Awards Categories

Product Innovation Award

Entrants will be given 1,000 words in which to persuade the judges that their entry should win this particular award category. You may also attach up to 3 pieces of supporting information.

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This award is given to the most successful product innovation. This could either be a brand new conference or a new business of service which has been created on the back on an existing conference. Judges will be looking for creativity, expertise and success in all areas including the following:

  • Quality of research
  • Effectiveness of the new product(s)
  • Success with sponsors / exhibitors / delegates as appropriate
  • Financial success
  • Meeting of KPI’s vs original targets

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In case of technical difficulties entrants are advised to save a version of their core entry in word prior to submitting their entry.

  • Background information

  • Names of key staff involved

  • Name and contact details of person submitting entry

  • Submission

  • Entrants have a maximum of 1,000 words in which to convince the judges that they are worthy of winning this award. 3 files of supporting material of no more than 4 pages each can also be included. Video footage can be also submitted but should be sent as a link within the main body of the entry and should be no more than 2 minutes in length. Suggestions as to what could be covered are listed below.
    • Give some background to the new product you have developed including how it originated and what it set out to achieve. Outline any specific goals or targets you had in mind prior to the project.
    • Describe the research that went into creating the product. Give details of the research, processes and techniques used.
    • If relevant please describe how you interacted with sponsors, exhibitors or third parties, to develop creative sponsorship packages that met their objectives.
    • Outline your marketing strategies including any novel approaches and techniques you used– including key partnerships with third parties, direct and online marketing, telesales and use of social media.
    • Describe the features of the new product which made it so beneficial to delegates and/other stakeholders. How did you manage to implement these?
    • Outline the success of the new product in terms of the audience size, profile and feedback from delegates, speakers and sponsors or other KPI's. Also assess these results against any targets you set at the outset.
    • Give any other information regarding the new product innovation which you think would help convince the judges that you should win this award. What makes it so unique? In what ways have you been particularly innovative?

  • Shortlisted Summary

  • In the event of your submission being shortlisted we will publish a 200 word summary of your submission on our website and a photo of the event. Please write the summary below keeping in mind that any results or other sensitive information may end up in the public domain. Please also supply your company logo below. (Max 200 WORDS)
  • If files are larger than 2MB please email to louisa@globalconferencenetwork.co.uk

  • Supporting Material

  • Please attach any relevant support material - testimonials, research, performance analysis, collateral, screen grabs, pictures etc. 

    Entrants may attach up to 3 files of supporting material of no more than 4 pages each. 

    Attached files must be no larger than 2 MB each, documents must be in .pdf or .doc (word) format, images must be in .jpg or .gif format. 

    Movie/video footage 
    If movie files exceed the 2MB allowance then please include a link to the video/movie hosted on a web page. Links to FTP sites will not be accepted. 

    If you wish to send any files larger than 2MB please email them directly to louisa@globalconferencenetwork.co.uk

    Attachments will not be saved by the "SAVE FOR LATER" feature. Please add any attachments when your entry is complete and you wish to submit.

  • Payment

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