Building Business & NIMBLE
AWARD
Winners 2024
And the winners are….
Joint winners
Elora Wang - China
Elora's spirit of solidarity seamlessly connects all departments, customers and partners to create a diverse and efficient office ecosystem. She demonstrates the essence of RX's “Networked” culture - working together to create value. Her actions are the most vivid illustration of the company's culture.
Ania Acebedo - Philippines
Ania is more than just a talented designer—she is a connector, a mentor, and a leader who exemplifies the power of collaboration and networking. Her ability to bridge gaps, share knowledge, and drive results makes her truly deserving of the Networked Award.
Hyunsu Chung - Korea
For the first time in Asia, Korea and Hyunsu launched their first ERG, Generation, aimed at creating an inclusive workplace where colleagues can easily share challenges and solutions. He encouraged colleagues to participate in social contribution events, and networking opportunities for different entities in the Korea office. With his performance and activities, positive changes are taking place to make RX Korea a better working place.
Highly Commended: Hiroko Higuchi, Japan
Juanita Torres Cerron - France
Juanita is an exceptional professional who continuously brings fresh and exciting ideas to our events, especially the Snack show where her actions have significantly contributed to raising attendee NPS. Her ability to engage both her team and our customers makes her an invaluable asset to our organization. Through her relentless creativity, positive energy, and commitment to delivering exceptional experiences, Juanita embodies the spirit Magical.
Prapatsorn Tatikunakorn - Thailand
Prapatsorn has significantly contributed to the RX brand purpose by actively supporting initiatives that empower businesses and foster collaboration. By boldly volunteering as a Co-Champion for the GFT and NEPCON FORUM projects (without being asked), she played a key role in driving success during challenging times. Her belief in these initiatives and her ability to coordinate across departments ensured a seamless experience for participants, enabling them to showcase their offerings effectively. Through her efforts and strong determination, Prapatsorn has helped cultivate an environment where businesses can thrive even during difficult times.
Erin Schenck - USA
Erin's proactive approach to learning enables her to tackle complex challenges with innovative solutions and a fresh perspective. She embodies the spirit of continuous improvement and intellectual curiosity, moving from the finance team to the conference team to learn an entirely new role. She has incorporated her financial knowledge with her new conference knowledge, which has made her even more effective.
High Commended - Sarah Bounouh, ISG
Joint winners
Sakurako Yoshida - Japan
Sakurako was very direct on her desire to hold an exhibition that had never been seen before, so she focused on the space industry and launched Space Business EXPO (SPEXA) bridging Japan and the world's Space business. Sakurako has been so successful in attracting key people in the space industry that these VIPs are now doing communications and networking with her to build our next edition. She is at the center of building space business in Japan and the definition of entrepreneurial.
Kelly Li - China
Kelly paid great attention to customer insights during her management of our flower shows and provided valuable products around customer needs to satisfy customers. The sales volume of the flower industry has dropped sharply in the past year, so Kelly visited leading companies in the industry, listened to our customers and focused the 2024 exhibition on exports and technological changes. Among many contributions, Kelly obtained 10,624 square meters of on-site booth reservations in 2024 and customer satisfaction rose to an all time high of 82%.
The Customer Award
Brazil - The First Time Exhibitor Project
The First Time Exhibitors Project was designed to transform the journey of first-time exhibitors, addressing their challenges with innovative solutions and ensuring exceptional experiences. By offering personalized support and tailored strategies, this project has redefined exhibitor satisfaction and retention, setting a new benchmark in the events industry in Brazil. The judges felt that it was a great example of innovative thinking to drive customer value.
Highly Commended
France - Elevating Visitor Experience
Australia - Going Beyond: How All Energy Australia Provided a Life-Saving Onsite Experience
Best Marketing & Communications Campaign
Germany - FIBO: Data sets the pace for marketing and communication
The FIBO 2024 marketing campaign exemplified excellence in combining creativity, data precision, and strategic execution. By leveraging innovative tools and customer insights, RX Deutschland transformed attendee and exhibitor engagement into tangible results. It wasn’t merely a marketing campaign—it was an experience tailored for a global, diverse audience, grounded in real-time responsiveness and innovation. For these reasons the judges believe it to be the best data-led marketing campaign example they saw.
