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Digital Alberta Awards Winners Announced(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/10/11 -- After a very successful gala evening at Hotel Arts in Calgary on Monday June 6th, 2011 Digital Alberta is pleased to announce the winners for the annual Digital Alberta Awards recognizing the outstanding digital talent in the province of Alberta. The judges chose 17 winners from a pool of 87 deserving finalists. The highlight for the evening was the Honourable Lindsay Blackett, Minister of Culture and Community Spirit presenting the Outstanding Achievement Award to winner SMART Technologies. The 2011 Digital Alberta Awards winners are: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Category Winner ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outstanding Achievement Award Smart Technologies - David Martin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- B2B Innovation Touchmetric ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- B2C Innovation Chaordix for Orange (France Telecom) UK - Mobile Volunteering ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Combined Hardware & SMART Technologies - Multitouch Interactive Software Experience Whiteboard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Digital Design RED The Agency - EPCOR Blue Bucket Crew ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Digital Startup Calgary Herald In-house design team - Swerve Calgary ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best in Cross-Platform Content EA / Bioware - Mass Effect 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best in Digital Advertising, Suitcase Interactive Marketing or Design Agency ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best in E-learning SMART Mixed reality in the classroom ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best In Financial Services Habanero for Servus Credit Union - Servus Website ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best in Games Development BigStack Studios - Sigma ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best In Social Media RED the Agency for EPCOR - Blue Bucket Crew and Digital Aquarium ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Social Impact Suitcase Interactive for United Way of Calgary - "BeCause" Social Campaign ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Use of Film, Animation or Science Alberta - Do You Know What Nano Special FX Means ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Government 2.0 City Of Calgary - 2010 Calgary Civic Election iPhone App ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Innovation Poynt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Student Digital Award Lindsay MacDonald - University of Calgary - A Delicate Agreement ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year's winners and finalists stand out amongst the provinces strong digital technology presence - the digital media industry is a significant contributor to Alberta's $450 Million ICT industry. The 49 Pixels report on Canada's Digital Economy ranked Alberta top of the pile for 'best place' for business opportunities. "Over the past few years Alberta has consistently ranked as the most innovative province in Canada. Digital Alberta plays in an integral role in helping to promote and drive inventiveness and creativity in the digital space across the entire province," said Michelle Sklar, Digital Alberta President. "Our industry has turned a corner and so have we as a professional association. Our services aim to help and target every sector of business from students, to start-ups, to small and medium size businesses, to larger corporations and those who are scaling globally. Providing in-depth services covering everything from legal to PR, Digital Alberta will lead the way in supporting and partnering with symbiotic resources so that we can continue to raise the profile of Alberta as an innovative, leading edge place to do business." The 2011 Digital Alberta Awards judging panel included Rob Lewis, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Techvibes.com, Ron Piovesan, Marketing Director for Data Networks and C100 Charter Member, Kevin Tuer, Managing Director of the Canadian Digital Media Network, Rick Rasmussen from DFAIT fame and also a C100 Charter Member, Ian Kelso, President and CEO of Interactive Ontario, and finally Michael Bidu, formerly the President of DigiBC. The event was sponsored by Macleod Dixon, the Canada Media Fund (CMF), Postmedia Network (The Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal), the Canadian Marketing Association (CMA), Adobe, AMPIA, Calgary Technologies Inc. (CTI), Robots & Pencils and Critical Mass. To become a member of Digital Alberta visit http://www.digitalalberta.com/members. About Digital Alberta: Digital Alberta is an industry-led organization devoted to promoting and connecting the thriving digital media community across Alberta, Canada. Through professional development workshops, advocacy work, education, event, and business development activity, Digital Alberta is building the digital media industry provincially and promoting it abroad. The digital media industry is defined as the creative convergence of digital arts, science, technology and business for human expression, communication, social interaction, and education. The industry spans several disciplines, including but not limited to: audio, video, game design, animation, modeling, simulation, and interactive design. In Alberta, digital media is considered a key contributor to the provincial ICT industry which is made up of 6,300 companies, 57,000 employees, and generating over $450 million in annual revenues. Areas of key growth in Alberta's digital media industry include: Social media content and applications, Interactive entertainment, Content and applications for mobile devices, E-Learning and games for training and education, Interactive marketing, and finally Standards-based web design and development. www.digitalalberta.com Contacts: the agency Arleigh Galant Vasconcellos +1 403.561.4810 arleigh (at) theagencyinc (dot) ca Digital Alberta Jo-Anne Douthwaite 403-284-6418 joanne (at) digitalalberta (dot) com www.digitalalberta.com Source: Digital Alberta |