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

IDSA 2013 International Conference (Industrial Design)
Call for Speakers
http://idsa.org/call-speakers-idsa-2013-international-conference

Game Marketing Summit
Call for Speakers
http://www.gamemarketingsummit.com/

ACE! Conference
Call for Speakers
http://aceconf.com/home/2013/1/17/call-for-speakers-is-open.html

Cloud East
Call for Speakers
http://cloudeast.net/ce2013/submissions/

Taxonomy Boot Camp
Call for Speakers
http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2013/CallForSpeakers.aspx

Publishing Business Conference & Expo
Call for Speakers
http://www.pubexec.com/article/2013-publishing-business-conference-expo-call-speakers-25057276/1

RSA Conference Asia Pacific
Call for Speakers
http://www.rsaconference.com/events/2013/asia-pacific/index.htm

SNIA Storage Developer Conference
Call for Speakers
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/-1749847.htm

RetailWeek Technology Awards
Nomination Info
http://www.retailweektechnologyawards.com/home

Deadlines

(2/1)
LAUNCH Festival Applications
http://festival.launch.co/index.html#top

(2/1)
Agile2013 Conference Call for Speakers
http://agile2013.agilealliance.org/speakers/

(2/4)
International Test Conference Call for Papers
http://www.itctestweek.org/program/2013-cfp-4

(2/4)
Gartner Business Intelligence Excellence Awards Nominations
http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/business-intelligence/excellence-awards.jsp

(2/4)
OSCON Call for Speakers
http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/cfp/251

(2/7)
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Call for Speakers
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/cfp

(2/8)
PRSA Silver Anvil Awards
http://www.prsa.org/Awards/SilverAnvil/SilverAnvilEnter/

(2/8)
All About the Cloud Call for Speakers
http://www.siia.net/aatc/2013/c4s/

(2/8)
GlueCon Call for Speakers Suggested Contact Deadline (Rolling Basis)
http://www.gluecon.com/2013/contact/

Tech Event PR Prep

(2/2)
FOSDEM
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/357/

(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/

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