Recognising and Rewarding Excellence
Friday 3rd July, London
The Conference Awards 2020 are open for entries.
Enter by 3rd March - new extended deadline, apply here: DEADLINE EXTENSION
The Conference Awards recognise, celebrate and encourage achievement in conference & events. We salute and acknowledge attainment within an industry that is continuously evolving and re-drawing the boundaries of best practice.
Why the Conference Awards?
Celebrate with your team
Being an award-winner is a powerful motivator to inspire you and your colleagues to keep up the great work!
Enhance your reputation
Appending an independently judged third-party badge of excellence is a sure-fire shortcut to emphasising your merit to colleagues, clients, bosses & stakeholders.
Generate positive headlines
Spread the good news - everyone loves a success story and winning an award is a great publicity hook for social and traditional media efforts
Aspire to Better Practice
Winner or not - seeing what others do for their products is an irreplacable source of tried & tested award-worthy ideas!
Our Judges 2020
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David Ball
CEO, Brandfuel
David Ball
CEO, Brandfuel -
Mindy Emsley
Joint Managing Director, Smarter Shows
Mindy Emsley
Joint Managing Director, Smarter ShowsMindy became Joint Managing Director of Smarter Shows in 2017 and oversees a portfolio of industry-leading conferences and exhibitions across the advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive and materials industries. Mindy has over twenty years’ experience in B2B conferences and exhibitions and has led the strategy and execution of highly successful events across a range of industry sectors including telecoms, finance, banking, energy storage and oil and gas. Prior to joining Smarter Shows in 2012, Mindy held conference production and event director positions at organisations including Informa Telecoms, IQPC, TM Forum and Eurofinance.
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Diane Young
Co-founder and CEO, The Drum
Diane Young
Co-founder and CEO, The DrumDiane is CEO of media company The Drum, serving marketing and media people with content around the world. She started out as the sole events manager at The Drum and built the events business with her sleeves rolled up. Everything from business planning and strategy to sponsorship sales to telesales to packing the awards entries for judging to picking up the bits of fluff on the stage before the show started were all in her remit. From one Scottish event, she built up a portfolio of awards and a team to deliver them. The Drum now organises events around the world. The biggest part is the awards portfolio but now increasingly The Drum organises bespoke events on behalf of clients and The Drum Arms pop-up pub makes annual appearances in London, New York, Cannes and Austin.
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Robin Booth
Managing Director, Emap
Robin Booth
Managing Director, EmapRobin joined EMAP in 2018 and is Managing Director of a portfolio of construction, engineering and public sector brands. Robin was Group General Manager at Aspermont Media between 2014 and 2018 running the UK, Australia and Brazil offices of an International natural resources media company, including one of the world’s oldest magazines Mining Journal. Prior to that Robin was Group Publishing Director at Incisive Media working across a range of industry sectors – technology, legal, finance and institutional investment.
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Lydia Matthews
Group Content & Customer Director, Hyve Group
Lydia Matthews
Group Content & Customer Director, Hyve Group
Our Judges 2020
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David Ball
CEO, Brandfuel
David Ball
CEO, Brandfuel -
Mindy Emsley
Joint Managing Director, Smarter Shows
Mindy Emsley
Joint Managing Director, Smarter ShowsMindy became Joint Managing Director of Smarter Shows in 2017 and oversees a portfolio of industry-leading conferences and exhibitions across the advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive and materials industries. Mindy has over twenty years’ experience in B2B conferences and exhibitions and has led the strategy and execution of highly successful events across a range of industry sectors including telecoms, finance, banking, energy storage and oil and gas. Prior to joining Smarter Shows in 2012, Mindy held conference production and event director positions at organisations including Informa Telecoms, IQPC, TM Forum and Eurofinance.
