Step Into the Spotlight

Honors large-scale, organization-wide AI implementations that fundamentally alter business operations and service delivery.

Requirements:
• Company-wide deployment
• Metrics: cost savings, process improvement, user adoption
• Executive sponsorship, governance framework

Celebrates predictive AI models that drive critical forecasting—like demand, finance, health, or risk—based on real-time data.

Requirements:
• Sustained use in business-critical operations
• Metrics: accuracy, reduction in risk or cost
• Dashboard or BI integration

Recognizes solutions delivering hyper-personalized customer journeys via AI—recommendation engines, virtual assistants or sentiment intelligence.

Requirements:
• Live consumer/enterprise usage
• Metrics: engagement, conversion lift, retention
• UX metrics, A/B test comparison

Honors effective use of generative AI (text/image/video) to create value across marketing, design, R&D, or operations.

Requirements:
• Clear ROI or time-to-value gains
• Examples: content automation, prompt granularity
• Ethical guardrails in place

Recognizes robotic process automation, AI agents or bots that reduce manual load across operations or support functions.

Requirements:
• Live usage in operations (e.g. finance, supply chain)
• Metrics: FTE-hours saved, error rate decline, throughput boost
• Call logs or user feedback reports

Presented to AI systems that manage regulatory risk, detect fraud, or ensure compliance proactively and consistently.

Requirements:
• Live deployment in BFSI or enterprise segments
• Metrics: false positives reduction, faster detection, compliance coverage
• Audit trail and governance documentation

Honors AI systems that detect threats, anomalies, or intrusion patterns in real time to safeguard enterprise integrity.

Requirements:
• Evidence of live threat detection/prevention
• Metrics: detection latency, real-world incidents thwarted
• Explainability or human in loop guardrails

Rewards marketing or digital enterprises using generative AI for scalable content creation—ads, visuals, scripts, microsites, etc.

Requirements:
• Portfolio of generative content deployed
• Metrics: production speed, cost reduction, engagement lift
• Example outputs and prompt strategies

Recognizes AI solutions reducing environmental footprint—optimizing energy, emissions, resources or sustainability smart systems.

Requirements:
• Measurable environmental gains or resource efficiency
• Metrics: CO₂ reduction, energy saved, waste minimized
• Sustainability framework or certification

Honors AI solutions streamlining logistics, demand forecasting, warehousing, or last-mile delivery.

Requirements:
• Live deployments in supply chain networks
• Metrics: lead-times cut, inventory accuracy, fulfilment uplift
• Integration with ERP/WMS systems

Recognizes AI projects in diagnostics, treatment personalization, triage, or patient engagement.

Requirements:
• Clinical or operational deployments
• Metrics: accuracy gain, throughput, patient satisfaction uplift
• Ethical oversight and data privacy compliance

Honors AI used for personalization, dynamic pricing, inventory replenishment, or shopper experience optimization.

Requirements:
• Live usage with measurable uplift in conversion or retention
• Metrics: basket size lift, churn reduction, personalization click-through rates
• Pilot case study or production example

Rewards innovations in insurance, wealth, lending, fraud prevention or robo-advisory powered by AI.

Requirements:
• Enterprise-grade deployment or licensed platform
• Metrics: NPL reduction, claim processing time, ROI
• Regulatory compliance documentation

Celebrates models or systems where AI augments human decision-making rather than replaces it—e.g. co-pilots in professional roles.

Requirements:
• Evidence of human-in-the-loop use cases
• Metrics: decision speed, error reduction, user satisfaction
• Training workflow or adoption strategy

Honors research-driven AI innovations that transitioned from lab or academia into real-world solutions.

Requirements:
• Published academic work with product deployment
• Patent or IP documentation
• Real-world metrics or pilot outcomes

Spotlights high-impact early-stage AI startups that have shown innovation, growth, and enterprise relevance.

Requirements:
• Less than 5 years founded
• AI core offering
• Evidence of pilots or contracts, traction
• Growth metrics and future roadmap

Recognizes enterprises that demonstrate holistic AI leadership—governance, strategy, execution, and scale.

Requirements:
• Enterprise-level AI roadmap and governance model
• Multiple live use cases with KPIs
• Evidence of leadership commitment (board-level sponsorship)

Celebrates organizations building inclusive AI talent, collaboration, internal innovation or AI-first culture transformations.

Requirements:
• Internal programs (training, hackathons, upskilling)
• Team growth metrics
• Cases of internal innovation spinouts or intrapreneurs

Honors AI solutions addressing societal challenges—education, healthcare, governance, inclusion, public services.
Requirements:
• Proof of societal impact and reach
• Metrics: beneficiaries served, outcome improvements
• Alignment to UN SDGs or policy frameworks

Recognizes pioneering enterprise projects that deploy autonomous, goal-driven AI agents—capable of planning, acting, learning, and adapting without human intervention to optimize complex workflows.

Requirements:
• Live deployment within the past 12 months using agentic AI systems (multi-agent orchestration or agentic automation)
• Proof of autonomy
• Quantifiable outcomes: metrics showing improvement, e.g., percentage reduction in manual tasks, workflow completion time reductions, decision speed gains
• Governance & oversight evidence: documentation of human-in-loop mechanisms, security protocols, and adaptation monitoring per agentic AI maturity frameworks