IABM IMPACT AWARDS™ 2025 SHORTLIST

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IABM is proud to have received a record-breaking number of companies and individual entries from those who are IABM members, as well as those who are not, for this year’s new IABM Impact Awards™ , kindly sponsored by AVIXA.    

This celebration of innovation and collaboration, from our global community, provided the judges with an impressive level and quality of entries. And it was a difficult task to determine who should be the final four from each category. 

The award ceremony itself will provide a unique networking opportunity to honour our industry by promoting the shortlist, as well as announcing the winners and presenting trophies.

You can reserve your seat for the ceremony here.

IABM Awards 2025 Ceremony
Saturday 13 September
6pm-7pm
IABM Impact Stage, IABM Hub

 

Congratulations to the following companies and individuals on being shortlisted: 

Outstanding Innovation Award  

  • DMC Production/ Grass Valley/ Broadcast Solutions/ Ziggo Sport 
  • Riedel Communications – RefSuite Team 
  • Ross Video – Carbonite HyperMax 
  • Witbe – Agentic AI  

Technology Catalyst Award  

  • Alistair Horne – Hornets Tech 
  • Balbinder O’Neil – Quickplay 
  • Damon Neale – Metadat-AI 
  • Melvin Saldanha – OSN

Visionary Leadership Award  

  • Baskar Subramanian – Amagi  
  • Hejar Berenji – Rudaw Media Network 
  • Louis Hernandez Jr.
  • Santiago Solanas – Dalet 

Pro AV Changemaker Award  

  • Alpha Cogs  
  • Beam Dynamics 
  • Bitfocus 
  • Marc Risby  

Sustainability Champion Award  

  • Grass Valley AMPP  
  • KitPlus Auctions 
  • Limecraft 
  • VITEC  

Community Impact Award  

  • Bitmovin 
  • Mistv 
  • Norigin Media 
  • Wowza  

Trailblazer Award  

  • Interra Systems Application Engineering Team
  • Jordan Bartow – Quickplay 
  • Mark Birchall – Tradefair 
  • Stacey Moorcroft – Ross Video   

Rising Star Andrew Jones Award  

  • Chloe Schuil-Brewer – Sky TV 
  • Olivia Peacock – Red Bee Media 
  • Sachin Rafic – Ross Video 
  • Ward Pennink – Media Distillery  

Transformational Project Award  

  • BritBox  – Evergent
  • Jio Star India / Postudio / Planetcast 
  • Prime Focus Technologies / OSN 
  • Techex  

Industry Partnership Award  

  • Ecoflow 
  • TAMS on Amazon Web Services (AWS) 
  • The Media eXchange Layer Project (MXL)  
  • Verizon (with Nvidia, Ericsson, Haivision, Monks, RED Digital Cinema, Dell Technologies, Cintegral and FanDuel TV)