Judging panel announced for the Stationers’ Innovation Excellence awards

As reported by BOSS, the Stationers’ Company is delighted to confirm the judges for this years’ Innovation Excellence Awards

The panel comprises Liverymen Vida Barr-Jones, Peter Day, Tim Webb, and Past Master Helen Esmonde, who were joined by Dr Sally Beken and Freeman Andy Wilson last year, bringing experience on innovative polymers and sustainability, and interactive media services respectively.

This year, additional expertise comes from tech founder and innovator Dr Kate Stone who will join the judging panel for 2023. Kate is an experienced speaker on tech, diversity, creativity, and how using kindness helps us to find our truest selves – most recently the keynote speaker at Cal Poly’s 2023 IGCW, Kate has spoken twice on the TED stage.

The Panel is co-chaired by court assistants Jill Jones and Linda Drew.

Entries are encouraged from across the communications and content industries – including global, SME and non-profit businesses with start-ups again welcomed in a specialist category. Industries include packaging; paper making and paper converting; printing; trade, academic and information publishing; educational technology; newspaper and magazine publishing; fine stationers, greeting cards & office products and related intellectual property, archival, and digital born businesses – all are welcome to submit entries in these inclusive awards. They remain free to enter, and entrants do not have to be members of the Stationers’ Company to apply.

Entries will close at 7pm on Friday 21 April and judging will take place over May and June, with the Awards ceremony on Monday, 25^th September. The entry form is here https://www.stationers.org/siea-entry.

The judges are keen to see applications that focus on novel products, services or business processes that have a positive financial and/or social impact on customers and on the environment. Judging criteria are here https://www.stationers.org/assets/Judging-Criteria-for-the-2023-Awards_c4a4.pdf