Winners of the 2003 Canadian New Media Awards will be announced on June 2, 3003 in Toronto, Ontario.

Profiles of the 2002 Winners are below:

New Media Visionary:
Stacey Spiegel - Toronto, Ontario
Founder, president and CEO of Immersion Studios, innovator, artist, teacher, mentor, and creative thinker, Stacey is new media visionary with 15 years experience in the industry. As an adjunct professor of architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Toronto, Stacey met Rodney Hoinkes, professor of computing in design. Together they conceived two interactive shows, Crossings and Safe Haven, shown to sold-out audiences in Germany, and founded Immersion Studios in 1997. Stacey conceived and produced Immersion's first production, My Canada, which premiered at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto and utilized the first Silicon Graphics Onyx2 Infinite Reality workstation.

Lifetime Achievement:
Jim Carroll - Mississauga, Ontario
Jim has been online since 1982. As an author, columnist, and frequent keynote speaker, he is recognized internationally as an expert on the "wired world", Internet, technology and the future. Noted for his ability to put the future into perspective, he has rapidly emerged as one of North America's leading keynote speakers, providing motivating and challenging presentations for tens of thousands of people at annual conferences, meetings, corporate events, and seminars. A prolific author, he has co-authored 32 books selling in excess of 750,000 copies worldwide. He regularly writes for many publications, and was named as one of 50 International Names to Know by the Online Journalism Review.

Educator of the Year:
Sara Diamond - Banff, Alberta
Sara is an internationally respected television, new media and visual artist, critic, teacher and curator. Artistic director of media and visual arts at The Banff Centre, Sara contributes to the Banff New Media Institute and the Banff convergent media and television co-production program. As an artist, she has produced award-winning television, new media and photographic installations and performances. She has been appointed to the Cultural Industries SAGIT and Canada Council Advisory Committee for Media Arts. She holds an Adjunct in the prestigious UCLA design media program and is a visiting researcher with SmartLabs Centre, UK. Recently, Sara received the Woman of Vision Award from Women in Film and Television and Wired Women.

Industry Advocate of the Year:
Mark Jones - Toronto, Ontario
Mark is a new media communications consultant, project manager, artist, writer and curator. Since first studying new technologies in 1992, Mark has focused on the intersection of culture and technology. In 1993 he established CyberStage, a print magazine dedicated to art and technology issues. He has sat on boards and committees for SIGGRAPH, InterAccess, the IDMA and Absolut Digital Art, and has spoken at numerous conferences. Mark also helped create a curriculum for inner city school kids in New Orleans and produced body@rest, an interactive performance installation exploring themes of identity, surveillance and dreams. Currently, Mark is the director of CyberStage Communications and program director of OnTarget.

Most Promising New Company of the Year:
J!VE Media Technologies - Toronto, Ontario
J!VE Media Technologies Inc. provides a suite of digital rights management, content management and media delivery services to content owners. Through its flagship product, J!VE Player, the company individually packages music videos, television or movie segments with dynamically updateable commercial sponsorship, advertising or information to deliver a television-like yet interactive viewing experience online. J!VE Player portable media files can be freely downloaded, played and shared between Internet consumers of peer-to-peer networks, file-sharing communities, instant messaging or via an email link while J!VE Media confirms each and every file viewed.

Producer of the Year:
Dan Fill - Toronto, Ontario
Dan is the head of convergence initiatives at Decode Entertainment. Since starting the department two and a half years ago, Dan has produced some of the most high profile projects on the Internet. He is the producer of the award-winning Angela Anaconda Online and has worked on Kidtime, The Undergrads.tv, and The Hoobs Online. His projects have been licensed to partners including MTV, The Jim Henson Company, Cartoon Network Japan, Turner Broadband Europe, Disney's SuperRTL, Teletoon Canada, France3, and Nickelodeon. Dan is a member of the new media advisory committee of the CFTPA and actively lobbies investors and agencies to increase funds for all Canadian new media producers.

