Awards category
- Health Innovation of the Year: 5 finalists at the GeekWire Awards use tech to improve healthcare
- Sustainable Innovation of the Year: Carbon, weeds and toxics are in the crosshairs for these finalists
- Public Policy Champion for Innovation: Techie-turned-lawmaker uses his Microsoft chops to challenge the status quo as a state senator
Now in its 16th year, the GeekWire Awards celebrate innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit and bring together more than 400 business and community leaders for one of the most hotly anticipated events in the Seattle tech community.
Past winners have included Auth0, Tableau, Smartsheet, Remitly, Swype, Redfin, Convoy, Zulily, The Black Boardroom Initiative, University of Washington computer scientist Ed Lazowska, DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson, TAF and many others. (Read about the 2023 Awards.)
Special thanks to Astound Business Solutions, the presenting sponsor of the 2024 GeekWire Awards.
