Nominations open for annual Red Hat Innovation Awards

Award categories

Organisations can submit nominations in five categories. Category winners will be selected based on the uniqueness, complexity, and magnitude of their Red Hat implementations. Categories for the 2017 Red Hat Innovation Awards include:

• Enterprise transformation: Recognising the most outstanding transition from legacy IT to a self-service leader and business partner in the digital world.
• DevOps implementation: Recognising the best implementation of a complete DevOps strategy, including culture, automation, and platform changes, to meet new customer expectations.
• Cloud infrastructure: Recognising a public, private, or open hybrid cloud deployment.
• Application optimisation: Recognising an organisation that employs agile methodologies and illustrates superior overall performance in creating, maintaining, and deploying successful business applications.
• The open source way: Recognising an organisation that is leading innovation by building an open source culture, contributing to community projects, and using open source technology to support a broad range of applications and business services.

Judging panel

Submissions will be accepted until 9 November 2016, and will be evaluated by a panel of business and open source technology experts including Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift; Swapnil Bhartiya, journalist, IDG Contributor Network; Marco Bill-Peter, vice president, Customer Experience and Engagement; Dietmar Fauser, vice president, architecture, quality and governance, Amadeus; Sean Michael Kerner, senior editor, eWeek; Christopher Rommel, executive vice president, IoT and embedded technology, VDC Research; and Chris Wright, vice president and chief technologist, Office of Technology, Red Hat.

A winner will be chosen in each category. From those winners, the 2017 Red Hat Innovator of the Year will be selected by the community through online voting, and will be announced during an awards ceremony at the 2017 Red Hat Summit in Boston on 2-5 May next year.

To submit nominations and for more information, visit the dedicated website.