WOW Awards Asia Opens Industry Voting for the Nominations of LIVE Quotient by Expert Panel

by EVENTFAQS Bureau Business Events | May 8, 2020 | News

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The 12th edition of WOW Awards Asia 2020, the region’s largest business & recognition platform for the Experiential Marketing, MICE, LIVE Entertainment & Wedding Industry in light of COVID-19 had decided to postpone the event to September 2020 for public health & safety.

In light of the situation, WOW Awards is now moving ahead with an Extended Reality Awards Ceremony on Friday, 31st July.

For the first time, WOW Awards Asia introduces industry voting for Group D: Experiential Venues Awards and Group E: LIVE Quotient Awards to determine the winners. This industry voting for these nominations of Group E: LIVE Quotient Awards was recommended by an Expert Panel and validated by KPMG.

LIVE Quotient Awards (Group E), strives to represent and showcase the industry’s Buzziest LIVE Entertainers and Artists.

The Expert Panel members for the WOW Awards Asia 2020 - Group D: Experiential Venues Awards and Group E: LIVE Quotient Awards are mentioned below:

Name	Designation	Company Name
Aarti Manocha	Founder and MD	Milestones to Memories
Abdulsalam Shaikh	Director	MINT Xperience Entertainment Pvt Ltd
Alisha Shirodkar	Managing Director	Tamarind Global
Amrita Kumar	CEO	Candid Marketing
Annu Anand	Chief Catalyst & Managing Director	A for Pineapple
Arvind Sabhaney	Managing Director	Zeroin Management Pvt Ltd
Bhavnesh Sawhney	Director	FB Celebrations Pvt.Ltd
Darshan Shroff	Director	Momente Weddings
Daryl Sheldon	Director	Seventy Seven Entertainment Pvt Ltd
Dhruv Davar	Chief Executive Officer	Inextis Events Pvt. Ltd.
Dhruv Kalra	Director - Marketing	VIBGYOR Brand Services Pvt Ltd
Girish Chandran	Partner	Think Events
Harish Babu	Director	Impresario Event Management India Ltd
Hemant Dahiya	Managing Director	SALT Experiential Marketing
Himanshu Anand	Partner	Brandwidth Events Private Limited
Jatin Varma	Founder	Comic Con India Events
Jueta Hemdev	Director	Yolo Entertainment and Weddings
Keyur Patel	Managing Director	Prasang Events
Keyur Shah	Director	Usually Unusual Entertainment
Khantil Mehta	Director	Go Bananas
Khushbu Vaid	Director	Pentagon Events
Mandeep Malhotra	Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer	The Social Street
Manoj Gopalani	Director	Seventy Seven Entertainment Pvt Ltd
Mirza L. Baig	Director	Eblitz Inc
Mohomed Morani	Managing Director	Cineyug International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Naveen Kundu	CEO & Managing Director	Mercury
Naveen Rizvi	Business Head & Vice President	ICE Integrated
Navneeth Mohan	Director & CEO	Laqshya Live Experiences - Laqshya Media Group
Neale Murray	Managing Director	Fountainhead MKTG
Neale Murray	Managing Director	Fountainhead MKTG
Nishant Parashar	Director	engage4more
Oum Pradutt	Managing Director	Phase 1 Events & Experiences
Parthip Thyagarajan	Co-founder and CEO	WeddingSutra.com
Pawan Bansal	COO	Jagran Solutions
Piyush Gupta	President	Kestone Integrated Marketing Services Pvt. Ltd.
Preraana Khullar	Director	Eventz Inspired
Rahi Shaikh	Director	BOI Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Rajeev Jain	Director	Rashi Entertainment Pvt Ltd
Rajesh Varma	Director	CRI Events Pvt. Ltd.
Rajesh Varma	Director	CRI Events Pvt. Ltd.
Reema Sanghavi	Managing Director	Maximus MICE and Media Solutions Pvt Ltd
Sandeep Ramakrishnan	Director	Consumer Links Marketing Pvt Ltd
Shankar Ganesh	Founder	Nyka Events Pvt Ltd
Shilpa Rohera	Owner	Weddings by Shilpa & Sonika
Siddhartha Chaturvedi	Chief Executive Officer	Event Crafter
Tabassum Modi	Founder & Director	Victor Tango
Tabish Khan	General Manager - Events and Alliances	Imagica
Vibhor Kwatra	Chief Brand Manager	Jagran Prakashan Ltd
Vidya Alva	Executive Vice President & Business Head - Events	Percept ICE
Vijay Arora	Director	Touchwood Group
Vivek Singh	Joint Managing Director	Procam International

Click here to vote: http://votenow.wowawards.com/

Process:

The process of identifying winners in Group E is based on the Expert Panel suggestions, keeping in mind the frequency and quality of work in the last 12 -15 months done by artists for the listed categories of LIVE Quotient.

The expert panel comprises of minimum 30 members from the experiential realm, they have suggested 3 options each in no order of priority. Basis on their suggestions and tabulated results (minimum of 5 and maximum of 7) KPMG validates and nominations are shortlisted and further processed for the voting round.

In this round the industry along with Expert Panel will vote to shortlist and determine winners wherein all industry voting would happen via an online portal in the realm of duplication:

• All industry votes need to be cross-verified via an activation email sent to register the vote.

• Admin to approve all voting requests.

• Registrations from official ID’s ONLY will be sent this unique URL to vote after details are cross verified. We request you to please input all fields with the correct information for verification for INDUSTRY VOTING.

• 1 vote per email ID will be accepted.

• Nominated Artists & Venues are not allowed to vote, in case they register, they would not be approved / their votes would not be counted.

• KPMG will tabulate the 1 winner(s).

• The last date to vote is 15th June 2020.

Click here to know more about WOW Awards Process.

Here are the nominations for Group E: LIVE Quotient Awards:

Best Master of Ceremonies for Weddings & Social Events – Male