INFORMATION FOR OUR JUDGES
Thank you for being a judge for the Cloud Excellence Awards 2025!
We truly appreciate your time, expertise, and dedication in helping us recognise outstanding achievements in the industry. Your insights are invaluable in celebrating innovation and excellence.
Key dates
The judging process
Judges are given 3-4 weeks to judge, score and give feedback on their categories on Evessio. We then build a winners list from their scores, and aim to get that confirmed the day after the judging closes on Evessio. Editorial are involved in the process, they are sent the Evessio data so they can determine the winner.
General tips for Computing judges
1. Briefly read over each entry before beginning your judging. It may help to write notes about what stands out for each entry. This will help you assign accurate marks later on.
2. Examine each entry in more depth. How well do they meet the criteria for the category? Is every piece of the entry relevant, or has the entrant inflated it with marketing material?
3. Prioritise entries with UK-based case studies. Whilst we will accept entries with a case study in another country, particularly from UK firms or teams, a UK case study is preferred.
Section-specific advice
Organisational Excellence Categories
These categories honour companies who have achieved outstanding results internally, such as providing an excellent place to work, or achieving a fantastic digital transformation. Areas to keep in mind while judging are professionalism (including organisational values and practices); excellence in working with clients (whether internal or external); innovation; and measurable success.
Personal Excellence Categories
These categories recognise individuals in the IT community who have demonstrated excellence in their profession during the past 12 months.
Areas to keep in mind while judging are professionalism (including ethics); innovation; how the nominee has provided an example to peers; and measurable success.
Project Excellence Categories
Submissions of end-user projects that highlight the importance of new technology initiatives and demonstrate the benefits of well-managed IT implementations for changing and improving business and public life. Areas to keep in mind while judging are innovation; return on investment; high-quality management; and, especially, impact. Quantifiable stats are especially important.
Product Excellence Categories
Submissions in these categories highlight outstanding hardware, software or IT services that change the game in terms of product capacity. Achievement and innovation in product development and implementation are particularly important.
Areas to keep in mind while judging are innovation; adoption, especially in the UK; customer satisfaction; and measurable success.
Want to become a judge for our awards?
In the event that judges have already been selected for these awards, you may be considered for future awards if you fit the below criteria:
- Judges must be at a manager level or higher, bringing a certain level of seniority and deep industry knowledge.
- Each judge should have a strong understanding of the award’s subject matter, with categories being assigned to each judge accordingly. For example, the Rising Star of the Year category may be judged by someone in a leadership role who manages young professionals and understands what it takes to be a Rising Star.
- We promote judging opportunities for several reasons: it provides valuable insight into industry achievements, offers inspiration, motivation, and knowledge from reviewing entries, allows judges to engage with the brand in a unique way, and enhances their professional profile by being part of a prestigious panel.
- Judges must be based in the UK
Does this sound like you?
Please contact Zoe Vincent with your bio, experience and awards you'd like to be involved with, and we will get back to you soon.
