FTTH Innovation Awards

Is your company ready to benefit from the big exposure from the FTTH Innovation Awards at the next FTTH Conference 2025 in Amsterdam?

Read on below to learn more about next year's edition and how to submit your nomination.


Innovation and the FTTH Council Objectives  

The FTTH Innovation Awards are a new set of awards which recognise the most innovative FTTH technology product solutions that support the FTTH Council Europe's key objectives, namely: accelerating fibre roll-out, reducing cost and making roll-out more efficient, promoting sustainable technologies, providing originality and enhanced user experience, encouraging greater take up of fibre optic services, saving maintenance costs. 

Promotional benefits of the FTTH Innovation Awards 

Following the great success of their first edition at the last FTTH Conference in Berlin earlier this year, FTTH Conference 2025 exhibitors* now have the chance to nominate their innovative FTTH product solutions and services as candidates for the FTTH Innovation Awards 2025. A series of promotional benefits await the shortlisted companies, including media exposure and advertising opportunities to help drive traffic to your exhibition booth. Shortlisted companies will also be able to feature special flag banners in front of their exhibition stand to advertise themselves as shortlisted for one of the six FTTH Innovation Awards categories. The FTTH Council Europe will also produce "Shortlisted for FTTH Innovation Awards" stickers to be applied to products on exhibition stands. 

Winning finalists will be presented during a dedicated ceremony at 15:00 on Thursday 27st March 2025 in front of hundreds of delegates. 

* Note: exhibitors must have signed up before Friday 22nd November to be able to make nominations 


 

How
does it
work?

Submit your nominations before 29th November 2024 here.

 

THERE ARE SIX CATEGORIES 

  1. Passive Infrastructure  

  2. Active infrastructure – Central network 

  3. Active infrastructure – Home network e.g. customer premise equipment and wi-fi 

  4. Planning, workflow, mapping/GIS, AI software 

  5. Installation Equipment, Tools, Test & Measurement Instruments  

  6. And the newly introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions, bringing practical benefits at any stage of the FTTH network design, rollout, maintenance or management

ENTRY CRITERIA

  1. The awards are free to enter for FTTH Conference 2025 Exhibitors who have signed up to exhibit at the FTTH Conference 2025 before 22nd November 2024 

  1. Product/service entries must be FTTH related  

  1. Each company can enter more than one category but no more than one product per category    

  1. Only one overall entry (with one or multiple categories) is allowed per company   

  1. Entries must be submitted in English   

  1. The judges' decision is final and if there is no worthy or appropriate winner of a category, FTTH Council Europe reserves the right to not name a winner  

  1. The product/service entered for each category must have been launched/taken to market recently and should be commercially available in 2025 

  1. The product/service entered should support one or more of the FTTH Council Europe objectives e.g.  

  1. The product should save cost and/or time in deployment    

  1. Support more efficient FTTH roll-out   

  1. Provide enhanced user experience    

  1. Provide originality   

  1. Save cost of maintenance    

  1. Improve FTTH performance   

  1. Offer sustainable solutions  

 

Who will win?

Join us for the FTTH Innovation Awards ceremony at 15:00 on Thursday 27th March 2025, where the winners of each category will be revealed in front of hundreds of delegates! 

NOMINATE NOW

The deadline for nominations is 29th November 2024

Shortlisted companies and selection of winners

Shortlisted companies and selection of winners

The judging panels will be made up of experts from the world of FTTH, including FTTH Council Europe Board Members, Committee Chairs and Conference and Workshop Speakers for the FTTH Conference 2025.  

There will be two rounds of voting:  

  1. Shortly after 29th November 2024, FTTH Council Europe Board Members and Committee Chairs will judge and shortlist the final three products/services in each category.  Shortlisted companies will be announced publicly before 17th  January 2025

  2. By 17th February 2025, the Conference and Workshop speakers will then be invited to vote over 10 days for the winner of each category (allowing 4 weeks before the Conference 2025)

Join us for the FTTH Conference 2025

A new way to discover the latest FTTH technology advancements

A new way to discover the latest FTTH technology advancements

The FTTH Innovation Awards complement our existing FTTH Awards and recognise the most innovative FTTH products and solutions that are shaping Europe’s digital future and contributing to FTTH Council Europe objectives.  

How to find shortlisted exhibitors

How to find shortlisted exhibitors

Shortlisted companies will receive exposure through press releases and other promotional materials and may also feature special flag banners in front of their exhibition stand to advertise themselves as shortlisted for one of the six FTTH Innovation Awards. FTTH Council Europe will also produce "Shortlisted for FTTH Innovation Awards" stickers to be applied to products on exhibition stands. 

 

 

Nominations
and judging
timings 

3rd October 2024 

NOMINATIONS OPEN

 

29th November 2024 

NOMINATIONS CLOSE

 

Shortly after 29th November

1st Round of judging: Board Members and Committee Chairs of the FTTH Council Europe shortlist down to final three in each category

 

By 19th January 2025 

Shortlisted Products listed on FTTH Conference 2025 website

 

By 21st February 2025

2nd and final round of judging by Conference and Workshop Speakers

 

By 28th February 2025

Confidential confirmation to category winners 

 

Thursday 27th March 2025

Results of awards announced

Marcus Benson
Conference & Membership Director

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