Excellence Awards
The 17th Annual Excellence Awards recognizes the organizations making a significant contribution to the acceleration of digital transformation throughout the industry, across six key categories.
A final round of independent judging will take place to determine a winner in each category, to be announced at DTW24 - Ignite.
Get your ticket to the must-attend tech event from 18-20 June in Copenhagen to find out who will win.
Meet the finalists:
For leadership in realizing next generation autonomous networks.
- Controllable and Trusted Network Optimization: ZTE & China Mobile
- Knowledge Graph and Telco Ontology Innovation: Telstra
- Revolutionizing 5G with Jio Platforms’ Automation Suite: Jio
- Vodafone: Cognitive Intelligence & Automation Solution (CIAS) for Global NOC: Celfocus & Vodafone
- IOH Autonomous transformation: Huawei & Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison
- Revolutionizing O&M: Vodafone Elevates Autonomous Networks to New Heights of Efficiency: Huawei & Vodafone
- Future mobile network optimization: AI empowers digital twins of wireless scenarios: Huawei & China Mobile
For mastering differentiated developer and customer experiences including partnered solutions.
- Virgin Media O2: Netcracker & Virgina Media
- Autonomous Care for Fixed & Mobile Services: etisalat by e& and Nokia
- AI-SENSE, Unleashing the Power of User Insight: Nokia & China Unicom
- Goodbye caches! The UK’s first real-time omnichannel experience with 360-degree view enables customers and 3UK to manage all account types across all channels with a single log in: Amdocs & Three UK
- Per-Customer AI/ML-enabled Experience Scoring System” Drives Customer Loyalty and Positive Business Outcomes and Technology Customer Experience Index (TCEI): Huawei & stc
- CelcomDigi's Innovative, Predictive and Proactive Approach to Service Differentiation: Ericsson & Celcomdigi
- Contact Center Digitalization-Excellence in customer Experience!: Ethio Telecom
For achieving outstanding business-impacting results through application of the Open Digital Architecture (ODA).
- Winning the Telco-as-a-Platform Strategy: A Platform-centric Approach to Axiata’s Digital Transformation utilizing OpenAPIs and Open Digital Architecture: Axiata Digital Labs & Axiata
- ODA Adoption in stc Digital Transformation Program: Ericsson & stc
- DarkNOC - Service Management Transformation: Infosys & BT Group
- Building an assembled IT architecture with TM Forum’s ODA to support the B2C and B2B for business convergence and sustainability: Huawei & China Mobile
- Jawwy Architecture Evolution: Digital Transformation Program: Celfocus & Jawwy
- Transforming Bell Canada: Customer 360 with ODA: Bell Canada
For achieving significant business impact through artificial intelligence (AI) innovations.
- LLM-based Network O&M Innovative Application: Huawei & China Unicom
- Unlocking the Potential of Automatic Speech Recognition: stc
- TOBi - Vodafone Ireland's virtual assistant: Celfocus & Vodafone
- Spark NZ - B.R.A.I.N: Snowflake & SparkNZ
- Viettel Machine Learning Platform: Viettel
- VNPT's eKYC: VNPT (Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group)
- China Mobile and Nokia innovate GenAI for Autonomous Network Operations: Nokia & China Mobile
For pioneering double-digit business growth.
- DTN IoV Operation Management (D-VOM): Nokia & China Mobile
- T-Mobile Platform: Netcracker & T-Mobile
- Solutions Hub Orchestrator Platform: Technische Universitat Dresden & Vodafone
- etisalat by e& Privacy-Centric Data Monetisation: etisalat by e& and Novatiq
- Moments platform enabling Global hitss to bring B2B2X healthcare services in Mexico using ODA framework: Tecnotree & Global Hitss
- Digital twin technology creates a new paradigm for precise planning of high-speed railway mobile communications: ZTE & China Mobile
For outstanding innovations positively impacting people’s lives or protecting our planet.
- Beyon Solar Park Project: Almoayyed International Group & Beyon
- Elisa Distributed Energy Storage: Elisa
- Mobile connectivity provides data to protect the lives of those who protected ours: Optiva & Onward Ops
- EcoSync: Revolutionizing Environmental Data Integration for Sustainable Impact: Pyramid IT Consulting & Nature Labs
- Green Network and Ocean Care to Create a Clean, Safe Environment and Well being for the People of Jiangsu: Huawei & China Mobile
- Axian Telecom accelerates financial inclusion of the underserved communities in Africa, one country at a time: Torry Harris Integration Solutions & Axian