IDC Future Enterprise Awards

IDC Future Enterprise Awards

2025 will significantly influence digital transformation across the region, making it the ideal location to celebrate trailblazers around the region who have been taking strides to be the next Future Enterprise. IDC Türkiye will proudly host the  Future Enterprise Awards, to recognize the organizations that are leading the use of technology.

The deadline for submitting nominations is Friday, October 31th. 

Best in Artificial and Generative Intelligence

This award recognizes organizations that have tackled key business or technical challenges through innovative AI/GenAI solution design. It honors those who skillfully integrate AI technologies with enterprise systems, balancing realistic evaluation and bold problem-solving to meet strategic goals.

Best in AI-Ready Digital Infrastructure

This award honors organizations leading in digital infrastructure—using cloud, edge, and automation technologies to scale, innovate, and stay competitive by transforming operations and enhancing customer and employee engagement.

Best in AI-Ready Platform

This award category recognizes organizations that have made transformative changes to their enterprise’s business by applying AI based innovation across multiple areas of business, to remain competitive, innovate better and enhance customer experience to its end clients.

Best in Digitally-Enabled Ecosystem

This award honors organizations with advanced digital ecosystem maturity, using platforms, data intelligence, and industry clouds to create shared value and deliver seamless, data-driven customer experiences.

Best in Digital Innovation

This award honors organizations transforming from software consumers to large-scale innovators by creating or leveraging software IP that drives differentiation, market disruption, or major operational impact.

Best in Security and Trust

This award honors organizations that excel at building and maintaining trust in the digital era—extending beyond cybersecurity and compliance to include customer experience, empathy, intelligence, and innovation across the enterprise and ecosystem.

Best in Sustainability

This award honors organizations that embed sustainability into their core strategy—treating it as a foundation for long-term impact on operations, people, customers, and innovation.

Best in New Ways of Work

This award honors organizations reimagining how work gets done through human-machine collaboration, new skills, and flexible, secure work environments—driving the future of work and scaling digital transformation.

Best in Customer Experience

This award honors organizations transforming customer engagement and experience through technology, building empathetic, insight-driven relationships that reflect customers’ needs and preferences.

Best in Digital Native Business

This award honors Digital Native Businesses—startups, scale-ups, and unicorns—that disrupt industries with innovative, tech-driven models, products, and services, leveraging emerging technologies and ecosystems to deliver superior customer experiences and rapid growth.

Technology Leader of the Year

This award honors the Technology Leader who defines and drives an organization’s digital transformation (DX) vision and execution. Beyond overseeing projects, vendors, budgets, and KPIs, this leader exemplifies how to manage continuous tech evolution, empower teams, and integrate innovation.

In a digital-first world shaped by DEI, ESG, and digital risk considerations, these leaders play a pivotal role in steering business direction. IDC recognizes those boldly leading DX efforts to meet the demands of today’s rapidly changing environment.

Future Enterprise of the Year

This award honors organizations leading the way as Future Enterprises in a digital-first world. A Future Enterprise operates at digital scale, innovates rapidly, and is driven by a customer-focused, empowered workforce that values experimentation. With technology and data at its core, it enhances efficiency, creates new revenue, and builds customer loyalty—setting the gold standard for success in digital markets.

Special Award for Digital Innovation in Government

This award honors government organizations transforming from software consumers to large-scale innovators by developing or leveraging software IP that drives differentiation, market disruption, or major operational impact.