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Closes August 17th 2025 (23:59 PDT)
Recognizing achievements with Data Streaming Technology
The Data Streaming Awards recognizes organizations that are harnessing the power of Data Streaming to transform their business and provide amazing value to their customers, and communities.
Judging
The Judging process is designed with fairness and transparency in mind. Confluent is the main organizer of the Data Streaming Awards, but winners are chosen solely by a panel of data streaming experts spanning the entire category. Every effort is made to ensure there is no undue bias towards any vendor or technology.
If you are interested in becoming a judge, please email us at community+awards@confluent.io. We select judges who we deem are experts and community leaders of the data streaming industry.
Choosing Judges
The judges will be chosen, to complete a judging panel which has representation from many businesses directly involved with the Data Streaming Industry.
Nominations
Nominations are public. Any case study with any data streaming technology, product, service or vendor is elligible to win!
Choosing Winners
No one but the Judges will be choosing winners. Each judge will be able to place votes, and will not have received indication of what other judges voted for previously.
The 2024 Judging Panel
The 2025 Panel is TBC
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Eligibility and Criteria
We want to ensure that the absolute most deserving companies and practitioners are rewarded. This is why we prescribe a set criteria for judges to evaluate nominations and also have some rules and definitions for which companies can win awards.
What are the Judges looking for?
These are guidelines to ensure that you are focusing on the right things during the nomination process.
Innovation
Show us how this team has come up with new ideas for the Streaming Industry, and their own industry.
Impact
How has this project made an impact at their company, in their community, or on the world?
Interest
Is this project interesting to people who are both Technical and Non-technical?
There is more advice regarding your submission within the Nomination form.
What companies are eligible to win these awards?
No Data streaming vendors
Data Streaming Vendors aren't elligible to compete for these awards, UNLESS they are using a Data Streaming Technology for project within their own company.
No company can win two
6 Different companies will win the awards. If a company is elligible for more than one award, they win only one of what the judges decide.
It's time to nominate!
Nominations close August 17th 2025 (23:59 PDT)