Scottish Events Awards judging panel begins to form
The judging panel for this year’s Scottish Event Awards is starting to come together with four judges already in place.
This year, David Sharpe, managing director of the London Eye and the recently appointed chairman of ‘Events 2012 and Beyond will be on the panel.
Sharpe will head up the development group working with the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games in London. He will work alongside VisitLondon and VisitBritain in promoting business opportunities to the Events industry in the lead up to, and during, the 2012 Olympic Games as well as other sporting events taking place.
Joining Sharpe on the panel will be Stuart Galbraith, CEO of Kilimanjaro Live.
Galbraith was also one of the organisers for the Live8 Concert, which played to 250,000 people in London’s Hyde Park in 2005, and the Live Earth Concert at Wembley Stadium in 2007.
Claire Lawson, commercial director of the Herefordshire luxury resort The Grove and Kate Harvey, associate producer of creative company Artichoke UK are also set to judge the awards which will honour the finest events the awards for the event industry that reward all areas of events as well as work by event organisers, event promoters, suppliers to the industry including; Venues, caterers, audio visual companies and entertainment as in-house event teams from Scotland over the last year.
The awards are open for entries now at www.scottisheventawards.net, with the deadline being 5th June 2009.
The event will take place at The Hilton Glasgow on 11 September for more information on entering or to book your space at the awards, please contact Kim Baran on 0141 559 6078 or email kim.baran@carnyx.com