Prior Winners
Think Global aWARDS Year six Winners
Community/Non-Profit
Winner: Treedom
Education & eLearning
Winner: The B!G iDEA
Language Industry Person of the Year
Winner: Edith Bendermacher, NetApp
Life Sciences
Winner: The Global Heart Hub
Marketing
Winner: Inclusion and Accessibility Labs
Professional Services
Winner: Cellcolab
Retail & eCommerce
Winner: Bizay
Start-Up
Winner: Phytavaren Technology Ltd
technology & Entertainment
Winner: Radix IoT
Travel, Transportation & Hospitality
Winner: Hotelverse
Think Global aWARDS Year FIVE Winners
Best CSR/Sustainability Transformation
Winner: Tru Earth Environmental Products
Best Digital Transformation/Pivot Campaign
Winner: Vodafone
Brand of the Year
Winner: Society of St Vincent de Paul, Ireland
Community & Non-Profit
Winner: CLEAR Global/Translators without Borders
Education & eLearning
Winner: Ingenium
Inclusivity/Accessibility
Winner: The Open Doors Initiative
Language Industry Person of the Year
Winner: Lucio Bagnulo
Life Sciences
Winner: Global Heart Hub
Marketing
Winner: Stone Group
Outstanding Hybrid/Virtual Event
Winner: MURAL
Process Automation
Winner: Chargebee
Professional Services
Winner: Exclaimer
Retail & eCommerce
Winner: Net World Sports
Start-Up
Winner: Spark Digital & Analytics Limited
Technology
Winner: Adapttech Limited
Travel
Winner: Travelzoo
Travel - Creative Ingenuity Award
Winner: Wowzitude
Think Global aWARDS Year four Winners
animaccord
Brand of the Year
Established in 2008, Animaccord is an
award-winning entertainment company. Headquartered in Cyprus, it also has regional offices in the USA, Russia, China, and Poland. The company develops, produces, and distributes animated brands globally
with a team of 200 professionals.
CSA RESEARCH
Professional Services Award
Since 2002, CSA Research (formerly known as Common Sense Advisory) has provided unparalleled independent, objective, and comprehensive primary research focused exclusively on the global content and language services markets.
vISIT SWEDEN
Travel Award
Visit Sweden is Sweden's official website for tourism and travel information. You will find all the practical information you need when thinking about traveling to this beautiful country.
IRISH GUIDE DOGS
Media & Advertising Award
Irish Guide Dogs is Ireland’s national charity dedicated to helping people who are vision impaired and families of children with autism achieve improved mobility and independence. Their core purpose is to enable people with sight loss and families of children with autism.
RANTMEDIA
Education & eLearning Award
Formed in 2003, Rantmedia has honed a collaborative, agile, and resourceful studio model that allows its Shonants to tackle significant challenges affordably. They work with organizations of all sizes, from start-ups to global brands. They have also aided clients in the private, public, and voluntary sectors.
ULRICH HENES
Language Industry Person of The Year
Ulrich Henes is the founder and president of the Localization Institute,
a Madison, Wisconsin-based consulting and event organizing company. In his early years, Ulrich was fascinated by language, cultural differences, and global business, which naturally led him into his chosen field.
cLINICAL pHARMAcist Solutions
Life Sciences Award
Clinical Pharmacist Solutions comprises a group of pharmacists whose mission is to improve safety and efficiency by utilizing pharmacists’ clinical skills. Specializing in helping GP surgeries utilize clinical pharmacists in their practice.
ALOCAI
Technology Award
Alocai is the end-to-end game localization platform that integrates human creativity and AI to deliver superior gaming experiences.
onbuy
Retail & eCommerce Award
Founded by driven entrepreneur and CEO Cas Paton, OnBuy launched in November 2016 and has quickly become the fastest-growing marketplace in the world.
The Shona Project
Community/Non-Profit Award
The Shona Project, founded by Tammy Darcy in honor of her big sister Shona, was established and launched from offices in Ireland. They celebrate women from all over the world, those who succeed and those who overcome, those who lead and those who think, those who win, and those who learn.
FRESH.LAND
Start-Up Award
Fresh.Land is an award-winning digital platform enabling consumers to enjoy fruit and vegetables picked fresh from the farm just four days earlier. It is a global digital marketplace that allows farmers to sell fresh products directly to retailers and consumers.
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POLESTAR
Sustainability Award
Polestar is an electric performance car brand harnessing refined performance and cutting-edge technology. Their mission is to bring driving pleasure into
a new era with a product offering
of progressive, electrified
performance cars.
ROKT
Going Global Award
Rokt is a global multilingual game localization and audio production agency with offices in Berlin, Seoul, and Montreal. They are a talented and passionate team with many years of experience in the video game and localization industry.
SERVICENOW
Digital Transformation Award
ServiceNow delivers digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity. They believe that “behind every great experience is a great workflow.” The Now Platform delivers a more innovative way to workflow across industries.
