And the winner of award for innovation in the enterprise is…
Me and IBM :-)
Yes last night at the end of the first day of the virtual world expo I was asked up on stage after a very nice intro from Steve Prentice (whose speech featured the brilliant quote from Pirates of the Carribean that the pirates code is not so much of a rule as guideline ) to pick up the award for Virtual World innovation in the Enterprise.
It was brilliant to be able to accept this, and whilst I may have started this all off it has been very much a team effort so this is really for all the eightbars and former eightbars out there.
I also have to say a huge thankyou to the organizers of the expo and to the judges for deciding on this.
Christopher V. Sherman Executive Director Virtual Worlds Management / Virtual Worlds Expo
Joey Seiler, Editor, Virtual Worlds News and awards chairman
Christian Renaud, CEO, Technology Intelligence Group
Erica Driver, Co-Founder and Principal, ThinkBalm
Nic Mitham, Managing Director, K Zero
Steve Prentice, VP and Fellow, Gartner
Robert Bloomfield, Founder and Host, Metanomics
The other winners can be found here
So what now…. Well I guess just keep on pushing and see where we can all take this as an industry. I do of course have some ideas, just need to find a way or a place to make them happen.
September 4th, 2008 at 16:10
Congrats Ian :) did you get to celebrate with a formula one style champagne waterfall? or was it more of a tear jerking Oscar speech ;)
A thoroughly deserved award though, enjoy the rest of the L.A trip :)
September 4th, 2008 at 16:21
I just waved my arms shouted whoooooo shook hands and went back to the table. The other awards categories seemed not to be doing speeches so avoided the shameless ego trip :-)
September 4th, 2008 at 20:22
hehe, superb :D
September 4th, 2008 at 22:11
Yay – and quite right too!
September 5th, 2008 at 00:03
Congratulations Ian … it’s great to see IBM’ers represented at the event.
September 6th, 2008 at 18:10
Congratulations!
What, no tearful thanking of the little people that made it possible? Isn’t that a requirement of any good acceptance speech?
September 7th, 2008 at 12:43
Well done pred. Very well deserved!
September 15th, 2008 at 11:05
Congratulations Ian!
There were two winners of this award for Innovations in Virtual Worlds for the Enterprise though, IBM and Forterra. It’s an interesting fact that the two winners are partners, don’t you think?
September 15th, 2008 at 13:24
@Ron yes indeed is was good to see Forterra pick up the other enterprise award. :-) We are both rocking the metaverse
September 18th, 2008 at 13:28
Woot! Or should I say, “hoooooo!”? :)