Virtual

Expo Awards

Be recognised.

Shows
Organisers
Suppliers
Hosts

The best expos, events, conferences, summits and festivals, and the people behind them. Voted by your audience, announced online.

Expo Awards
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Best Tattoo Expo
Best Anime Expo
Best Comic & Pop Culture Expo
Best Home, Garden & Renovation Expo
Best Auto Show
Best Video Gaming & Esports Expo
Best Collectibles & Trading Card Expo
Best Toy Fair
Best Sneaker & Streetwear Expo
Best Pet Expo
Best Wedding Expo
Best Baby & Kids Expo
Best Interior Design Expo
Best 4x4, Outdoor & Adventure Expo
Best Motorcycle Expo
Best Caravan & Camping Show
Best Boat Show
Best Fitness Expo
Best Mind, Body & Spirit Expo
Best Natural & Organic Food Expo
Best Beer, Wine & Spirits Expo
Best Travel Expo
Best Real Estate & Property Expo
Best Disability Expo
Best Careers Expo
Best Education & Study Expo
Best Beauty & Hair Expo
Best Adult Lifestyle Expo
Best Photography & Video Expo
Best Horse & Equine Expo
Best Craft & Hobby Expo
Best Gun & Hunting Show
Best Property & Construction Expo
Best Franchise Expo
Best Dental Expo
Best Accounting & Finance Expo
Best Crypto & Fintech Expo
Best Small Business Expo
Best Food Service & Hospitality Expo
Best Agriculture & Field Days
Best Mining & Resources Expo
Best Retail & Gift Fair

Best Tattoo Expo
Best Anime Expo
Best Comic & Pop Culture Expo
Best Home, Garden & Renovation Expo
Best Auto Show
Best Video Gaming & Esports Expo
Best Collectibles & Trading Card Expo
Best Toy Fair
Best Sneaker & Streetwear Expo
Best Pet Expo
Best Wedding Expo
Best Baby & Kids Expo
Best Interior Design Expo
Best 4x4, Outdoor & Adventure Expo
Best Motorcycle Expo
Best Caravan & Camping Show
Best Boat Show
Best Fitness Expo
Best Mind, Body & Spirit Expo
Best Natural & Organic Food Expo
Best Beer, Wine & Spirits Expo
Best Travel Expo
Best Real Estate & Property Expo
Best Disability Expo
Best Careers Expo
Best Education & Study Expo
Best Beauty & Hair Expo
Best Adult Lifestyle Expo
Best Photography & Video Expo
Best Horse & Equine Expo
Best Craft & Hobby Expo
Best Gun & Hunting Show
Best Property & Construction Expo
Best Franchise Expo
Best Dental Expo
Best Accounting & Finance Expo
Best Crypto & Fintech Expo
Best Small Business Expo
Best Food Service & Hospitality Expo
Best Agriculture & Field Days
Best Mining & Resources Expo
Best Retail & Gift Fair

The world stage forlive events

From home shows to tattoo conventions to mining expos, industry conferences, and music festivals, and the people who run them, recognised and awarded.

Start here

Which one are you?

Pick one and we will point you to the right place.

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Regions

Events

Win your region

The 2027 Awards Package.

01
The Regional Winner badge
SVG, dark and light, the year and your category baked in. Yours to use anywhere.
On your website, your exhibitor prospectus and your booth sales page.
expoawards.org/shows/your-show
Regional Winner 2027
Your Show
yourshow.com
02
Your winner’s page
A permanent profile on expoawards.org with your dates, venue, reel and a link to your site.
It stays up after the year ends, and it ranks for your show’s name.
For immediate release
Your Show named Regional Winner at The 2027 Expo Awards
03
A press release, written for you
Written about your win and ready to send the morning the result is public.
Local press, trade media, your exhibitor list. One email.
04
Your full media kit
One private page with every file: your badge at each stage, the LinkedIn banner, the Instagram ring, your link card, the post images and your press release.
Everything you need to tell people, already made, already yours.

