The winners have been announced, and our own Danny Robinson, Strutta CEO has been selected as one of the recipients of the PopVox Awards.

Strutta hosted the voting platform for the popular choice categories, and the Georgia Straight has already published the list of all of the winners. Four juried awards were given out to Individual Standouts as well, and Danny was recognized as the top Industry Advocate. Here's Danny with a few words following the acceptance of the award:

Want to snatch up some tickets to Launch Party Vancouver 7? There are still a few available.

On behalf of our whole team here, we'd like to thank New Media BC, especially Kirstin Richter, for working with us on the voting site, and to the rest of the jury for thier wise selection in the Industry Advocate category.

Can you beleive it has been a year since the first Launch Party Vancouver?

Back then, Strutta Founders Maura and Danny, along with Layer 7's Dimitri Sirota, wanted to create an event that would bring together folks from all sectors of our burgeoning tech industry. Vancouver didn't have much in the way of opportunities to celebrate the exciting products that are launched locally.  Over 120 people came to the first event at Section 3 in Yaletown, and the turnout has only grown at each subsequent event.  

Well, it's been a year, and tomorrow is LPV5, the fifth in the series. Not surprisingly, it's the biggest one yet. Vancouver Mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson is scheduled to address the partygoers, with an announcement that includes the launch of a new tech platform he's launching.

For the companies that are demoing at the event, the stakes have been raised too. The six companies featured at the event are also competing in a contest (powered by Strutta, if you please) to win $1000, with the winner chosen by a panel of VIP judges. You too can vote, and the "people's choice" gets luxury box seats to a Vancouver Giants game. Watch for the videos to launch tomorrow morning (Thursday, Sept 18th) and cast your vote. Winners will be announced early next week.

In the year since the first event, Launch Party Vancouver has featured over 30 startups from Vancouver, and a few out-of-town "party crashers" as well. The second event was co-hosted by Twiistup, a sister event in Los Angeles. At LPV4, Techvibes hosted a startup job fair before the main event, and we at Strutta were among the companies showing off their new software.

For Launch Party Vancouver, there are no plans of letting up- the sixth event is already penciled into the calendar for November, and it's never too early to sign up to be among the companies featured.

Hope to see you tomorrow night!

Well said, Danny.

To kick off the New Year, the Techvibes blog posted a story about Digital Media People to watch in 2008.

In truth, it was TOO MUCH of a success, as there wasn't enough time to get to all of the 28 participating businesses. Our cargo van was filled to the brink twice with monitors, computers, keyboards, cables and techno gadgetry of all sorts.