ABOUT ALMA

ABOUT ALMA

Asia LGBT Milestone Awards & Forum (“ALMA Awards & Forum” in short) is the region’s premier LGBT event aimed at celebrating key occasions, programs, activities, and initiatives deemed to be a key milestone moment. And by which we showed our great efforts in drawing greater social awareness, debate and progress. It’s the region’s only cross-border event platform that draws a significant number of key interest stakeholders from the community NGOs, public figures, journalists, entrepreneurs and business leaders in advocating social diversity.

ALMA Awards & Forum is the birth-child of well-known Singapore’s gay magazine ELEMENT. Born in the beginning of 2014, ALMA Awards has quickly gained its strong influence over the region by being the one and only LGBT Awards that comes with both an awards ceremony and as well as a business diversity leadership forum, sponsored by IBM, BP and other large corporations.

ALMA Awards & Forum is usually held in March or April, touring around Asia in different cities. This year, ELEMENT Magazine announced that it will collaborate with ShanghaiPRIDE to bring the event to Shanghai, China for the first time in its history, and to be held on the very last day of ShanghaiPRIDE as a part of the Festival. Hiro Mizuhara, founder of ALMA Awards & Forum and Vice President of Singapore’s EPIC Media (ELEMENT Magazine’s holding company), made a recent announcement that an organizing committees board is to be established to put together the 3rd ALMA Awards & Forum, it is a symbol too, that the initiative has become a “milestone” moment itself.

Award Categories

MILESTONE CATEGORY

Most Memorable Milestone of the Year

Hero of the Year

Lifetime Achievement

 

EDITOR’S CHOICE CATEGORY

Favorite Artist of the Year

Favorite Politician of the Year

Favorite Entrepreneur of the Year

Favorite Brand of the Year

Favorite LGBT Business of the Year

 

CORPORATE CATEGORY

Star Employer of the Year

Best LGBT Marketing Campaign of the Year

Diversity Leader of the Year

Diversity Champion of the Year

 

Committee Members

Ah Qiang, PFLAG China

Chen Shisi, Blogger

Leslie Kee, Freelance Photographer

Geng Le, Danlan

Charlene Liu, ShanghaiPRIDE

Henk Meyknecht, Grand Kempinski

Hiro Mizuhara, Element Magazine (Committee Chair)

Tony Tenicela, IBM

Paul Thompson, LGBT Capital

Wei Xiaogang, Beijing Gender Health Institute

Ying Xin, Beijing LGBT Center

Yu Fei, Chengdu Tongle

 

The committee will be accompanied by a panel of judges from fifteen different countries in Asia.

Events

All events will be held on June 26th at various locations in Shanghai (venues to be disclosed closer to date).

• Business Forum & Networking Session
• Award Ceremony
• After-Party

Invitation

Registration for interested NGOs and corporate partners is available upon contact.
Stay tuned as we announce further options to attend the event as member of the general public.