EVENT TYPE
Product Launch of the Year
Bentayga Speed Global Media Drive
Goose Live Events
Client: Bentley Motors
Montana, USA
In June 2025, Bentley Motors launched the Bentayga Speed - its most powerful luxury SUV - with a Global Media Drive designed to go beyond traditional product showcase and deliver global influence at scale.Set against the vast landscapes of Montana, the programme drew inspiration from the cultural icon Yellowstone, blending rugged Ameri...
The Convene Christmas Market
Convene Hospitality Group
Client: Meet Events
Convene Sancroft, St Pauls
A luxury beauty event required an high-glamour, design-led venue as impeccable as the brand it represents. The hurdle was finding a location within a strict 15-minute radius of the client’s office that offered an elevated aesthetic that was "party-ready.”Meet Events needed a hospitality partner that already possessed a sophisticated in...
Brand Activation Excellence
Arup at 80: Turning an Anniversary Reception into an Immersive Brand Experience
Emota
Client: Arup
Lightroom, Coal Drops Yard, King's Cross, London
Most companies celebrate milestone anniversaries by looking back. Arup chose to look forward.To mark its 80th anniversary, the world-renowned engineering consultancy wanted more than a celebration. It wanted to reinforce its position as a modern, forward-thinking partner and trusted convener of influential voices. The challenge was to ...
ISE 2026: Push Beyond
studio RUCKUS®
Client: Integrated Systems Events
Barcelona, Spain
*Context*Following a record-breaking 2025, ISE – the world-renowned annual tech show – faced a volatile global landscape and ongoing category decline. Competitors experienced negative growth circa 5%. Some even had to close doors. To remain resilient, ISE committed to ‘Push Beyond’ – an organising idea that served as a mantra to unite ...
Santander BPG25 Fan Zone Experience x DRPG
DRPG
Client: Santander
Silverstone
The Santander BGP25 Fan Zone at Silverstone transformed Santander’s presence at the British Grand Prix into a dynamic, fan-first experience. Rather than relying on brand visibility alone, the activation was designed to create genuine value for racegoers, inviting them to explore, interact and connect with both the sport and the Santand...
Internal or Team-Building Event of the Year
2025 Deloitte UK Partner Meeting
Brands at Work
Client: Deloitte
Magazine, London
The 2025 Deloitte UK Partner Meeting was a one-day, client-centred experience designed to strengthen connection, alignment and shared purpose across Deloitte’s UK partnership. Delivered by Brands at Work, the event not only redefined how insight informs internal experiences, but also achieved Deloitte’s first-ever Zero Waste certified ...
COLT Connect 2026
Goose Live Events
Client: COLT
PortAventura, Barcelona, Spain
Reset. Refocus. Rise. – Reconnecting a Global Workforce Through One Integrated Event ExperienceIn March 2026, Colt Technology Services brought together 950 employees in Tarragona, Spain, while simultaneously connecting a further 5,000 colleagues worldwide through a live global broadcast. At a pivotal moment for the business, following ...
Iceland Foods' Store Managers' Conference
Cascade Productions
Client: Iceland Foods
Portaventura, Spain
Iceland Foods’ 2025 Store Managers’ Conference in Spain was designed to reward post-Covid success and launch a new business strategy. Our challenge was to balance celebration with productivity, ensuring the three-night event was engaging but not ‘just a jolly’.Over a year of planning we produced a structured agenda centred on teamwork,...
RGM Fest
Premier Events
Client: KFC UK&I
Liverpool
RGM Fest is the flagship annual event for KFC UK & Ireland’s Restaurant General Managers (RGMs), the operational leaders responsible for performance across 1,000+ restaurants. Since 2016, Premier Events has partnered with KFC to develop RGM Fest from a traditional conference into a large-scale mobilisation event, designed to align and ...
