Innovator 09 Awards - Flying the Flag for Digital

Geoff Gifford and I attended the Innovator ‘09 awards at Leeds Town Hall on Thursday 5th March 2009. We were pretty excited/nervous/pleased to be shortlisted in the Innovation Catalyst award for our coworking space here at Old Broadcasting House. Surprisingly the digital sector wasn’t well represented as from what we can gather it was just NTI Leeds that made the shortlist in any of the categories. This doesn’t represent the true picture of what’s happening in our region in the digital area. Maybe people are not applying as they are just too busy innovating and working on getting business to fill out the application.

As it turned our we didn’t win, and had to look suitably pleased for the winners when they went up. Having watched lots of award ceremonies on TV I can now say from experience that its really quite hard to do that convincingly. I was able to let people know on Twitter and thanks to those who sent replies.  It was good to catch up with Sally Johnson from Screen Yorkshire, Denise Downs of Huddersfield University, Bill Boffin from Yorkshire Forward and David Patterson from Learning Light on the ‘digital’ table.

What’s your view on these types of award ceremonies? Is it something you aspire to? Which ones do you rate? Would be pleased to hear your views.

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