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MEDCA Co-Founder Sean Tajkowski Nominated for 2022 iMasons Award

The Media & Entertainment Data Center Alliance (MEDCA), which provides education, information, and foundational practices geared toward supporting the explosive growth of M&E data-centric processes, is honored to announce Sean Tajkowski, co-founder of MEDCA and owner of the Tajkowski Group, has been nominated for an Infrastructure Masons 2022 iMasons Award.

The iMasons showcases and amplifies the contributions of leaders in the digital infrastructure industry who have led by example and achieved tangible and sustained results, according to Infrastructure Masons, an organization that provides infrastructure executives and technical professionals an independent forum to connect.

The 2022 award categories include “Sustainability Champion,” “Diversity and Inclusion Champion,” “Education Champion,” “Technology Innovation Champion,” “Luminary Award,” and the “IM100s,” which recognize and celebrate the 100 individuals who are contributing to the digital infrastructure industry in meaningful and measurable ways.
 
The awards will be announced during an Oct. 19 ceremony in London.
 
“My respect for Infrastructure Masons and its membership cannot be overstated,” Tajkowski said. “The value of the resources I have gained by following this community of professionals has had a direct impact on what I share with our clients, while shaping their businesses with future evolution in mind. I’m impressed by how so many have worked globally on a unified digital infrastructure effort such as the iM Climate Accord initiative, sharing real-world solutions in response. 
 
“I applaud all who were nominated for this iM100 Award this year, as it represents an extended achievement for the hard work shared internationally within this digital community. I’m looking forward to recognizing and celebrating these fantastic participants this October 19 at the Infrastructure Masons Award Show in London.”
 
The vision of iMasons is to unite builders of the digital age by enabling global membership to connect, grow, and give back, with the group’s five strategic industry priorities including enhancing education opportunities, championing diversity and inclusion, promoting innovation and technical excellence, inspiring sustainability, and increasing awareness.
  
MEDCA promotes and provides media and entertainment and information technology professionals fundamental awareness, guidance, and education, concentrating on the foundational physical infrastructure of M&E data processing and storage operations. Data-centric processes and equipment drive nearly every aspect of M&E, through pre-visualization, production, and post. 
 
MEDCA is an M&E community service, the goal of which is to encourage and educate M&E to adopt data-centric infrastructure standards capable of not only withstanding the exponential growth of data processing demands but thrive within it.
 
MEDCA operates as a non-profit corporation led by a Board of Directors composed of both key IT/big tech/telecommunication service and product providers as well as production/postproduction service and product professionals. MEDCA is managed through MESA.
 
For more information, contact MEDCA executive director Lisa Griffin at Lisa.griffin@medcaonline.org.