Jack Bidlack awarded NVTC 2025 Community Champion Award

NOVA’s Jack Bidlack, director of strategic initiatives for IET, was awarded the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Community Champion Award for the 2025 NVTC Data Center Awards.

These awards recognize those who have helped establish Virginia as a leader in the data industry. Awards were given in five categories: community, champion award, data center innovation award, data center woman of the year award, data center partner of the year award and rising star award.

The Community Champion Award recognizes data center owners, employees and partners for their contributions.

Jack has been at NOVA for six years this month starting as program manager and now as director of strategic initiatives, for the information and engineering technologies.

Congratulations to Jack on this well-deserved award. 

—Dr. Chad Knights, vice president of IET and college computing