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DigiBC Announces NEXTBC 2015 Winners and Winner of Most Innovative Company of the Year
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DigiBC NEXTBC 2015 Award Winners (Group Photo)
Vancouver, BC, May 27, 2015--(T-Net)--On Thursday last week, 25 of BC's most innovative companies gathered together to learn who would be taking home this year's NEXTBC awards.
DigiBC announced the final 5 winners of its 2015 NEXTBC Awards Program at the event, and then in a blog post on its website yesterday.
The companies which won the top prize in their respective categories for 2015 were:
DigiBC also revealed the winners of three other special awards:
Spark of Creativity Award: Agentic Communications (for their work on the High-Muck-a-Muck website)
(Left to right): Nicola Harwood, creative lead on the project, and BB Magazines Executive Director Sylvia Skene.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Tarrnie Williams Sr.
(Left to right:) BCIC CEO Greg Caws, Tarrnie Williams Sr. and DigiBC President Howard Donaldson.
Audience Choice Award: HelpHub
The final award of the night was given out for Most Innovative Company of the Year. And the winner was...H+ Technologies
(Left to right:) H+ Technologies' Dhruv Adhia holds the Company of the Year award, which was presented by Microsoft's Marjorie Trithardt.
H+ Technologies is developing a "holographic interactive system", a new reality where the digital world meets the physical world. Coming to Kickstarter June 2015.
The company is a high-tech startup that spent the last 2 yrs in R&D aiming to humanize technology by creating human-adaptive systems that feel natural. Visit them online at http://hplustech.com/
Over 400 people from tech, marketing, investment, startups and other sectors attended the event to partake in the showcase portion of NEXTBC 2015.
DigiBC's Howard Donaldson greets the NEXTBC 2015 crowd.
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Editor's Note: If you would like to see additional photos from the NEXTBC 2015 event, visit DigiBC's Facebook album.
See the list of all 25 finalists for Next BC (5 companies per category) in the original press release announcement T-Net published on May 7th here.
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About DigiBC
DigiBC — The Digital Media + Wireless Association of BC - is a member-supported, non-profit organization, based in Vancouver, BC Canada. Our members include world-class companies such as EA (Electronic Arts), Disney Interactive, Wavefront, HootSuite, Sony Interactive, and many others. There are over 1,300 companies in our sector, creating innovative products in wireless and mobile, video gaming, animation and VFX, web 2.0 and social media, interactive marketing and e-learning. Collectively, BC has 600 digital media companies, which employ about 16,000 people and generate $2.3 billion in annual sales- making us one of the most significant contributors to British Columbia's economic well-being.
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