Communications agency drpgroup have been announced as the headline sponsors of this year's inaugural Conference Awards. This new awards scheme has been designed to recognise and reward excellence, showcase innovation and provide a quality benchmark for individuals, teams and companies in the conference industry.

The new ceremony provides an opportunity for a more in-depth look at conferences, rewarding the fantastic work of those individuals in the conference, meetings and live events Industry. 

The event will be presented by comedienne and businesswomen Ruby Wax and will be held at the Plaisterer's Hall in June 2010. The ceremony is a departure from more traditional industry award ceremonies recognising individuals from all aspects of an event including team members in production, marketing, operations, sales and management. Entries to the Conference Awards submitted before 12 February will be rewarded with free entry to celebrate the ceremony's debut year. 

As part of the drpgroup's 30th anniversary celebrations, they are dedicated to sponsoring 30 industry initiatives throughout the year and the new Conference Awards were the perfect opportunity to lend the reputation of this well established agency to a new force in the conference awards and recognition domain.

Dale Parmenter commented on the sponsorship: "We decided to sponsor this new awards ceremony as part of our 30th anniversary promises when we noticed that its categories consider more than just the overall impact of a conference. Marketers, project managers, producers, digital media specialists and technical crew will all get an opportunity to be recognised for the hard work they do which essentially makes or breaks any conference."