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 select ER&D circle, a first-citizenship community managed by ISG and L&T Technology Services (LTTS).
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 ER&D Circle, managed by ISG and 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 9 categories at a glance
Engineering The Change
Team Awards
Digital
Transformation
of the Year
This premium category recognizes engineering, manufacturing and R&D teams whose products, services or solutions have led to active transformation of the customer’s organization. The awards celebrate the innovation, engineering knowhow and technology quotient which transforms businesses for the better and helps Engineer the Change for an organization and all its stakeholders.
Top Sustainability
Initiative
With Sustainability becoming integral to businesses, the Sustainability Initiative Award recognizes engineering, manufacturing and R&D teams whose work on sustainable products and solutions has led to a lasting impact for the larger environment. This award also looks at the collaboration required to build a sustainable ecosystem and the factors that ensure scalability and replicability of a business model.
Digital Engineering
Project/Program
of the Year
Celebrates the impact of Digital Engineering on the transformation journey of global manufacturers. If your digital engineering programs have helped plants and factories become more connected, improved productivity and efficiencies and increased ease of operations while contributing to overall sustainability, then you are a true champion of Digital Engineering. Let the world know about your mega programs which help create smart and connected shop floors of the future.
Engineering
Product
of the Year
This category casts a spotlight on New Product Development as well as Product Enhancement work done by engineering teams in every step of the Product Development Lifecycle. The industry’s premier award for Product Development and Engineering that have led to economies of scale, heighted user experience and resulted in faster time to market. New approaches to engineer products in emerging and developed economies and use of the digital thread to manage a product’s lifecycle and accelerate NPD will also be given due weightage.
Value Realization
Engineering services aim not only to transform but also create value in existing set ups and systems. The Value Realization awards seek to recognize and promote engineering interventions such as frugal engineering undertaken by the engineering teams which helped streamline processes, made systems more sustainable and reduced overall costs and complexity for organizations. This category also measures the most efficient use of complex development cycles that led to heightened value engineering and faster time to market across different geographies and diverse cultures.
Engineer At Heart
Individual Awards
Distinguished
Digital Engineer
What does it truly take for Engineers to build a better tomorrow? We believe it takes a passion for purposeful innovation, respect, and integrity in every walk of life. The Engineer at Heart awards celebrates engineers who have dedicated their lives and careers to the pursuit of engineering excellence and innovation for the benefit of end consumers, investors, employees, communities and society, while seeking to bring about visible change in emerging and underdeveloped markets.
Digital Engineer
of the Year
This award spotlights up and coming digital engineers who have infused emerging and new age technologies such as digital twins, AI, 5G, Metaverse and Machine Learning to create exciting new products, solutions and services. This platform will tell the world about the trials and tribulations faced by engineers in this journey towards excellence, and how challenges were finally overcome, leading to a memorable engineering success story.
Woman Engineer
of the Year
This category celebrates brilliant women engineers who are passionate about engineering the change and whose work has made an active difference to their organizations and stakeholders. This award is a testament to the creativity, scientific temperament and resilience of women engineers and is meant to inspire all interested women technologists to find their place in the world of engineering.
Innovator
of the Year
Celebrates the pioneering work of innovators who demonstrate exemplary breakthroughs 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.
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.
Timeline
7TH SEPTEMBER 2022 - 31ST OCTOBER 2022
Submission of nominations for the DE Award (Team and Individual entries)
14TH NOVEMBER 2022
Finalist announced. Selection as per evaluation criteria.
1ST DECEMBER 2022
Final round Judging.
Meet The Judges
STEVE HALL
President, ISG EMEA, and Partner, Digital Advisory Services
GREG POWERS
Chief Innovation Officer, BayoTech
PRASHANT KELKER
Partner & Chief Strategy Officer, ISG
GAURAV GUPTA
Partner & Global Head, Digital Engineering, ISG
PROF (DR) MARCOS KAUFFMAN
Director of the Institute for AME at Coventry University
Event Venue
The DE Awards stands apart as the most prestigious accolade honoring excellence in Digital Engineering.
