Looking for IT Awards? Tech Awards?
![](https://awards-list.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/emma_turnbull.jpg)
Emma Turnbull
Managing Consultant, Boost
But which are the best IT awards and tech awards to enter?
With the number of IT awards and technology awards increasing all the time, it can be difficult choosing the right IT awards for your company, innovation or product. Do you choose a general, credible IT Awards scheme, or something more specific like search awards or software awards? Boost’s award entry expert Emma Turnbull helps guide you through the tech awards and global technology awards available to find the international recognition you deserve.
Why enter technology awards?
According to research by Boost, about 72% of buyers are influenced by tech awards when buying IT services or products. Is it any wonder that the IT industry is so keen to win credible awards? In a competitive global market that’s constantly innovating, a prestigious global IT industry award could make all the difference.
There are technology awards that celebrate the truly international, ever-changing nature of IT on all levels, so I thought it wise to highlight some of the key global tech awards schemes for you to consider.
Whether you are a start-up or an established Silicon Valley global player, big or small, no matter the scale of the product or innovation, there is an awards program to celebrate it.
In this guide, I will look at some of the top general IT Awards for companies, products and services, before then looking at awards for individuals, such as the Women in IT Awards. I will highlight the search awards that are becoming more competitive than ever, as companies fight for awards for SEO, PPC and software innovation awards. Finally, I run through some more general business award schemes that have relevant IT and tech categories to consider.
As the sector is so diverse, I’ll come back to look at the more specialized technology industry awards (Cloud Awards, App Awards, Cyber Security Awards etc.) in future articles. Please note that some of the technology award schemes below do have specialized categories for mobile tech, programmatic, etc. so there could still be something relevant for you here.
International technology awards
In this section, I will first highlight some of the key international and global technology award schemes and share some of the key information in terms of their history, categories and deadlines.
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Awards
Each year, the Microsoft MPN Partner of the Year Awards are presented at the Microsoft Inspire Event. This is a prestigious awards program which recognises partners from every corner of the world who have delivered exemplary solutions built on Microsoft technologies.
There are 39 global category award opportunities, which are updated year on year, plus 102 different Country Partner of the Year Awards that honor partners’ achievements across the globe. The category awards are hotly contested, with a yearly entry rate of over 2,600 nominations from 115 different countries.
The Microsoft Partner Awards have a wide range of opportunities for your business to enter including business application categories, industry-specific categories, infrastructure and application awards. The latest category introduced is ‘Community Response Award’ recognising the incredible efforts and innovations in response to the pandemic.
Being a Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards winner or finalist honours your company as a leading provider of Microsoft-based solutions and services, and can lead to exciting new business opportunities.
Region: International
Deadline: April
![it awards](https://awards-list.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/it_awards_thumb.jpg)
“Based on research by Boost, about 72% of buyers are influenced by tech awards when buying IT services or products…In a competitive global market that’s constantly innovating, a prestigious global IT industry award could make all the difference.”
IT World Awards
Launched in 2005 as “The IT industry’s premier excellence awards program…”, The IT World Awards, honors achievements in every facet of the information technology industry.
It is a truly international tech awards scheme that is open to all companies across the world and covers every aspect of the IT sector, with a huge number of categories for businesses, individuals, products and support – they include Best IT Company, Start Up of The Year, Most Innovative Person, Women in IT and Best Product or Service, to name but a few! Categories are also then broken down by company size, to allow for a more level playing field. Previously Gold Medals have been awarded to companies from the USA, Canada, France, UK, Israel, India and Vietnam.
With so much scope for entry, this is one of the most complete IT award programs in the world.
Region: International
Deadline: May
The IT Europa Channel Awards
Now in their 13th year, these have spent most of their life known as The European IT & Software Excellence Awards, but underwent a rebrand in 2022. The awards remain all about software development, IT and Telecoms solutions provision. As the name suggests, they welcome entries from across Europe, but are mostly UK-focused with a prestigious London event in May. They tend to attract the smaller providers, but in previous years Microsoft and BNP Paribas picked up awards, proving the big brands are welcome too.