Roche Conference 2026: Turning Ambition into Ownership
Emota
Client: Roche
Manchester Central, Manchester, UK
Roche UK’s 2026 Conference was a transformative internal event that united the entire workforce around a shared purpose, strengthened connections and inspired employees to take ownership of the company’s future.Roche UK had set an ambitious goal to double the number of patients benefiting from a Roche medicine by 2030. However, insight...
Veolia Spark 2025
Live Union
Client: Veolia
Magazine London
Spark 2025 was built for a business in motion. Veolia needed to bring its people together around change: to land important strategic messages, create pride in the business and help an invited internal audience feel part of what comes next. The risk was predictability. A day of heavy content could easily have felt like another leadershi...
Experiential Event of the Year
2025 White Cap Chairman's Club
Destination Consultants
Client: White Cap
Mackinac Island, Michigan, USA
Because the Most Beautiful Destinations Are the Hardest to Get ToTransforming Mackinac Island into a Seamless, Large-Scale Incentive ExperienceSet on the remote, car-free Mackinac Island—where motor vehicles have been prohibited since the late 19th century—this incentive program redefined what is possible for group travel in a destinat...
POLITICO Pub
fresh
Client: POLITICO
Liverpool & Manchester
Party Conference season is one of the most competitive hospitality environments in British politics. Every media organisation, think tank and lobbying firm is chasing the same senior ministers, shadow cabinet members and advisers. Most do it with a drinks reception and a branded backdrop. POLITICO did it with a pub: a setting that felt...
The Traitors: Live Experience
Immersive Everywhere
Client: Immersive Everywhere
London
The Traitors: Live Experience transforms the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning television phenomenon The Traitors into a fully playable two-hour immersive game. Developed by Immersive Everywhere, Cuffe & Taylor, and Global Creative in partnership with All3Media International and IDTV, the experience recreates the tension, ritual, and suspic...
UEFA Champions League Final 2026
Iventions
Client: UEFA
Budapest, Hungary
The Bridge of Champions: How Iventions transformed Budapest into football's most ambitious fan experienceFor the 2026 UEFA Champions League Final at Puskás Aréna, Iventions delivered nine premium spaces, more than 80 Skyboxes and Skyclubs, and a guest experience built around a single powerful idea. "The Bridge of Champions" drew its me...
Celebratory Event of the Year
Arup at 80: Turning a Milestone Anniversary into an Immersive Celebration
Emota
Client: Arup
Lightroom, Coal Drops Yard, King's Cross, London
Most companies celebrate milestone anniversaries by looking back. Arup chose to look forward.As one of the world's most respected engineering consultancies, Arup has an extraordinary legacy to honour. Yet rather than creating a conventional anniversary reception filled with retrospectives and self-congratulation, the organisation wante...
Bestway Group’s 50th Anniversary Ball
Cascade Productions
Client: Bestway Group
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
Bestway Group, founded in 1975 by Sir Anwar Pervez, celebrated its 50th anniversary and his 90th birthday with a landmark event at London’s Royal Albert Hall.Our aim was to honour the company’s history, culture, and founder through an exceptional, high-profile experience for over 800 distinguished guests, including senior political fig...
Rally 2025
Build the Bandwagon
Client: Domino's Pizza UK & Ireland
Liverpool, UK
Rally 2025 was the largest internal event in Domino’s Pizza UK & Ireland’s (DP) history. A three-day, 2000-person takeover of Liverpool designed to celebrate the people who built the business to reach its first 40 years, while energising attendees to achieve even more success in the next 40!The brief was to bring the DP Franchisees and...
The Triumph of Art - A free party in Trafalgar Square, London
The National Gallery
Client: The National Gallery
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
The Triumph of Art' by artist Jeremy Deller was a nationwide performance that took the National Gallery towards and finally rounded off the end it’s Bicentenary celebrations. It marked how festivals are part and parcel of art, culture and civic life, and that art and artists can be catalysts of collaboration and joy. In the run up to t...
