Welcome to the private information hub for Innovate UK Immersive Tech Awards 2024 partners. We’re excited to have you onboard! Thank you for your amazing support. Please bookmark this URL for easy reference of the awards partner process and key dates. Please do not share this link outside of your team involved in the awards- thanks for your discretion.
Applicant Eligibility
- Undergraduate to Postgraduate – 5 categories, ages 18+
- Career Breakout Showcase – anyone 18+ who has not had a paid full-time job in industry (or only short-term ones totalling under 3 months)
- Individual and Team applications
4 Internship Grand Prizes (5 Partners)
- Arup Internship
- Edify Internship
- StoryLab Anglia Ruskin University & ARCADE Joint Internship
- Wales Millennium Centre & ARCADE Joint Internship
Please confirm:
- Internship details – one pager
- Internship overview – 1-2 sentences
- Judges from each organisation
- 1 judge up to 4 maximum
- Name, role title and email
- Headshot (for social cards) and bio link/ short bio (for judges profile on website)
Awards Timeline Key Dates for Internship Partners (being confirmed)
Please confirm your availability to participate in the awards process
- 26 Feb Applications Open with Online Info Session (watch launch event recording)
- 10 min to speak about the organisation & internship opportunity (Arup & Edify segments to include 2023 internship winner)
- Promote to your networks (partner social card provided by Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network marketing)
- 17 Mar Applications Deadline
- Promote to your networks (partner social card provided by Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network marketing)
- 21 Mar Judges Info Session
- 30 min judges onboarding for Evalato judging platform (different platform than Awards Force used in 2023 due to IUK platform policy)
- 22 Mar-7 Apr Judging – Score Applications
- Please complete all judging assignments by 7 Apr without fail
- 2023: 19 judges each had up to 13 assignments with 76 applications each assigned to 3 judges
- 2024: Finalising total judges with anticipated applications growth to 200
- Conflicts of interest
- Judges recused by Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network team for same university affiliation
- Judges abstained for any additional reasons ASAP upon receipt of judging assignments for re-assignment
- Conflicts of interest
- 10-14 Apr Judges Review Top Finalists
- New step based on 2023 judges and partners feedback – Evalato process TBD
- 15 Apr Judges Meeting – Deliberate Finalists
- Meeting to finalise top 2 finalists in each of 5 categories – deliberation will proceed with all who can attend
- 16 Apr Finalists Announced
- 17 Apr Applications Feedback via Evalato (process TBC)
- New for 2024 based on 2023 applicants’ feedback through Evalato function
- Applicants will receive feedback from each of the 3 judges assigned to their application anonymised
- Overall score and (TBC) score for each of 5 Criteria:
- Overall comment for their application
- 18 Apr Briefing for Virtual Pitch Day – Judges
- 30 min briefing
- 25 Apr Virtual Pitch Day
- 2023 Process
- Timing
- 9-9:30am Login & Overview
- 9:30am-1pm Pitches
- 1-2pm Lunch Break
- 2-3pm Voting & Discussion
- Pitches
- 20 min each
- 3 min pitch
- 15 min Q&A
- 2 min switch
- Timing
- 2024: Similar process TBC
- 2023 Process
- 29 Apr-10 May Finalists Interviews for Internships
- Coordinated directly between each organisation and all Finalists once Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network shares
- Finalists’ contact info
- 2023: wonderful collaboration between Arup and Edify interview leads
- 13 May Internship Partners Meeting
- Friendly discussion between all internship partners coordinated by Innovate UK
- Immersive Tech Network to ensure each partner is happy with top choice candidates to proceed offers
- 14-21 May Internship Offers/ Acceptance
- 23 May 3PM Partners Showcase Demo (date/ time TBC)
- New for 2024 based on 2023 partners feedback
- 23 May 5:30PM Awards Reception & Winners Announced (date/ time TBC)