In our experience, these have been very popular and competitive in the past. Entries are almost entirely based on one case study, even if the category indicates something more general, for example, ‘Cloud Solution Provider of the Year’. There are 26 categories in all, which breaks down as seven solution categories, nine supplier categories, three app developer and ISVs and 3 for culture and sustainability.
Region: Europe
Deadline: March
Website: https://www.iteawards.com/
TiE50 Awards
TiE50 (The Indus Entrepreneurs Top 50) is Silicon Valley’s premier annual awards program, keenly contested by thousands of early-stage technology startups worldwide. Awards are announced at TiEcon in Santa Clara, which is the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs and is usually held in May.
TiE is a global, not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship, providing a platform for mentoring, networking and education for technology worldwide. No matter where you are in the world, you can enter.
Region: International
Deadline: April
Website: https://www.tiecon.org/tie50
SIIA Codie Awards
For the past 37 years, the SIIA CODiE Awards has honored thousands of software, education, information and media products for achieving excellence. The CODiE Awards highlight the very best products, innovators and leaders in today’s tech market, with each award win serving as incredible market validation for a product’s innovation, vision and overall industry impact.
These long-standing awards have a great breadth of categories for 2023 – divided between 14 new Leadership categories, five Business Tech Product categories and seven new Ed Tech categories.
Region: International
Deadline: January
Website: https://www.siia.net/codie/
Technology Awards for Women
More organizations in the tech industry are promoting their diversity, but figures show that only 9% of the leaders in the sector are female. Here are some IT award schemes that are set to celebrate the women in the IT industry – there are also categories for Women in IT in most other schemes, too.
The Women in IT Awards
The Women in IT Awards global series aims to tackle the issue of recruiting and retaining female tech talent and redress the gender imbalance, by showcasing the achievements of women in the sector and identifying new role models.
Organized by business technology site Information Age, the awards were launched as a platform to celebrate women in technology. Since its launch in 2015, this growing awards series acts as a flagship and high-profile platform to support the industry in its mission to move the dial on gender.
There are six events globally depending on your territory – UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, Canada and Asia. Offering a series of awards, ranging from ‘CIO of the Year” through to ‘Rising Star’, the programme provides a platform to identify females who are achieving great things at all levels.
Region: UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, Canada and Asia
Deadline: April (Asia, Europe, USA), June (Canada), July (Ireland), November (UK)
Website: https://womeninitawards.com/
![it tech awards](https://awards-list.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/women_in_IT-awards.jpg)
“More organizations in the IT industry are promoting their diversity, but figures show that only 9% of the leaders in the sector are female.”
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are the world’s premier business awards for female entrepreneurs, executives, employees and the organizations they run.
There are dozens of categories covering every aspect of work life, from management and entrepreneurship to product development, innovation and more, plus the awards are split by business size to allow more chance of success.
There are technology-related individual and company award categories, plus those that are not specifically IT for innovation, entrepreneurs etc, meaning multiple entries are an option.
Region: International
Deadline: August
Website: https://stevieawards.com/women
TITAN Women in Business Awards
These awards are also US-based but open to international entry, and similarly feature hundreds of categories, so plenty of options to choose from. There are tech-specific categories for both teams and individuals, such as categories for Female Executive of the Year, Future Leader of the Year, IT Department of the Year, Most Innovative IT Department of the Year, IT Company of the Year and many others.
Region: International
Deadline: November
Website: https://thewomenbusinessawards.com/
Search awards and SEO awards
Searching for the best in search? Then look no further than the award schemes below, specifically for the increasingly expanding search industry. Or read our more detailed guide to Search Awards. There are of course SEO award categories, SEM and PPC award categories in many marketing awards, but these are the pure search award schemes internationally. Winning a search award really can put your digital agency ahead of the competition and win you business.
