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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Open Source Bridge
Call for Speakers
http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2014/proposals

AppSec USA
Call for Speakers
http://2014.appsecusa.org/2014/speakers/cft/

Innovation Awards (The Economist)
Awards Info
http://www.economistinsights.com/technology-innovation/event/innovation-awards-and-summit-2014/tab/2

GGDevCon (Google)
Call for Speakers
http://www.ggdevcon.com/call-for-speakers

CloudSlam
Call for Speakers
http://cloudslam.org/cfp

JavaOne
Call for Speakers
https://blogs.oracle.com/java/entry/javaone_2014_call_for_papers

Digital Summit
Call for Speakers
http://www.digitalsummit.com/speaker_submission.html

DevOps Days Silicon Valley
Call for Speakers
http://devopsdays.org/events/2014-siliconvalley/propose/

DMA Innovation Awards
Awards Info
http://innovationawards.thedma.org/

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Deadlines
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(3/14)
EmTech (MIT Technology Review) Call for Speakers
http://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/14/speakers/submissions.php

(3/14)
Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo Call for Speakers
http://www.renewableenergyworld-events.com/index.html?ID=30836

(3/14)
Flash Memory Summit Call for Speakers
http://www.flashmemorysummit.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi/HTMLOS_Pages/Call_for_Presentations.html

(3/14)
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
https://eoy-nomination.ey.com/LoginManagement/Welcome.aspx

(3/14)
POWER-GEN International Call for Speakers
http://www.power-gen.com/index.html#showcase_3#leftcolumn_tabs_0_4

(3/14)
Grace Hopper Women in Computing Awards
http://gracehopper.org/call-for-participation/

(3/14)
WebRTC Conference and Expo Call for Speakers
http://www.webrtcworld.com/conference/east/call-for-papers.aspx

(3/14)
Semantic Technology & Business Conference Call for Speakers
http://semtechbizsj2014.semanticweb.com/cfp.cfm

(3/14)
Digiday Content Marketing Awards
http://digiday.com/event/content-marketing-awards/

(3/14)
Internet of Things Expo
http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com/general/papers2014east.htmhttp://www.thingsexpo.com/general/papers2014east.htm

(3/15)
DataBeat Call for Speakers
https://venturebeat2.wufoo.com/forms/databeat-speaking-application-2014/

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Tech Event PR Prep
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(3/17)
Enterprise Connect
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/513/

(3/17)
EclipseCon
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/516/

(3/18)
TV Connect
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/514/

(3/19)
Structure:Data
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/515/

(3/19)
CARTES Asia
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/517/

(3/24)
NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/511/

(3/27)
Macworld | iWorld
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/497/

(3/31)
Cloud Connect Summit
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/518/

(3/31)
Interop Las Vegas
http://events.itdatabase.com/events/detail/528/

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