California Telehealth Network President and CEO Eric Brown and Emergency Call and Tracking System (ECaTS) have been named the California State Fair's 2016 Technology Champions.
The third-annual awards, which recognize an individual and an organization or technology project for outstanding contributions to California's technology industry, are selected from nominations submitted to the California Department of Technology. To be eligible, nominees must be California residents and can come from the public or private sectors.
Brown leads the independent nonprofit California Telehealth Network, which was initially funded through the FCC’s Rural Health Care Pilot Program. CTN will connect more than 800 California health-care providers in underserved areas to a state- and nation-wide broadband network dedicated to health care.
"Eric’s 15 years of experience in the cable television industry have included valuable contributions in the field of network affiliate relations and the management of multiple broadband system marketing and operations," the State Fair announced. "He has previously served as Chairman of the California Cable and Telecommunications Association (CCTA) and is a recipient of the prestigious National Cable and Telecommunications Association Vanguard Award for excellence in cable operations. He has also received the cable industry’s CTAM Chairman’s Award for excellence in cable marketing."
ECaTS, a Direct Technology company based in Roseville, Calif., originally developed a mission-critical product for the state of California's 911 program office.
"ECaTS is the first universal 911 Call Reporting System that leverages the ubiquitous nature of the Internet to provide secure, real-time reporting to the 911 industry. In developing a product that gathers data on more than 350,000 calls per day to produce insights that not only identify the data, but establish how that data was produced, the company has brought private-sector business intelligence analytics to the public safety industry, epitomizing the virtues of what it takes to confront the challenges of 'Big Data' within the 911 industry," the State Fair announced.
The Technology Champions will be honored at the Friends of the California State Fair Gala on June 23.
