Results 2021


Industry Sector Categories

Automotive Event of the Year

Winner: Top Banana

Goose Live Events

Client: Bentley Motors

Bentley Toy Box - A Covid secure experience Goose Live Events created a unique opportunity for media and influencers to experience the entire Bentley product range first-hand in a Covid safe environment. It was one of only a handful of events to take place in October 2020 and involved pivoting to a new location with 3 weeks’ notice, w...

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BI WORLDWIDE EMEA

Client: Toyota Motor Europe

BI WORLDWIDE are passionate about delivering events, the launch of Toyota’s Yaris Hybrid was no exception. Faced with ever-changing restrictions to overcome, we ensured the safety of our guests, staff, and suppliers. Relished in creating new ways of working, we re-imagined a traditional press launch to deliver an international socially...

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Finance & Professional Services Event of the Year

Virtual Regional Leadership Conference

Client: Prudential Corporation Asia

Agency: Brands at Work

Prudential Corporation Asia (PCA), owned by Prudential PLC, is one of the largest insurance and asset management operations in Asia. In 2019, PCA engaged Brands at Work UK to design its regional leadership conference and deliver it locally, near their Hong Kong headquarters. This planned face-to-face event was twice postponed; once ...

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Technology & Telecoms Event of they Year

Dell Technologies EMEA Forum 2020

Client: Dell Technologies

Agency: Wave MC

Dell Technologies Forum has been a core live event programme of an annually recognised series of events for the past 8 years. WAVE, as the global creative and technical directors of the tour were asked to transfer ‘’everything physical into everything virtual’’ without compromise. Over four months, the team worked with different regio...

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Pharma & Healthcare Event of the Year

GlaucomaFest

Client: Santen Pharmaceutical

Agency: Touch Associates

An event delivering a new experience for the ophthalmic community, reinforcing key messages about patient-centricity in glaucoma care management whilst establishing Santen as a trusted and valuable partner in ophthalmology. touch’s strategy was to develop a fully bespoke virtual environment, with its own identity to deliver a unique c...

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Consumer & Media Event of the Year

Dongfeng CITROËN Space Pop-Up

Client: Dongfeng CITROËN

Agency: Uniplan

In 2020 and 2021, the CITROËN SPACE pop toured Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. The 4-stop event featured a total of 135 live performances and 14 workshop and 2 festival activities with live streaming on social media. The event theme, "Live the Journey", was inspired by the brand's "dare to be different" attitude and the target...

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Manufacturing & Industrial Event of the Year

WINNER: Buildbase Conference 2021

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Event Purpose Categories

Incentive Event of the Year

Club Excel at Home

Agency: Strata Creative Communications

When two planned incentive reward trips to the Lake District and Gleneagles were no longer possible, our long-time client looked to us for a creative solution. Instead of shying away from the destinations we couldn’t travel to, we brought each destination to the winners. And despite travel limitations, successfully rewarded top perfor...

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Internal Communications Event of the Year

Good Morning Poundland & Dealz and The Early Early Show with Barry Williams

Client: Poundland & Dealz

Agency: Meet & Potato

This project was the result of a close collaboration between communications experts from both the client, Poundland & Dealz and their agency, Meet & Potato working together as one team. Meet & Potato know the Poundland & Dealz brand, the business, its people, and their creative ambitions having worked together since 2015. As the truste...

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Team Building Event of the Year

WINNER: Arm Global Graduate Conference 202

Brands at Work

A virtual audience of over 300 passionate graduates across different locations around the world. The audience were united under one ‘virtual roof’ to welcome and celebrate the Class of 2020.Our creative team produced an immersive 4-day event broken into action-packed learning experiences, bite sized discussions and collaborative social...

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Celebratory Event of the Year

Arm 30 House Party

Client: Arm

Agency: Live Union

This is the story of a business bringing its 7,000 global employees together for the first time. It’s the story of pioneering a virtual solution to celebrate a milestone with an incredible party. Arm started life in 1990 in a barn outside Cambridge. Today Arm is the UK’s most successful technology company with offices around the world...

