2025 Middle East & North Africa Stevie® Awards

Frequently Asked Questions

Saturday, 22 February - Waldorf Astoria Ras al Khaimah

Onsite Logistics

Q: What is the schedule for the evening?
A:
5:30 PM / 17:30: Registration
5:45 PM / 17:45 Drinks Reception
6:15 PM / 18:15 Dinner
7:00 PM / 19:00: Awards Presentations

Q: Are tickets required for the banquet?
A: Yes, all attendees must have purchased tickets in advance for admittance. The final day for ticket sales is 17 February 2025.

Q: How will we receive our purchased tickets?
A: All tickets will be available for pickup at 5:30 PM the day of the event, at the ticketing desk outside the Peacock Alley in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria. Tickets will be held by organization name. Tickets will feature an assigned table number, and guests must sit at their assigned tables.

Q: What is the attire for the banquet?
A: The requested attire is Business.

Q: Can we book rooms at the hotel?
A: You can reserve hotel rooms at the Waldorf Astoria on their website.

Awards to Be Presented

Q: Which awards will be presented at the ceremony?
A: All awards won by organizations in attendance will be conferred.

Q: Will Stevie winners who are not represented at the event be announced?
A: No. Only winners in attendance will be recognized at the event, however, all winners are published on our website prior to the awards gala.

How Awards Will Be Presented

In order to simplify the presentations, we will place Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award trophies, and Silver and Bronze medallions, on the table on stage from which Stevie winners will speak. (See an example here from a Stevie Awards event last year.) Speakers will be featured with these awards in on-stage photographs, video recordings, and our live web broadcast of the proceedings.

At any time after an organization's representatives leave the stage, they may go to a table outside the ballroom to claim their actual awards, already packaged and ready to carry away in a Stevie Awards tote bag.

Q: How many times will our organization be called to the stage?
A: Each organization will be called to the stage once during the presentations to accept all of their awards.

Q: In what order will organizations be called to the stage?
A: Organizations will be called to the stage in the order in which tickets were purchased for the ceremony.

Q: Will we be able to make an acceptance speech after accepting our awards?
A: Yes. Each organization will have 30 seconds in which to make an acceptance speech. If your organization has purchased a Table of 10, 1 minute will be given for the acceptance speech. If your organization has purchased a Sponsored Table, 2 minutes will be given for the acceptance speech.

Q: How may we ship our awards back to our offices from the hotel?
A: DHL will be onsite during the ceremony to ship awards from the hotel. Each organization must pay for their own shipping costs.

Live Broadcast

Q: Will the awards presentations be broadcast online to watch remotely?
A: Yes, the presentations will be broadcast live, worldwide, via Vimeo. The broadcast may be viewed here.

Photography and Videography

Q: Will there be still photographers at the event?
A: We will have two still photographers at the event. They will take candid photos during the pre-dinner reception and dinner. One photographer will photograph all on-stage awards presentations. The other photographer will work on the red carpet area all evening, photographing Stevie Award winners with their awards.

Q: When and how will photographs of the event be made available?
A: All of the photographs will be freely available on the Stevie Awards' Flickr page the week following the awards ceremony. You may use the photographs however you'd like. When available, you'll find a link to the photographs here.