Please plan to join leaders from Idaho's business and technology Please plan to join leaders from Idaho's business and technology communities to honor this year's winners and finalists in the Third Annual Stoel Rives Idaho Innovation Awards.

As the state's only innovation awards program, the Idaho Innovation Awards has recognized innovations exclusively in the technology industry for the past two years. However, this year the Idaho Innovation Awards program will recognize innovative professionals and companies in addition to technology innovations.

The 2008 finalists are as follows (by category, finalists listed in alphabetical order):

Innovator of the Year Dr. Timothy P. Barber, Chief Scientist, Keynetics Inc. Bruce J. Bradley, CEO, Microbial-Vac Systems,® Inc. Frank L. VanderSloot, President and CEO, Melaleuca

Innovative Company of the Year Keynetics Inc. Marketron Broadcast Solutions Melaleuca

Innovation of the Year: Commercialized Technology Antibody Profiling Identification-AbP ID× by Idaho National Laboratory M-Vac System by Microbial-Vac Systems, Inc. Motion to Energy Power Generation by Idaho National Laboratory

Innovation of the Year: Early-Stage Technology BookLamp.org by Novel Projects, Inc. IMS Environmental Probe by Boise State University Kount× E-Commerce Fraud-Control Technology by Kount Inc.

• When: 10/29/2008, Noon - 1:00 p.m.
• Where: Boise Centre on the Grove, 8500 W. Front Street, Boise, Idaho

The Idaho Innovation Awards program is organized by Stoel Rives LLP, sponsored by the Idaho Business Review, and supported by Cooper Norman. While Stoel Rives organizes the event, Stoel Rives representatives do NOT vote on any nominations.

For more information, please contact Tammie Brennan at (208) 387-4244.