Personally I think grandiose awards ceremonies are a waste of time, and more often someone else’s money. If someone wants to do something different how about something like an online submission/ web cast. Judging panel could be 20-40 relevant people for each category. E.g. for best legal librarian software have 20 legal librarians vote. Revenue for the prompters of the event could come from online ads etc on the web site and webcasts. From my point of view beats the hell out of traipsing down to the city to see the usual crowd of people getting wasted on expenses (which I know some poor soul will end up funding). Any volunteers?