Honouring the game-changers shaping the future with groundbreaking data solutions, AI, and digital transformation across industries
24th June 2025 | Novotel Mumbai International Airport, Mumbai
Categories
Enterprise-Wide
Sub- Category: High Maturity Data Enterprise
HMDE is an enterprise level capability that makes data usage a pan enterprise phenomenon. It is enabled by putting in the right infrastructure, automation, management, governance, and applications for data collection, flow, collation, structuring, and analytics. An HDME also implements use cases across the value chain functions.
Sub- Category: Innovative Data Center Infrastructure
Organizations recognized for pioneering infrastructure solutions designed to meet the evolving needs of modern data centers, with a focus on efficiency, scalability, sustainability, and advanced thermal management capabilities. This category encompasses innovative design features, energy-efficient advancements, scalability, and demonstrated impacts on data center operations, including optimized thermal management strategies.
Sub-Category: Data Center Power and Cooling Management
Organizations that have excelled in providing cutting-edge power and cooling management solutions for data centers, optimizing energy usage, ensuring uninterrupted power supply, and addressing the challenges of thermal management. This includes energy efficiency ratings, reliability, scalability, adaptability to different environments, sustainability features, and impact on overall energy consumption, along with integration capabilities with existing infrastructure.
Sub-Category: Digital Transformation Enabler
Companies that have played a pivotal role in enabling digital transformation initiatives through their data center solutions, empowering organizations to leverage emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, edge computing and network security. This includes the breadth and depth of offerings, integration capabilities, flexibility, and alignment with digital transformation goals.
Individual Excellence
Sub-Category: Data Driven Supply Chain Innovation
How big data/ BI/ analytics/ AI/ ML tools are used to create data driven solutions in the supply chain function.
Sub-Category: Data-Driven Innovation in Customer Engagement and Sales Optimization
How big data/ BI/ analytics/ AI/ ML tools are used to create data driven solutions in the customer, sales, and marketing function.
Sub-Category: Data-Driven Solutions in Human Resources and Operations Excellence
How big data/ BI/ analytics/ AI/ ML tools are used to create data driven solutions in the HR and Learning, Admin, Finance and Accounts, and Facilities Management function.
Sub-Category: Data-Powered Operational Excellence
How big data/ BI/ analytics/ AI/ ML tools are used to create data driven solutions in the Core Operations/ Production function.
Sub-Category: Sustainable Solutions and Risk Management Excellence
How big data/ BI/ analytics/ AI/ ML tools are used to Sustainability and ESG function/ Enterprise Risk Management.
Sub-Category: Modern and Agile Data Architecture and Infrastructure
For a successful data drive, enterprises are re-defining their data architecture that considers the changing situation of multiple sources of data and its multiple usage. The new architecture demands that a modern infrastructure addresses the need for multiple type of databases and supports a distributed storage. Leveraging Cloud is a possible option.
Sub-Category: Automated Data Management
Data driven enterprises are using automation and intelligence to manage data operations, data life cycle management, data governance and security/ privacy. As they mature in their journey, a higher use of Analytics/ AI/ ML and centralization through tighter integration is achieved.
Sub-Category: Holistic Large Data Management
Data driven enterprises are working on pooling in large amounts of data for combining, recombining, and leveraging them for data analytics and AI/ ML use cases across the value chain. Large data management covers big data solutions, data engineering platform for transforming large amounts of data, intelligent data exchange platform, and enterprise data warehouse/ data marts/ data lake. The high-end systems are highly automated requiring no human intervention in data transformation, data cleaning, data combining across formats, and interface with source and user applications.
Sub-Category: Smart Data Applications Software
Enterprises are deploying data analysis software tools or applications that are capable of handling multiple data points, subject it to multi-dimensional analysis, build statistical models that can address complex business queries, and create a multi-level data reporting engine.
PROCESS
Nominate Online
Fill out the online nomination form available on the official DataCon Awards website, selecting the relevant categories for your submission.
