The Awards Rules

General Terms & Conditions

  1. This is a global awards and can include any company or person in any country.
  2. See our schedules page for details on when nominations and voting opens and closes
  3. There is no cash alternative for the award winners.
  4. A company or person can win more than one category.
  5. Awards.AI reserves the right to alter the rules and terms & conditions at any time.
  6. We may add or remove categories based on feedback from the AI community.
  7. Sponsoring companies are excluded from the awards and any votes for sponsoring companies will be ignored.
  8. Awards.AI is part of the Informed.AI network of websites which will promote the AI Awards to its members.
  9. Nomination and Voting data and metrics will not be made public.
  10. Your email will be added to our communications on the Awards both this year and for future years.

Nomination Rules

  1. A company or person may submit nominations against a maximum of four award categories.
  2. Sponsoring companies are excluded from the awards.
  3. All nominations will be reviewed by the panel of judges and based on defined criteria the judges will short-list applications for each award category
  4. Short-listed nominations will go forward to the second round of voting.
  5. Some award categories will be voted by the judges others will be via public vote.

Voting Rules

  1. A number of award categories will be open to public voting immediately (without the need for nominations and short-listing)
  2. Other award categories will be open to public voting after nominations are short-listed by the AI Awards Judges.
  3. Some award categories will be decided by the judges via nomination review and feedback from showcase events.
  4. The definition of “Best” is obviously subjective, it is for the individual voters to decide what they consider to be best.
  5. All votes will be counted and used to select the winner.
  6. If no votes have been received for a given category then the panel of judges will select a winner and the judge’s decision is final.
  7. If a draw on votes for a given category, then the Awards.AI judges will make a final decision.
  8. One vote per category per person / email address.
  9. Any attempt to bias the voting, will be investigated and corrected.
  10. A company or person can win more than one category.
  11. Once a vote is submitted it can not be revoked or modified.
  12. Sponsoring companies are excluded from the awards and any votes for sponsoring companies will be ignored.
  13. Additional information supplied by voters will be reviewed in the event of a draw by the panel of judges.

Terms & Conditions for Judges

  1. All Judges will have their photos and profiles listed on our Judges page and will be expected to help with the nomination screening and selecting the winners in many of the award categories.
  2. All judging will be done online for short-listing nominations. There will be opportunities to attend showcase events to evaluate short-listed candidates.
  3. These Awards are Global, typically our Award Winners have come from many different countries, and as such we also expect our Judges to be from many different countries too.
  4. Judges are volunteers, and selected by the AI Awards management.
  5. Judges will be encourages to attend the AI Awards Events where short-listed nominations will showcase their entry.