The Technology Awards recognize high-performing organizations that have enhanced business outcomes with their IT capabilities.
The Technology Awards
NEW: Data & AI Impact Award
The Data & AI Impact award honors those remarkable enterprise data, AI or analytics teams that catalyze effective decision-making to drive business outcomes. The winner will:
- Deliver solutions at scale: Deliver data, AI, and analytics as a product for multiple enterprise functions with demonstrable business results.
- Effectively enable stakeholders. Invest deliberately in driving literacy and competencies to amplify data, AI, and analytics across organizational objectives.
- Continuously build and maintain trust. Establish and maintain trust in data, AI, and analytics with effective frameworks and technologies.
Submissions close on May 5, 2026.
Enterprise Architecture Award
Forrester is pleased to announce that this year’s EA Awards are co-judged by The Open Group, author of the TOGAF® Standard, which was developed by The Open Group Architecture Forum
The Enterprise Architecture Award is the only global awards program dedicated to recognizing excellence in enterprise architecture. The recipients of this award can showcase their EA practice’s material contribution to their firms in managing risk, driving cost efficiency, improving CX (including EX), and increasing revenue. The winner will demonstrate:
- An EA roadmap that contributes to the high performance of its technology organization and the entire business.
- EA practices driving change, growth, and differentiation through timely yet strategic decisions.
- An EA organization that embodies the six foundational priorities: valuable, influential, agile, accountable, innovative, and collaborative.
- EA metrics that focus on customer outcomes and experiences.
Submissions close on May 5, 2026.
Technology Strategy Impact Award
The Technology Strategy Impact Award honors those remarkable IT organizations that have proven their mettle in aligning technology with the dynamic needs of the business. The winner will:
- Enable capabilities: Demonstrate excellence in stabilizing, operating, and protecting the business.
- Amplify capabilities: Utilize automation, data and analytics, AI, and other technologies to optimize outcomes and drive business efficiency at scale.
- Co-create capabilities: Showcase the rapid development, delivery, and operation of new products, features, or services.
- Transform capabilities: Scale and rapidly deploy emerging technologies that create or disrupt new business models.
Submissions close on May 5, 2026.
FAQ
No, all organizations across industries that are headquartered in APAC (of 1,000+ employees) are welcome to apply.
Vendors and agencies are not eligible for this award but are welcome to nominate their clients, with their client’s written permission.
Shortlisted nominees are selected on the qualitative and quantitative depth of their nominations.
A judging panel of Forrester experts will shortlist organizations and then interview them, if necessary, to carefully select award recipients.
A proprietary, quantitative, and qualitative scoring methodology will be applied to all applications.
No. All responses are treated as strictly confidential. If we wish to use anything from our conversation in published research, we will ask for your explicit permission.
Submissions close on May 5, 2026.
Winners will be notified in July 2026.
No, Forrester does not cover travel expenses. Three team members from each award-winning organization will receive a complementary pass to attend the AI Forum of their choice. Winners may also purchase additional passes at 20% off standard pricing.
Winners attending the AI Forums in APAC will be honored onstage at the Forums.
No, the session will not be recorded.
Technology Strategy Impact Award:
tsi-awards-APAC@forrester.com
Enterprise Architecture Award:
ea-awards-APAC@forrester.com
Data and AI Impact Award:
data-ai-awards@forrester.com
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