The Search Engine Land Awards (The Landy Awards)
Sponsored by Google and Bing, it goes without saying that these are credible! Search Engine Land wanted to provide a meaningful way to ‘Celebrate the Power of Search’ within the search marketing community. The Search Engine Land Awards program, a.k.a. The Landy Awards, are dedicated to honoring the best practices of search marketing by recognizing the consultants, agencies, in-house teams, search tools and platforms used by digital marketers to execute successful programs encompassing organic, paid, local, mobile and social search tactics.
There are categories for SEO, SEM, individuals and team awards covering campaigns, platforms and tools. You will be judged by search experts as well as representatives from Google & Bing.
Region: International
Deadline: September
Website: https://searchengineland.com/awards
![search it awards](https://awards-list.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/search_awards.jpg)
“The Search Engine Land Awards recognize the consultants, agencies, in-house teams, search tools and platforms used by digital marketers to execute successful programs, encompassing organic, paid, local, mobile and social search tactics.”
The Search Awards
There are now six sets of these awards – divided by territory – US, Canada, UK, Europe, APAC & MENA – and a seventh Global Search Awards edition. They are viewed as the premier celebration of SEO, PPC and content marketing and celebrate and reward the expertise, talent and achievements of the search industry. The UK Search Awards was established in 2011 and then Europe, the US and now MENA, APAC, Canada and the Global edition followed on.
Each of the awards attract hundreds of entries from the leading search and digital agencies across the territories and to those based elsewhere around the globe who are delivering work for the regional markets. Categories include ‘Best Search Software Tool’, sector-specific ‘Best Use of Search’ campaigns and ‘Personality of the Year’.
Region: International + territory specific
Deadline: March (Europe), April (Canada), May (Global), June (US), Sept (UK and MENA), Nov (APAC)
Websites: https://www.europeansearchawards.com/
https://canadiansearchawards.com/
https://globalsearchawards.net/
https://www.menasearchawards.com/
The Drum Search Awards
The Drum is Europe’s largest marketing website, with 1.4m page views per month. The Drum Search Awards celebrate the individuals and companies at the forefront of the search industry. Described by judges as ‘the one to win’, these global awards provide the perfect opportunity for those entering to prove they are the best at what they do.
Region: International
Deadline: February
Website: https://www.thedrumsearchawards.com/
Technology award categories in business awards
Many of the key international business awards schemes have IT categories and celebrate that IT and tech innovation forms the core to many functions within the business environment. There are many suitable awards out there in specific industries, for example fintech awards, payments awards, learning technology awards and so on. For now here are a few of the most notable international business awards, but do check out our International Awards List for a more comprehensive list of over 5,000 international awards.
The International Business Awards (The International Stevies)
The IBAs are open to all organizations worldwide, large or small, public or private.
These US-based awards were set up in 2002 to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide. Now, the Stevie has become one of the world’s most coveted prizes (which is further supported by the fact they receive 3,900 entries each year from 74 nations).
Even with so many entries, there are a plethora of categories for the IT sector, ranging from ‘IT Team of the Year’ through to hardware and software awards, each with bronze, silver and gold Stevies up for grabs. So, although competition is fierce, these global awards are very winnable for the right story.
Region: International
Deadline: August
Website: https://stevieawards.com/iba
![it awards in business awards](https://awards-list.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/technology_awards.jpg)
“Another approach is to enter IT technology award categories in international business award schemes. These can be in specific industry sectors, for example fintech awards or learning technology awards, or categories within more general international business award schemes.”
The BIG Innovation Awards (by the Business Intelligence Group)
The BIG Innovation Awards scheme was launched in 2012 and recognizes those organizations and people who bring new ideas to life.
These are not specifically technology awards, but they are celebrating innovation, which is what you are doing every day. The awards have three sections: first for organizations whose culture, products and/or people are constantly delivering innovation to the community or customer, second for a single product that has launched or updated in the last 12 months that has caused market or consumer disruption, and then finally for business execs or leaders that have led the charge with their skills or management style to deliver a culture of innovation within their business.
