Latest news with #GlobalAwards
Qatar Tribune
5 days ago
- Sport
- Qatar Tribune
QCA named ICC Cricket 4 Good Social Impact Initiative Asia winner
The Qatar Cricket Association (QCA) has been recognized by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as one of the winners for ICC Cricket 4 Good Social Impact Initiative of the Year 2024. QCA which has held blood donation campaigns and other initiatives said, 'The milestone highlights our commitment to using cricket as a force for positive change - empowering communities and building a better future through cricket.' Cricket 4 Good Social Impact Initiative of the Year: Africa Regional Winner – Cricket Kenya; Americas Regional Winner – Cricket Chile; Asia Regional Winner – Qatar Cricket Association; EAP Regional Winner – Persatuan Cricket Indonesia; Europe Regional Winner – Cricket Switzerland. The Regional Winners will now be put forward as contenders to claim the Global Awards, determined by a specialist and independent panel of voters consisting of Indian cricket icon VVS Laxman, former West Indies leg-spinner Samuel Badree, former White Ferns wicketkeeper-batter Katey Martin, Head of Marketing – Unilever International Nitin Agarwal and representatives from ICC partners, ICC Full Members, and the media, with the Global Winners set to be revealed on ICC channels once voting concludes.
Int'l Cricket Council
6 days ago
- Business
- Int'l Cricket Council
Global Nominees of ICC Development Awards 2024 announced
The ICC is pleased to reveal the outstanding programmes and performances that have won regional honours in the 2024 edition of the ICC Development Awards. The ICC Development Awards were established in 2002 to celebrate the initiatives and innovative programmes leading the growth of the sport around the world, delivered by ICC Members in emerging nations. For the first time, the 2024 awards comprise seven categories after the introduction of the ICC X Rexona criiio Festival of the Year award. After a year of exceptional innovation and growth, 24 ICC Members have been honoured as Regional Winners – ranging from leading participation in countries such as Bermuda and Sierra Leone to revolutionary social impact programmes in Spain and Qatar, also featuring some exceptional on-field performances in international competition. The Regional Winners will now be put forward as contenders to claim the Global Awards, determined by a specialist and independent panel of voters consisting of Indian cricket icon VVS Laxman, former West Indies leg-spinner Samuel Badree, former White Ferns wicketkeeper-batter Katey Martin, Head of Marketing – Unilever International Nitin Agarwal and representatives from ICC partners, ICC Full Members, and the media, with the Global Winners set to be revealed on ICC channels once voting concludes. Speaking on the announcement of the Regional Winners of the ICC Development Awards, ICC Chairman, Mr. Jay Shah said: 'For the past 22 years, the ICC Development Awards have celebrated the successes of ICC Associate Members, and it is pleasing to see how much growth in innovation, creativity and inclusivity has taken place with each passing year. 'Cricket is a vehicle for change and the programmes and projects delivered both physically and digitally reflect the hard work of our passionate Members from around the world who work tirelessly to see the sport grow in their territories. 'The inclusion of a brand-new category in the ICC X Rexona criiio Festival of the Year is another step in the right direction, proving that real growth is taking place globally. 'I would like to congratulate the regional winners on their success and wish them luck as we embark on the global voting process.' More details on each of the nominated entries will be available via the ICC website. ICC Development Awards 2025 Categories ICC Development Initiative of the Year – acknowledges the outstanding development initiative delivered by an Associate Member, either through a physical participation programme or a digitally delivered game development initiative during the year. ICC Female Cricket Initiative of the Year - acknowledges the outstanding female cricket focused initiative delivered by an Associate Member to promote the game, either through a physical participation programme or a digitally delivered game development initiative during the year. ICC Associate Member Men's Team Performance of the Year - acknowledges the outstanding men's on-field performance of the year by an Associate Member team in an ICC event or bilateral cricket. ICC Associate Member Women's Team Performance of the Year – acknowledges the outstanding women's on-field performance of the year by an Associate Member team in an ICC event or bilateral cricket. ICC Digital Fan Engagement of the Year – acknowledges the outstanding innovative use of digital platforms, campaigns or technology by an Associate Member to drive engagement with fans and the wider community during the year. ICC