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IMTC Leadership and Service Awards 

Leadership Award The IMTC Leadership Award recognizes those individuals or companies who have made significant contributions to the multimedia industry, and are presented at its annual Spring Forum.  In addition, the IMTC presents its Service Award to individuals who have made notable contributions to the IMTC organization.

Leadership Award Considerations and Criteria

Leadership Award Considerations and Parameters

  • Award leadership in multi-media communications.
  • Recognize significant contribution by an individual or company. Recognizing both seen and unseen contributions.
  • Recognize the importance of creating and working within industry effort providing collaborative contributions to a product type, protocol profile, or service offering. This could be from work with standards, interoperability, integration, etc., but does not include work on any specific products.
  • Create an environment that allows for innovation to happen.

Leadership Award Criteria

  • Created, developed and released new business products in the area of multi-media communications - products or services.
  • Launched leading companies that created opportunity for other companies and/or individuals as a means of achieving success.
  • Companies, products and technologies created by these winners, laid the foundation for the evolution to the next generation of multi-media communication - products or services.
  • Their commitment to multi-media communications and industry collaboration set the model for accelerating the development and deployment of products or services through and with industry consortia activities.

2007 Service Award Recipients

Fall Forum, October 29, 2007, Boston, MA
  • Thierry Barba, Former Director
  • Jean-Pierre Blin, Former Director, Retired
  • Robert Berntsen, Former Director, Retired
  • Takahiro Fujimori, Former Director
  • Marwan Jabri, Former Director
  • Louise Olson, Former Director
  • Senthil Sengodan, Former Director

2006 Leadership and Service Award Recipients

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2000 Leadership and Service Award Recipients