23 September 2024

Special guest revealed ahead of The Stationer’s Innovation Excellence Awards ceremony on October 11th

Today, the Stationer’s Company unveiled the guest presenter for the 2024 Innovation Excellence Awards, where the best of the Communications and Content industries will be announced.

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at ICANN, the Internet Society, MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. A former Stanford Professor and former member of the US National Science Board, he is also the past President of the Association for Computing Machinery, Emeritus Chairman of the Marconi Society and serves in advisory capacities at NIST, DOE, NSF, US Navy, JPL and NRO. He earned his B.S. in mathematics at Stanford and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at UCLA. He is a member of both the US National Academies of Science and Engineering, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and the Worshipful Company of Stationers.

Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards for his work, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, the Marconi Prize and Marconi Lifetime Achievement Award, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the Legion d’Honneur, the VinFutures Grand Prize and the Franklin Medal. He is a Foreign Member of the British Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering and holds 31 honorary degrees.

Expert judges at The Stationer’s Company have now whittled down their top picks of the brands going above and beyond in 6 categories ranging from Start Ups to Education Technology.

The ultimate winners will be announced at a champagne reception and lunch on 11th October 2024, at the historic Stationer’s Hall in London, where some of the communications and content industry’s big hitters will come together to find out who has been honoured with a coveted trophy from the Innovation Excellence Awards, now in their 10th year.

Through the awards, the Stationers’ Company recognises the key role the Communications and Content industries play in the UK economy, highlights outstanding innovation in the sector and offers the opportunity to share best practice.

Vida Barr-Jones and Kate Howell, the awards new co-chairs said:

“It is a privilege to welcome Dr Vint Cerf to the Innovation Excellence Awards ceremony this year, as we celebrate the 10^th year of the awards.  

Innovation is a vital means for organisations to remain relevant, competitive, and responsive in their respective industries and we want to celebrate it.

We want to extend a huge congratulations to all the shortlisted brands and companies – they should be very proud of themselves and the ceremony will be made even more special by the attendance of one of the fathers of the internet, Dr Vint Cerf, the ultimate innovator.”

There are a limited number of tickets still available for the champagne reception and awards ceremony at the historic Stationer’s Hall.  Details can be found here https://www.stationers.org/events/detail/6241