Cricket 4 Good Social Impact Initiative of the Year - acknowledges the outstanding project where cricket is used as a vehicle for social change or development. Whether it be female empowerment, health, education, or community initiatives, the project will have used cricket as a platform to deliver and impact on wider social development issues during the year. ICC criiio Cricket Festival of the Year with Rexona - this award acknowledges an outstanding festival delivered by an ICC Associate Member that was part of the ICC criiio Cricket Festival pilot programme 2024 that has made a significant impact in promoting the women's game. The initiative should have successfully increased participation and helped create a legacy for the development of women's cricket within the country. ICC Development Initiative of the Year Africa Regional Winner – Cricket Namibia Americas Regional Winner – Brazilian Cricket Association Asia Regional Winner – Malaysian Cricket Association EAP Regional Winner – Persatuan Cricket Indonesia Europe Regional Winner – Hellenic Cricket Federation (Greece) ICC Female Cricket Initiative of the Year Africa Regional Winner – Cricket Sierra Leone Americas Regional Winner – Brazilian Cricket Association Asia Regional Winner – Bhutan Cricket Council Board EAP Regional Winner – Vanuatu Cricket Association Europe Regional Winner – Cricket España ICC Associate Member Men's Performance of the Year Africa Regional Winner – Uganda Cricket Association Americas Regional Winner – USA Cricket Asia Regional Winner – Emirates Cricket Board EAP Regional Winner – Japan Cricket Association Europe Regional Winner – Guernsey Cricket ICC Associate Member Women's Performance of the Year Africa Regional Winner – Nigeria Cricket Federation Asia Regional Winner – Emirates Cricket Board EAP Regional Winner – Persatuan Cricket Indonesia Europe Regional Winner – Cricket Scotland ICC Digital Fan Engagement of the Year Africa Regional Winner – Cricket Namibia Americas Regional Winner – Bermuda Cricket Board Asia Regional Winner – Cricket Association of Nepal EAP Regional Winner – Persatuan Cricket Indonesia Cricket 4 Good Social Impact Initiative of the Year Africa Regional Winner – Cricket Kenya Americas Regional Winner – Cricket Chile Asia Regional Winner – Qatar Cricket Association EAP Regional Winner – Persatuan Cricket Indonesia Europe Regional Winner – Cricket Switzerland ICC X Rexona criiio Festival of the Year (Global Shortlist) Tanzania Cricket Association Cricket Association of Nepal Emirates Cricket Board Persatuan Cricket Indonesia The Saudi Arabian Cricket Federation
TechCrunch
29-05-2025
- Business
- TechCrunch
Top 30 startups announced for VivaTech 2025 Innovation of the Year Award
The Innovation of the Year Award celebrates the boldest and most visionary startups exhibiting at VivaTech 2025. Open to all exhibiting companies, the award honors those pushing boundaries and redefining industries. Startups were scored on Innovation & Creativity, Market Disruption, and Scalability. From hundreds of applicants, 30 made the short list. The top five will pitch live at VivaTech on June 11, and the winner will be revealed at the VivaTech Global Awards Ceremony on June 12. The prize? A pitch slot at the ceremony, a free Startup Corner at VivaTech 2026, and a coveted spot in the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200. This award recognizes not just great ideas, but also the teams turning bold visions into game-changing realities. This year's applicants blew us away. From turning glasses into self-driving guide dogs, to building photonic chips that could redefine computing, to converting mining waste into carbon sinks — this short list is full of breakthrough thinking with real-world stakes. We saw microrobot swarms for space exploration, AI that reads your mind to control devices, and bioelectronic implants fighting brain cancer. These startups are pushing science, design, and engineering to new heights, especially in areas like sustainability, human-machine interfaces, advanced diagnostics, and accessible healthcare. What stood out most was the boldness. These teams aren't just solving problems — they're building the future from the ground up. Choosing five finalists — let alone one winner — will be incredibly tough. Every startup in this top 30 has already earned serious bragging rights. Here are the VivaTech 2025 Innovation of the Year Award top 30 startups, as chosen by VivaTech in partnership with TechCrunch: Chipiron: France, health Virtuosis AI: Switzerland, information technologies Enerdrape SA: Switzerland, energy snap DISCOVERY: Germany, deep tech, BCI NunoX Technologies: Taiwan, software development/cloud services Phigi: France, industry Noxon: Germany, health .lumen: Romania, mobility/transportation HUA TEC International: Taiwan, health Video Analytics for Safety: Singapore, information technologies Geolinks Services: France, energy Moonlite Labs: Canada, media/entertainment/culture