By The Open Group Conference Team
The Open Group hosted the Open Cannes Awards 2012 at the Cannes Conference last week. Much like the Festival de Cannes recognizes achievement in film, The Open Cannes Awards recognized 10 individuals and organizations that made key contributions to The Open Group over the past year. Categories included:
- Best Newcomer – The “I Think I Cannes” Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Acting in a Supporting Role – The “Cannes Opener” Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Screenplay – Adapted from Original Material – The “Multiple Cannes-tributions” Award
- Best Ensemble – The “Multiple Cannes-tributions” Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Film – Internationals – The “Un-Cannes-y” Award
- Best Producer – The “Grand Cannes-yon” Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Direction – The “In-Cannes-descent” Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Film – The “Cannes-esblanca” Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Acting in a Leading Role – The “Cannes-ed Ham” Award
- The Lifetime Achievement Award – The Open D’or
Each award winner received some great hardware (no, not that kind) that was presented at the Gala Dinner:
Without further ado, here is the list of award winners:
Outstanding Achievement in Acting in a Supporting Role – Ernst & Young (Peter Haviland accepting the award on behalf of Ernst & Young)
Best Newcomer – BIZZdesign (Henry Franken accepting the award on behalf of BIZZdesign)
Outstanding Achievement in Screenplay – Adapted from Original Material – Capgemini (Mark Skilton accepting the award on behalf of Capgemini)
Best Ensemble – Cloud Computing for Business (Mark Skilton, Capgemini and TJ Virdi, The Boeing Company accepted the award on behalf of the Cloud Work Group)
Outstanding Achievement in Film – International – Serge Thorn, Architecting the Enterprise
Best Producer – U.S. Navy for the FACE™ Consortium, a consortium of The Open Group (Dennis Taylor, NASA presenting the award to Judy Cerenzia who accepted it on behalf of the U.S. Navy)
Outstanding Achievement in Direction – Heather Kreger, IBM (Terry Blevins announcing Heather Kreger as the winner; Heather was not present)
Outstanding Achievement in Film – Oracle for the UNIX Certification of Oracle Solaris V.11 (Bob Chu, Kingdee International Software Group presenting the award to Michael Cavanaugh who accepted it on behalf of Oracle)
Outstanding Achievement in Acting in a Leading Role – Andras Szakal, IBM
The Lifetime Achievement Award – Mike Lambert, former chief technology officer of The Open Group and X/Open Company Limited (Mike is pictured with his wife, Sue, in this photo)
We hope that you enjoyed the conference (and if you weren’t able to attend, the coverage via the blog, Facebook and Twitter). Until next time, au revoir!
