AWARDS AWARDS 2022 takes place on the afternoon of 1st July at Old Billingsgate, London.
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED! Congratulations to all who made it onto the 2022 Shortlist!
Why Enter Awards 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
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Paul Sagoo
Founder, The Asian Awards
Paul Sagoo
Founder, The Asian AwardsPaul Sagoo is the founder and Director of Lemon Group International Ltd, a UK-based investment company.In 2009 he founded The Asian Awards, which focusses on awarding the worlds best Asians across a multitude of disciplines. The Asian Awards is now into its 7th year and has grown to become one of the biggest events in the UK. Previously the events twitter hashtag #TheAsianAwards trended worldwide for 3 hours at the top spot. Paul consults to businesses across the globe often with a hands on approach and is working on a number of new initiatives such as The British Science Awards, due to take place in 2022, which will honour the very best British scientists and in particular those who have contributed to the battle against COVID-19.He has strong experience in helping businesses achieve strategic commercial change in terms of growth, operations, sales/biz dev, acquisition, mergers, investment and turnaround.Paul regularly speaks on a number of interest areas such as diversity, business, entrepreneurship, motivation and corporate development.His goal is to make businesses and people that he interacts with, happy and profitable.Paul is a well-known person within the UK Asian community and has made a name for being well-dressed having been voted one of the best dressed British Asians in a recent survey.In 2013 he was asked by LinkedIn to be part of their new Influencer program. Only 150 people were chosen for this worldwide and included the likes of Barack Obama, Richard Branson, David Cameron and Deepak Chopra. In 2015 Paul was awarded by LinkedIn for having one of the most popular online profiles in the UK. -
Steven Lewis
Group Portfolio Director, Haymarket Events
Steven Lewis
Group Portfolio Director, Haymarket EventsWith over 20 years of experience in the events industry, including 16 years at Haymarket Events in the Awards & Forums department, Steven has a wealth of knowledge and understanding in the B2B events sector. In his time at Haymarket he has launched flagship products, delivered LSEs and helped reshape and evolve Awards programmes across a variety of sectors.
His primary focus now is on portfolio and product development and working with his team to deliver a portfolio of well over 50 annual events.
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.
