Ellen Hemmerly, Executive Director at the bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park will receive the 2011 Innovator of the Year Award from The Daily Record on Wednesday, October 26.

Hemmerly, who has been Executive Director at bwtech for more than fifteen years, says that the award is less about her and more about the park’s cybersecurity incubator and the community of cybersecurity companies that have clustered there. The incubator currently has thirteen companies.

While there are about twenty incubators in Maryland, only one other focuses on cybersecurity. The bwtech@UMBC incubator is home to the CyberHive, which Hemmerly says is a unique space dedicated to bringing people in cybersecurity together to network and provides virtual incubator space to companies outside the region.

“I’ve been involved in incubators for twenty years,” says Hemmerly.  “In all my years of working with area incubators, the bwtech@UMBC cyber incubator is the fastest growing and has much potential economic impact.”

That, she says, is due in large part to its relationship to UMBC and to the incubator’s partnerships with both the public and private sectors.*

Public and Private Sector Partners*

• Baltimore County Economic Development
• Northrop Grumman
• Maryland’s Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED)
• Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO)
• Venable
• Whiteford, Taylor, Preston
• SB & Company LLC

On Wednesday September 28^th, Chris Jeffery was the guest for the Entrepreneurship Speaker Series hosted by the Alex Brown Center for Entrepreneurship. Students gathered to listen in on his story of starting a company that hosted restaurant menus online and eventually moved into the online ordering and advertisement business. LocalUp Solutions, LLC is now managing 55 different markets across the nation, each getting their own locally-branded website.

Baltimore’s very own EATbmore.com is outfitted with a wide variety of restaurants to choose from in the downtown Baltimore area. You can browse the site using the A-Z search or filter by neighborhood to find a new place to eat. All of the menus are right there for your viewing pleasure.

Starting October 10^th, online ordering will be available for many of the restaurants! After you find the perfect menu item, just click the “order” button on the EATbmore site and your transaction will be securely processed. iPhone and Android apps are available to make ordering easier when you are on the go.

Check out the site and comment below to let us know what you think! Also, Mr. Jeffery hopes to expand the site to include restaurants in the Catonsville and Arbutus area so stay tuned for that.