Digital Economy Award 2024: Nomination phase started
This year, swissICT will once again be hosting the Digital Economy Award ceremony in six categories on November 14 at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, when it will once again be "and the winner is...". But before the awards can be presented to Switzerland's most important digital beacons, the doors will be opened for applications from the Swiss digital economy.
The nomination phase for the Digital Economy Award is open and will run until May 15, 2024. The jury, made up of prominent experts from the Swiss digital economy, will be looking for the most digitally mature companies in Switzerland and the most innovative digital projects and personalities until mid-September 2024. The winners will be selected from among the finalists at the festive gala event in the Hallenstadion on November 14, 2024 in the categories "Digital Excellence - Commercial", "Digital Excellence - NPO & Government", "Digital Innovation Of The Year", "The Next Global Hot Thing - in AI", "The Pascal" and "ICT Education Excellence". The "NextGen Hero" honors outstanding young personalities.
In anticipation of outstanding applications
Christian Hunziker, Managing Director of organizer swissICT, is looking forward to the upcoming year: "Of course, this year we will once again give space to proven fields of action as well as the latest trends and are looking forward to receiving applications from all parts of Switzerland that have points of contact with ICT and digitalization." By the latest trends, he means the focus at "Next Global Hot Thing" on the megatrend of artificial intelligence, which is hidden behind the addition "- in AI". And Hunziker hopes that "our high-caliber jury will once again be spoilt for choice this year, with promising and innovative applications being recommended for a place in the final at the Award Night."
Top-class jury
Anyone who wants to make it to the award evening must and may go through an exciting but also demanding application process. High-caliber jurors put the submissions through their paces based on the documents submitted and during the pitches during the jury days. The juries for each category are chaired by Anke Bridge Haux (CEO LGT Bank Switzerland), Christophe Nicolas (CIO Kudelski Group), Pascal Kaufmann (Founder Mindfire Group and Starmind), Claudia Lienert (Head of Communitymanagement SWITCH), Marcus Dauck (Head Mediatech & Services Ringier), Reto Vogt (Editor-in-Chief Inside IT) and Bramwell Kaltenrieder (Exploit Management Advisory, Professor of Digital Business and Innovation).
Digital Economy Award: Lighthouse event for Switzerland as a workplace
The Digital Economy Award was created in 2018 through a merger of the Swiss ICT Award and the Swiss Digital Transformation Award. The award sees itself as the flagship event for the Swiss workplace. With this in mind, the aim is to promote and reward people, organizations and products that are driving forward digital transformation and digitalization in Switzerland - for the benefit of Switzerland as a whole. The Digital Economy Award is organized by the ICT trade association swissICT.
Source and further information: www.digitaleconomyaward.ch
