While discovering new products and trends are the primary reasons most people attend trade shows, networking and face-to-face communication is just as important.

Comedian and SEMA Show crowd favorite Sinbad—along with up-and-coming soul and R&B artist Curtis Harding—will entertain guests at the 2014 SEMA Show Industry Awards Banquet.

Last year, SEMA created the Gen-3 Innovator Award to recognize the top young individual from the specialty-equipment industry who is making breakthroughs in the areas of new products, new approaches to business or setting new trends.

The deadline to submit your SEMA Industry Awards nomination forms is Friday, June 29, 2012. The awards, which are presented during the SEMA Industry Awards Banquet at the SEMA Show, include SEMA Person of the Year, SEMA Rep Agency of the Year and SEMA WD of the Year.

The deadline to submit your SEMA Industry Awards nomination forms is Friday, June 29, 2012.

Nominations are now being accepted for SEMA's Industry Awards. The awards, which are presented during the SEMA Industry Awards Banquet at the SEMA Show, include SEMA Person of the Year, SEMA Rep Agency of the Year and SEMA WD of the Year.

Exhibitors looking to enhance company exposure at the annual SEMA Show may want to consider hosting a table at the 2012 Industry Awards Banquet.

SEMA presented John Menzler of the COMP Performance Group with the 2011 Person of the Year Award at the SEMA Show Industry Awards Banquet in Las Vegas. As a long-time SEMA member, HRIA Select Committee member and mentor to many in the industry, he received ringing applause as Banquet emcee Dave McClelland announced to a packed house, "Congratulations, John!"