
AWARDS AWARDS took place as part of Conference & Events Awards on 1st July at Old Billingsgate, London.
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Celebrate with your team
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Spread the good news - everyone loves a success story and winning an award is a great publicity hook for social and traditional media efforts

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Winner or not - seeing what others do for their products is an irreplacable source of tried & tested award-worthy ideas!
Our Judges
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Chris Edwards
Product Director, Awards, Euromoney PLC
Chris Edwards
Product Director, Awards, Euromoney PLC17 years of experience across event formats from roundtables to LSEs, awards and hospitality has given Chris a unique perspective of what success looks like. Starting with an agency on production and design delivering trade shows and exhibitions then a move to awards and conferences with Wilmington. Chris spent 4 years with the awards team at Emap two of which in Dubai launching new products. After returning he spent the 5 years with Procurement Leaders running their awards and event operations across an international portfolio. Chris has also worked as Head of Events with the British Retail Consortium, Awards Director on the Health Service Journal and is now with Euromoney looking after 30 international awards events across the legal portfolio.
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Melissa Irving
Group Event Director, Construction & Engineering, EMAP
Melissa Irving
Group Event Director, Construction & Engineering, EMAPMelissa Irving is Group Event Director for the Construction & Engineering and Healthcare & Local Government portfolios at EMAP Publishing Ltd, a content, subscription and networking business, representing a host of industry leading brands across construction, health, local government, fashion and architecture. Melissa joined EMAP in 2006 as an Executive Conference Producer and now holds a senior position managing operations, marketing, telesales and content teams across awards, conferences and bespoke events. With 19 years event experience, Melissa has a keen eye for new product launches and continues to deliver exceptional year on year performance for events serving Construction News, New Civil Engineer, Ground Engineering respectively, Nursing Times and the Local Government Chronicle.
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Angela Jones
Head of Event Operations and Production, ICIS
Angela Jones
Head of Event Operations and Production, ICISAngela Jones heads up Event Operations and Production for ICIS, part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group. ICIS is a global source of Independent Commodity Intelligence Services, connecting data, markets and customers to create a comprehensive, trusted view of global commodities markets, enabling smarter business decisions that optimise the world’s resources.
Angela has over 24 years events experience and understands the hard work and attention to detail that goes into every event, no matter its size. She recognises how much planning and creativity goes into each Awards event. And, if the unforeseen happens, you only have minutes to put it right, whereas at a 2-day conference you may have the luxury of hours.
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Amanda Murray
Managing Director, Max Live Events
Amanda Murray
Managing Director, Max Live EventsAmanda has worked within the events industry for over 20 years, across numerous fields from classical, to rock and pop, and experiential marketing. She landed about 10 years ago in the corporate world. Here she has gained a reputation for producing highly successful events -from initial concept through to actuality.
Working initially as a junior production manager at an AV Production company, where she quickly progressed to become Event Director
Amanda took the decision at the start of 2014 to launch her own production company – Max Live Events – Who’s ethos is to be “a rather good production company”- Being friendly and personably, adding the extra little touches, going the extra mile and giving attention to detail.
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Zara Bailey
Head of Event Operations - Financial Services & Enterprise Technology Events, Incisive Media
Zara Bailey
Head of Event Operations - Financial Services & Enterprise Technology Events, Incisive MediaZara joined Incisive Media in 2008, and heads up the Event Operations team, overseeing in the region of 180 events a year, with over 40 being awards ceremonies, varying from 200 to 1,500. She has a huge passion for awards and still enjoys project managing them when she can.
Our Judges
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Chris Edwards
Product Director, Awards, Euromoney PLC
Chris Edwards
Product Director, Awards, Euromoney PLC17 years of experience across event formats from roundtables to LSEs, awards and hospitality has given Chris a unique perspective of what success looks like. Starting with an agency on production and design delivering trade shows and exhibitions then a move to awards and conferences with Wilmington. Chris spent 4 years with the awards team at Emap two of which in Dubai launching new products. After returning he spent the 5 years with Procurement Leaders running their awards and event operations across an international portfolio. Chris has also worked as Head of Events with the British Retail Consortium, Awards Director on the Health Service Journal and is now with Euromoney looking after 30 international awards events across the legal portfolio.
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Melissa Irving
Group Event Director, Construction & Engineering, EMAP
Melissa Irving
Group Event Director, Construction & Engineering, EMAPMelissa Irving is Group Event Director for the Construction & Engineering and Healthcare & Local Government portfolios at EMAP Publishing Ltd, a content, subscription and networking business, representing a host of industry leading brands across construction, health, local government, fashion and architecture. Melissa joined EMAP in 2006 as an Executive Conference Producer and now holds a senior position managing operations, marketing, telesales and content teams across awards, conferences and bespoke events. With 19 years event experience, Melissa has a keen eye for new product launches and continues to deliver exceptional year on year performance for events serving Construction News, New Civil Engineer, Ground Engineering respectively, Nursing Times and the Local Government Chronicle.
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We were impressed by the quality of the attendees and pleased to have the opportunity to meet a number of decision makers who organise international events. The GCN team fully understood our goals for the partnership and facilitated our introduction to a significant number of people in the room…..[they] clearly understood both our needs as a sponsor and the needs of the attendees….[and] ensured that we were able to achieve our objectives while maintaining the expectations of the attendees and the integrity of the event.
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