KZO Innovations Selected as a Top 100 Private Company Contributing to the Renewed and Continued Prosperity of Our Country

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KZO Innovations today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnDC Top 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnDC 100 signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities that contribute to the renewed and continued prosperity of our country. KZO was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

“It’s no secret that technology and innovation are vital to bringing our country out of economic recession and transforming important sectors like energy and healthcare”

KZO and the OnDC Top 100 Companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s OnDC event on October 19th-21st at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington DC. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on sectors most impacted by the federal government including greentech, on-demand computing and IT security, education, and the life sciences.

“It’s no secret that technology and innovation are vital to bringing our country out of economic recession and transforming important sectors like energy and healthcare,” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. “We congratulate the OnDC 100 for their success in introducing new tools, services, and systems to address the nation’s top priorities.”

The OnDC 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2009 list.

KZO was recognized in the category of Digital Education for its Interactive Video Platform and Broadcast Studio. KZO’s innovative technology enables and encourages on-going synchronous and asynchronous collaboration around a wide variety of types and formats of live and pre-produced content, thereby extending the material’s reach, relevance, utilization and value.

Utilizing deep-tagging technology for streaming content, KZO’s Platform provides viewers with the ability to annotate and participate in on-going Q&A and threaded micro-blog discussions associated with specific moments-in-time in the videos, as well as to identify and insert links to additional information, documents, video segments and other learning or analytical materials. The content of these tags is actively indexed and fully searchable across the Platform, providing rapid access to this dynamic universe of material for the entire community of users.

“We are honored and pleased to be part of the OnDC 100,” said Wes Cruver, President and CEO of KZO Innovations. “We have been advancing perpetual knowledge exchange through the unification of synchronous and asynchronous collaboration for training, education, analytics and other applications in commercial and government sectors. We sincerely appreciate being recognized for our contributions in this area.”

A full list of all the OnDC Top 100 Winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/33638

About KZO

KZO is an R&D and software development company pioneering and delivering innovative streaming video solutions. KZO's fusion of digital video expertise, advanced technology development and business process management enables the company to provide customers with unprecedented innovation and ROI-based effectiveness in the rapidly evolving global market for technology enabled knowledge, training, education, analytics and communications. For more information visit, www.kzoinnovations.com.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, GoingGreen East and West, Venture Summit East and West) and quarterly print “blogozine” by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.