Cloud Community Europe – Luxembourg launches its competition dedicated to cloud innovation. Deadline to apply is 18 March 2022.
Cloud Community Europe – Luxembourg (CCEL), a platform promoting the country’s cloud ecosystem, is launching its Luxembourg Cloud Awards 2022 in partnership with ITnation.
Companies established in Luxembourg and active in the cloud ecosystem, including service providers, consultants, startups, and innovators of all sectors, can submit their applications until 18 March 2022.
Cloud customers who successfully introduced cloud services to their company and experienced a positive business impact can also apply.
The subject of the competition is cloud Services on the Luxembourg market. “The awards aim to reward the creativity, originality and flexibility of service offerings, the methods of transformation and migration to the cloud but also the overall quality and completeness of the applications,” CCEL explains in a press release.
Two prizes
The organisation adds that “applications are welcome for IaaS-, PaaS- or SaaS- services either for horizontal or vertical markets, either in public, private or hybrid cloud environments, either from established cloud providers, end-clients or from startups”.
Two prizes will be awarded: The Cloud Innovation Project of the Year, which recognises “a project where cloud solutions are transforming the agility of the business,” CCEL details. “The achievements may be relative to cost structure optimisation of the technology investment, the agility and the flexibility in scale and/or in time to go into production with an IT project or the complexity solved, and the maturity gained in best practices including availability and security. The cloud innovation project will definitively go on to a realization that creates value and makes impact”.
And the Cloud Tech Innovator of the Year, which “aims to emphasise the creativity of new products or solutions created thanks to the power of cloud resources (be they IaaS, PaaS, SaaS or hybrid),” CCEL continues.
The competition is open for cloud native startups (established under 5 years ago) in two contexts: “cloud consumer that turns the cloud resources into an innovative product or solutions (in this case, the startup solution is a business solution 100% cloud-based: i.e. cloud Fintech, Regtech, Spacetech, Biotech, etc.),” the association explains.
It is also open to technology startups “that offer new, advanced cloud features (cybersecurity, cloud migration tools, advanced cloud options (resilience, connectivity, devops tools, etc.)”.
During the competition, startups will develop their network, pitch their product or solution to the jury (during an elevator pitching session), boost their visibility (by benefiting from articles both in ITnation magazine and in FEDIL echo magazine and social networks campaign), receive 2 half days of coaching (with cloud experts from consulting company) and join the jury the year after winning the award.
The award ceremony will take place on 5 May 2022 during the “Golden-i” gala which will be streamed from the Crystal Park Building, PwC, in Gasperich. The winner will be nominated by an independent jury composed of cloud computing, digital, experts and startups.
To apply: cloudcommunityeurope.lu/cloud-awards/
Launched in 2009, Cloud Community Europe – Luxembourg (CCEL), a member of the European network Cloud Community Europe, is a coordination platform aiming to position Luxembourg as a leader in the field of cloud computing and software as a service applications and similar technologies as well as to contribute to the development of the cloud computing business in Luxembourg by creating an exchange platform, a ‘cloud ecosystem’, for cloud service providers.
The association also promotes and encourages the uptake of cloud services and applications on a national and international level by sharing best practices. Moreover, CCEL also participates in the development of a legal framework for cloud computing on a national and European level and supports cloud computing companies.
The organization benefits from the support of FEDIL.
