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The 2015 VIATEC Technology Awards

July 2, 2015 by Tessa Bousfield

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WOW! Did that actually happen? The VIATEC Team is still coming down from our adrenaline rushes and overjoyed emotions from the 2015 VIATEC Technology Awards that went down in history last Friday. It was a colourful, music-packed evening with special appearances from Shia Labeouf and Rick Astley 😉

Congratulations to all our award winners!

The VIATEC Awards started 14 years ago and it definitely wasn’t the production you see today. It started as an e-Commerce event with 110 attendees. In 2002 it officially became the VIATEC Technology Awards and 220 attended it at the Grand Pacific Hotel. In 2003 it moved to the Crystal Ballroom at the Fairmont Empress with 330 guests. In 2004 we made the move to Carson Hall with 450 guests. 2005 onward, we stayed at Carson Hall climbing into the 500’s, hitting an attendance of 600 in 2011 and reaching 700 last year.

Last week’s event brought out 750+ Tectorians, 1000 balloons (with 50 additional mini orcas squeezed in the nets), 50 BIG Orcas, 11 funky mirrors, 9 projection screens, 8 bubble machines, 7 interactive cube lights, 7 tower lights, 3 interactive mirror boards, 1 AWESOME Band with 1 Jesse Roper, 1 Spoken Word Poet (Jeremy Loveday) and 1 breathtaking, projected sculpture.

Thank you VERY much for being a part of the madness and celebrating with Tectoria. We look forward to squeezing in a few more tables next year!

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  • Finalist videos

Click here for a special message from Dan Gunn!

A special thanks to the following…

  • FCV Interactive
  • Shaw Business
  • Thompson Cooper LLP
  • Hemlock Printers
  • Vecima Networks (And the Vecima Virtuosos band!)
  • Corporate Traveller
  • Farris Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
  • KPMG
  • Reed Pope
  • UVic
  • Capital Magazine
  • The Zone @91.3
  • Grant Thornton
  • AbeBooks
  • BMO
  • Corporate Recruiters
  • Cox Taylor
  • RBC
  • Alacrity
  • Freeman Audio Visual
  • Our hard-working volunteers
  • EMP Interactions
  • Innovate Imageworks
  • UberDave.com
  • Vic42
  • Annika Lavigne
  • Jeremy Loveday
  • Jesse Roper
  • Greg Miller Photography
  • Limbic Media
  • The Social Media Team led by @SocialMediaSean
  • Pacific School of Innovation & Inquiry
  • Upstairs Cabaret
  • The Duke Saloon
  • Decorate Victoria (Huff ‘N Puff)
  • Atomique Productions
  • Four Seasons Musical Theatre
  • Monk Office Interiors
  • Island Print Group
  • Victoria Conference Centre
  • Fairmont Empress

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