What’s included

Your own page
Your vote card
Nominee 2027 badge and media kit
Your press release, published on expys.org

Winners

Your digital trophy, the moment you win
Your trophy, sent to you
Winner badge, credential and banner
Your full media kit
A press release, distributed on a global newswireWritten by our press desk and published in our newsroomThe Expys Newsroom
Named in our winners’ announcement
An article
An interview
Winner’s window decal

The Virtual Awards Night and the top awards

Your award, announced online at The Virtual Awards Night
The EXPY Icon title, if you win a Global Icon Award
A guest spot on It’s Showtime with JS, for the EXPY Icons

Winners are announced online, streamed. Anyone can register to watch.

Our press desk The Expys NewsroomWritten by our press desk and published in our newsroomThe Expys Newsroom

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Press packs are Only available to members, priced and compared, in the portal.

Apply for an award, or nominate somebody for one. Every paid entry has its release written and published in our newsroom, free.

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Team awards · US$49 per entry

Event Rockstar Awards

The marketers, planners, operators, sellers, founders and crews who run shows. Nominate someone, free. Or apply for yourself.

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Best Event Marketer
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Best Event Planner
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Best Event Media
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Best Event Operations
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Best Event Finance
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Best Event Sales
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Best Event Customer Service
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Best Event Founder
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Best Event Photographer
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Best Event Videographer
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Best Event Social
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Best Panel Host
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Best Awards Host
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Woman in Eventsof the Year
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Creator awards

Creator Awards

The people filming the show floor, and the accounts this industry follows. Nominate someone, free. Or apply for yourself.

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Best Event Creator
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Best Content Creator
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Best Instagram Account
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Best TikTok Account
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Best YouTube Account
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Host of the Year

Are you the Host of the Year?

Expo, event, conference, music festival, summit and virtual event. For the company that hosts it, in every region.

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ExpoHost of the Year
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EventHost of the Year
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ConferenceHost of the Year
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Music FestivalHost of the Year
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SummitHost of the Year
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Virtual EventHost of the Year
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Nominate Now: Nominate an organiser. The company gets the email and the link to enter.
Apply Now: Enter your own company. Pick the award, build the entry.

Show awards

Best in your category.

One award for every kind of show, in every region. Tap your category and it joins your entry.

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Every category, region by region

Exhibitor awards

Exhibitor Awards

For the companies with a stand on the show floor. Name the show you exhibited at and your entry sits against it.

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Best Exhibitor
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Best Small Exhibitor Booth
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Best Large Exhibitor Booth
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Best Exhibitor Activation
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Best New Exhibitor
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Best Product Launch on a Show Floor
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Best Exhibitor Team
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Exhibitor of the Decade
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For organisers

Organiser Awards

Open to any company that organises expos, trade shows, events, conferences, summits or festivals and ran one in the region entered between 1 January 2026 and 30 July 2027.

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Organiserof the Year
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Rising Organiser
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Best Show
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Best New Show
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Best Visitor Experience
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Best Exhibitor Experience
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Best Marketing Campaign
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Show Reelof the Year
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Best Show Brand
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Best Creator Programme
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Nominate Now: Nominate an organiser. The company gets the email and the link to enter.
Apply Now: Enter your own company. Pick the award, build the entry.

Conferences, summits and festivals

Event Awards

The conference, the summit and the festival, and the team and speakers behind them. In every region.

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Conferenceof the Year
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Summitof the Year
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Festivalof the Year
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Best New Conference
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Conference Team
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Conference Speaker Programme
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Nominate Now: Nominate an organiser. The company gets the email and the link to enter.
Apply Now: Enter your own company. Pick the award, build the entry.

Supplier awards

The suppliers organisers swear by.

Seventeen categories, voted by organisers, in every region. Nominate one, free, or enter your own.

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Exhibition Contractorof the Year
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Venueof the Year
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Conference Venueof the Year
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Events Hotelof the Year
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AV & Production Companyof the Year
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Freight & Logistics Companyof the Year
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Signage & Print Companyof the Year
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Temporary Structures & Power Companyof the Year
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Site Services Companyof the Year
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Ticketing Platformof the Year
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Catering, Bar & Hospitality Providerof the Year
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Event Entertainment Companyof the Year
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Registration & Check-in Companyof the Year
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Security & Crowd Management Companyof the Year
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Event Staffing Companyof the Year
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Cleaning, Waste & Sustainability Companyof the Year
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Event Insurance Companyof the Year
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Nominate Now: Nominate a supplier. The company gets the email and the link to enter.
Apply Now: Enter your own company. Pick the award, build the entry.