Values in Action Awards
Aviva
Tate Modern
The Values in Action Awards was designed as Aviva’s flagship celebration of the colleagues who exemplify our core values of Care, Confidence, Community and Commitment. Created to recognise individuals and teams who consistently go above and beyond for our customers and each other, the event set out to deliver an experience equal to the...
Best Exhibition or Trade Show
ISE 2026: Push Beyond
studio RUCKUS®
Client: Integrated Systems Events
Barcelona, Spain
*Context*Following a record-breaking 2025, ISE – the world-renowned annual tech show – faced a volatile global landscape and ongoing category decline. Competitors experienced negative growth circa 5%. Some even had to close doors. To remain resilient, ISE committed to ‘Push Beyond’ – an organising idea that served as a mantra to unite ...
nCino nSight 2025 x Nteractive
Nteractive
Client: nCino
North Carolina Convention Center
Marking the 13th anniversary of nCino’s flagship community event, nSight 2025 took place at the Charlotte Convention Center, welcoming 1,700 global leaders from 14 countries. Designed to educate, connect and drive revenue, the event has evolved into a scalable, industry leading platform delivered through Nteractive’s full service appro...
Q Live 2026 by Quilter and Chew
Chew
Client: Quilter
InterContinental London - The O2
When Quilter issued the RFP for Q Live 2026, the brief was to ‘reinvent’ their flagship conference following a major reduction in budget since their 2024 event (from £1.7m to £805k). Q Live was an established, highly rated conference which hosted 3 content stages, 2 dinners, 40 exhibitors and 700+ delegates and we needed to maintain th...
Conference of the Year (1000 or less)
BMFMS Annual Conference 2026
Outsourced Events
Client: British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society
Royal Armouries Museum & New Dock Hall, Leeds
Outsourced Events (OE) - a specialist B2B event management agency founded in 2001, delivering 240+ events annually for global technology brands and professional associations. With a 47-strong team and average client tenure of five years, OE is one of the UK’s most trusted event partners: 271% revenue growth since FY19, 100% client rete...
Interconnected - Annual Leadership Conference
Build the Bandwagon
Client: Highbourne Group
Liverpool, UK
Highbourne Group (HG) came to build the bandwagon (BTB) having outgrown their traditional conference format and wanting something more engaging, elevated and ultimately, different.BTB facilitated an initial workshop for a selection of employees and levels of seniority from across HG. A clear set of objectives and design principles took...
Roche Conference 2026: Turning Ambition into Action
Emota
Client: Roche
Manchester Central, Manchester, UK
Roche UK’s 2026 Conference transformed a complex strategic ambition into an immersive, highly engaging conference experience that informed, inspired and activated 380 employees from across the organisation.Designed to communicate Roche UK’s ambition to double the number of patients benefiting from a Roche medicine by 2030, the event ne...
Visa Payment Forum CEMEA 2025
Imagination
Client: Visa
Hotel Arts Barcelona, Spain
Visa Payments Forum CEMEA 2025 set a new benchmark for what a B2B conference in financial services can achieve by blending strategic insight, creative innovation and measurable impact to deliver an experience that resonated long after attendees left.Hosted at Hotel Arts Barcelona across two and a half days in June 2025, the forum broug...
Conference of the Year (1000 to 1500)
2025 Deloitte UK Partner Meeting
Brands at Work
Client: Deloitte
Magazine, London
The 2025 Deloitte UK Partner Meeting was a one-day, client-centred experience that demonstrated how relationships – and the client voice behind them – are evolving in a disrupted global and local market. Delivered by Brands at Work, the event not only reshaped how insight informs live experiences, but also achieved Deloitte’s first-eve...
BI WORLDWIDE x Elsevier Global Sales Conferences
BI WORLDWIDE
Client: Elsevier
Copenhagen & London
In February 2026, BI WORLDWIDE delivered a flagship global conference programme for Elsevier, bringing together two major international sales communities across back-to-back events in Copenhagen and London. Designed as a single strategic initiative, the conferences supported a major rebrand, the rollout of a new AI-focused commercial s...
