And the Winners Are…

28th Annual Awards Dinner

With a day to absorb and reflect on the events of Tuesday evening’s 28th Annual Awards Dinner, we’ve concluded it was one of the best yet – and the largest audience by far with over 2,000 business, government and community leaders in attendance from all over the state.

Gov. Holcomb, Kevin Brinegar

Highlights of the event included the revealing of recipients of our four annual honors: Tom Easterday, Business Leader of the Year; Rep. Ed Soliday (R-Valparaiso), Government Leader of the Year; the City of Goshen, Lifeline Data Centers Community of the Year Goshen; and Scott McCorkle, Indiana Vision 2025 Dynamic Leader of the Year.

Additionally, Gov. Eric Holcomb touted Indiana’s economic development success to the crowd and presented Indiana Chamber President and CEO Kevin Brinegar with a Sagamore of the Wabash (his second award for distinguished service; the first was presented in 1992 by then-Gov. Evan Bayh).

Videos of the award winners are available here, along with the press release and more photos.

Our 2017 Volunteer of the Year luncheon, fall board of directors and annual membership meetings also took place earlier in the day. During the meeting, outgoing board chair Ron Christian passed the chairmanship to Chuck Baldwin, managing director at Ogletree Deakins law firm and based in Indianapolis.

Chuck Baldwin

Incoming Indiana Chamber Board of Directors Chair Chuck Baldwin (left) receives the gavel from outgoing Chair Ron Christian.

The November-December edition of BizVoice magazine is now live as well. Read in-depth stories about all our award winners, along with the sixth and final story in a series on Fishers-based Recovery Force. Other content includes our 50-year honor roll of Indiana Chamber member companies, a look back at two companies celebrating 100 years in business this year, and where we’re heading with Indiana Vision 2025, the Chamber’s long-range economic development plan for the state.

The 28th Annual Awards Dinner will be remembered for years to come, not only because of the people and communities honored, but because it caps off a year of business and legislative success in Indiana. Thank you to all who attended and made the evening memorable.

Be sure to mark your calendars for next year’s event on November 13, 2018.

28th Annual Awards Dinner crowd

EchoChamber: Behind the Scenes for 20 Years of Award Dinners

EchoChamber

The Indiana Chamber’s 28th Annual Awards Dinner takes place this evening. The EchoChamber team has been around for 20 of the outstanding events – helping tell the stories of award winners through video and print, as well as interacting with a tremendous lineup of keynote presenters. This is your opportunity to hear some thus-far untold anecdotes. Listen now.

EchoChamber is the Indiana Chamber podcast featuring conversations with business, education, political and technology leaders. It’s your opportunity to listen in on your terms.

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