The AEO Excellence Awards judging process is outsourced to an independent judging company.
Due to the volume of entries received, AEO is unable to feedback on entries that are not shortlisted or those who were shortlisted but didn’t win.
- All entries must be submitted by the deadline of 5:00pm (GMT) on 2nd April 2024
- The qualifying period is for events that took place between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024.
- All entries must be submitted online via this website; no hardcopy entries will be accepted.
- Only fully completed entry forms will be accepted.
- Word limits are to be strictly observed and judges will disregard any words over the limit – please note that is only the questions which have scores next to them that are included in the wordcount.
- Entry is free of charge for all AEO, AEV and ESSA members.
- Non-member entries are priced at £599 (+VAT) PER SINGLE ENTRY. You will be invoiced on receipt of entry and payment must be made prior to the entry deadline, otherwise they will not be included. Payment will be accepted by credit card or by bank transfer in GBP.
- Please also submit your company logo (in eps format) when sending your entry.
- The entry form represents the full and entire official entry. Attempts to further influence the judges by any means outside of, or in addition to, the official entry may result in disqualification.
- On receipt of your entry, you will receive a confirmation email. If you do not receive this within three days, it is your responsibility to contact us to confirm its arrival. Unless you have this written or verbal confirmation from us, we cannot guarantee the arrival of your entry.
- It is essential that we can contact you easily with questions regarding your entry, or judging enquiries and requests for further information - please provide full contact details on the entry form.
- Companies will be shortlisted in each category and the shortlist will be published on or before 15th May 2024. The winners will be announced during the Excellence Awards event on the afternoon of Friday 14th June 2024.
- All shortlisted companies must have at least one representative at the awards ceremony to potentially collect their award, therefore all shortlisted entrants will be liable for one seat at the event. All entrants reaching the shortlist will be contacted discuss their attendance Entrants unable to commit to attendance at the Awards ceremony will not be included in the final shortlist
- The AEO will publish details of the shortlisted entrants and category winners, including profiles of their projects/technologies/services etc., using the information taken from the entry form. We will not reveal the names of those companies/individuals who are not shortlisted.