{"id":246821,"date":"2025-09-22T17:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246821\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:28:12","slug":"local-tech-leaders-honored-in-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246821\/","title":{"rendered":"Local tech leaders honored in awards ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BBP9669.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BBP9669.jpg\" alt=\"A digital display at Snapdragon Stadium that says, &quot;2025 Top Tech Awards.&quot; (Photo courtesy Cox Business)\" class=\"wp-image-345724\"  \/><\/a>A digital display at Snapdragon Stadium that says, \u201c2025 Top Tech Awards.\u201d (Photo courtesy Cox Business)<\/p>\n<p>Last week was a good week for San Diego\u2019s tech companies. <\/p>\n<p>The 18th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/toptechawards.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Tech Awards<\/a>, presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.cox.com\/2025-09-19-San-Diegos-Transformative-Technology-Leaders-Celebrated-at-18th-Annual-Top-Tech-Awards-Presented-by-Cox-Business\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cox Business<\/a>, recognized 14 of San Diego\u2019s top technology innovators on Sept. 18.<\/p>\n<p>The Top Tech of the Year Award winner was <a href=\"https:\/\/unfoldlabs.com\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unfold Labs, Inc<\/a>\u2018s chief executive officer and founder <a href=\"https:\/\/unfoldlabs.com\/about-us.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asokan Ashok<\/a>, who has more than 25 years of experience in the tech industry, per the Unfold Labs, Inc. website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Held at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snapdragonstadium.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snapdragon stadium<\/a>, the awards ceremony hosted more than 500 people including the region\u2019s IT leaders. <\/p>\n<p>Other winners include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ymcasd.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YMCA of San Diego County<\/a> senior vice president and chief information officer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ymcasd.org\/about-y\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> John Merritt<\/a> and senior director of engineering of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitchell.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell International<\/a>, Abhijeet Gulati.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peers nominated award winners, and a panel of local tech leaders and previous award winners gave the deciding votes. Judges chose winners from among more than 200 nominees across 14 categories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were thrilled once again to celebrate the giant talent driving San Diego\u2019s technology sector,\u201d Jodi Duva, California vice president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cox.com\/business\/home.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cox Business<\/a>, said in a release. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2025 recipients exemplify the entrepreneurial spirit and creative problem-solving that make our region a true hub for technological advancement. We\u2019re proud to shine a light on the many achievements and positive impact they\u2019re making throughout our city and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2008, the awards ceremony originated with then-Cox Business vice president Larry Coval as a way to \u201chonor the unsung heroes in innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the awards branched out into Las Vegas. It has since recognized more than 2000 tech leaders, according to its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additional honorees included Jennifer Oliveira from South Bay Union School District, Sean Sorians from San Diego Police Department Crime Laboratory, Ben Mortenson from Social Advocate for Youth San Diego, Tara Sparks from Jamul Casino, and more.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A digital display at Snapdragon Stadium that says, \u201c2025 Top Tech Awards.\u201d (Photo courtesy Cox Business) Last week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":246822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[131185,5229,1582,276,131186,3549,7264,53518,131187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-246821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-2025-top-tech-of-the-year-award","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-cox-business","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-snapdragon-stadium","16":"tag-top-tech-awards","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115249133134844643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}