Today is the closing date for the 2016 Sport Industry Awards. Do you want to gain recognition for great work you have done in sport over the last twelve months and join leaders from sport and business at a gala awards presentation in Dublin’s Mansion House on November 10th?
Well who wouldn’t, but these things don’t just happen by chance so today you need to set aside time to present your case via a simple on line application.
A short list will be drawn up and the judging panel will meet next week to pore over the best of Irish sport and determine who can lay claim to being the very best in one of 12 award categories as well as one lifetime achievement award.
The award categories are in the following key areas:
- Best Established Sport Business
- Best Emerging Sport Business
- Best Sports Participation Event
- Best International Sports Event hosted in Ireland
- Best Sponsorship of a Team or Individual
- Best Sponsorship of a Sporting Event or Competition
- Best Sports Journalist
- Best Use of Social Media by a Sports Business
- Best Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative
- Best Innovation in Sport
- National Sport Governing Body of the Year
- Best Local Sports Partnership Initiative
- Lifetime achievement / outstanding contribution award
The Sport Industry Awards were established in 2015 by the Federation of Irish Sport to create a forum to recognise excellence in the business of sport and also to highlight the increasing contribution of sport to Ireland.
Sport for Business is a strong supporter of the Awards and will be on the judging panel.
The winners will be determined by an experienced and knowledgeable judging panel drawn from the business and sports communities including
- Cliona O’ Leary, Deputy Head of TV Sport, RTE
- Rob Hartnett, CEO, Sport for Business
- Russell Murphy, Founder & Owner, BSI Entertainment
- Maeve Buckley, Director, Line Up Sports
- Roddy Guiney, Chairman of Wilson Hartnell and Federation of Irish Sport Board Member
- Fiona Coghlan, former Ireland women’s rugby captain and Chairperson, Dublin City Sport & Wellbeing Partnership
- Ian Hyland, CEO & Publisher, Business and Finance media group
- Sean O’ Connor, Chief Operations Officer of last year’s winner of the established sports business award, Statsports
The original places for the inaugural One Zero Conference in Dublin have all gone but we have added 100 more this morning for those who missed out. When they are gone today, they are fully gone. Book your place right here, right now. Use Code SFB15 to get a 15% discount as a member of Sport for Business.
Join leaders of world sport and business at One Zero at the RDS on Friday October 21st when we bring Mounir Zok, Head of Innovation and Technology with the US Olympic Committee; Daniel Kings from the Aspetar Academy in Qatar and Jeremy McPeake, Social Media Quarterback for the 2017 Superbowl on Houston as well as a host of iconic keynote speakers to Dublin to look at the future of sport…