BSGE Annual Scientific Meeting 2026
Outsourced Events
Client: British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster, London
Outsourced Events (OE) - a specialist B2B event management agency founded in 2001, delivering 240+ events annually for global technology brands and professional associations. With a 47-strong team and average client tenure of five years, OE is one of the UK’s most trusted event partners: 271% revenue growth since FY19, 100% client rete...
Iceland Foods' Store Managers' Conference
Cascade Productions
Client: Iceland Foods
Portaventura, Spain
Iceland Foods’ 2025 Store Managers’ Conference in Spain was designed to reward post-Covid success and launch a new business strategy. Our challenge was to balance celebration with productivity, ensuring the three-night event was engaging but not ‘just a jolly’.Over a year of planning we produced a structured agenda centred on teamwork,...
Conference of the Year (1500+)
BSG LIVE'25
TFI Lodestar
Client: British Society of Gastroenterology
SEC Glasgow
The British Society of Gastroenterology’s annual congress BSG LIVE is a key moment in the healthcare event calendar – attracting professionals, clinicians, practitioners and students in ever-growing numbers year-on-year.Featuring plenaries, breakouts, micro-presentations, hands-on training, social events, and a major exhibition space, ...
Elevate 25
Lemon Lane
Client: monday.com
London
Lemon Lane partnered with monday.com in 2025 for the fourth consecutive year to deliver the global SaaS organisation’s flagship Elevate event in London, bringing together customers, partners and leaders for three days of insight, inspiration and hands-on learning.In 2025, the brief expanded. Elevate25 needed to scale to 1,500+ attendee...
Ericsson at MWC
Brandfuel
Client: Ericsson
MWC Barcelona
At MWC26, Ericsson faced a critical challenge: helping an industry under pressure from rising demand, ageing infrastructure, technological disruption and cultural resistance understand how to navigate the transition to AI-powered, intent-driven networks.Brandfuel was tasked with making that future tangible. The objective was not simply...
Interactions 2025
MCI UK
Client: Nice
Allianz Stadium Twickenham
Interactions 2025 set out to redefine what a modern technology conference should be, moving beyond passive content to create an experience built on connection, immersion and measurable impact. As NICE’s flagship customer experience event, it brought together clients, partners and industry leaders to explore the future of CX, AI and dig...
Incentive Event of the Year
360insights & Trulite Incentive Travel
360insights
Client: Trulite Aluminum and Glass
Costa Mujeres, Mexico
360insights partnered with Trulite Aluminum and Glass to deliver the TruRewards Platinum Travel Program — an incentive experience in Costa Mujeres, Mexico designed to increase annual sales, deepen client loyalty, and strengthen relationships with Trulite's top-performing client partners. Eligibility was performance-driven. Partners qua...
6 Days That Changed Everything
The Experience Studio
Client: TD Synnex
South Korea
6 Days That Changed Everything: In a technology sector where products are commoditised and pricing is identical, one company discovered that the most powerful differentiator isn't innovation—it's connection. TD Synnex brought 150 competitors together for six days in South Korea. They arrived as rivals. Yet they left as advocates for ea...
Finland Midnight Sun Expedition 2025
white leaf events
Client: Veterinary pharmaceutical group – UK HQ (under NDA)
Kuhmo, Finland
We were tasked by a long-standing client to create a European incentive programme for 40 guests that would deliver exceptional reward and recognition while leaving a meaningful legacy. The destination needed to be unique, sustainable and unlike anywhere the guests had experienced before.Following extensive research, we selected Kuhmo, ...
