Formerly known as the Enterprise Blockchain Awards, the Web3 & Blockchain Transformation Awards (W3BTAs) recognize the exceptional leaders, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and service providers driving global blockchain transformation. Now in their fourth year, the awards honor those that have made a measurable difference within their ecosystems and across industries.
Nominations for the 2022 Web3 & Blockchain Transformation Awards are now open.
The deadline for submitting a nomination is July 31, 2022. Finalists will be announced on September 26, 2022, and winners will be recognized at an awards gala in Toronto, Canada, on November 8, 2022. Best of luck to all nominees!
Award Categories
Awards for Individuals
- Blockchain Frontier Award: Recognizing educators, researchers, or scientists who have made exceptional gains in advancing our knowledge of the transformative power of blockchain technology.
- Blockchain Leadership Award: Recognizing individuals who have shown exceptional leadership in driving blockchain collaboration or implementation within an enterprise, an industry, a government, or a multi-stakeholder organization.
Awards for Individuals OR Organizations
- Blockchain for Good Award: New this year, the Blockchain for Good Award recognizes individuals or organizations that are using blockchain technology to advance the sustainability and well-being of life on our planet. Nominees in this category are tackling global challenges such as reducing inequality, combating climate change, improving health and education, and preserving aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are defining and measuring their progress in terms of the environment, social, and governance (ESG) framework that many companies and investors have increasingly embraced.
Awards for Organizations
- Blockchain Entrepreneurship Award: Recognizing start-up companies or technology projects delivering innovative blockchain applications, protocols, or platforms that address blockchain implementation challenges in business, government, and nonprofit contexts.
- Blockchain Services Award: Recognizing providers of blockchain technologies and services that are working to transform their clients’ operations, supply chains, or ecosystems. This award celebrates the tangible and long-term change that blockchain service providers are working to support.
- Enterprise Transformation Award: Recognizing organizations using blockchain and intersecting technologies to transform their operations, industry, supply chain, or ecosystem. This award celebrates the tangible and long-term change that organizations are working to achieve.
2021 Highlights
2021 Winners
Blockchain Frontier Award
Honouring an individual who has made exceptional gains in advancing our knowledge of the transformative power of blockchain technology.
- Dr. Wendy Charles, Chief Scientific Officer, BurstIQ
Blockchain Leadership Award
Honouring executives who have championed blockchain for their industries and organizations:
Public Leadership
- Elizabeth M. Tanner, Esq., Director, Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation
Corporate Leadership
- Dr. Andreas Dittrich, Head of Blockchain Solutions Center, T-Systems MMS, Deutsche Telekom AG
Entrepreneurial Leadership
- Ken Ebert, CTO, Indicio
Blockchain Entrepreneurship Award
Recognizing a start-up companies or technology projects delivering innovative blockchain applications, protocols, or platforms:
Industry Applications
- Astrella by AST Private Company Solutions
Provenance & Sustainability
- aXedras AG
Blockchain Services Award
Recognizing providers of blockchain technologies and services who are transforming their clients’ operations, supply chains, or ecosystems.
Infrastructure
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Tools & Middleware
- Champ Titles
Enterprise Transformation Award
Recognizing companies, government agencies, or nongovernmental entities using blockchain to transform themselves and their industry, supply chain, or ecosystem.
Organizational Transformation
- TOKO Limited
Ecosystem Transformation
- Shinhan Bank
2020 Highlights
2020 winners
Blockchain Leadership
Honouring executives who have championed blockchain for their industries and organizations:
Ecosystem
- Victoria Lemieux, University of British Columbia
Enterprise
- Marley Gray, Microsoft
Entrepreneurship
- Laura Bailey, CULedger
Innovative entrepreneurship in blockchain
Recognizing a start-up that provides innovative blockchain solutions to support enterprises in the journey to transform their businesses:
Industry solutions
- BurstIQ
Supply Chain Applications
- Chainyard
Technology & Platforms
- Workwolf
Enterprise blockchain transformations
Recognizing companies embracing blockchain to transform their organization, based on a commitment to drive innovation:
Industry solutions
- Solve.Care
Financial services
- Provenance
Technology & Platforms
- IBM Blockchain
Blockchain research
Recognizing a researcher/academic who leverages blockchain technology to push boundaries of new business models:
Academic
- Dr. Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan
Enterprise
- Fujitsu
2019 Highlights
2019 winners
Blockchain Leadership
Honouring executives who have championed blockchain for their industries and organizations:
Enterprise & industry leadership
- Dale Chrystie, FedEx
Governance & policy leadership
- Tonya M. Evans, University of New Hampshire School of Law
Community & ecosystem leadership
- Bernie Moreno, Ownum
Innovative entrepreneurship in blockchain
Recognizing a start-up that provides innovative blockchain solutions to support enterprises in the journey to transform their businesses:
Enterprise solutions
- Kaleido
Industry solutions
- Power Ledger
Public sector services
- Voatz
Enterprise blockchain transformations
Recognizing companies embracing blockchain to transform their organization, based on a commitment to drive innovation:
Industry services & solutions
- IBM
Financial services
- Quorum
Healthcare solutions
- University Health Network
New frontier in enterprise blockchain research
Recognizing a researcher/academic who leverages blockchain technology to push boundaries of new business models:
- Eden Dhaliwal, Outlier Ventures
Young leaders
Celebrating individuals under 19 who are pioneering their own blockchain innovations:
- Alishba Imran