Team awards

US$49

per entry one-time

Prices exclude tax. Australian customers pay 10% GST at checkout.

100% refundable if your application isn’t approved.

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Team packs: Team 5 US$199, Team 10 US$299, Whole Team US$599. Nominating is free.

expoawards.org/people/your-name

Your own page at expoawards.org, live in minutesyour page
Your Nominee badge and media kit, the day you pay
Your press release, published on expys.org
Your vote card for LinkedIn, Instagram and textyour page
A place in the community vote, from 27 September 2026
The trophy and the winner’s kit, if you win

Your LinkedIn and website badges

Nominee. Goes up the day you go live.

Winner. Yours when you win.

Plus a banner for your LinkedIn and Instagram.

Team awards

Your award. Your page. Your badges.

expoawards.org/people/your-name

Your own page at expoawards.org, live in minutesyour page
Your Nominee badge and media kit, the day you pay
Your press release, published on expys.org
Your vote card for LinkedIn, Instagram and textyour page
A place in the community vote, from 27 September 2026
The trophy and the winner’s kit, if you win

Your LinkedIn and website badges

Nominee. Goes up the day you go live.

Winner. Yours when you win.

Plus a banner for your LinkedIn and Instagram.

US$49 one-time per entry

Prices exclude tax. Australian customers pay 10% GST at checkout.

100% refundable if your application isn’t approved.

Secure checkoutPayments byAll prices in USD.

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Team packs: Team 5 US$199, Team 10 US$299, Whole Team US$599. Nominating is free.

Add as many awards as you like, and as many team members. Entries from US$49.

The award films

Organiser awards · every region

Show Reel of the Year

The hype reel that sells the show.

Enter your show’s reel and it plays on expoawards.org for the whole year. The audience picks a winner in every region, and one reel is named the Global Show Reel of the Year at The Virtual Awards Night.

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Show Reel of the Year

Placeholder. Entries are open.

Your audience supports you.

Display your involvement.

Your badge, straight to your LinkedIn the day you are in

Organiser
of the Year
Best
Show
Best Event
Marketer
Exhibition Contractor
of the Year

Examples. Nobody has won an Expy yet.

Your media kit.

Everything you need for your people to support you.

Nominee
The day you go live
Finalist
Announced online, on Monday 9 August 2027
Winner
Announced online

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The Global Icon Award

On your website

Add this to your site, your signature and your ad

your-show-website.com/modern-home-expo

When you enter

Your badge, on your website

The Nominee 2027 badge, for your site, your email signature and your LinkedIn.

Example: the Nominee badge on a home show a comic expo

When you win

The Winner badge

Struck for your award, your country and the year.

Winners Media Pack

Every file is in your media kit

Example

Sophie Lindqvist

Show Director, [an exhibition company] · Europe’s Organiser of the Year, The Expo Awards 2027

Sweden

MessageMore

Featured

Europe’s Organiser of the Year

◇ The Expo Awards 2027

northlightexpos.com

9:41

sophielindqvist

Sophie Lindqvist

Show Director

The Expo Awards

northlightexpos.com

FollowMessage

Expys

Shows

Stands

Bridal

Conference

Opening

Winner 2027

The hall from above, the stands laid out along the aisles

A speaker walking up to open the show, the ballroom filling behind her

The roof structure of an empty exhibition hall

Wayfinding over the floor, the keynote stage one way and the maker space the other

Meetings under way on the stands along the green aisle

Vote for me

The crew around the floor plan on the morning of the build

The hall part way through bump in, vehicles still on the floor

A gift fair under the arched roof of an old exhibition hall, the aisles full

The build crew going over the run sheet before doors

Example

northlightexpos.comExample

[an exhibition company]

Europe’s Organiser of the Year · The Expo Awards 2027

Seven shows a year, and the floors people come back for.

Sophie Lindqvist’s portrait beside the promise on the business’s own website, with the winner badge in the hero. Marked example.