Region: International
Deadline: November
Website: https://www.bintelligence.com/big-innovation-awards/
The Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Program
The Excellence Awards recognize the best organizations that have successfully deployed programs, strategies, modalities, processes, systems and tools that have achieved measurable results. These awards have a focus on learning and development technology, talent management and acquisition technology, workforce management technology and sales enablement tech. The program attracts entrants from leading corporations around the world, as well as mid-market and smaller firms. Gold, Silver and Bronze awards are awarded and are focused on the advancement of technologies, with categories including ‘Best Advance in Rewards & Recognition Technology’, ‘Best Advance in Mobile Sales Enablement and Performance Tools’ plus ‘Best Advance in Learning Management Technology’.
Solution providers offering technologies to learning, talent management, talent acquisition, HR, workforce management and sales enablement organizations, as well as technology organizations and departments, can enter alone or jointly with their client organizations.
Region: International
Deadline: September
Website: https://www.brandonhall.com/excellenceawards/technology.html
Next steps?
Hopefully that has given you some food for thought about the many IT and tech awards out there. Please check back for my follow-up piece, which will be covering such aspects as mobile awards, app awards and awards for websites, cloud awards and data awards, cyber security awards, AI Awards and VR Awards, amongst the many other areas of the diverse world of tech awards.
Do any of these make you think ‘That’s us’ or ‘We could win that?’ If so, then I recommend you let us help with the creation of your written submission. We are the world’s first and largest award entry consultancy. We’ve been helping businesses enter tech awards and win them since 2006 and we are more experienced than any other agency in the world when it comes to these awards. Details of our award entry writing services can be found here.
I would be happy to give you a call to help you double check your chances of success and explain our pricing options. You can contact Boost via our contact form or email me directly via emma.turnbull@boost-awards.co.uk
I look forward to hearing from you and helping you win awards.
Emma.
(C) This article was written by Emma Turnbull and is the intellectual property of award entry consultants Boost Awards
Looking for IT Awards? Tech Awards?
![](https://awards-list.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/emma_turnbull.jpg)
Emma Turnbull
Managing Consultant, Boost
But which are the best IT awards and tech awards to enter?
With the number of IT awards and technology awards increasing all the time, it can be difficult choosing the right IT awards for your company, innovation or product. Do you choose a general, credible IT Awards scheme, or something more specific like search awards or software awards? Boost’s award entry expert Emma Turnbull helps guide you through the tech awards and global technology awards available to find the international recognition you deserve.
Why enter technology awards?
According to research by Boost, about 72% of buyers are influenced by tech awards when buying IT services or products. Is it any wonder that the IT industry is so keen to win credible awards? In a competitive global market that’s constantly innovating, a prestigious global IT industry award could make all the difference.
There are technology awards that celebrate the truly international, ever-changing nature of IT on all levels, so I thought it wise to highlight some of the key global tech awards schemes for you to consider.
Whether you are a start-up or an established Silicon Valley global player, big or small, no matter the scale of the product or innovation, there is an awards program to celebrate it.
In this guide, I will look at some of the top general IT Awards for companies, products and services, before then looking at awards for individuals, such as the Women in IT Awards. I will highlight the search awards that are becoming more competitive than ever, as companies fight for awards for SEO, PPC and software innovation awards. Finally, I run through some more general business award schemes that have relevant IT and tech categories to consider.
As the sector is so diverse, I’ll come back to look at the more specialized technology industry awards (Cloud Awards, App Awards, Cyber Security Awards etc.) in future articles. Please note that some of the technology award schemes below do have specialized categories for mobile tech, programmatic, etc. so there could still be something relevant for you here.
International technology awards
In this section, I will first highlight some of the key international and global technology award schemes and share some of the key information in terms of their history, categories and deadlines.
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Awards
Each year, the Microsoft MPN Partner of the Year Awards are presented at the Microsoft Inspire Event. This is a prestigious awards program which recognises partners from every corner of the world who have delivered exemplary solutions built on Microsoft technologies.