Company of the Year:
Devlin Applied Design - Toronto, Ontario
Since founding in 1994, Devlin Applied Design has earned a stellar reputation for its core capabilities in Web design and development, and has also been recognized as a pioneer on two fronts: collaboration over the Web through Decision Room and the Devlin Usability Testing Lab. Devlin's distinct ability to innovate and invent has helped the company thrive during a severe economic downturn that negatively affected so many other companies. Founded and headed by Catharine Devlin, Devlin has never pursued the media spotlight but has progressed through straightforward hard work, dedication to its industry, determination to succeed and, most importantly, attention to and achievement of a profitable bottom line.

Graduate of the Year:
Pary Bell - Toronto, Ontario
Prior to entering the new media industry, Pary actively pursued his artistic endeavours by exhibiting his work in galleries across Canada. Recently, he completed a bachelor of fine arts at Emily Carr College of Art in Vancouver and has spent the past year exploring and enhancing his creative abilities in the realm of new media. An outdoors enthusiast, Pary has spent many years tree planting in northern British Columbia and has enjoyed many hitchhiking trips across Canada. When Pary is not in front of the computer, he travels North America as a member of one of Canada's top men's Ultimate Frisbee teams.

Volunteer of the Year:
Chris Carder - Toronto, Ontario
Chris is co-founder and CEO of ThinData Inc. a Web development and strategic consulting company whose clients include TD Asset Management, The National Gallery, CSA International and Xerox Canada. Chris leads a team of 35 + Internet professionals at ThinData and is regularly quoted on Canadian business and new media issues. He is a regular guest panellist on TSN's Off The Record with Michael Landsberg and the official Internet consultant for Newport Sports Management. Chris received his BAA in broadcast journalism in 1993 from Ryerson University's school of journalism where he received numerous awards, including Top Graduating Reporter and Top Political Science Student in Journalism.

Designer of the Year:
Dave Goulden - Calgary, Alberta
Dave is an award-winning graphic artist, architectural designer and new media artist. His work has been featured internationally at the Siggraph Animation Festival, on the Discovery Channel, in AVID Technology Demo Reel and in Computer Graphics World Magazine. Dave has presented his work internationally at Internet II, CANARIE's AGM and at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He was recently awarded the commission to design the 109th Street Gateway public art installation in Edmonton through a national design competition. His interactive multimedia art installation, Cyber Cell, was named one of the top 40 digital architectural design projects by FEIDAD. Currently Dave is the creative director of ID8 Design Group.

Employer of the Year:
Thindata - Toronto, Ontario
ThinData is a new media company, serving more than 200 clients worldwide including TD Asset Management, The National Gallery, CSA International and Xerox Canada. For the past six years the company has successfully developed custom applications, developed digital media, provided Internet strategy consulting and built content management tools. Profitable for four straight years, ThinData has grown from a 2-person living room operation in 1995 to a 35 staff e-business powerhouse without taking a single dime of venture capital. Thin Data has a staff retention rate of 90% and has donated services to The White Ribbon Campaign, Camp Oasis for Children with AIDS and Jessie's Centre for Teenagers.

Programmer of the Year:
Dan Zen - Dundas, Ontario
Dan has been programming since McLuhan - that is the 1995 CD-ROM, Understanding McLuhan. Since attending the launch of Shockwave in San Francisco, Dan has pioneered multi-player games, dragable content, roll-over interfaces, cross browser DHTML with zany features like Grim Reaper's Age Guesser, Teleporters, Spirograms, Web Ouija, Spy-mail, Gorogolon, Password Paradox and dozens more. His imagination is backed up by hundreds of thousands of lines of complex Perl, Lingo, Action Script, DHTML including a 13-nested conditional for AI deployment. But there's more to Dan than fun and games - he's programmed dozens of interactive tools including over a hundred large sponsor contests and interactive advertisements.