Eight executives of vendor companies for cable industry IT services have been chosen by a selection committee of cable CIOs as finalists in the third annual CIO.IT | Competition, a program of solution-based presentations scheduled for the CIO.IT program at the NCTA's Cable Show 2012 in Boston.The eight finalists will participate in two panel sessions and present their solutions to panels of CIO judges. The judges will select their favorite solution concept from each panel after observing the presentations. The two panel and their participants are:The Cloud, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Cable
- Brian Cappellani, Sigma Systems
- Jim Green, Composite Software
- Kurt Silverman, Convergys
- Gemini Waghmare, UXP Systems
- Don Bowman, Sandvine
- Martin Hayward, Mirror Image Internet
- Bob Hritsko, SAP
- Patrick Wright-Riley, Motorola Mobility