There are 39 global category award opportunities, which are updated year on year, plus 102 different Country Partner of the Year Awards that honor partners’ achievements across the globe. The category awards are hotly contested, with a yearly entry rate of over 2,600 nominations from 115 different countries.
The Microsoft Partner Awards have a wide range of opportunities for your business to enter including business application categories, industry-specific categories, infrastructure and application awards. The latest category introduced is ‘Community Response Award’ recognising the incredible efforts and innovations in response to the pandemic.
Being a Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards winner or finalist honours your company as a leading provider of Microsoft-based solutions and services, and can lead to exciting new business opportunities.
Region: International
Deadline: April
![it award](https://awards-list.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/it_awards_thumb.jpg)
“Based on research by Boost, about 72% of buyers are influenced by tech awards when buying IT services or products…In a competitive global market that’s constantly innovating, a prestigious global IT industry award could make all the difference.”
IT World Awards
Launched in 2005 as “The IT industry’s premier excellence awards program…”, The IT World Awards, honors achievements in every facet of the information technology industry.
It is a truly international tech awards scheme that is open to all companies across the world and covers every aspect of the IT sector, with a huge number of categories for businesses, individuals, products and support – they include Best IT Company, Start Up of The Year, Most Innovative Person, Women in IT and Best Product or Service, to name but a few! Categories are also then broken down by company size, to allow for a more level playing field. Previously Gold Medals have been awarded to companies from the USA, Canada, France, UK, Israel, India and Vietnam.
With so much scope for entry, this is one of the most complete IT award programs in the world.
Region: International
Deadline: May
The IT Europa Channel Awards
Now in their 13th year, these have spent most of their life known as The European IT & Software Excellence Awards, but underwent a rebrand in 2022. The awards remain all about software development, IT and Telecoms solutions provision. As the name suggests, they welcome entries from across Europe, but are mostly UK-focused with a prestigious London event in May. They tend to attract the smaller providers, but in previous years Microsoft and BNP Paribas picked up awards, proving the big brands are welcome too.
In our experience, these have been very popular and competitive in the past. Entries are almost entirely based on one case study, even if the category indicates something more general, for example, ‘Cloud Solution Provider of the Year’. There are 26 categories in all, which breaks down as seven solution categories, nine supplier categories, three app developer and ISVs and 3 for culture and sustainability.
Region: Europe
Deadline: March
Website: https://www.iteawards.com/
TiE50 Awards
TiE50 (The Indus Entrepreneurs Top 50) is Silicon Valley’s premier annual awards program, keenly contested by thousands of early-stage technology startups worldwide. Awards are announced at TiEcon in Santa Clara, which is the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs and is usually held in May.
TiE is a global, not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship, providing a platform for mentoring, networking and education for technology worldwide. No matter where you are in the world, you can enter.
Region: International
Deadline: April
Website: https://www.tiecon.org/tie50
SIIA Codie Awards
For the past 37 years, the SIIA CODiE Awards has honored thousands of software, education, information and media products for achieving excellence. The CODiE Awards highlight the very best products, innovators and leaders in today’s tech market, with each award win serving as incredible market validation for a product’s innovation, vision and overall industry impact.
These long-standing awards have a great breadth of categories for 2023 – divided between 14 new Leadership categories, five Business Tech Product categories and seven new Ed Tech categories.
Region: International
Deadline: January
Website: https://www.siia.net/codie/
Technology Awards for Women
More organizations in the tech industry are promoting their diversity, but figures show that only 9% of the leaders in the sector are female. Here are some IT award schemes that are set to celebrate the women in the IT industry – there are also categories for Women in IT in most other schemes, too.
![tech it awards](https://awards-list.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/women_in_IT-awards.jpg)
“More organizations in the IT industry are promoting their diversity, but figures show that only 9% of the leaders in the sector are female.”
