Innovation & Technology

This award recognises an exemplary product or service in the field of Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning applied within the telecoms ecosystem.

This award will recognise the best innovation of the past year in the Anti-Fraud sector. Please note that this award relates to a specific project, innovation, program or technological development.

This award recognises cutting edge solutions in the Anything as a Service (XaaS) space, this includes but not limited to, Communications Platform as a Service, Contact Center as a service, Unified communications as a service and Infrastructure as a service.

This award will recognise the best innovation of the past year in the blockchain and security sector – this includes general network security as well, not just related to blockchain. Please note that this award relates to a specific project, innovation, program or technological development.

This award will recognise the best innovation of the past year in the Cloud sector. Please note that this award relates to a specific project, innovation, program or technological development.

The award in this category will celebrate the most innovative product, solution or initiative related to data centres or edge service provision.

This award will recognise the year's best innovation in data services (please note that B2C-related projects will not be considered). This award relates to a specific project, innovation, program or technological development.

This award will recognise the year's outstanding initiative in the IoT space – a project, innovation, program, technological development, or any other initiative related to any stage of IoT, whether supplier or client-side.

This award will recognise the year's outstanding innovation in mobile and 5G service. As this relates specifically to network service provision, projects that focus on B2C service delivery will be accepted for this category.

The award in this category will highlight the most significant deployments, innovations, projects, service improvements or initiatives in network technology – this can be network disaggregation, zero-touch provisioning, zero-trust security, SDN/NFV, or any other development 'under the hood'.

The awards in this category will reward the spirit of innovation and technical, technological and service improvements that bring real added value to our connected marketplace. This specific category focuses on innovations in the subsea sector.

This award will recognise the best innovation of the past year in the Voice or SMS sector. Please note that this award relates to a specific project, innovation, program or technological development.

The award in this category will reward the spirit of innovation and technical, technological and service improvements that bring real added value to our connected marketplace. This specific category focuses on innovations in the digital infrastructure ecosystem.

This award will recognise the best innovation of the past year in the telecoms hardware space. Please note this award relates to telecoms vendors as a commercial supplier of hardware, excluding handsets, personal devices and does not include resellers.