Formula Win
CI Group
Client: HP
Imola, Italy
HP faced a critical commercial moment: the end of Windows 10, the introduction of Windows 11 and AI PCs, and the need to stand out in an increasingly crowded vendor ecosystem. HP tasked CI Group with an incentive campaign that would energise its entire UK&I partner network, drive incremental Windows 11 sales, and make HP's global sport...
The Edge of the World
The Experience Studio, by Amex GBT Meetings & Events
Svalbard, Tromsø, and Oslo
The Edge of the World: The Experience Studio orchestrated an unprecedented Arctic incentive journey for a French multi-energy client, delivering 400 VIP customers across five waves to three extraordinary destinations. This wasn't a conventional retreat—it was a transformational pilgrimage to the edge of the world.The Challenge and Solu...
Trade Elite
XSEM
Client: PPG
Victoria Falls, Zambia
Trade Elite is PPG’s flagship global incentive programme, designed to reward and retain its highest-value trade customers. In 2025, XSEM delivered a Victoria Falls experience that had to motivate a highly selective audience while evolving the programme with a more meaningful sense of purpose. With 88 customers on the programme overall ...
INNOVATION & CREATIVITY
Best New Event (past 2 years)
Adobe Creator Live 2026
Taylor Bennett Partners
Client: Adobe
Olympia London
When Adobe partnered with us to design and produce their first ever Creators Live event in London, we needed to completely rethink the model Adobe had previously used to communicate with creators. This was a brand new event to a new audience. A shift from product being the driver, to the audience experience at the heart of every decisi...
Amazon House
Live Union
Client: Amazon Fashion & Sports
Barcelona/ Mas Cabanyes
Amazon asked Live Union to help reimagine how Amazon Fashion built senior relationships with premium fashion and lifestyle brands. The result was Amazon House: a retreat-inspired brand partner experience designed to shift perceptions, deepen understanding and create better conditions for commercial conversations.Launched in Madrid in 2...
Google Impact Summit EMEA 2025
Audience
Client: Google.org
London
The Google.org Impact Summit: EMEA 2025 was a new kind of event for the social impact sector. Commissioned by Google.org and delivered by Audience in central London, March 2025, it brought together over 200 senior leaders from the nonprofit, philanthropic and public sector to address a common industry challenge: turning discussion abou...
Inaugural TOURISE Global Summit
Imagination
Client: Saudi Arabia Ministry of Tourism / Saudi Tourism Authority
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
TOURISE is Saudi Arabia's new flagship global tourism platform, conceived as a multi-year, multi-city movement designed to redefine how the world comes together to shape the future of tourism. Its inaugural edition, delivered by Imagination in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism and the Saudi Tourism Authority, was staged across R...
Leaders Powering One Aviva
Aviva Plc
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Leaders Powering One Aviva marked a clear shift in how Aviva brings its most senior leaders together. It was deliberately not a traditional conference. Instead, it was designed as a focused leadership experience to align and mobilise 300 Directors from the UK, Ireland and Canada at a time of growth, complexity and external uncertainty....
Excellence in Event Transformation
Deloitte Experience Transformation
Live Union
Client: Deloitte
London
Live Union and Deloitte collaborated to transform a flagship customer event that had run for eight years, reimagining it to meet changing market conditions and evolving audience needs.Previously known as Experience Analytics, the event was repositioned as Experience Transformation in response to the rapid growth of generative AI, cyber...
EDGE26
Made Human
Client: Nextesh Systems
Orlando
Nextech Edge is the flagship annual customer conference for Nextech, bringing together healthcare professionals, partners and industry leaders to explore the future of patient experience through technology.For the 2026 edition, Made Human was appointed to reimagine the event and evolve it into a more engaging, human-centred experience....
ISE 2026: Push Beyond
studio RUCKUS®
Client: Integrated Systems Events
Barcelona, Spain
Following a record-breaking 2025, ISE – the world-renowned annual tech show – faced a volatile global landscape and ongoing category decline. Competitors experienced negative growth circa 5%. Some even had to close doors. To remain resilient, ISE committed to ‘Push Beyond’ – an organising idea that served as a mantra to unite an intern...