The Women in IT Awards
The Women in IT Awards global series aims to tackle the issue of recruiting and retaining female tech talent and redress the gender imbalance, by showcasing the achievements of women in the sector and identifying new role models.
Organized by business technology site Information Age, the awards were launched as a platform to celebrate women in technology. Since its launch in 2015, this growing awards series acts as a flagship and high-profile platform to support the industry in its mission to move the dial on gender.
There are six events globally depending on your territory – UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, Canada and Asia. Offering a series of awards, ranging from ‘CIO of the Year” through to ‘Rising Star’, the programme provides a platform to identify females who are achieving great things at all levels.
Region: UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, Canada and Asia
Deadline: April (Asia, Europe, USA), June (Canada), July (Ireland), November (UK)
Website: https://womeninitawards.com/
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business
The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are the world’s premier business awards for female entrepreneurs, executives, employees and the organizations they run.
There are dozens of categories covering every aspect of work life, from management and entrepreneurship to product development, innovation and more, plus the awards are split by business size to allow more chance of success.
There are technology-related individual and company award categories, plus those that are not specifically IT for innovation, entrepreneurs etc, meaning multiple entries are an option.
Region: International
Deadline: August
Website: https://stevieawards.com/women
TITAN Women in Business Awards
These awards are also US-based but open to international entry, and similarly feature hundreds of categories, so plenty of options to choose from. There are tech-specific categories for both teams and individuals, such as categories for Female Executive of the Year, Future Leader of the Year, IT Department of the Year, Most Innovative IT Department of the Year, IT Company of the Year and many others.
Region: International
Deadline: November
Website: https://thewomenbusinessawards.com/
Search awards and SEO awards
Searching for the best in search? Then look no further than the award schemes below, specifically for the increasingly expanding search industry. Or read our more detailed guide to Search Awards. There are of course SEO award categories, SEM and PPC award categories in many marketing awards, but these are the pure search award schemes internationally. Winning a search award really can put your digital agency ahead of the competition and win you business.
The Search Engine Land Awards (The Landy Awards)
Sponsored by Google and Bing, it goes without saying that these are credible! Search Engine Land wanted to provide a meaningful way to ‘Celebrate the Power of Search’ within the search marketing community. The Search Engine Land Awards program, a.k.a. The Landy Awards, are dedicated to honoring the best practices of search marketing by recognizing the consultants, agencies, in-house teams, search tools and platforms used by digital marketers to execute successful programs encompassing organic, paid, local, mobile and social search tactics.
There are categories for SEO, SEM, individuals and team awards covering campaigns, platforms and tools. You will be judged by search experts as well as representatives from Google & Bing.
Region: International
Deadline: September
Website: https://searchengineland.com/awards
![search it awards](https://awards-list.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/search_awards.jpg)
“The Search Engine Land Awards recognize the consultants, agencies, in-house teams, search tools and platforms used by digital marketers to execute successful programs, encompassing organic, paid, local, mobile and social search tactics.”
The Search Awards
There are now six sets of these awards – divided by territory – US, Canada, UK, Europe, APAC & MENA – and a seventh Global Search Awards edition. They are viewed as the premier celebration of SEO, PPC and content marketing and celebrate and reward the expertise, talent and achievements of the search industry. The UK Search Awards was established in 2011 and then Europe, the US and now MENA, APAC, Canada and the Global edition followed on.
Each of the awards attract hundreds of entries from the leading search and digital agencies across the territories and to those based elsewhere around the globe who are delivering work for the regional markets. Categories include ‘Best Search Software Tool’, sector-specific ‘Best Use of Search’ campaigns and ‘Personality of the Year’.
Region: International + territory specific
Deadline: March (Europe), April (Canada), May (Global), June (US), Sept (UK and MENA), Nov (APAC)
Websites: https://www.europeansearchawards.com/
https://canadiansearchawards.com/
https://globalsearchawards.net/
https://www.menasearchawards.com/
The Drum Search Awards
The Drum is Europe’s largest marketing website, with 1.4m page views per month. The Drum Search Awards celebrate the individuals and companies at the forefront of the search industry. Described by judges as ‘the one to win’, these global awards provide the perfect opportunity for those entering to prove they are the best at what they do.
