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IBC Awards

Champagne and the red carpet - it's the IBC Awards

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Sunday night sees one of IBC's highlights: the annual awards ceremony. Starting with a champagne reception, this fast-paced event recognises those who have made a real contribution in the industry in 2009. The awards are also the time for IBC to acknowledge those whose careers have changed our industry.

The IBC International Honour for Excellence is presented each year to an individual or organisation making an outstanding contribution, over an extended period, to the advance of the electronic media industry. In 2008 the award went to Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation SKG.

Come along and join in celebrating the best in technology and creativity.

Perhaps you fancy judging our Exhibition Design Awards?

IBC Innovation Awards

The IBC Innovation Awards are unique, because they recognise not just technical advances but also the application of that technology in bringing creative, commercial or operational benefits to the user. The awards celebrate how suppliers and their customers have worked together to create something truly innovative. 

There are three categories: for the most innovative projects in content creation, content management and content delivery.There is also a fourth award, the Judges’ Prize, which can go to one of the category winners or to another project which most impresses the international judging panel.

Nominations for the IBC2009 Innovation Awards are now closed. Entries for IBC2010 Awards will open in February 2010.

IBC International Honour of Excellence

This is IBC's highest honour, and is in the gift of the IBC Council. It is presented each year to an individual who, or a body which, has made an outstanding contribution to the creative, commercial or technical advance of our industry, on a global scale.

In 2008 the IBC International Honour for Excellence went to Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of DreamWorks Animation SKG. In accepting the award, via the world's first live transatlantic 3D HD transmission, he said I am thrilled to be among the distinguished list of recipients to have received an International Honour for Excellence. At DreamWorks Animation we aim to create and deliver quality and innovative entertainment for family audiences across the globe, and I am very grateful to IBC for acknowledging our efforts in this area. As we enter the year of 3D, I have never experienced a more dynamic and exciting time within the film industry than right now. Thank you for this honour.

Other recent winners of the International Honour for Excellence include Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; audio innovator Ray Dolby; director James Cameron; media pioneers Ted Turner and Sam Chisholm; Leonardo Chiariglione who was one of the fathers of MPEG compression; and Aardman Animations, the studio responsible for Wallace & Gromit and Creature Comforts.

IBC Exhibition Design Awards

A successful exhibition needs each exhibiting company to play its part by designing attractive, accessible and practical stands which display its products or services to the best advantage.

A team of judges looks at every single exhibitor, and selects the best large and medium free design stand and the best shell scheme stand. They are looking not just for attractive designs but for practicality too: the best use of the available space and how the stand helps demonstrate the product or service. The judging panel will commend outstanding design, and the awards for the best in each category are announced and presented during the awards ceremony.

Would you like to be a judge?

If you've time on Friday, 11 September (from 11am - 4pm) and Saturday, 12 September (morning only), and if you have an interest in good design and functionality - and no direct connection with any exhibitor – we need volunteers to judge these prestigious awards. Although IBC will not pay expenses (judges will need to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements), judges will be eligible to attend the award ceremony on the Sunday evening. Check our judging criteria for more information.

If you wish to register your interest, please email Keith Harlow your application and a brief CV before Friday, 31 July 2009.

IBC Conference Award

The peer-reviewed technical papers sessions at IBC remain the world's leading forum for the presentation and development of the latest research in electronic media technology. Proposals for papers are submitted early in the year and carefully evaluated by a committee of experts who consider each one for innovative content. Competition is stiff to get the papers accepted for the programme, with many more submissions than can be accepted.

The IBC Conference Award recognises the best of the best. The papers committee select the paper which they believe best matches original content with clarity of presentation.