High Road Communications

Today you can check out The Branham 300, a listing from Backbone Magazine of Canada’s highest performing technology companies. Scanning the list shows that it is dominated by players in the software category and the IT prof services category. ‘Software as a service’ and ‘unified messaging and communications’ are definitely trends to watch from last year and it will be interesting to see how clean/green tech will impact the list for 2008.

Nominations for the CATAAlliance Innovation and Leadership Awards are open, and can be submitted until April 8. An overview of all the awards categories and the nomination guide can be found here.

High Road is again sponsoring the High Road Communications Award for Excellence in Science and Technology Reporting. The award is presented to a journalist or writer raising the public profile of science and technology and contributing to the building of a science and technology culture in Canada. Last year’s winner was the Globe and Mail’s Mathew Ingram (blog), and Shane Schick (blog), now editor of ComputerWorld Canada, won in 2006.

The Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance and High Road have been strategic partners for many years. High Road president Mia Wedgbury and senior vice president Sarah Burns are CATA board members.