Evolution of GABS Awards Program

GABS Festival is excited to share that we are evolving our awards program to deliver an even more impactful and engaging experience for our community.

As part of this evolution, we are exploring a new, unified format that will bring together our awards into a single, enhanced platform – designed to better celebrate creativity, innovation, and excellence across the industry. Our intention is to integrate this new format directly into our GABS Festival events in 2027, creating stronger audience engagement and greater visibility for participants.

To allow us to focus on developing this future format, the Australia & New Zealand Can Design Awards (traditionally held in August/September) and the H100 Awards scheduled for January 2027 will not proceed in their current form.

Both programs have played an important role in celebrating creativity, innovation, and excellence across our industry which is why our team really hopes the new format will continue to attract the same strong support and following. We are incredibly proud of the talent and achievements the awards have showcased over the years and remain committed to building on this legacy in a way that better serves our partners, entrants, and the wider industry. 

We sincerely appreciate the ongoing support and input from our community, which has helped shape this next chapter. We look forward to sharing further updates as our plans develop and we thank you for your input that has helped us make these changes.

If you have any any queries, please email lisa@schwartz.events