Nominations

CIO of the Year

Recognises an exceptional Chief Information Officer who has led her organisation's digital strategy and enabled business success through market-leading tech innovation.

Demonstrate:

• IT strategy leadership – aligning technology initiatives with business goals to create value.
• Outstanding management of IT operations and teams – ensuring robust and efficient internal and customer-facing systems and processes.
• Effectively using technology to drive business agility, improve customer experiences, and deliver measurable outcomes.

CISO of the Year

Recognises a Chief Information Security Officer who has excelled in safeguarding her organisation's assets and driving a security-first culture.

Demonstrate:

• Excellence in cyber security leadership – developing and executing strategies to protect critical infrastructure and data.
• Proactive risk management and compliance – addressing evolving threats and ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.
• Innovative approaches to security challenges – leveraging advanced technologies, raising user awareness and fostering cyber resilience.

Tech Business Leader

Recognises a C-level executive driving business growth strategy and execution in a tech service provider organisation.

Nominees should demonstrate::

• Excellence in strategy development and execution – enabling business growth and market-leading.
• Leadership capabilities – building, empowering, and inspiring high-performance teams.
• Exceptional service delivery and solutions management – addressing the unique needs of local businesses.

Tech Entrepreneur

Recognises an entrepreneur who has established a sustainable technology-driven business.

Demonstrate:

• Ability to identify and capitalise on an untapped market niche for a sustainable technology-driven business.
• Successfully turn an idea into reality, secure stakeholder buy-in and funding.
• Demonstrable milestones and growth figures showing tangible business impact.

Top Tech Innovator

Recognises an original thinker who has addressed a significant industry or social challenge through technology innovation.

Demonstrate:

• The significance of the challenge faced.
• The tech-driven innovation that successfully addresses the challenge. Provide details of the brainstorming process, number of people involved, innovative aspects, development processes.
• The measurement of success – provide tangible data.

Tech4Good

Honours the leader of an organisation, project or initiative that applies technology to address pressing social challenges.

Explain:

• The social challenge addressed.
• Details on the solution's development history, team involvement, funding, and technology used.
• The measurement of success – supply tangible milestones, growth data, and other indicators of success.

IT Business Development Executive

Recognises a top performer in ICT channel management, excelling in driving tech adoption and sales growth.

Demonstrate:

• Ability to find and win new partners and clients in chosen technology field.
• How candidate has met key success metrics such as sales targets and sales performance history.
• Ability to align technology solutions with clients' business needs

Rising Star – Security

Recognises a rising talent, age 35 or younger, who has demonstrated remarkable career growth in the field of cyber security.

Criteria:

• Learning: Academic or professional learning in cyber security.
• Achievements: Evidence of professional development and key accomplishments.
• Career ambitions: Demonstrated goals and aspirations in the field.

Rising Star – Cloud

Recognises a rising talent, age 35 or younger, who has demonstrated remarkable career growth in the field of cloud technology.

Criteria:

• Learning: Academic or professional learning in cyber security.
• Achievements: Evidence of professional development and key accomplishments.
• Career ambitions: Demonstrated goals and aspirations in the field.

Rising Star – Emerging Tech

Recognises a rising talent, age 35 or younger, who has demonstrated remarkable career growth in the emerging technologies space.

Criteria:

• Learning: Academic or professional learning in cyber security.
• Achievements: Evidence of professional development and key accomplishments.
• Career ambitions: Demonstrated goals and aspirations in the field.

Top Tech Student

Recognises an ICT student excelling academically and in community leadership.

Criteria:

• Successful academic history: Provide evidence of academic success.
• Extracurricular engagement: Adoption and application of technology outside of studies.
• Leadership in student or community tech initiatives.

Mentor of the Year

Honours a senior tech professional who has provided significant guidance to others.

Demonstrate:

• Mentorship scope: Number of mentees formally guided.
• Established plans, programmes, strategies for mentoring.
• Success metrics: How the candidate evaluates and measures mentoring outcomes.

Trailblazing Career in ICT

Honours a tech industry trailblazer whose distinguished career has made a lasting impact on the sector, community, and society.

Criteria:

• Excellence and sustained success throughout a career in technology.
• Positive influence on colleagues and peers.
• The impact the candidate has had in her community and society.