An example. Nobody has won an Expy yet. The person is Sophie Lindqvist, one of the invented example cast, and her portrait is a licensed photograph (Pexels Licence) of somebody who is not an entrant and does not endorse the awards. The exhibition company is invented and is written as a bracketed description, never a trading name, on a domain checked as unregistered so the badge is never on a real company’s real website. The show pictures in the grid are our own. The banner, the ring and the badges are the real media kit files.

Packages

2 Awards
Gold
Your show in its category, and the company that runs it
100% refundable if your application isn’t approved.
Secure checkoutPayments byAll prices in USD.
What is in it
One show entry99
Organiser of the Year199
Total, all 2US$298
What you get for entering
Your own page on expoawards.org
Your vote cards
Access to the media kit for your nominee badge
One press release, published on expoawards.org
Community vote
Judged against businesses your own size
One show entry
What you get if you win
Your trophy, and your digital trophy
Your award announced online at The Virtual Awards Night
Your Winner 2027 badge, credential and banner
Your full media kit
A press release on a global newswire
The EXPY Icon title, if you win a Global Icon Award
Be the first
5 Awards
Gold Plus
The show, the company, the reel, the campaign and the brand
Save US$90
100% refundable if your application isn’t approved.
Secure checkoutPayments byAll prices in USD.
What is in it
One show entry99
Organiser of the Year199
Show Reel of the Year199
Best Marketing Campaign199
Best Show Brand199
Total, all 5US$805
What you get for entering
Your own page on expoawards.org
Your vote cards
Access to the media kit for your nominee badge
One press release, published on expoawards.org
Community vote
Judged against businesses your own size
One show entry
What you get if you win
Your trophy, and your digital trophy
Your award announced online at The Virtual Awards Night
Your Winner 2027 badge, credential and banner
Your full media kit
A press release on a global newswire
The EXPY Icon title, if you win a Global Icon Award
Be the first
9 Awards
Platinum
Every award your show can enter, one price
Save US$692
100% refundable if your application isn’t approved.
Secure checkoutPayments byAll prices in USD.
What is in it
One show entry99
Organiser of the Year199
Best Show199
Best Visitor Experience199
Best Exhibitor Experience199
Best Marketing Campaign199
Show Reel of the Year199
Best Show Brand199
Best Creator Programme199
Total, all 9US$999
What you get for entering
Your own page on expoawards.org
Your vote cards
Access to the media kit for your nominee badge
One press release, published on expoawards.org
Community vote
Judged against businesses your own size
One show entry
What you get if you win
Your trophy, and your digital trophy
Your award announced online at The Virtual Awards Night
Your Winner 2027 badge, credential and banner
Your full media kit
A press release on a global newswire
The EXPY Icon title, if you win a Global Icon Award
Be the first

Every package costs less than what is inside it bought one at a time, and each card prints exactly how much less. The saving is taken at the checkout as well as shown here.

The Virtual Awards Night, streamed live

Anyone can register to watch.

The Virtual Awards Night

Thursday 9 September 2027

Waiting for the live stream

The Virtual Awards Night always runs, streamed, for every region.

Three streams on the one day, each in its own evening: Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa and the Americas.

Asia-Pacific
7pm AEST
Europe, Middle East and Africa
7pm BST
Americas
7pm EDT

The stream opens 30 minutes before the show. The link is sent to everyone registered, the day before and again an hour before.

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How the year runs

Enter. Share. Let your audience decide.

Full timeline

Your entry

Pick your award.

Team awards
Nineteen awards for the people who run shows, and the creators who film them. Build your page, share it for votes.
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Show awards
Your show in its vertical and region. 42 verticals, seven regions.
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Organiser awards
Organiser of the Year, Best Show, Best New Show, the conference awards and more.
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Supplier awards
Stand builders, venues, conference venues, AV, freight and print. Voted by organisers.
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Working with

Expo Awards

The world stage forlive events

Which one are you?

Expos, Events, Summits, ConferencesAwards

Regions

The Regional Winner badge

Your winner’s page

A press release, written for you

Your full media kit

Your community supports your award.

See your category come alive.

Show Reel of the Year

Your audience supports you.

Winners Media Pack

Featured

Packages

Gold

Gold Plus

Platinum

The Virtual Awards Night, streamed live