Colm Lyon, Realex Payments’ founder was honoured with the Irish Internet Association’s (IIA) 2015 Overall Net Visionary Winner at the IIA Dot ie Net Visionary Awards at a ceremony in Dublin last Friday.
In addition, 15 other winners in other categories were announced following a stringent process involving judges and a public vote.
The awards, now in their 17th year, took place at the RDS in Dublin, where over 300 attendees in sectors from technology to agriculture gathered to pay tribute to their peers in 17 categories.
Other winners on the night included PixelSoup for best innovation for education services; Herdwatch for innovation in agri/food; Restored Hearing for innovation in health; and turn2me for social good.
At the awards ceremony, the IIA also launched its Hall of Fame to recognise their long history and internet visionaries whose contribution to the Irish technology community over the last two decades enabled Ireland to establish its global reputation. Every year, new names will be inducted into the Hall of Fame that the judging panel believes reflects the vision and contribution ethos of these first 10 Net Visionaries, which included Ray Nolan of HostelWorld; former IIA CEO Fergal O’Byrne; angel investor and Orchestra founder Eamon Leonard; and iol.ie founder Colm Grealy.
“The IIA membership represents over 40,000 people working in technology nationwide. It is the largest, non-profit and independent voice with the singular focus of technology in Ireland. As a non-profit, the proceeds from these awards all go back to the community to provide these supports. The categories are reviewed each year by the IIA and reflect a real understanding for the changing nature of the technology industry and the innovation it has brought to education, healthcare, finance, agriculture and food,” said Joan Mulvihill, CEO IIA.
“We wanted to show the pace and breadth of innovation across Irish industry and to show how technology is the catalyst for this. Technology is not just an industry vertical. It is for all industries, all sectors. We predict we will see the next generation of Net Visionaries come from sectors completely unrelated to the traditechnology in the coming years.”
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