VENDOR AWARDS: To ensure that the most deserving companies in EMEA are selected for vendor awards, it was vital for us to drill down to a local level first.  The EMEA Channel Academy Awards is utilising Local Selection Committees of distributors who will independently produce a list of five nominees for each award category in their specific region. Registered DISTREE delegates from the distribution community have also been asked to submit nominations.

These lists of nominees will then be collated centrally - weighted accordingly in relation to the size of the market – and combined to produce the final list of 5 nominees for each award. During the EMEA Channel Academy Awards ceremony, all of the distribution executives gathered will take part in a live electronic voting process during the Gala Dinner to determine the vendor winners.

DISTRIBUTOR AWARDS: Prior to the awards, more than one hundred EMEA-level channel executives have been approached to form the vendor jury. Each vendor nominates their preferred distributor by region within the EMEA theatre and their overall preferred partner. At this stage distributors attending DISTREE XXL also have an opportunity to nominate their business for an award.

These nominations are then confidentially collated and circulated to all members of the jury. Each jury member picks 5 nominees in each category. Again, these votes are counted to come up with the 5 finalists for each category. Jury members will attend the gala dinner and will vote live anonymously and individually to select the winner of each award. Please note that only jury members will be eligible to vote for the distributor awards at the gala dinner.

HALL OF FAME AWARDS: These are lifetime achievement awards recognising outstanding contribution to the development of the EMEA channel. Selected by the Executive Awards Committee (EAC).