GW leadership acknowledges individuals and organizations behind building a remarkable progress through constant experimentation, taking risks towards creating innovations and breaking barriers. These awards embody individuals and organisations capable of steering changes and sparking new services, solutions addressing critical challenges while synthesising a whole new process for transformation scope.

The awards are drawn from various categories to recognize the undisputed leader of the year in selective fields. They truly are the champions, making a difference in the industry as well as human lives.

Take a look at the categories below, and Submit Your Nomination through 30 November 2024!

Geospatial Ambassador of the Year

The Geospatial Ambassador of the Year award annually recognizes honourees for their outstanding contributions to the geospatial community. Individuals who take the legacy forward and contribute to the growth of the geospatial industry. They’ve ingrained geospatial potential and produced fantastic work for technological, economic, and societal benefits. A yardstick of inspiration, younger generations are moved by their optimism towards promoting the industry.

Geospatial Innovator of the Year

Innovation is the essence of the geospatial ecosystem and a key driver for long-term growth. Innovation formulates and implements new ideas such as inventing, improving, or replacing company processes, products and services. We want to hear from organizations developing such an innovative landscape of geospatial technologies.

This award recognizes and is open to all organizations that provide geospatial product-, solution-, or service-based innovation in work-based environments, from logistics, security, data management, construction & infrastructure, smart factories, and so on.

Business Leader of the Year

This award recognizes a leader who has not only achieved significant business success but has also inspired innovation, fostered growth, and made a lasting positive impact on their organization and the broader community. Someone who has driven transformative change through strategic foresight, dedication, and a commitment to excellence. The sheer persistence and passion of the business leader pave the way for new opportunities and greater ventures.

Start-up Company of the Year

Providing the spotlight to those who dare to dream big and shape the way our future will look—this award aims to find the best start-up from around the globe that built new business, broken technology barriers, and is well on its way in making positive and lasting contributions to the geospatial community and beyond.

Solution Company of the Year

The award recognizes a company that strives to provide a comprehensive list of solutions that are varied for diverse business needs. While providing hassle-free, convenient & user-friendly solutions, it also addresses the critical challenges of making client businesses profitable.

National Geospatial Agency of the Year

This award will celebrate achievements of national government geospatial agency that has aimed at socio-economic benefits, people welfare and building smooth governance models by utilising technology and integrated strategies. These agencies have emboldened the concept of systemic change, undergone evolution to understand challenges and requirements of the current world by using geospatial technology. The award nomination is open to all public agencies at the national/federal, state/provincial, regional and local levels.

Geospatial Diversity Champion of the Year

In the journey of ‘making a difference through geospatial knowledge in the world economy and society’, we are responsible for ensuring no one is left behind. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) brings value to all organizations and should be embedded into the DNA of the workplace.

This award celebrates individuals and organizations who champion DE&I every day within the geospatial ecosystem and beyond. They have a strong ethos of addressing imbalance and bringing the underrepresented into the conversation, free from prejudice and discrimination.

Enabling Public Policy

The award recognizes the enablers of public policies that significantly influence the formation or execution of public policy affecting geospatial or the geospatial ecosystem. This can be for service, training, or leadership in a technology position; for establishing a program in policy education or advice; for building the resources in technology policy; or other notable policy activity.blooket join

Experts from intergovernmental organizations, parliamentary networks, and government agencies are invited to nominate outstanding public policies.

Research, Science & Technology Institution of the Year

The prestige of Research, Science & Technology Institution of the Year award is bestowed on an educational and research institute’s successful achievement to raise the level of excellence in geospatial technology, bridge exposure gaps and strengthen the growing community of scientific talent across the globe.

The award aims to reach out globally and identify the best institution playing a crucial role in geospatial technology and its applications.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Making a difference is never easy. Not only does it take years of hard work and persistence, but also a great deal of passion for a specific cause. While the entire world has recognized the importance of geospatial data and technology, the contributions of people who have been promoting the technology and the industry for years deserve acknowledgment.

Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual who has exhibited outstanding and a visionary leadership in the growth of geospatial technology.