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INCITS Achievement Awards Recipients

The INCITS Awards Program began in 1992 to provide an opportunity for the INCITS community to acknowledge and recognize those participants that have provided technical expertise and exhibited effective committee management. INCITS recognizes the significant achievements and dedication of the technical experts to the standards development activities nationally and internationally.  

We congratulate the recipients for their continued dedication and leadership.

INCITS Chairman's Award

This award is presented to:

  • To be announced and presented during the June 2023 Symposium

This is an award selected by the INCITS Executive Board Chair and presented to one INCITS participant. This participant has provided outstanding service to the INCITS organization through committee work or duties assigned by the INCITS Chair and/or assisted the Chair in progressing the work of INCITS during the Chair’s term. 

INCITS Merit Award 

This Award is presented to:

  • Jim Melton, Boray Data Technology Company
  • John Messina, Department of Commerce - NIST

to recognize their more than 10+ year as a member with significant contributions to at least two international SCs or WGs in a technical contributor or leadership role and demonstrated continuous support for the work of INCITS.

INCITS Service Award 

This award is presented to:

  • Paul Anderson, HP Inc.
  • Gary Verdun, Dell Inc.

to recognize their outstanding service to the INCITS organization through committee work or duties during the past year.

INCITS Technical Excellence Award 

This is an award presented to: 

  • Richard Puk, Intelligraphics Inc.
  • Henry Wong, International Technological University 

to recognize their visible and significant technical contributions to the work of the TC (nationally or Internationally).

INCITS Award for Exceptional International Leadership

This award is presented to:

  • Greg Cannon, Amazon Web Services
  • Jay Taylor, Jewell-Taylor Consulting
to recognize their exceptional leadership of an international committee.

INCITS Team Award

This award is presented to:

  • Data Management -
    Expert Group on SQL Extensions (for) Property Graphs

    Mike Bowers, FairCom USA Corporation
    Frank Celler, ArangoDB Inc.
    Nathalie Charbel, Neoj4 Inc.
    Roshan Dathathri, Katana Graph
    Alin Deutsch, TigerGraph
    Peter Furniss, Neo4j Inc.
    Finbar Good, Neo4j Inc.
    Bei Li, Google
    Alastair Green, Neo4j Inc.
    Keith Hare, Neo4j Inc.
    Zhen Hua Liu, Oracle
    Romans Kasperovics, SAP
    Victor Lee, TigerGraph
    Leonid Libkin, RelationalAI Inc.
    Tobias Lindaaker, DataStax Inc.
    Jeff Lovitz, Redis Labs
    Joshua Meekhof, Optum Technology
    Jan Michels, Oracle
    Stefan Plantikow, Neo4j Inc.
    Petra Selmer, Neo4j Inc.
    Oskar van Rest, Oracle
    Hannes Voigt, Neo4j Inc.
    Mingxi Wu, TigerGraph
    Fred Zemke, Oracle
    Calisto Zuzarte, IBM Corporation

to recognize their expertise in the development of the SQL Extensions (for) Property Graphs technology.

INCITS Lifetime Achievement Award

This award is presented to:

  • David Singer, Apple

to recognize his long-time commitment to INCITS and its national and international standardization activities.

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