Operational Excellence Award
France - Cannes Yachting Festival 2024: How to Reinvent Ourselves!
From dealing with the closure of part of the port, effectively taking away key exhibiting space, and a major storm that severely damaged some of the exhibitor structures, the show opened on September 10, 2024, welcoming as many exhibitors (640), boats (700), and visitors (55,000) as in 2023, with two new areas, new entrances, new restaurants, and new floating walkways. Last but not least, instead of an expected revenue decrease because of the works, the show revenue actually grew 9.3% YoY.
This entry demonstrated to the judges that with a great can-do mindset and with everyone pulling together, regardless of their role, the show can always go on.
Net Zero Hero Award
Australia - Waste Expo Australia: Leading the Journey to Net Zero Waste
Sustainability is more than a goal; it’s a responsibility. The RX Australia team committed to an ambitious mission for 2024: “Journey to Net Zero Waste.” This commitment was not just about incremental improvements but about setting a new standard for sustainable events. It required us to rethink our practices, collaborate, and transform the way Waste Expo operated—from its planning stages to move-out. The success of Waste Expo Australia 2024 is a testament to what can be achieved when sustainability is embedded into every aspect of an event.
Event of year over $25 million
UK - ILTM Cannes 2024
ILTM Cannes finished £5m above sales targets and grew 29% vs 2023: the best performance in ILTMs 24-year history. All key KPIs were grown significantly - including 33% New Business Growth and 10% improvement on FTR. There were 85,000 pre-scheduled meetings across the week, close to 10,000 people in attendance and the entire team worked collaboratively to ensure the pre-event efforts were matched by the delivery during the week. A truly tremendous effort from all involved with big bets that paid off.
Event of the Year less than $25 million
USA - PGA 2024
The 2024 PGA Show achieved remarkable success, surpassing previous records for attendance, exhibitor satisfaction, revenue and contribution. Starting in 1954, the event has evolved into a vital platform for the $102 billion golf industry, serving as an essential venue for innovation and business connections, and for kicking off the new season.
Despite external expectations that the PGA Show could face a post-pandemic decline, we proactively invested in enhancing key industry growth areas and made several big bets which ultimately led to double-digit growth and exceeded expectations in attendee engagement, exhibitor participation, and education content.
The Show also achieved the highest revenue and contribution in SHOW HISTORY thanks to the collaborative high functioning team and placing some key big bets that paid off.
Best Digital Activation at an Event Award
Japan - Full-Scale Implementation of Mercury/Emperia to 52 show clusters
In 2023, we embarked on a bold, historic challenge: introducing an entirely new digital solution—Mercury and Lead Manager—into Japan’s exhibition culture. This was not merely a transformation; it was a revolution. In 2024, we embraced a new challenge, rolling out Mercury and Emperia across all 52 exhibitions at once. Hesitation would only delay progress, so we committed fully: “If we do it, we go all in.” The judges remarked that this was a truly bold and brave approach, and it paid off. By working closely with our global team, RX Japan overcame every challenge, adapted to local needs, and executed a seamless transformation with 1,263,630 total badges pre-registered, 673, 717 visitors scanned by Lead manager app and in so doing marked a new era in Japan’s exhibition industry.
The Unsung Heroes Award
Global Corporate Communications Team - Making RX famous as a ‘best-in-class’ events company
Over the past four years, our Global Corporate Communications team have been working diligently, creatively and collaboratively to bring our brand and values to life, culminating in a year of remarkable growth and achievement in 2024. Not only did they drive record numbers of followers and subscribers to our social media channels and website; they also dramatically increased readership of our stories, generating significant press coverage and numerous industry awards in the process. The success of our global communications effort to make RX famous as a ‘best-in-class’ events company is not only a tribute to the team, but to all our brilliant BU communicators who've really stepped it up this year to provide content and share stories from across their regions.
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