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Enter the 2025 AI Awards

DataIQ AI Awards Categories

The 2024 DataIQ AI awards recognizes and celebrates companies, individuals and programmes that have made positive impacts using AI on society, environmental and health successes, and governance best practice over the past 12 months.

The Categories

Innovation

Who it’s for: Any product or service developed by a consultancy, data or tech vendor using AI.

How to win it: The winner will be an innovative product or service based in the application of AI to key processes. The judges will be looking for a vendor or solution provider who has identified an innovative way to deploy these resources for the benefit of end-users they work with.

Who it’s for: Any organization that is demonstrating and/or championing a responsible approach to the use of AI in a programme .

How to win it: This award will go to a specific individual, business or programme that can clearly demonstrate they have the principles of Responsible AI in a way that is building trust and scaling AI with confidence.

Who it’s for: Any organization that is achieving success at scale through a proven approach to the use of Gen AI in a programme.

How to win it: This award recognizes where deep consideration has been given to delivering benefits for everybody from genAI, whether through access, enablement, training or similar. This award is open to any application or provision of generative AI by all types of organization.

Who it’s for: Any application of artificial intelligence, machine learning or automation to introduce a new approach or service.

How to win it: Provide the judges with an insight into how a business opportunity or issue was identified that was subsequently resolved through the use of AI, ML or automation. The impact needs to be fresh and transformative, even if the target was a BAU process.

Who it’s for: Any organisation that has achieved significant outcomes or culture change through deploying AI.

How to win it: Provide evidence of how AI has been used to transform the organisation, the way it operates, how a service is delivered or how customers are engaged. This may be through becoming digital-first or by putting a data asset at the heart of operations.

People and Culture

Who it’s for: A client/brand-side AI and data department where employee satisfaction and skills levels are off the chart!

How to win it: Colleagues who are engaged and satisfied are more productive and have longer tenures. Achieving this involves fine-tuning working practices, internal culture, external engagement and leadership to build cohesion and value. Tell the judges the story of how you have put all of these elements in place and how you are measuring their impact.

Who it’s for: A consultancy, data or tech vendor AI and data department where employee satisfaction and skills levels are off the chart!

How to win it: As with teams in end-user organizations – colleagues who are engaged and satisfied are more productive and have longer tenures. Achieving this involves fine-tuning working practices, internal culture, external engagement and leader. Tell the judges the story of how you have put all of these elements in place and how you are measuring impact.

Who it’s for: Best-in-class squads of analysts and AI/data practitioners working in brand-side or enabler organizations.

How to win it: An effective team multiplies the inputs of each individual in the group to generate greater impact from their efforts. Explain for the judges how collaboration, cohesion and productivity are rising as a result of working as an ensemble.

Who it’s for: Any data leader with impact, influence and engagement across their organization.

How to win it: To be an award-winning AI and data leader, you need to provide vision and support to your department as well as delivering value to your organisation. The judges will be looking for evidence of strong strategic thinking as well as tactical delivery that builds belief among teams and stakeholders and delivers results time after time.

AI for Good

Who it’s for: Any AI data-driven activity that targets societal or economic outcomes, rather than profit.

How to win it: Not all AI practices are intended to generate revenue – many are focused on changing behaviours, providing evidence of critical issues, or shifting policy. The judges are looking for activity that has used data for charitable, governmental, educational and other societal purposes rather than for business.

Who it’s for: Any AI initiative that is making a positive contribution towards ESG action and reporting.

How to win it: ESG is a fast-growing sector of AI and data practice and this award recognizes the demand for evidence that organisations are able to clearly statement their environmental footprint, progress towards net zero, beneficial impact on society, or controls on key aspects of its operation.

Who it’s for: This award is open to any AI programme developed for healthcare and wellbeing use by any type of organization.

How to win it: One of the biggest use cases for leading-edge AI is around health from fitness tracking and self-optimisation using wearables through to mental health, right up to developed new medicines, personalised medicine and treatment. The judges will be looking for innovative and deliverable AI solutions that are supporting health in any aspect.

Who it’s for: An individual who is tireless in advocating the use of AI for social, environmental or health-oriented projects.

How to win it: Alongside the profit motive, organisations are increasingly focused on how they can be of benefit to the broader world. To make this happens requires a champion who ceaselessly argues for social goals, identifies resources that can be applied to them and leads from the front to make sure good things happen through the use of data, analytics and AI.

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