Submit Your Nomination
Relevant representative will nominate on behalf of the organization for Enterprise-Wide Categories. Relevant personas can nominate themselves for Individual Excellence Categories. Enterprise Level and OEM Level are Enterprise-Wide Categories. Use Case Level and Technology Solution Level are Individual Excellence Categories.
Ensure your form is complete with accurate data. Select appropriate category/ies (min 1, max 3) and submit the nomination form on or before 30th May 2025. No third-party nominations will be accepted, and only the authorized entity can submit the entry.
Outreach and Communication
After submission, your nomination will be reviewed, and our team will reach out to confirm your entry and provide further instructions.
Shortlisting Process
Nominations will be assessed against established criteria, and shortlisted entries will move to the final evaluation stage.
Award Selection & Distribution
A distinguished panel of jury will finalize the awardees based on criteria, evaluation methodology, and shortlisted winners will be announced during the felicitation ceremony at the ET Edge DataCon Summit and Awards 2025.
CRITERIA
Only organizations & relevant individuals based in PAN India are eligible to enter.
The criteria for DataCon Awards nominations are as follows:
Strategic approach - 25%
Evaluation of the strategic approach implemented, focusing on clarity, alignment with organizational goals, and overall coherence
Innovation – 25%
Recognition of innovative practices or solutions that effectively harness data to drive business goals and impactful outcomes
Effective and efficient execution – 25%
Assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency in executing transformative strategies and data initiatives, ensuring significant impact on KPIs
Tangible outcomes achieved – 25%
Review of measurable outcomes, including improvements in performance, cost efficiency, and other key metrics
These criteria provide a comprehensive framework for assessing data-driven innovation and recognizing exceptional contributions in the field.
Submissions should focus on projects/initiatives executed during FY 2024-2025
EVALUATION METHODOLOGY
Nomination
Businesses or their representative and relevant personas can nominate themselves for the DataCon Awards 2025, with eligibility open to their companies operating within India and leveraging data-driven strategies. This is a remarkable opportunity for organizations and individuals to showcase their achievements and gain recognition for their data-driven innovation and success.
Screening and Evaluation
All nominations will be rigorously screened based on a set of essential criteria—Strategy, Innovation, Execution, and Results, to ensure fairness and objectivity. A panel of impartial expert jurors will evaluate each submission, prioritizing measurable outcomes and data-backed success. Nominees will be contacted if additional information is required. Nominations that do not meet the eligibility criteria will be disqualified.
Winner Announcement
The ET Edge DataCon Summit and Awards 2025 will honour enterprises & relevant personas that have demonstrated exceptional use of data, innovative practices, and impactful results. This is a prestigious opportunity to celebrate their most outstanding achievements driving data-led business transformation.
Winners will be celebrated at a grand felicitation ceremony, where their outstanding contributions in their respective categories will be recognized. The winners will also be featured across social media platforms, celebrating their accomplishments and inspiring others in the industry.
FAQs
DataCon Awards recognize excellence in data-driven innovation, honouring enterprises and individuals leveraging data and next gen technologies to drive business transformation.
Yes, these awards are for decisions/tasks undertaken for the period for 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025.
Yes, but you can nominate yourself for maximum 3 categories.
Relevant representative from the enterprises and relevant personas across the business sectors must submit the online nomination form on our website. You can submit your entry for maximum 3 categories in the same form.
All entries will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. No information will be disclosed to anyone other than our jury. Our judges are required to sign a confidentiality agreement before accessing any entries.
Chief Information Officers/ Chief Technology Officers/ Chief Digital Officers/ IT Heads/ IT Decision Makers/ Data Scientists and Data Leaders in charge of data initiatives in the public, private or joint sector, operating in India or abroad and registered by a competent authority, across Industry verticals can participate in Individual Excellence Categories. Any firm registered under the laws of India and have business operations in India can apply for the nomination in the Award, either directly or through an Agency for Enterprise-Wide Categories.
The nomination period has concluded.