A global recognition of
excellence in Digital Engineering
‘Engine’ comes to us from ‘Ingenium,’ the Latin word for talent. It also stands for ‘ingenuity,’ or the quality of being original and inventive.
It stands to reason then that the Digital Engineering Awards celebrate and honor business and technology leaders challenging the status quo and creating a sustainable tomorrow through effective use of technology and innovation.
The first-of-its-kind award offers its winners formal recognition and an entry into the exclusive Digital Engineering Club, a global community enabled by L&T Technology Services. This community of like-minded digital engineers from around the world fosters cross-pollination of ideas and empowers the members to solve challenges on their journey of engineering and innovation.
The Digital Engineering Awards, however, stand for more.
Just as the first telescopes, invented almost six hundred years ago, transformed our understanding of the universe, the Digital Engineering Awards aims to drive enterprises in shaping to their transformative ideas, setting the stage for radical, sustainable, and planet-positive changes.
The awards program is rigorously judged by an independent peer-group panel led and managed by ISG, a global research and advisory firm for Digital Engineering.
What does it really mean for the participants?
The DE Awards stands apart as the most prestigious accolade honoring excellence in Digital Engineering.
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The DE Awards Difference
The Engineering The Change: Team Award and/or Engineer At Heart: Individual Award will bring a noteworthy edge by recognizing all of the intellectual capital, research, planning, engineering design, strategy, and marketing that has uniquely combined to make your new product or service a success.
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A Global Network of Innovation
The Digital Engineering Awards’ mission is to be a leader in globally recognizing and fostering innovations in Digital Engineering. By becoming a part of the sought-after Digital Engineering Club, enabled by LTTS, business and technology leaders can draw inspiration from the creativity and boldness of their peers and exchange valuable knowledge with members of a global community.
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Recognition and Visibility
The DE Awards will take every opportunity to publicize and promote nominees, finalists, and winners across a wide spectrum of the global business press and media outlets. Noteworthy entries will be showcased on the DE Awards website and social media channels to maximize their exposure to a worldwide audience.
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Focus Group Review
By interacting with hundreds of digital engineering applications across the world each nomination season, DE Awards is at the forefront of identifying emerging trends and game-changing insights. Consequently, each entry receives an unbiased review from a hand-picked panel of industry experts – a testament to the awards program’s superior quality.
The 11 categories at a glance
Engineering The Change
Team Awards
Digital
Transformation
of the Year
Digital Transformation of the Year is an overall award which celebrates the digital transformation journeys of organizations who have scaled new heights in recent years. The award is dedicated to the successful implementation of digital engineering knowledge and technology quotient in ushering in a new wave of transformation across the global technology ecosystem.
Top Sustainability
Initiative
Top Sustainability Initiative honors the efforts of the engineering and R&D teams across industries and verticals, whose work on sustainable products and solutions is helping drive a positive and lasting impact on the planet and its future. The award recognizes the green initiatives which are driving the evolution and adoption of sustainability across the global business landscape.
Digital Engineering
Project/Program
of the Year
Digital Engineering Project/Program of the Year recognizes the role and impact of digital engineering in driving the transformation journey of global businesses. The award honors projects/programs of exceptional ingenuity and innovation which have helped plants, factories, and process industry entities become more connected, improve productivity, redefine efficiency, and increase ease of operations.
Engineering
Product
of the Year
Engineering Product of the Year highlights the development and enhancement work by engineering teams across every step of the product lifecycle. It recognizes novel approaches towards engineering new products, the use of digital technologies to manage a product’s lifecycle, and other steps taken to accelerate NPD. The award is dedicated to breakthrough engineering products that surpasses all industry standards in terms of concept and design – resulting in high scalability, enhanced user experiences, and a faster time-to-market.
Excellence in
Value Realization
Value Realization recognizes and promotes value maximizing interventions and innovations – such as frugal engineering – undertaken by engineering teams across organizations. It honors initiatives that have helped streamline processes, helped drive sustainability, and ensured an overall optimization in costs and complexities within the organization.
AI Impact
of the Year
The AI Impact of the Year award identifies, recognizes, and applauds the truly unique solutions (ideas, use cases, products, and programs) that standout in the rapidly evolving AI and Gen AI landscape. This recognition honors those dedicated projects that leverage AI and Gen AI advancements and breakthroughs to be a force of good for our common future.
Engineer At Heart
Individual Awards
The Distinguished
Digital Engineering Leader
The Distinguished Digital Engineering Leader award applauds engineering leaders who are helping create a better future for us with digital technologies. It is an ode to the spirit of innovation which drives them towards pursuing engineering excellence for the benefit of end consumers, investors, employees, communities, and society – while seeking to bring about a visible change in emerging and underdeveloped markets. This is a recognition of an exemplary lifetime dedicated to scaling new heights of digital engineering excellence.
The Digital Engineer
of the Year
The Digital Engineer of the Year celebrates the up-and-coming digital engineers who leverage new-age technologies – such as Digital Twins, AI, 5G, and Machine Learning, to name a few – for creating exciting new products, solutions, and services that help create a better world. It recognizes outstanding achievements of digital engineers in unlocking new value streams and areas of excellence during the year.
The Woman Engineer
of the Year
The Woman Engineer of the Year is a testament to the creativity, scientific temperament, resilience, and brilliance of women engineers who are passionate about engineering the change – making an active difference in the lives of their peers and the society at large. It is an award that recognizes, inspires, and encourages women technologists to strive for greater excellence in the dynamic domain of digital engineering.
The Innovator
of the Year
The Innovator of the Year award celebrates the pioneering work of innovators who demonstrate exemplary ingenuity in their work and their engineering programs. All innovators who have filed new patents, developed frameworks and solutions, or created new intellectual properties (IPs) are encouraged to apply for this category – that celebrates the power of positive transformation through innovation and the journey of converting ideas to reality.
AI Innovator
of the Year
The AI Innovator of the Year is a benchmark for sustained excellence across AI technologies and applications. It recognizes the achievements of individuals instrumental in breakthrough innovation and cutting-edge application of AI in business.
The Evaluation Criteria
All entries will be judged on the
Digital
Engineering
Awards Criteria
INNOVATION
In the true spirit of discovery, DE Awards evaluate the idea that started the journey. We would like to understand the collaboration, iteration, and prototyping steps that progressed the innovation from genesis to actualization.
VALUE
We are keen to see evidence of game-changing advantages over any competing product or service, particularly, the linkages between the unique value proposition and the product’s (or service’s) economic desirability.
DELIVERY
This encompasses stakeholder engagement, collaboration, cost and delivery. How did you manage the complexity and work through different internal and external stakeholders to optimize cost and deliver value?
IMPACT
3Ps – People-Profit-Planet. Beyond commercial success, tell us how the offering is achieving self-sustainability. We would like to learn about the immediate and longer-term positive impact on the environment and society at large.
