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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GigaOM Structure Europe
Call for Speakers
http://event.gigaom.com/structureeurope/speakers/

Cloud Slam
Call for Speakers
http://cloudslam.org/cfp

Cloud Expo West
Call for Speakers
http://cloudexpo2013west.sys-con.com/general/papers2013west.htm

Health 2.0 Fall Conference
Call for Speakers
http://www.health2con.com/events/apply-to-speak/

SES San Francisco
Call for Speakers
http://sesconference.com/speaking.php

Broadband World Forum
Call for Speakers
http://www.broadbandworldforum.com/speaking-enquiry-2013/

GTEC 2013
Call for Speakers
http://www.gtec.ca/gtec-2013-call-for-papers/

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

CEA Innovation Entrepreneur Awards
Awards Info
http://www.ce.org/iea.aspx

CSS Dev Conference
Call for Speakers
https://docs.google.com/a/itdatabase.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFJ6ck54WnR4ZWlySU9JVzVCSC1WRHc6MA

LISA ’13
Call for Speakers
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/important-dates

Broadband TV Connect Infovision Awards Asia
Awards Info
http://asia.broadbandworldforum.com/broadband-tv-connect-infovision-awards-asia/

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DEADLINES
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(2/28)
ad:tech San Francisco Startup Spotlight Series
http://na.ad-tech.com/sf/call-for-startup-spotlight/

(3/1)
LOGIN Call for Speakers
http://loginconference.com/login-conference-2013-call-for-speakers/

(3/1)
Health:Refactored Call for Speakers
http://www.health2con.com/events/apply-to-speak/

(3/1)
TedxLincoln Call for Speakers
http://www.tedxlincoln.com/assets/Call-For-Speakers.pdf

(3/1)
Hadoop Summit Call for Speakers
http://hadoopsummit.org/san-jose/call-for-papers/

(3/1)
MIT8 Call for Speakers
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/#submissions

(3/1)
State of NOW Call for Speakers
http://nyc2013.stateofnow.com/call-for-speakers

(3/2)
JQuery Conference Call for Speakers
http://events.jquery.org/2013/portland/#

(3/7)
HotCloud Call for Speakers
https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud13/call-for-papers

(3/8)
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
http://www.ey.com/US/en/About-us/Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneur-Of-The-Year

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Tech Event PR Prep
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(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/

(3/18)
Enterprise Connect
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/373/

(3/19)
TV Connect
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/370/

(3/20)
Structure:Data
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/371/

(3/27)
CARTES Asia
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/393/

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