Less than a week to submit nominations for 2022 IITPSA President’s Awards
Nominations close soon for SA IT industry’s most prestigious awards
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) has extended the deadline for nominations for the 2022 IITPSA President’s Awards – the South African IT sector’s most prestigious accolades.
Nominations now close at midnight on Sunday 11 September, giving individuals and organisations less than a week to submit their nominations.
The IITPSA President’s Awards include the Visionary CIO and IT Personality of the Year awards – for decades, the industry’s most coveted titles awarded only to the most outstanding individuals in their fields.
The awards also include categories for Technology Excellence and Social Responsibility, with a new category for outstanding achievements by students, IT entrepreneurs or up-and-coming IT professionals under the age of 35.
IITPSA President Admire Gwanzura says the awards raise the public profiles of category winners, acknowledging exceptional achievement in the IT sector. “Every winner has been a shining example of professionalism, dedication and innovation, serving as a role model for excellence in IT,” he says.
Gwanzura says 2022 marks the IITPSA’s 65th anniversary – a milestone traditionally associated with a sapphire. In light of this, IITPSA has themed its sapphire anniversary President’s Awards ‘Brilliance in IT’.
This year’s President’s Awards categories include:
The IT Personality Award, which recognises a highly respected and outstanding ICT professional who has made a significant technical or academic contribution to the industry, who has been successful in building a highly-respected IT organisation or business, and/or who has made a major contribution to the IT profession over a number of years.
The Visionary CIO Award, which honours a CIO who has demonstrated visionary leadership in using IT to support, grow and transform business and/or who has established best practice in implementing technology solutions in an organisation.
The Technology Excellence Award, which will be presented to a person or team who has made exceptional or innovative use of technology for an organisation and/or who has exhibited technological excellence that has delivered measurable benefit for business/the SA Economy.
The Social Responsibility/Community Award, which will be presented to a person, team or project that delivers the benefits of IT on a not-for-profit basis into the community or brings the community into the IT space.
The Dynamism in ICT Youth Award, which recognises a person younger than 35 for exceptional potential or achievement in ICT. Nominees should be nominated by educators, employers, colleagues or mentors and may include students excelling in STEM studies with outstanding bodies of work; young entrepreneurs in the IT sector; and individual up-and-coming IT professionals.
Nominations should be submitted here. The finalists will be announced in October 2022 and the winners will be named at the IITPSA President’s Awards to be hosted in November 2022.