WINNERS 2026
Event Categories
Best Conference
Brands at Work
The 2025 Deloitte UK Partner Meeting set a new benchmark for sustainable conferences by embedding ESG as a core organising principle across strategy, experience and delivery.Delivered by Brands at Work in close partnership with the Deloitte Experiential team and Deloitte’s WorldClimate team, the event demonstrated how sustainability ca...
Best Large Scale Events, Confex and Exhibitions
Bray Leino Events
CYBERUK 2025 marked the moment a flagship cyber security conference became a live test case for responsible event production at scale. Staged in Manchester for the National Cyber Security Centre, and produced by Bray Leino Events, the multi-day show welcomed more than 2,500 attendees and built on progress made the previous year, in Bir...
Best International Event
People Live
Staging a nationally significant spectacle inside Jebel Hafit National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, meant Eid Al Etihad 53 Celebrations had little room for compromise and even less room for error. What emerged was not simply a large-scale live show with global reach, but a rigorous test case for responsible event production. One...
Best Impact Strategy
Fáilte Ireland
At a time when many event impact plans remain narrow or reactive, Fáilte Ireland Association Conference Impact and Legacy Framework set out to rewire the role of association conferences altogether. Built into Ireland's Business Events 2030 strategy, it moves the conversation beyond tourism yield and towards a more intentional model in ...
Lemon Lane
For many event agencies, ESG still sits on the sidelines: Lemon Lane set out to change that. Its impact strategy, honed through the staging of monday.com's Elevate 2025 at ExCeL London, reworked sustainability into an operating system, rather than a post-event scorecard. Faced with a larger, more complex edition of the flagship confere...
Best Sustainable Build
Emota
When it comes to inspired stand design, AstraZeneca is hard to beat. With an 82% cut in production waste, a 56% reduction in carbon emissions over a traditional build, and 99% of materials reused, repurposed or recycled, AstraZeneca at ERS 2025 turned sustainable exhibition design into a visible, measurable practice. Created with Emota...
Supplier Categories
Best Venue – Other
Wyboston Lakes
Few venue entries make infrastructure feel this strategic. At Wyboston Lakes Resort, sustainability is not confined to policy language or guest messaging; it is engineered into the estate itself. Across its 380 acres, the resort has installed 3,200 solar panels since 2024 as part of a wider Green Energy Roadmap, while maintaining a dec...
Featherbed Barn
Set in 93 acres of Sussex countryside and operating within Exclusive Collection's B Corp framework, South Lodge has built a model in which environmental performance, guest wellbeing and commercial appeal support and reinforce one another. But what impressed judges the most about the hotel was not one flagship initiative, but the way re...
Best Venue
Edinburgh International Conference Centre
A 62.8% cut in Scope 1 and 2 emissions since 2013 would be notable on its own; achieving it while doubling event volume is what makes Edinburgh International Conference Centre such a standout in this field. For three decades, EICC has been ahead of its time, treating sustainability as the operating logic of the venue itself, pairing re...
Best Sustainable Destination Strategy
Visit Belfast
When it comes to a sustainability strategy, a 45% carbon reduction target by 2030 is only the headline for Ireland's Business Events 2030. But what makes this initiative truly notable is the way it recasts business events as a national instrument for economic growth, community benefit and environmental progress, rather than solely a vi...
Fáilte Ireland
Ireland's Business Events 2030 initiative has reframed the typical ‘attract more conferences’ destination strategy into a comprehensive national impact program. Created as a collaboration between the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Fáilte Ireland, Tourism Ireland and other industry partners, it sets a roadmap to invig...
Best Caterer
Capital Catering, Part of ADNEC Group
Few caterers can point to a global first, but Capital Catering is far from average. The UAE-based operator orchestrated F&B for ICCA Congress 2025, leading it to become the first international event to achieve The PLEDGE on Food Waste's Zero Food Waste to Landfill Event Standard – a feat the judges described as "an exceptional accompli...
Best of the Best
Impact Team of the Year
Emota
The exhibition landscape is shaped by short-use builds and material-heavy production. It’s also led by scale, with Emota Global Exhibitions & Environments 65-strong team creating more than 300 exhibition booths a year across 200 global congresses for 27 clients. The US-UK baked team needed a repeatable business as usual operating model...
Fáilte Ireland
Worth more than €1 billion a year and supporting around 22,000 jobs in the country, the Fáilte Ireland Business Events Team set out to prove that responsible growth in the events sector could be a commercial advantage, not a constraint. As Ireland’s national business events unit, working with regional convention bureaux, universities, ...
Impact Champion of the Year
Valentina Di Lernia
Brands at Work
A 99.5% waste diversion rate is a figure that commands attention, but Valentina Di Lernia's case for Impact Champion of the Year runs far deeper than a standout statistic. In a role that sits outside of formal sustainability leadership, the Brands at Work senior project coordinator has engineered a business-wide shift in how ESG is und...
Gabriella Weekes
Sleek Events
When Sleek Events created a temporary sustainability post in late 2023, Gabriella Weekes inherited a blank page: no formal strategy, no baseline emissions data and no governance framework. In less than two years, she has turned that short-term remit into one of the agency's defining business functions. Drawing on her background in live...
Best Agency
Bray Leino Events
For Bray Leino Events, 2025 was about proving what better looks like. Rather than injecting sustainability language into event briefs, they used data to inform their decisions and confirm the best approach. At 71 people strong, the UK-based agency, part of MISSION Marketing Group, successfully built ESG into the mechanics of how the bu...
Viva Esprit
Sustainability is the golden thread that runs through every aspect of our business. Not only does it shape our policies and procedures, it guides our daily decision making and underpins our ambition to be recognised as a leading events agency where creativity and responsibility go hand in hand. Our B Corp certification and ISO 20121 ac...
