The prestigious accolade for London Venues
Friday 2nd October, London
The 2020 London Venue Awards will shortly open for entries.
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The London Venue Awards recognise, celebrate and encourage achievement in conference & events. We salute and acknowledge attainment within an industry that is continuously evolving and re-drawing the boundaries of best practice.
Why the London Venue Awards?
Celebrate with your team
Being an award-winner is a powerful motivator to inspire you and your colleagues to keep up the great work!
Enhance your reputation
Appending an independently judged third-party badge of excellence is a sure-fire shortcut to emphasising your merit to colleagues, clients, bosses & stakeholders.
Generate positive headlines
Spread the good news - everyone loves a success story and winning an award is a great publicity hook for social and traditional media efforts
Aspire to Better Practice
Winner or not - seeing what others do for their products is an irreplacable source of tried & tested award-worthy ideas!
Our Judges 2020
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Robin Parker
General Manager, Church House Westminster
Robin Parker
General Manager, Church House Westminster -
Will Poole
Sales Manager, The Mermaid London
Will Poole
Sales Manager, The Mermaid London -
Jonathan Read
Founder / Commercial Director, Tobacco Dock
Jonathan Read
Founder / Commercial Director, Tobacco DockJonathan relaunched Tobacco Dock in 2012 as an events destination and over the past 7 years it is grown to become the most dynamic, iconic events venue in the Capital.
Tobacco Dock hosts in excess of 250 events per year and is the destination of choice for many of the world’s leading brands, organisations and their agencies including Apple, Accenture, Samsung, Google, Deloitte, EY, Barclays, JP Morgan, Cisco and the BBC. Skylight London, the rooftop bar and competitive socialising concept was launched in 2017 – an urban lawn club in the summer and Europe’s only rooftop ice rink in the winter.Prior to this Jonathan spent over 20 years in live events and brand communications both agency and client-side, producing product launches, leading brand experience programmes and activating sponsorship globally for brands including AMD, General Motors, SanDisk, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Guinness and Grey Goose. He is a member of EVCOM and the Marketing Society.
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Graham Stevens
General Manager, Royal College of Physicians
Graham Stevens
General Manager, Royal College of Physicians
Our Judges 2020
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Allan Heard
Account Director, Searcy's
Allan Heard
Account Director, Searcy'sAllan Heard is an Account Director for Searcys and has over 15 years’ experience in the hospitality and events industry and a lifelong passion for excellence, detail and service, having been responsible for some of England’s most prestigious venues, including Historic Royal Palaces, Chatsworth House and 30 Euston Square, as well as numerous restaurants and hotels.Allan and his team are passionate about giving back to the community and work with local charities including New Horizons Youth Centre and Beyond Food supporting the challenge of homelessness in London. -
Johanna Byrane
Head of Business Development, Twickenham
Johanna Byrane
Head of Business Development, TwickenhamJohanna Byrane is Head of Business Development at Twickenham Stadium. Johanna re-joined the iconic stadium in 2018 following a 12 year period working within the meetings and events industry in the City working within multiple unique and historic venues. She was part of the team who opened the £80M Twickenham East Stand which has been instrumental in the huge growth in the stadiums’ conference and events revenue. Johanna has gained an admirable reputation within the meetings and events market place, both as a senior leader, a strategic thinker, and an experienced sales and marketing professional. Always looking for new opportunities Johanna has driven the calendar of ticketed lifestyle events at Twickenham as well as identified new exciting revenue streams and has partaken in event industry podcasts and panel discussions to share her passion and knowledge of our great industry.
