The Digital Economy Award enters the second round
The submission deadline for the Digital Economy Award has opened. A jury of prominent ICT experts is looking for Switzerland's most digitally mature companies and their most innovative projects by June 21. The best of the best will be honored in four categories at the Digital Economy Award Gala at the Hallenstadion on November 28.
The Digital Economy Award was presented for the first time in 2018 awarded. It is organized by the ICT industry association swissICT and the specialist publisher Netzmedien AG and was created by a merger of the Swiss ICT Awards and the Swiss Digital Transformation Awards. The next award ceremony will take place on November 28, 2019 at the Hallenstadion in Zurich. As in the previous year, awards will be presented at this Digital Economy Award Night in the categories "Digital Innovation Of The Year", "The Next Global Hot Thing", "Digital Transformation Award" and "Highest Digital Quality". Within the "Highest Digital Quality" category, companies will be certified in the categories "Lean, Agile & Scrum", "Sourcing & Cloud", "Industrie 4.0", "User Experience", "Security" and "Open Source" in 2019.
The awards are presented by prominent expert juries. The following five presidents head the juries: Marcus Dauck (Ringier, CIO), Lukas Bär (Implement Consulting Group, Partner), Pascal Kaufmann (Starmind, Founder), Samy Liechti (Blacksocks, CEO & Founder) and Bramwell Kaltenrieder (Exploit Management Advisory, Professor of Digital Business and Innovation).
New heads in the jury
Peter Kummer, CIO of SBB, Robert Fritze from ti&m, Daniel Arber from eOperations and Lucas Nicolussi from the city of Uster are new members of the committee. Stefano Mallè from Microsoft will replace Marianne Janik on the jury.
There is also growth among the scouting partners. This year, Zurich-based blockchain hub Trust Square will report the most promising startups to the jury in the category "The Next Global Hot Thing". A new special award also promises a lot of excitement: SIX, in collaboration with the F10 FinTech Incubator & Accelerator, will select a winner in the "Fintech" category.
Who will be the successor to Auterion & Co.
Auterion was the big winner of the first event in the new format as award winner of "The Next Global Hot Thing" in front of more than 500 guests at the Hallenstadion in Zurich on November 21, 2018. The drone tech start-up builds complete operating systems and is working very successfully to establish them as the global standard for enterprise drones. Other winners included Amnesty International Switzerland, Modum.io, Ex Libris, SBB and Sonova.
With over 100 entries, top-class projects and companies were represented in all categories. In the newly established, professional jury process with new jurors, the applicants were extensively analyzed and evaluated.
How to submit?
You can register for a submission at the following link: www.digitaleconomyaward.ch. After a check, applicants receive another link by mail; directly to the entry form. With this, documentation, links and media files can be deposited. At the end of the entry process, enrollees will receive a confirmation by mail. It is not possible to submit for the award "The Next Global Hot Thing". Only candidates nominated by our scouting partners are eligible.
