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Introducing Our UC Awards 2022 Judges

UC Awards 2022 opens with judges from Cisco, Zoom, RingCentral and Poly, highlighting UC, collaboration and innovation.

UC Awards 2022 judges

The UC Awards are back for the fifth year, and we are fully expecting it to be our best year ever. 

These awards are a means to publicly recognise successes from within the UC and Collaboration industry. 

The UC Awards has grown in the number of companies and individuals vying for their places in the winners’ circle. 

Last year, we had a fantastic turnout and high standard of submissions across all our categories. 

Cisco, RingCentral, and Poly are a few of the big names to scoop awards, and individual acknowledgements included Oded Gal from Zoom and Javed Khan from Cisco. 

Applications Are Open 

 Applications are now officially open for the UC Awards 2022 and the submission deadline is 17th June. Finalists will be announced on 8th July and the awards ceremony will be held on 28th July. 

The three main categories are the People’s Awards, Rising Star Awards, and Innovation Awards. Within these are further subcategories, such as UC Leader of the Year, Best Unified Communications Platform, and Best Endpoint Product. You can view the full list here. 

If you fancy your chances of making it onto the podium, then send in your application. You can also request our Media Kit as a comprehensive guide to this year’s winner’s ceremony. 

Meet the Judges

None of this would be possible, however, if it weren’t for our brilliant line-up of judges, all of whom have served as UC Awards judges in the past. 

Without further ado, we are proud to introduce our UC Awards judges for 2022: 

  • Rob Scott [Chair of Judges]: Founder & Publisher at UC Today 
  • Irwin Lazar: President & Principal Analyst at Metrigy Research 
  • Blair Pleasant: President & Principal Analyst of COMMfusion LLC and Co-Founder of BCStrategies 
  • Zeus Kerravala: Founder & Principal Analyst at ZK Research 
  • Tim Banting: Practice Leader & Senior Principal Analyst at Omdia 
  • Kevin Kieller: Co-Founder at EnableUC 
  • Melissa Swartz: Founder at Swartz Counsulting LLC 
  • Jon Arnold: Principal of J Arnold & Associates 
  • Dave Michels: Principal Analyst & Founder of Talking Pointz 

To find out more about them, view our UC Awards’ Judges page. 

For more information about the awards, our Media Kit, to download an application form or contact us, visit awards.uctoday.com.

 

 

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