Just months after the success of the SPARKies tech awards 2016 and we’re already getting ready to celebrate the best of tech in the South West 2017 by finding out where YOU, the wonderful tech community, would like the ceremony to be held.
With 2016’s awards racking up hundreds of nominations over 15 awards categories, judged by 21 judges and with a ceremony attended by over 350 talented techies, the SPARKies is one of the biggest celebrations of tech in the South West.
The first 3 SPARKies award ceremonies were held in Bath’s famous comedy hotspot, Komedia. However this year, for the first time, the SPARKies was held in Bristol at quirky underground bar, the Bristol Bierkeller.
Bristol or Bath? You decide.
With such amazing cities to choose between, and ever keen to see what our wider audience and the South West tech community thinks as a whole, we’ve put together a poll so you can help us to decide where to host the awards in 2017.
The poll will be open for the next 2 weeks, closing on 30 June – so get voting! In the meantime, you can find out more about the awards on the SPARKies website. To stay up to date with the awards on Twitter, you can follow the hashtag: #theSPARKies.
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Shona Wright
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