22 | Tees Business
TECH
VISION
Backing – Punch Robson Solicitors
managing partner Elaine McLaine-
Wood and Tees Business co-editor
Martin Walker.
Awards will shine a light on the Tees Valley’s thriving tech and digital sector
T
he region’s thriving digital sector
will be celebrated when the Tees
Tech Awards are held in April
2020, in association with DigitalCity and
Middlesbrough Digital.
Organised by Tees Business, the
inaugural Tees Tech Awards will take place
in Wynyard Hall’s Grand Marquee on the
evening of Thursday April 23 next year.
The awards will recognise and celebrate
the organisations and individuals thriving
within the Tees Valley’s fast-growing digital
sector together with the local companies
driving their business through digital
transformation.
Among the awards presented to
organisations and individuals will be the
inaugural Tees Tech Company of the Year
and Tees Tech Business Leader of the
Year, while other categories will recognise
local tech leaders in export, innovation and
partnership.
As well as headline sponsors DigitalCity
and Middlesbrough Digital, the Tees Tech
Awards are being sponsored by Punch
Robson Solicitors, Tracerco, Communicate,
Jacksons Law Firm, Baldwins Group,
Middlesbrough College and Recognition PR
as category sponsors.
Law firm Punch Robson was one of the
first companies to get behind the awards
after the Stockton-based firm agreed to
sponsor the Tees Tech Business Leader of
the Year category.
Managing partner Elaine McLaine-Wood
said: “We’re proud and very pleased to be
sponsoring the Tees Tech Business Leader
of the Year Award.
“Having clients in the tech and digital
sectors, and having helped to form spin-off
companies from DigitalCity some years
ago, it is lovely to see the evolving cutting
edge dynamic of those businesses not only
evolve but shine globally.
“We welcome the opportunity to
judge this category to celebrate the
leading individuals at the forefront of their
businesses.”
Tees Business co-editor Martin Walker
said: “The response we’ve had to the very
first Tees Tech Awards has been fantastic
so far.
“We’re grateful to Elaine and her team
at Punch Robson Solicitors, as well as all
the other sponsors, for helping to make
this happen – particularly as we approach a
potentially exciting new dawn for the sector
across the Tees Valley.”
Only three category sponsorships are
now available, including the Tees Tech
Ambassador individual award, the Exporter
award and Tees Tech for Good (for use of
digital for charity, community or change).
Sponsorship packages, which include
a table of table of 10 (worth £750), a
champagne reception, an opportunity to
judge category entries and present category
award including short speech plus pre and
post-event publicity (print and online), are
priced £3,000 + VAT.
Go to teesbusiness.co.uk for more
details or email [email protected].
THE AWARDS
COMPANY AWARDS
Company of the Year (sponsored by
DigitalCity & Middlesbrough Digital)
Small Business (sponsored by Jacksons
Law Firm)
Innovation (sponsored by Tracerco)
Tees Tech Partnership (sponsored by
Communicate)
Digital Transformation Award
(sponsored by Baldwins Group)
Newcomer of the Year (sponsored by
Recognition PR)
Exporter of the Year
Tees Tech for Good
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Business Leader of the Year (sponsored
by Punch Robson Solicitors)
Tees Tech Rising Star (sponsored by
Middlesbrough College)
Tees Tech Ambassador
Enter now at teesbusiness.co.uk
(entry deadline March 9 2020).