Best Sustainable Initiative
2025 Deloitte UK Partner Meeting
Brands at Work
Client: Deloitte
Magazine, London
The 2025 Deloitte UK Partner Meeting set a new benchmark for sustainable conferences by embedding ESG as a core organising principle across strategy, experience and delivery. Delivered by Brands at Work in close partnership with Deloitte’s WorldClimate team, the event demonstrated how sustainability can actually enhance ambition, scale...
AstraZeneca at ERS 2025
Emota
Client: AstraZeneca
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
As a global respiratory leader, AstraZeneca approached the European Respiratory Society Congress with an ambitious challenge: create an exhibition presence that demonstrated not only scientific leadership, but sustainability in action.The ambition was clear: create a flagship congress presence that embodied AstraZeneca’s sustainability...
Ireland Overland
Evolve Events
Client: Dublin Convention Bureau, Kerry Convention Bureau, Meet in Ireland and Evolve Events
London – Holyhead – Dublin - Kerry
“Luxury isn’t about getting there faster anymore; it’s about having the time to notice the journey.”Ireland Overland was created to challenge one of the meetings industry’s most deeply embedded assumptions: that sustainable travel is a compromise rather than an enhancement to delegate experience.Developed in partnership with Dublin Con...
SUPPLIERS
Best Event Support Services Provider
iMAG
iMAG Displays
At iMAG, we believe exceptional event support goes far beyond providing equipment. It is about partnership, creativity, and technical precision working together to deliver unforgettable experiences.As an award-winning boutique video company, iMAG has built a reputation for seamlessly embedding within our clients’ teams. Rather than act...
Samsung Integrated Roadshow & Engagement Programme
On Event Production Co.
Client: Blue Square
Over the past 12 months, we have partnered with Blue Square, Samsung’s brand engagement agency, as their production and scenic build partner to deliver a nationwide programme of roadshows supporting multiple product launches across sales advisors, B2B and student audiences.The objective was to improve product knowledge, confidence and ...
The Intersection of Brand, Culture and Experience
Eight PR
Client: Aviva Studios
Manchester
Since opening in October 2023, Aviva Studios, home of Factory International in Manchester, has rapidly established itself as a landmark destination where brand, culture, community and experience intersect to create unforgettable events. Located in Manchester’s creative district, St John’s, on the historic Granada Studios site – the bi...
Sales and Marketing Team of the Year
TO BE ANNOUNCED ON THE NIGHT
Best Hotel - UK
Celtic Manor Resort
Set within 2,000 acres of parkland in South Wales, Celtic Manor Resort has continued to strengthen its position as one of the UK’s leading destinations for meetings, incentives, conferences and events through a combination of scale, service, innovation and long-term investment.The Resort offers an integrated event experience that combi...
InterContinental, London - The O2
At InterContinental London – The O2, we stage experiences at scale. We understand that behind every event lies ambition. It may be to lead an industry, launch a vision, unite a global community or celebrate success. Our role is to elevate that ambition through precision, sophistication and genuine hospitality.Few properties in the Unit...
Lainston House
Lainston House, part of Exclusive Collection, is a historic estate in Hampshire, where much of our heritage remains intact including a mile-long lime avenue planted in 1716 and a 600-year-old Holm Oak.Set within 63 acres, Lainston House has evolved into a highly sought-after destination for discreet business conferences and exclusive-u...
Best Hotel - International
City of Dreams, Mediterranean
City of Dreams Mediterranean has rapidly redefined the standard for MICE hospitality in Europe, transforming Cyprus into a credible, year-round destination for business events. Since opening in July 2023, the 5-star integrated resort in Limassol has combined scale, innovation and experiential luxury to deliver high-impact events. In 20...
PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore
PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore is the city's first Garden-in-a-Hotel, and a meetings destination where sustainability and luxury meet in equal measure. Located in the heart of Marina Bay, steps from Singapore's major convention centres, financial district and world-class attractions, the 583-room hotel offers over 20,000 sq...
Best Convention Centre
ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi
ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi is the largest venue in the region that combines world-class scale, operational certainty and future-focused innovation to deliver major international events with consistency and impact. For more than 19 years, it has helped shape the UAE events industry, evolving into one of the region’s most capable venues with...
AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong Kong
AsiaWorld-Expo (AWE) is redefining the role of a convention centre by evolving beyond venue provision to become a strategic event platform that helps organisers create impactful experiences, unlock new markets and strengthen destination appeal.As Asia’s leading venue, AWE offers over 70,000 sqm of rentable event space and a proven trac...
Harrogate Convention Centre
Harrogate Convention Centre (HCC) offers a distinctive proposition within the UK events landscape, combining large-scale, flexible facilities with a unique wellness destination and a highly collaborative delivery model. Positioned in the heart of a safe, walkable Victorian spa town, HCC provides a compelling alternative to traditional ...
ICC Wales
Set within 230 acres of woodland in Newport, South Wales, ICC Wales has become one of the UK’s leading convention centres by combining world-class facilities with a genuinely people-focused approach to events.Purpose-built for conferences, exhibitions, association congresses and large-scale business events, ICC Wales offers 15 flexible...
Liverpool Experience Campus
Liverpool Experience Campus (formerly ACC Liverpool) is one of the UK’s leading convention destinations, trusted to deliver complex, high‑profile and high‑impact events at national and international level. Located on Liverpool’s iconic waterfront, the campus brings together a purpose-built convention centre, exhibition space and arena ...
Royal Armouries
The Royal Armouries should win this award with its commitment to keep ahead of the game by increasing business on the books secured year on year. This has been done through a combination of continuous investment in upgrading the facilities and modernising the spaces but also the way the organisation has worked in collaboration and part...
The Convention Centre Dublin
The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) was developed to provide a world-class conference venue in the heart of Dublin. Since opening, The CCD has hosted over 2,500 events, welcomed over 1.5m national and international conference delegates and many visitors. An iconic, light-filled, accessible venue, The CCD is located just 15 minutes f...
Best UK MICE Destination
TO BE ANNOUNCED ON THE NIGHT
BEST OF THE BEST
Corporate or In-house Event Team of the Year
ICC Belfast
ICC Belfast is Northern Ireland’s only purpose-built international convention centre and plays a leading role in attracting international visitors to the region for business events. At the core of the organisation’s success is the Event Delivery Team. This multidisciplinary team of 40 plays a pivotal role in fulfilling the company’s vi...
Input Output Group
In under 12 months, the Travel & Events team at Input Output Group (IOG) has evolved into a high-performing, globally recognised in-house team delivering complex, large-scale B2B events with measurable commercial and community impact.Built at pace and without legacy processes, the team quickly established a fluid, collaborative operati...
UK Agency of the Year
Cascade Productions
We are Cascade, a boutique engagement agency specialising in events, content and film, creating impactful experiences for brands, organisations and charities.Over 30 years in business, we’ve been committed to creating outstanding experiences for everyone. Our 15-strong team delivers work across the UK and internationally, with clients ...
Emota
Emota is helping shape the future of experience design.At the heart of our approach is a simple belief: powerful experiences create purposeful connections. By combining creativity, innovation and strategic thinking, we create experiences that change how people think, feel and act, delivering measurable outcomes for clients and meaningf...
First Event
In 2025, First Event made a deliberate shift: from a fast-growing agency to a high-performance business delivering excellence at scale.After five years of rapid growth, expanding from 27 to over 60 people and transitioning to an employee-owned business, we made a deliberate decision not just to continue growing but to lead. We needed ...
