The European Digital Mindset Awards awarded in its first edition the most outstanding projects and professionals in digital transformation

The European Digital Mindset Awards recognize the most innovative proposals that present a disruptive approach to Customer Experience, IT Management and new digital business models. Values such as innovation, leadership, disruption or strategy was assessed by the international jury. Daniel Newman, Broadsuite Media Group; Beatriz García Quismondo, Womenalia; Michael Krigsman, CXO Talk founder; and Andreu Veà, Digital Champion for Spain in the European Comission has evaluated more than 150 projects from 26 countries that has applied for this first edition.

 
5 categories for the most disruptive professionals and projects
The European Digital Mindset Awards recognize professionals and leading companies worldwide in the following categories.
In this first edition they have been awarded:
Federico Flórez, CIO of Ferrovial was awarded with the Best executive leader award that recognizes him as the best manager who is leading the digital transformation of his company. In the same category, Gonzalo Cortázar, CaixaBank; Enrique Sánchez de León, Asociación para el Progreso de la Dirección; and Manoj Jain, Bankai Group of Companies, were recognized as finalists.

 

Meliá Hotels was awarded with the Best Digital Transformation Enterprise award that recognize the company that better executed the change from the traditional to the digital business model or that better combined both models with success. Banc Sabadell, Groupo Losepan and Iberia Express were the finalists in this category.

Fernando Almaraz of the University of Salamanca won the Best journalistic work in digital transformation as the author of the best journalistic report that shows the impact of digital transformation in an industry or region. Elena Arrieta, Expansión, Gil Press, Forbes; and Alberto Iglesias Fraga, El Mundo were the finalists in this category.

Improove Search has won the Best digital campaign award that reward the best campaign based on digital channels and platforms getting the best results during 2015. The finalists in this category were TWBA and beagency.

 
And last but not least, the award for the most disruptive start-up went to Spotcat for its great impact on its sector thanks to its business model and its great projection in the coming years. As finalists were CyberPoints, Kidsy and Exovite.