Estelle Quek
Editorial Director CIO and CSO ASEAN

4 Days Left to Nominate for the CIO100 ASEAN Awards 2025: Shine a Spotlight on Your Technology Innovation Success

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Sep 1, 20253 mins
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Only 4 days left to earn your spot among the CIO100 ASEAN is more than a badge of honour – it is a testament to you and your team’s ability to turn vision into value. The CIO100 ASEAN Awards are globally respected, celebrating not just individual leaders but the collective efforts of teams that drive transformation, operational efficiency, and sustained growth. Past winners have included some of the region’s most influential organizations, and this year, you and your team could stand alongside them as a recognized force in the ASEAN technology landscape.

The CIO100 ASEAN Awards 2025 provides a unique platform for organizations to showcase their most impactful achievements, gain both regional and global visibility, and join a distinguished community of innovators who are redefining the role of technology in business:

  1. CIO Award (Individual): Honors CIOs who have demonstrated innovation that has delivered real value, is changing the way their organization operates, and influencing people across their entire organization.
  • Next CIO Award (Individual): Celebrates emerging ICT leaders who are on the path to becoming the next CIO, driving innovation and technology leadership across their organization.
  • CIO Innovation (Team): Recognizes teams that are introducing innovative solutions to enhance business value and meet strategic business objectives, by transforming internal or external operations, or driving market growth with new digital products and services.
  • CIO Customer Value (Team): Honours teams that have elevated customer experience and value through new projects, solutions, and improvements in processes, business models, and operations.
  • CIO Talent (Team): Celebrates organizations fostering talent development and growth, building new capabilities, competencies, and impactful employee programs.
  • CIO Culture (Team): Recognizes teams that have developed internal cultural programs that are, promoting individual growth, team achievements, and inclusivity.
  • CIO Sustainability (Team): Honors initiatives that deliver sustainability benefits, especially those aimed at reducing environmental impact, carbon footprint, climate change, waste, and energy usage.

What Makes a Winning Nomination?

This is the moment to tell your story of how your team has tackled complex challenges, driven measurable outcomes, and contributed to your organization’s success. Strong nominations will clearly articulate the business problem, the innovative approach taken, and the quantifiable results achieved. Data, real-world examples, and testimonials can help illustrate the value your team has delivered.

Nominations are open until: 12 September 2025

Awards winners will be unveiled at the CIO100 ASEAN Awards 2025 Gala Dinner held in-person on 12 November 2025, in Singapore.

Transform Recognition into Opportunity

If your organization has launched successful digital innovation initiatives, improved customer value, advanced sustainability, fostered talent development or built a high-performing culture, now is the time to step forward. Review the award categories and criteria, assemble your success stories, and submit your nomination for the CIO100 ASEAN Awards 2025. Join a community of technology leaders who are shaping the future of business in the region – your achievements deserve to be recognized on this influential stage.

Event website: https://www.foundry-events.com/CIO100CSO30Awards

Estelle Quek

Editorial Director

CIO and CSO ASEAN

Estelle Quek
Editorial Director CIO and CSO ASEAN

As Editorial Director, CIO and CSO ASEAN, Estelle covers the business-IT leadership and C-suites of 10 diverse and unique markets. Estelle addresses the top dilemmas faced by these leaders including digital transformation, adoption of innovative technology, alignment of IT with business strategies, data privacy and sovereignty, attaining optimal outcomes from technology investments, talent scarcity etc. Estelle’s coverage draws on her deep expertise in digital transformation, business model innovation, technology analysis-offering CIO and CSO subscribers a front-row view into how ASEAN organizations are navigating the evolving technology landscape. She brings a critical lens to the intersection of cloud, AI, Generative AI, automation, cybersecurity and risk management. Estelle unpacks the real-world impact of emerging technologies on business agility, operational efficiency, and competitive advantage-translating complex trends into actionable insights for the region’s technology leadership and communities. She is a trusted advisor, speaker and moderator to technology buyer and vendor organizations in this region.

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