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Conference of the Year

MOMENTUM

Client: The Body Shop At Home™

Agency: Top Banana

Momentum 2021 was the largest global gathering of The Body Shop at Home consultants ever. An all-new event for the channel that encouraged the audience to, in the words of the Bodyshop’s founder Dame Anita Roddick, “Get informed, Get outraged, Get inspired and Get active”. MOMENTUM celebrated loudly, and in unapologetic bright techn...

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Creative Solution Categories

Best Humanitarian Impact

FAST Heroes

Client: Boehringer Ingelheim

Agency: CTL Communications

Stroke is one of the biggest reasons that children lose their grandparents to disability or death. In fact, one in four people will experience a stroke in their lifetime. However, 80% of patients don’t realise they are having a stroke until it’s too late. In cases where they do, nine in ten don’t call an ambulance but speak to a fami...

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Best Use of Small Budget

The Learning Awards 2021

MCI

Client: The Learning and Performance Institute

Due to COVID and the restrictions around live physical events, The Learning and Performance Institute [LPI] asked us to create a virtual awards show with celebration and people at its centre. The experience needed to bring to life the Learning Awards’ ethos of recognising innovation and achievement in global workplace learning. The Lea...

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Best Sustainable Initiative

Facebook x World Economic Forum, Davos

Smyle Creative

Client: Facebook

In 2019, Facebook signed up to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The 2020 World Economic Forum theme of “Stakeholders for a Sustainable World” offered a global platform to illustrate this bold commitment to responsible, sustainable consumption and production.Facebook asked Smyle to create a World Economic Forum 2020 experience that...

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Supplier Categories

Best Venue

The Convention Centre Dublin

The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) was developed to provide a world-class conference venue in the heart of Ireland’s capital city. After marking its ten-year anniversary last year, The CCD has hosted over 1,900 events and welcomed over 1.3m visitors. The CCD has a proven track record for excellence and prides itself on the quality ...

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Best Technology Provider

CI Group

Client: CI Group

The CI Group’s coronavirus response was immediate and technology-driven. The threat to the events industry has been terrifying. The value of travel, tourism and events is estimated to be £400 billion to the UK economy. It supports 5 million jobs. Meanwhile, live events are attended by 120 million each year. To help counter a looming ...

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Best Events Destination

Visit Belfast

Client: One Young World + various Agency clients

Belfast has always confounded expectations. It has worked to create and build a tourism and events industry that was non-existent 20 years ago born out of one of the most successful peace processes in the world. The destination has captured the attention of the global travel and events industry winning awards from Lonely Planet to Nat...

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Best of the Best

Agency of the Year - UK

Brands at Work

Hello, we’re Brands at Work - a 22-strong team of creative challengers. We design and deliver creative communications campaigns and content-led B2B, employee and consumer marketing events – virtual, hybrid and IRL. What makes us different? We don’t have a bureaucratic board of directors or siloed departments. Our USP is that we’re...

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Agency of the Year - Global

INVNT

Founded in 2008, INVNT is the global live brand storytelling agency. We operate across eight offices in five countries – our NYC HQ, London, Sydney, Detroit, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Stockholm and Singapore, and our 100+ employees all work together, on the one P&L. We delivered 150+ events for over 40 clients, and our work, ...

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Corporate Events Team of the Year

WINNER: Quilter Events Team

Quilter

Copious amounts of corporate change, cost cutting and optimisation, redundancies, and a global pandemic forcing us to entirely rethink our event offering…in the words of Ross from Friends…”we’re fine!!”It’s fair to say this year has been testing for us all, especially in the events industry, but we’re standing here very proud of gettin...

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Best MICE Team

etc.venues

etc.venues is the UK’s leading provider of non-residential meeting and event venues with 17 locations across the UK and US. However, what really sets us apart isn’t our venues; it’s our people. Our sales office remained open throughout the challenges of last year with our ‘Dream Team’ of 15 working from home. By listening to clients an...

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A-Lister of the Year

abc

Grand Prix

Arm 30 House Party

Client: Arm

Agency: Live Union

This is the story of a business bringing its 7,000 global employees together for the first time. It’s the story of pioneering a virtual solution to celebrate a milestone with an incredible party. Arm started life in 1990 in a barn outside Cambridge. Today Arm is the UK’s most successful technology company with offices around the world...

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