Region: International
Deadline: February
Website: https://www.thedrumsearchawards.com/
Technology award categories in business awards
Many of the key international business awards schemes have IT categories and celebrate that IT and tech innovation forms the core to many functions within the business environment. There are many suitable awards out there in specific industries, for example fintech awards, payments awards, learning technology awards and so on. For now here are a few of the most notable international business awards, but do check out our International Awards List for a more comprehensive list of over 5,000 international awards.
The International Business Awards (The International Stevies)
The IBAs are open to all organizations worldwide, large or small, public or private.
These US-based awards were set up in 2002 to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide. Now, the Stevie has become one of the world’s most coveted prizes (which is further supported by the fact they receive 3,900 entries each year from 74 nations).
Even with so many entries, there are a plethora of categories for the IT sector, ranging from ‘IT Team of the Year’ through to hardware and software awards, each with bronze, silver and gold Stevies up for grabs. So, although competition is fierce, these global awards are very winnable for the right story.
Region: International
Deadline: August
Website: https://stevieawards.com/iba
![it awards in business awards](https://awards-list.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/technology_awards.jpg)
“Another approach is to enter IT technology award categories in international business award schemes. These can be in specific industry sectors, for example fintech awards or learning technology awards, or categories within more general international business award schemes.”
The BIG Innovation Awards (by the Business Intelligence Group)
The BIG Innovation Awards scheme was launched in 2012 and recognizes those organizations and people who bring new ideas to life.
These are not specifically technology awards, but they are celebrating innovation, which is what you are doing every day. The awards have three sections: first for organizations whose culture, products and/or people are constantly delivering innovation to the community or customer, second for a single product that has launched or updated in the last 12 months that has caused market or consumer disruption, and then finally for business execs or leaders that have led the charge with their skills or management style to deliver a culture of innovation within their business.
Region: International
Deadline: November
Website: https://www.bintelligence.com/big-innovation-awards/
The Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Program
The Excellence Awards recognize the best organizations that have successfully deployed programs, strategies, modalities, processes, systems and tools that have achieved measurable results. These awards have a focus on learning and development technology, talent management and acquisition technology, workforce management technology and sales enablement tech. The program attracts entrants from leading corporations around the world, as well as mid-market and smaller firms. Gold, Silver and Bronze awards are awarded and are focused on the advancement of technologies, with categories including ‘Best Advance in Rewards & Recognition Technology’, ‘Best Advance in Mobile Sales Enablement and Performance Tools’ plus ‘Best Advance in Learning Management Technology’.
Solution providers offering technologies to learning, talent management, talent acquisition, HR, workforce management and sales enablement organizations, as well as technology organizations and departments, can enter alone or jointly with their client organizations.
Region: International
Deadline: September
Website: https://www.brandonhall.com/excellenceawards/technology.html
Next steps?
Hopefully that has given you some food for thought about the many IT and tech awards out there. Please check back for my follow-up piece, which will be covering such aspects as mobile awards, app awards and awards for websites, cloud awards and data awards, cyber security awards, AI Awards and VR Awards, amongst the many other areas of the diverse world of tech awards.
Do any of these make you think ‘That’s us’ or ‘We could win that?’ If so, then I recommend you let us help with the creation of your written submission. We are the world’s first and largest award entry consultancy. We’ve been helping businesses enter tech awards and win them since 2006 and we are more experienced than any other agency in the world when it comes to these awards. Details of our award entry writing services can be found here.
I would be happy to give you a call to help you double check your chances of success and explain our pricing options. You can contact Boost via our contact form or email me directly via emma.turnbull@boost-awards.co.uk
I look forward to hearing from you and helping you win awards.
Emma.
(C) This article was written by Emma Turnbull and is the intellectual property of award entry consultants Boost Awards
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