Award Categories
2027 Company Excellence Awards
- Innovation in Sustainability
- Outstanding Innovative Culture
- Digital Innovation
- Scientific Advancement
2027 Individual Excellence Awards
- Leadership Award
- Promising Early Career Innovation Professional Award
Individual Awards Criteria
Individuals receiving these awards will be able to demonstrate tangible examples of the following activities and attributes:
- Innovation Leadership Award
- Demonstrates exceptional vision, transformative influence on innovation.
- Consistently advocates for, educates on, and inspires innovation in their field.
- Drives a widespread, thriving culture of innovation.
- Acts as a role model, consistently inspires and leads peers.
- Promising Young Innovator Excellence Award
- Contributes to a widespread culture of innovation.
- Demonstrates exceptional creativity and forward-thinking.
- Adapts to emerging challenges, turning obstacles into opportunities for growth and innovation.
Company Awards Criteria
Teams receiving these awards will be able to demonstrate the following with tangible examples:
- Digital Innovation Excellence Award
- Adopts industry-leading digital innovations and applies them in highly creative ways.
- Drives transformative improvements with substantial impact on outcomes.
- Demonstrates exceptional scalability and transformative potential for digital innovation.
- Innovation in Sustainability Excellence Award
- Shows a strong commitment to achieving sustainability goals.
- Sets industry benchmarks through exceptional innovation around sustainability.
- Leads industry efforts in significantly reducing environmental impact.
- Outstanding Innovative Culture Excellence Award
- Showcases exceptional inclusivity and diversity as an industry leader.
- Provides an exceptionally safe and empowering environment that fosters innovation.
- Demonstrates transformative impact of the innovative culture on business performance and innovation leadership.
- Scientific Advancement Excellence Award
- Pushes the boundaries of innovation through scientific progress.
- Delivers groundbreaking advancements with substantial impact across their field.
- Exemplifies collaboration that propels major interdisciplinary progress.
- Outstanding Open Innovation Award
- Demonstrates outstanding open innovation collaboration characterized by strong partner commitment, synergy, and shared ownership.
- Showcases exceptional execution and adaptability in building and advancing an effective innovation partnership.
- Delivers transformational innovation impact and broad value creation through the partnership.