Stellaria: France, energy Mendo: France, software development/cloud services NeuralTeks: France, health Vita325: Ukraine, health Blue Skies Minerals GmbH: Canada, industry Anivance AI: Taiwan, health La Touche Musicale: France, media/entertainment/culture InSimili: Italy, health Nellow: France, information technologies Oncoelectronics: France, health Zeeh Africa: Nigeria, banking/finance/insurance/legal LumiSync: France, telecom/connectivity Onkos Molecular Diagnostics: Spain, health Wisp Solutions: France, mobility/transportation Werover: United Kingdom, energy BeyondMath: United Kingdom, information technologies Kumulus: France, industry FireTracking: New Caledonia, software development/cloud services If you're planning to be in Paris July 11-12, make sure to reserve your VivaTech pass today!
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
ECDMA Global Awards 2025 Announces First Winners, Establishing a New Global Benchmark for Recognition in E-Commerce, Digital Marketing, and Business Innovation
New York, USA, May 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The E-Commerce & Digital Marketing Association (ECDMA) has officially published the results of the first-ever , closing the inaugural 2025 cycle with the announcement of more than one hundred winning entries from across the globe. This carefully designed competition has already gained the attention of the professional community not just for the breadth of international participation, but for its clear structure, deep jury expertise, and the integrity of its judging process. ECDMA Global Awards Logo In its first year, the Awards attracted over 350 applications from companies, teams, and professionals representing more than 30 countries and a wide variety of sectors - from fintech to retail, software-as-a-service, creative agencies, logistics platforms, and digital-first consumer brands. Submissions were accepted in a range of categories covering strategic marketing, e-commerce excellence, innovation in business infrastructure, customer experience, content performance, and digital transformation. From the beginning, the ECDMA Global Awards were conceived as something different - not just another logo or certificate to decorate a portfolio, but a credible and practical system of recognition designed for real professionals. The Association made a clear decision not to outsource or replicate existing award frameworks. Instead, the team developed a proprietary award management system, built internally to support transparent and scalable judging, enable conflict-free jury assignment, and apply tiered score-based distinctions in an equitable and replicable way. That custom platform allowed each submission to be reviewed in detail by multiple independent judges, with all evaluations recorded securely and anonymously within the system. Behind this process stood a jury of nearly one hundred experts, carefully selected for their active roles in shaping digital business today. Among them were C-level executives, founders, marketing directors, e-commerce consultants, technologists, and educators - many with cross-border experience and deep operational insight. These jury members were not symbolic names placed on a list for prestige. They were involved reviewers, tasked with evaluating multiple entries in their domain of expertise and required to declare all potential conflicts before being assigned any projects. This rigor mattered. The Global Awards were open to both well-known industry players and emerging innovators. In some categories, boutique agencies competed alongside international conglomerates. In others, early-stage platforms went head-to-head with long-established service providers. The judging model made it possible for each submission to be evaluated on its own merit - measuring not relative size or reputation, but the strength of strategy, the clarity of execution, and the demonstrable impact of results. Each winner was placed into one of three tiers - Gold, Silver, or Bronze - based not on comparison, but on reaching specific score thresholds. This allowed the Awards to reflect excellence across a wide spectrum of company profiles, resource levels, and markets. From AI-powered CRM transformations in enterprise environments to inventive grassroots influencer campaigns launched on shoestring budgets, the winning entries had one thing in common: they produced measurable outcomes through insight, discipline, and creativity. Reflecting on the first edition, , Co-Founder and President of ECDMA, emphasized the importance of creating a recognition system rooted in professional reality rather than optics. 'This award was never meant to be a celebration of surface-level activity,' said Mischenko. 