Globee® Business Awards

Business Awards | Recognizing Achievements – Inspiring Success

About The Globee® Awards

Achievement Deserves to Be Recognized

Roles change. Organizations evolve. Industries move forward. But the work people build, lead, improve, and bring to life remains an important part of their professional and organizational history.

Since 2003, the Globee® Awards has provided structured opportunities for individuals, teams, departments, organizations, products, services, and initiatives to have eligible workplace and business achievements evaluated and recognized.

An achievement may represent years of effort or one decisive milestone. It may come from an established organization, a growing business, a startup, a team, or an individual professional. What matters is the achievement presented, the results demonstrated, and the evidence submitted.

Building a Record of Achievement

Recognition received over time can help document important milestones across a person’s career or an organization’s development. Each award records a specific achievement evaluated under the applicable Globee® Awards program, category, criteria, and year.

Applicants may return with new eligible achievements as their work develops. Each nomination is evaluated independently. Previous recognition does not guarantee another award, and entering repeatedly does not influence judging.

Globee® Awards winners are determined through the published numerical scoring process. Payment of an entry fee does not guarantee an award, and entries scoring below 7.00 receive no recognition. No agent, consultant, sponsor, vendor, or other third party is authorized to influence the outcome or guarantee an award.

Strong, relevant, and publicly accessible supporting materials help judges understand and evaluate the achievement presented.

Your work continues. Your achievements become part of your history. When an eligible achievement is ready, the Globee® Awards provides an opportunity to present it for consideration.

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About the Globee® Awards

Established in Silicon Valley in 2003, the Globee® Awards is an American organization with more than two decades of experience recognizing achievements in business and the workplace.

What began with industry research, printed guides, and awards programs focused on technology and cybersecurity has developed into ten awards programs serving participants from around the world. The programs recognize eligible achievements by individuals, teams, departments, organizations, products, services, and initiatives across industries.

The Globee® Awards has evolved over many years through sustained work by its staff, judges, contributors, and participating organizations. That work has included developing awards programs and categories, producing industry publications, organizing ceremonies and activities associated with major conferences, communicating with participants internationally, maintaining submission and judging systems, and continually updating the programs as industries and workplaces have changed.

An American Organization with Worldwide Participation

The Globee® Awards was founded and is operated in the United States. Its programs, policies, submission systems, and recognition processes are administered by the organization in accordance with applicable U.S. laws and requirements.

Participation is not limited to the United States. Subject to the eligibility rules of each program and category, professionals and organizations from around the world may submit eligible achievements. Approved professionals from different industries and locations also participate as volunteer judges.

Worldwide participation does not change the organization’s American identity or the standards governing its programs. It reflects the international nature of modern business, technology, innovation, leadership, and workplace achievement.

How the Globee® Awards Began

The organization’s roots date to 2003, when a Silicon Valley media and research initiative began exploring and publishing information about emerging products, services, companies, and technologies. Its printed industry guides were distributed at conferences and expos, helping professionals learn about developments in rapidly changing markets.

As that work expanded, awards programs were introduced to recognize notable achievements associated with the industries being covered. Ceremonies and recognition activities were held at independent venues and alongside major industry gatherings, including the RSA Conference in San Francisco and Interop in Las Vegas. The Golden Bridge Awards® also held ceremonies in New York.

Over time, the scope expanded beyond products and technology. New programs were developed to recognize achievements in cybersecurity, business, innovation, leadership, organizational excellence, impact, artificial intelligence, and other areas of the workplace.

More Than Two Decades of Program Development

The current Globee® Awards programs reflect the evolution of several earlier publications and awards initiatives.

Cybersecurity

The organization’s cybersecurity history began with the Info Security Products Guide in 2003. The guide was created as an industry resource and distributed at conferences. The first Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards followed in 2005, with ceremonies held during the RSA Conference era. This program later evolved into the Globee® Awards for Cybersecurity.

Technology

The Network Products Guide and its Hot Companies and Best Products Awards began in 2006. The program later became the IT World Awards and ultimately evolved into the Globee® Awards for Technology. Earlier ceremonies were held during Interop in Las Vegas.

Impact

The Women World Awards began in 2008 to recognize achievements by women in the workplace, small business, and entrepreneurship. The program later expanded while retaining categories recognizing women’s achievements and evolved into the Globee® Awards for Impact.

Innovation

The Golden Bridge Awards® began in 2010 to recognize business and technology achievements and innovations from around the world. The program is now the Globee® Awards for Innovation—Golden Bridge Awards®.

Business

The International and Consumer World Awards began in 2011. Its scope expanded beyond consumer-focused categories and evolved into the Globee® Awards for Business.

Leadership

The CEO World Awards began in 2013 with a focus on chief executives and senior leaders. The program expanded to recognize eligible leadership achievements at different organizational levels and became the Globee® Awards for Leadership.

Excellence

The Customer Sales and Service World Awards began in 2014. Its original focus on customer-facing functions expanded to recognize eligible achievements across organizational departments and functions. It is now the Globee® Awards for Excellence.

Achievement

The American Best in Business Awards began in 2016 to recognize eligible business achievements in the United States. The program later expanded internationally and is now the Globee® Awards for Achievement.

Pioneers

Introduced in 2021 as the Globee® Awards for Disruptors, this program was developed to recognize eligible achievements involving new approaches, transformation, and change. It is now the Globee® Awards for Pioneers.

Artificial Intelligence

Introduced in 2025, the Globee® Awards for Artificial Intelligence recognizes eligible AI-related achievements by individuals, teams, organizations, products, services, and initiatives across industries.

