Odran Ginnity,COO Daft.ie, Category Sponsor; Maeve Kneafsey, MD Elucidate and IIA Chairperson; Karen Hanratty MIDI, Pixel Design, Winner of the Web Designer Excellence Net Visionary Award; Paul Browne, Enterprise Ireland, Headline Sponsor.
Iia net visionary awards 2008
Congratulations to Karen Hanratty MIDI, Pixel Design who was awarded with the Web Designer Excellence Net Visionary Award at a gala ceremony on the 30th of October. Fergal O'Byrne, IIA CEO, commented, "Winning a Net Visionary award, or indeed being shortlisted, can be a turning point for a company of any size. Recognition of this sort will allow the winners to justify further investment in their online services ensuring better and more intuitive experiences for users, not only in Ireland, but throughout the world. The IIA & Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary Awards celebrate business people with a unique vision for the future of the internet in Ireland. Through the use of an open voting system the awards genuinely reflect recent developments within the Internet Industry in Ireland, allowing the public to give their vote to quality online services from businesses of all sizes."
The process to reach these results involved nominations from the public, followed by a judging phase undertaken by a panel of eight internet business experts. The process concluded with online voting. Over 10,000 votes were received in a greater range of categories than ever before.
This year's gala event supported The Children's Medical & Research Foundation which is dedicated to the improvement of children's health. Its function is to inspire and support the philanthropic spirit in individuals and organisations. It invests its communities' contributions in outstanding paediatric care, research and education to help children at Our Lady's, and throughout Ireland.