Pipeline's Red-Carpet Night: 2013 Innovation Awards

[Mehmet Tefon (left)and Cengizhan Turgut of Turk Telekom, winner: Innovative Collaborations with Nakina Systems]

The judges and other attendees also rated the awards ceremony as a resounding success. “I can truly say I have never experienced a more professionally done event,” said David Lindsay III of BT Global Services. “The opportunity to gather with people across many types of providers within our industry and speak with them about innovation, trends they are seeing in the market and general business was an absolute once-in-a-lifetime event.”

Now that the music has ended and the taste of chocolate mousse and raspberry sorbet has (tragically) faded away, what resonates with me and the rest of the Pipeline editorial staff, not to mention our esteemed judging panel, is the technical acumen, pioneering spirit and keen market awareness demonstrated by each and every one of our winners and runners-up. These vendors and CSPs are empowering the modern age of communications and entertainment technology, which in turn is providing services to end users around the world that allow them to work, live, share and communicate in new places and new ways.

As Pipeline looks forward to next year’s Innovation Awards, we’re excited about the technological advances we’ll encounter and the lessons we’ll learn from every nomination that’s evaluated. I anticipate that we’ll all face even tougher decisions than we did this year, but the truth is that nothing would please us more.

We aren’t the only ones looking forward to next year. “I hope I have the opportunity in the future to attend this event again,” said Lindsay, “to meet again with the familiar faces from this year’s event” as well as “new faces from future years’ events.”

Congratulations to all of our award recipients, and we’ll see you on the red carpet in 2014.