'We created it for the teams and professionals who are buried in real work. The ones who are fixing inefficient funnels, rewriting codebases, training client success teams, tuning targeting models, rebuilding category pages, and aligning strategies across business units. Their impact is undeniable - but in most cases, invisible. We wanted to change that. The geographic and sector diversity of the entries revealed a rich landscape of digital innovation. There were submissions from high-growth startups in Central Asia, from mature e-commerce ecosystems in Eastern Europe, from platform builders in Latin America, and from specialist agencies in the Gulf region. While some of these organizations operate in markets with limited access to global visibility, their inclusion in the ECDMA Awards created a new channel of recognition - one not dependent on geography or marketing budget, but on substance. The Awards also proved to be a valuable self-assessment tool. Several participants noted that the process of preparing their entry pushed their teams to articulate strategic choices more clearly, measure results more accurately, and reflect more critically on their work. The format encouraged applicants to document not just success, but the reasoning behind their actions - making the Awards feel more like a professional dialogue than a one-way submission. Feedback from jury members reinforced this. Many reported that they found the process not only fair and well-structured, but intellectually rewarding. Reviewing applications became an opportunity to observe current global practices across industries, from content lifecycle management and loyalty innovation to logistics automation, multi-market product rollouts, and adaptive customer segmentation strategies. The launch edition of the Awards has already created ripples far beyond its starting point. It has begun to set a new tone for what professional recognition in the digital space can look like - one that is quieter, deeper, and more grounded in the kind of work that defines real progress. The scale of this success was not driven by hype or volume, but by intent. The participants who applied came because they were looking for something meaningful. The jury members who judged took part because they wanted to support a credible process. And the Association itself remained uncompromising in its standards, choosing clarity and substance over ceremony at every step. Looking forward, ECDMA will build on the momentum of this year's success with an expanded program for 2026. The next edition of the Global Awards will introduce new categories and regional recognitions, deepen collaboration with international associations, and continue to improve the judging infrastructure based on jury and applicant feedback. Plans are also underway to publish an annual analysis based on award submissions - capturing patterns, strategies, and performance benchmarks from across markets and sectors. This report will become an important knowledge-sharing tool for the community, further reinforcing the role of the Awards not only as a recognition platform but as a professional resource. The ECDMA Global Awards were built to endure. They are not defined by this year's numbers, but by the quality of the process and the value it creates over time. In its first year, the Awards attracted talent from around the world, surfaced remarkable projects, and showed that a better way of recognizing digital excellence is not only possible - it's necessary. The full list of winners is available now at The stories behind these names represent the future of digital business - not only because of their innovation but also because of their execution, thinking, and discipline. For media interviews, post-award features, or inquiries about partnerships for the next edition, please contact E-Commerce & Digital Marketing Association Press inquiries E-Commerce & Digital Marketing Association Eugene Mischenko em@ 3072162411 Sign in to access your portfolio
Globe and Mail
30-04-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Stellar Global Awards Introduces New Silver Category to Broaden Recognition
Houston, Texas--(Newsfile Corp. - April 30, 2025) - To continue its mission of recognizing innovation, Stellar Global Awards has introduced a new Silver Award category, replacing the previous Platinum levels. This change comes after more than 10 years of success and is aimed at expanding recognition across the industry, responding to feedback from the awards community. The new category provides more opportunities for recognition and ensures that innovation at all levels is acknowledged. A Stellar Global Awards spokesperson stated, "The Silver Award is designed to give deserving contributors the recognition they deserve. This change will allow for greater participation and showcase a wider range of outstanding contributions." The transparent evaluation process remains unchanged, with awards based on merit, innovation, and the impact of each nominee's work. The addition of the Silver category aligns with Stellar's goal of offering broader visibility to industry experts and innovators. For more information about the Stellar Global Awards program, visit