What “Globee” Means

The name “Globee” combines “globe,” reflecting worldwide participation, with “e,” representing excellence, enterprise, and evolution. Globee® is a registered service mark.

The name reflects the organization’s development from industry-specific recognition programs into a broader awards platform serving participants across countries, industries, organization types, and areas of achievement.

Physical Awards Designed in the United States

The Globee® Awards has made a substantial investment in developing its physical recognition collection. The Globee® trophy, plaques, and medallions were designed in the United States through a detailed development process intended to create distinctive, well-made symbols of achievement.

Careful attention was given to their design, materials, proportions, finishes, presentation, and durability. Each item is produced to reflect the significance of the recognition it represents and to provide winners with a lasting physical record of their achievement.

Physical trophies, plaques, medallions, printed certificates, and other merchandise are optional and available for purchase separately where offered. Eligible winners receive complimentary verified winner eCertificates and eBadges; purchasing a physical item does not affect judging, award level, winner status, publication, or any other result.

Available physical awards may be ordered for delivery within the United States and to supported international destinations. Product selection, prices, production schedules, shipping availability, customs requirements, taxes, duties, and delivery times may vary by destination.

Purpose of the Globee® Awards

The purpose of the Globee® Awards is to provide structured opportunities for eligible workplace and business achievements to be submitted, evaluated, and recognized under published program requirements.

Achievements may involve measurable results, innovation, leadership, improvement, growth, implementation, service, problem-solving, impact, or other eligible accomplishments. Recognition may apply to individuals, teams, departments, organizations, products, services, or initiatives, depending on the program and category.

An award recognizes the achievement evaluated in a particular program, category, and year. It should not be interpreted as a certification, license, regulatory approval, investment recommendation, product endorsement, or guarantee of future performance.

Ten Globee® Awards Programs

The Globee® Awards currently presents ten awards programs:

Each program has its own categories, eligibility requirements, achievement period, deadlines, and entry instructions. A nomination must satisfy the requirements of the specific program and category selected.

How Recognition Is Determined

Eligible nominations are evaluated through a structured numerical scoring process. Approved volunteer judges review the information and publicly accessible supporting materials submitted with each nomination. Judges score the achievement, main content, summary, and supporting materials under the published criteria.

Valid scores are aggregated, and the final average determines whether an entry receives Gold, Silver, Bronze, or no award. Entries scoring below 7.00 receive no award. Payment of an entry fee does not guarantee recognition, and an entry is not upgraded because it is the only submission in a category.

Entrants receive their anonymous numerical scores after results are finalized. Judges do not provide written comments.

No agent, consultant, entrant, sponsor, vendor, or other third party is authorized to influence the outcome or guarantee an award. Learn more through the Nomination and Entry Submission Process and Judging and Awards Process.

Ways to Participate

Submit a Nomination

Eligible individuals and organizations may submit achievements to an applicable awards program and category. Entrants must follow the published requirements, provide accurate information, submit relevant publicly accessible evidence, and pay the applicable entry fee.

Review the Nomination and Entry Submission Process

Apply to Serve as a Judge

Currently working professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners may apply to participate as volunteer judges. Selection and assignments are not guaranteed. Judge applications are reviewed directly by Globee® Awards based on verifiable professional experience, relevant qualifications, prior participation when applicable, program needs, and available opportunities.

Serving as a judge is free of charge and unpaid. A judge who separately submits a nomination must pay the applicable entry fee and follow the same entry requirements as every other entrant. Judges may not evaluate their own nominations and must disclose and recuse from conflicts of interest.

Learn About Applying to Be a Judge

Recognition Provided to Winners

Eligible winners receive a complimentary verified winner eCertificate and eBadge identifying the applicable recognition. Winner information is published according to the program’s winner-publication practices.

Optional physical trophies, plaques, medallions, certificates, and other merchandise may be available separately. Purchasing merchandise does not affect judging, award level, winner status, or publication. Current products and availability are listed in the Globee® Awards Store.

Editorial publication or other promotional consideration is separate from winning and remains subject to editorial review, instructions, availability, and applicable policies. Payment for an entry or merchandise does not guarantee editorial coverage or any particular promotional outcome.

Categories That Evolve with the Workplace

Industries, technologies, roles, and organizational priorities change. Globee® Awards may review and update programs and categories to keep them relevant to current workplace and business achievements.

The availability of a category in one year does not guarantee that it will remain unchanged or be offered in another year. Entrants should review the current program pages and category requirements before preparing a nomination.

What Globee® Awards Recognition Does—and Does Not—Mean

A Globee® Award records that a submitted achievement received the applicable recognition under the published process for a particular program, category, and year.

Recognition does not guarantee increased credibility, publicity, sales, investment, employment, promotion, immigration results, business success, or continued future performance. Globee® Awards does not certify the overall quality, financial condition, safety, legality, regulatory compliance, or future conduct of a winner, nominee, product, service, or organization.

Individuals and organizations may accurately describe the award they received, but they should not present it as a professional credential, regulatory authorization, product certification, investment recommendation, or endorsement beyond the recognition actually granted.

Built Through Sustained Work

The history of the Globee® Awards is not based on a single event or program. Since 2003, its development has required years of research, publishing, program administration, travel, conference participation, event production, technology development, judge coordination, entrant support, category review, and winner verification.

Programs have changed names and expanded as industries and workplaces evolved, but the underlying purpose has remained consistent: to maintain structured opportunities for eligible achievements to be evaluated and recognized.

That record—built over more than two decades—is an important part of the Globee® Awards’ credibility. The organization continues to strengthen that credibility by publishing clearer requirements, maintaining separation between fees and results, reviewing scoring, correcting outdated information, and avoiding promises that an award cannot responsibly make.

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