Conference News August 2020 | Page 15

WALKING ON AIRThis OnAIR by EventsAIR has been named the winner of a Gold Stevie Award for the Innovation in Technology Development in Computer Industries category in the seventh annual Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. The Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards celebrate innovation in the workplace in all 29 nations of the Asia-Pacific region. The winners will be celebrated during a virtual awards ceremony on 22 September 2020. More than 1,000 nominations from organisations across the Asia-Pacific region were considered this year in categories such as Award for Excellence in EventsAir has picked up a Stevie Award year’s winning nominations are testament to the resiliency and innovation of organisations in the region, many of which continue to succeed despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Illustration by Icons 8 from Icons8 Innovation in Products & Services, Award for Innovative Management and Award for Innovation in Corporate Websites. OnAIR aims to deliver an online framework that empowers professional event organisers to curate complex content and deliver virtual and hybrid events with ease. OnAIR hopes to achieve this is by utilising the EventsAIR 6th Gen event management platform and the data set that it contains, including attendee, exhibitor, sponsor, and speaker data. This data exists as an online timeline, presenting a virtual attendee user interface that can be utilised for virtual or hybrid events. The OnAIR solution covers 15 the Technology short-term need for virtual events due to Covid-19 and aims to support the transition to hybrid events and enhance live events once the industry returns to normal. Trevor Gardiner, CEO and chief software architect, OnAIR, said: “We are very honoured to win this prestigious award and congratulate all the nominees. I would like to dedicate this award to our dedicated and hardworking team who worked around the clock to deliver an amazing virtual/hybrid event management solution that will assist event organisers get back to the road of recovery. I also would like to thank our amazing customers for their support and for helping OnAIR become the great product it is today.” Maggie Gallagher, Stevie Awards president, added: “We are delighted that the seventh edition of the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards attracted so many impressive nominations. This year’s winning nominations are testament to the resiliency and innovation of organisations in the region, many of which continue to succeed despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although we are disappointed that we cannot stage the in-person awards banquet we had planned for Hanoi, Vietnam this year, we look forward to celebrating many of this year’s winners during our virtual awards ceremony on 22 September.” www.conference-news.co.uk