The deadline for entries is 31st March 2023.
The shortlist will be revealed by the 10th of May.
The qualifying period is for events that took place between 1st April 2022 and 31st March 2023.
Entry is free of charge for all AEO, AEV & ESSA members. For non-members, each entry costs an administration fee of £499 (+VAT) PER SINGLE ENTRY.
To ensure only the very best entries reach the shortlist and ultimately win the accolade, alongside an independent third party judging process, 50% of the judges come from within the industry, and 50% from outside of membership which provides a unique and truly impartial view.
We promote and seek to attain both a diverse and inclusive profile for all our events, working groups, and judging panels.
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OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE INDUSTRY AWARD
The winner of this Award is selected by the AEO Board.
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Have you run a trade marketing campaign in the last 12 months that you are proud of? And more importantly, a campaign that was creative, innovative, compelling and effective? Entry is open to organisers, suppliers and venues within the events industry and the focus should be on creativity vs budget and cover all mediums / routes to market.
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Open to: Organisers, Suppliers & Venues
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Have you run a consumer marketing campaign in the last 12 months that you are proud of? And more importantly, a campaign that was creative, innovative, compelling and effective? Entry is open to organisers, suppliers and venues within the events industry and the focus should be on creativity vs budget and cover all mediums / routes to market.
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Open to: Organisers, Suppliers & Venues
This award is open to all event organisers and events of any size in the UK and internationally; organisers of trade and consumer show, conferences, live events, awards, including hybrid, digital, virtual, omni channel.
We are looking for innovation and originality as well as great customer outcomes and commercial success.
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Open to: Organisers
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The winning entry must be able to demonstrate the overall; integration, innovation, financial success, marketing, communication and attendee feedback.
This award is open to any organiser, venue or supplier of a standalone and/or integrated conference in the UK or internationally.
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Open to: Organisers, Suppliers & Venues
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This award is for event organisers to enter their TRADE or CONSUMER events that take place in Europe.
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Open to: Organisers
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This award is for event organisers to enter their TRADE or CONSUMER events that take place in the Americas.
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Open to: Organisers
This award is for event organisers to enter their TRADE or CONSUMER events that take place in the Middle East & Africa.
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Open to: Organisers
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This award is for event organisers to enter their TRADE or CONSUMER events that take place in Asia Pacific.
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Open to: Organisers
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This award will reward the organisation deemed to be making the greatest advances in operating in a sustainable manner.
Have you made big changes to ensure sustainability is or becomes part of your DNA?
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Open to: Organisers, Suppliers & Venues
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This award celebrates a business that has launched a DEI initiative that has brought about positive change. If you have made DEI changes or commitments you should enter!
Your initiative will have a lasting impact and fundamentally change the way your business operates.
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Open to: Organisers, Suppliers & Venues
This Award highlights the collaborative nature of event organisation, showcasing objectives and achievements, improved productivity, efficiency and performance.
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Open to: Organisers
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National and international venues are welcome to enter this category, which will reward the best venue team, valuing your team achievements against improving service, productivity, efficiency, performance and customer experience.
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Open to: Venues
This award is for any event team supplier.
We have all had to change and adapt during lockdown and that has resulted in significant change in the way that we have operated as individuals, teams and businesses.
The award will be judged against objectives and results of your team in terms of service, productivity, efficiency, performance, problem solving.
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Open to: Suppliers
This award is for event suppliers who provide a service to organisers or exhibitors, this can be either a technology or non-tech based service.
This case study led award will be judged against objectives and results in terms of quality, reliability, productivity, efficiency, performance, problem solving
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Open to: Suppliers
This Award is aimed at consumer exhibitions that delivered an excellent visitor experience with equally excellent and creative marketing campaigns, proven year-on-year success, coupled with a strong, competitive profile.
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Open to: Organisers
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Open to any international/UK trade exhibition under 2,000sqm) held in the past 12 months. This Award is judged on stand out content and marketing elements, notable improvements in performance, rebookings, increases in visitor attendance and competitive success.
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Open to: Organisers
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Open to any UK trade exhibition between 2000-8000 sqm) held in the past 12 months. This Award is judged on stand out content and marketing elements, notable improvements in performance, rebookings, increases in visitor attendance and competitive success.
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Open to: Organisers
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Open to any UK trade exhibition over 8,000sqm held in the past 12 months. This Award is judged on stand out content and marketing elements, notable improvements in performance, rebookings, increases in visitor attendance and competitive success.
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Open to: Organisers
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This Award is open to both national and international venues and will focus on the elements that are unique about your facilities, your customer service and support; the visitor experience offered as well as what innovation makes your venue stand out from the rest.
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Open to: Venues
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This award is open to both national and international venues and will focus on the elements that are unique about your facilities, your customer service and support; the visitor experience offered as well as what innovation makes your venue stand out from the rest.
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Open to: Venues
This Award recognises an individual who has made a significant contribution to a product / team / company etc. But the nominee should be an individual that would NOT normally receive the deserved recognition for their efforts.
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Open to: Organisers, Suppliers & Venues
We have all had to change and adapt during and following the pandemic and that has resulted in significant changes in the way that we have operated as individuals and as businesses.
This award will celebrate an initiative that has brought about positive change across an organisation. It will have a lasting impact and potentially fundamentally change the way you do business.
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Open to: Organisers, Suppliers & Venues
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This award is for organisers, venues or suppliers who have used technology/multiple technologies to deliver an event between 30th June 2021 and 31st March 2022.
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Open to: Organisers, Suppliers & Venues
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