Cristina encouraged the IT sector regarding the Sadosky awards

Under the organization and initiative of the CESSI (Chamber for Software and IT Services Companies), the third edition of the Sadosky Awards was held yesterday at the Hilton Hotel in Buenos Aires, with the presence of nearly 600 attendees, in order to acknowledge the promoters of the Argentine market of information technologies.

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The ceremony was held within the framework of the annual dinner organized by the Chamber. Present were the recently elected president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and the ministers of labor and education, Carlos Tomada and Daniel Filmus, among other authorities. Fourteen awards were granted for the areas of Human Resources, IT Industry, Technology, Press and Investment, in addition to the Sadosky Gold, received by Carlos Pallotti, who has just ended a four-year term of office in directing the CESSI.

The support of the future government

"A place I could not miss was precisely this one. During the whole presidential campaign I invoked this, specially the technological activity and software sector, as an example of the rate of creation of new enterprises, the highest in these last four years and a half, but essentially because it also revealed the quality of growth we, the Argentine people, are experiencing," said the elected president.

"For too much time in our country knowledge was interpreted as something isolated from society, almost as intellectual property of certain sectors. Today, we can see throughout the world that precisely the countries with biggest economic and social development have been able to link knowledge and intelligence to the economic and productive process. This is, I believe, the key that should allow a qualitative jump," she added.

In addition, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner highlighted the creation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (see also Argentina will have a Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation), as a very clear sign to society and the enterprise world, "on which we strongly bet because we deem it a very proper instrument precisely to make this link we need between knowledge, intelligence and productive process."

A point of inflection

"Many years ago, we were not received by a deputy secretary of the State; but today we have the honor to have seated here with us the newly elected president of Argentina. This shows we have gone through a whole process,” said Calello, Chairman of the CESSI.

"Today, we are at a point of inflection. We can speak about statistics and how well we are doing and we can do in the future. But today we have a sense of responsibility and the conditions necessary to assume the responsibility that our industry has towards the Argentine society. We are in times where information technologies are the matter necessary to develop a country.” In this sense, the officer noted the new strategic plan prepared by the chamber, which is already in the hands of the future government.

On the other hand, after receiving the Sadosky Gold, Carlos Pallotti said to those present: "I will dare to launch a challenge for the whole private sector: just like we have shown from the CESSI that the association works, it is time we work on the association of the whole sector, and that the CESSI and the CICOMRA delete the gray areas they still have. And it is time that all the chambers linked to information technologies together create an entity that represents the whole sector above all of our individualities."

The Sadosky awards

Below are the winners of the awards named after Dr. Manuel Sadosky, the salient promoter of technology development in our country.

Human Resources

• Educational Trajectory: UTN
• Educational Innovation: UADE – School of Engineering and Exact Sciences
• Teaching Quality: Jorge Aguirre

IT Industry

• IT Solution: Red Informática de Medicina de Avanzada "RIMA" of the central library of medicine foundation
• Enterprise Trajectory: Grupo ASSA
• Enterprise Quality: Carlos Pallotti

Technology

• Applied Technology: Engine 3D and Cameration de SIA Interactive
• Research: "Statistical Machine Learning for Network Intrusion Detection: A Data quality perspective" by Dr. Eitel J. Lauria in cooperation with Dr. Giri K. Tashy
• Technological Innovation: Competir, for its web 2.0 and Mushup developments

Press

• Journalistic Research: “El Software Argentino, a la búsqueda de un lugar en el mundo,” published in Infobae by Cesar Dergarabedian
• Journalistic Trajectory: Rubén Levenberg
• Journalistic Innovation: Infobae Profesional.com and Technology section of Infobae newspaper

Investment

• Investment Project: Software Innovation and Development Center of INTEL, in Córdoba
• Promoting Enterprise: Entertech Program by Oracle and SUN Microsystems

During the event, several acknowledgments were also given to different people from the academic and research sectors:

• Lic. Carlos Tomassino, for his outstanding teaching performance
• Sebastián Uchitel, for his trajectory and international recognition
• Iniciativa Jujuy, for the reflection of the private and academic cooperation
• Fundación Vitra, for the participation in the training program InverTI en vos and EnterTech, training disabled people in Oracle and Java
• Nicolas Vilela and Pablo Gauna, winners of Image Cup (programming world championship of Korea)
• Rebeca Cherep de Guber, outstanding in Math, co-author of several books with Manuel Sadosky
• Verónica Becher, Santiago Figueira and Rafael Picci, Argentine researchers who completed the original manuscript of Alan Turin
• Espiritual Machine, for the local robot football team winner of Argentine championships in 2006 and 2007