Imagination
Against an industry backdrop of tightening budgets, intensified competition and the over-saturation of algorithmic sameness, Imagination made a deliberate choice. We went back to our core - the gift in our name - and rallied the business around one clear belief: originality wins.This wasn’t a creative slogan. It was a business strategy...
Outsourced Events
Outsourced Events (OE) - a specialist B2B event management agency founded in 2001, delivering 240+ events annually for global technology brands and professional associations. With a 47-strong team and average client tenure of five years, OE is one of the UK’s most trusted event partners: 271% revenue growth since FY19, 100% client rete...
Primary
Primary is a proudly independent live events agency proving that impact is not defined by size. Based in the Midlands and operating with a core team of just 12, we deliver large-scale experiences for some of the world’s most recognised brands while maintaining the agility, accountability, and personal service that sets us apart. The pa...
Global Agency of the Year
BCD Meetings & Events
In 2025, BCD Meetings & Events proved what a global agency can achieve when 2,200 employees are empowered to operate Without Limits — the third and final year of our three-year Thinking Forward strategy focused on expanding opportunities, embracing innovation and excelling in delivery. Our strategy delivered exceptional commercial perf...
Brandfuel
Brandfuel's last 16 months have been defined by resilience, transformation and growth. Following the tragic loss of our Founder, we united behind a shared vision to build the future he and CEO Sue Sawyer believed in. What could have been a defining setback became a catalyst for our strongest period of growth and innovation.Since Februa...
DRPG
DRPG is a global creative communications agency with 350 employees across the UK, Germany and the US, delivering integrated events, film, digital and strategic communications for major international brands. Over the past year, the agency has delivered more than 700 events across 15 countries for over 80,000 attendees, while expanding i...
FIRST
FIRST operates a fundamentally different model. One built on integration, not transaction.With 80% of its workforce embedded within client organizations, FIRST works as an extension of its clients’ teams, delivering consistent, high-impact brand experiences across five global hubs and more than 110 countries. This model enables deeper ...
Nteractive
Nteractive has always been an agency driven by intent as much as impact. Now in our 16th year, we have grown into a global experience partner, delivering 175 events across more than 32 countries in the past year alone. With a team nearing 200, we continue to see strong year on year growth including 24 percent in 2025, while keeping peo...
The Experience Studio
The Experience Studio, by Amex GBT Meetings & Events
The Experience Studio: Creativity Without BordersThe Experience Studio operates as an integrated global creative engine: 500+ M&E professionals across 16 countries functioning as one unified team. Over the past year, we've executed 9,000+ events for 3.1M+ attendees and achieved a client satisfaction score that averages 97%. Global O...
Boutique Agency of the Year (<10 people)
Hippo Events
Hippo Events is a boutique Event Management and Venue Finding agency founded in 2017, built on a simple but unwavering principle: putting clients first. Over the past year, the business has undergone significant growth, expanding from a team of two to five employees while maintaining exceptional service levels, long-term client relatio...
Strive Events Agency
Strive
Sat together in a garden shed in April 2021, former colleagues Lily and Phoebe decided to build something the events industry was missing. Businesses were desperately missing the energy, connection and momentum that only comes from bringing people together in person. Nobody was specialising in exactly that. So they built Strive: a bout...
THE LUMINARY AWARD
Denise Sharpe
Outsourced Events
Denise Sharpe co-founded Outsourced Events (OE) in 2001, following a corporate career that reached board level by 26. What drove her to start the business was not ambition alone, but conviction - that organisations succeed when they genuinely value people. Twenty-five years on, OE is the proof.Under Denise's leadership, OE has grown fr...
Shonali Devereaux
The Meetings Industry Association
Shonali Devereaux has spent 30 years building an incredibly dynamic career in the events industry. Every chapter of her unconventional journey has added a new discipline, passion and perspective to her mission to inspire both people and performance. She started her career as she meant to go on in Hong Kong in the early 1990s, pitching ...