Think Global aWARDS year three Winners
monat
Brand of the Year
In just under five years, MONAT Global has reached hundreds of thousands of households, welcoming more than 300,000 Market Partners and 1,000,000 VIP Customers.
MY KIDS TIME
Going Global Award
At MyKidsTime, we’re passionate about helping parents and children get more enjoyment from life. We aim to provide accurate and relevant information that provides value to parents.
CONVENTION CENTRE DUBLIN
Travel Award
The Convention Centre Dublin was developed to provide a world-class conference venue in the heart of Ireland’s capital city. Located just 15 minutes from the airport in Dublin’s Docklands, the finance and technology hub of the city.
nippon steel
Manufacturing Award
Nippon Steel Corporation Group will pursue world-leading technologies and manufacturing capabilities and contribute to society by providing excellent products and services.
salt dna
Digital Transformation Award
Salt is the global leader in secure communications. Our bespoke platform is the secure communications solution that uniquely gives complete control to our customers.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Advertising Award
The National Geographic Society uses the power of science, exploration, education, and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world.
swati narwal
Language Industry Person of the Year
Organisation and Process development Specialist at IKEA, Swati is passionate about diversity, inclusion, language, culture, and women empowerment.
APISPROTECT
Start-up Award
ApisProtect brings groundbreaking technology to commercial beekeeping. Using a combination of IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies we remotely extract and interpret data from hives.
PALEBLUEDOT RECRUITMENT
Life Sciences Award
With our team of highly motivated and professionally trained recruiters, we assist clients with their staffing needs and provide qualified candidates with the opportunities they desire.
busy life
Media Award
Busy Life! The home of Inclusion with a focus on sport and disABILITY. Clothing and accessories with empowering and inspiring designs that promote my inclusive ethos.
gala
Community/Non-Profit Award
The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) is a not-for-profit trade association connecting and supporting professionals and organizations in the global language industry.
Alen JuginoviC
Community Award
Medical doctor and postdoc at Harvard Medical School (Department of Neurobiology), currently working in the field of sleep medicine, more specifically the effects of sleep deprivation on health, the gut-brain axis and the blood-brain barrier
SOAPBOX
Technology Award
SoapBox Labs wants to transform how kids interact with technology using their voices. Our privacy-first, low-code, proprietary technology delivers 95% accuracy for kids ages 2-12 of all accents and dialects.
Reload digital & zoeva
Retail & eCommerce Award
Reload Digital, Growing retail brands & eCommerce leaders since 2009 with strategic omnichannel retail marketing
Zoeva, we’re a beauty brand committed to empowering women and celebrating their authentic, individual beauty.
jetpack learning
Indigenous Languages Award
Jetpack Learning are experts in the design and development of educational games. Our authoring tool enables educators to create fun, engaging learning games, efficiently and at scale.
rantmedia
Professional Services Award
Formed in 2003, Rantmedia has honed a collaborative, agile, and resourceful studio model that allows its Shonants to tackle significant challenges affordably.
Think Global aWARDS year two Winners
NETAPP
Brand of the Year
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Jose, California, NetApp specializes in helping our customers get the most out of their data with industry-leading cloud data services, storage systems, and software.
GREENPEACE CANADA
Advertising Award
Around the globe, we are standing up with communities, and we are holding governments and corporations accountable. Whether on the streets or at the ballot box, we hold the real power when we work together.
ABODOO
Start-up Award
Our purpose is to give people the ability to live and work where makes them happiest and ensuring greater inclusivity in this new world of work and learning. Our dream is to leave no one behind and use our resources to empower everyone to have their own home (abode) and opportunity to work (do).
ACIBADEM
Life Sciences Award
The Acıbadem Healthcare Group is Turkey’s most valuable private healthcare organization according to brand assessment results and the position the group has achieved in the sector.
Michele Kassis Carlson
Language Industry Person of the Year
An international leader with a proven track record of building strong global teams, creating agile processes from the ground up, and delivering global products..
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Localization Recognition Award
Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.
XTM INTERNATIONAL
Technology Award
XTM International was formed in 2002 when we spotted a need for high-quality, enterprise-class translation technologies that would keep pace with the fast-evolving demands of globalization.
PITNEY BOWES
Retail & eCommerce Award
At Pitney Bowes, we thrive on helping our clients navigate the complex world of commerce. We provide data so businesses can market to their best customers. We enable the sending of parcels and packages across the globe. And, we secure payments through statements and invoices to keep our clients moving forward.
The worldy marketer podcast
Community Award
The Worldly Marketer Podcast brings you valuable insider perspectives on what it takes to grow a global business in today’s digital, social, multilingual marketplace.
SAGE ADVICE
Going Global Award
At Sage, we transform the way people think and work, enabling their organisations to thrive. Every day, all around the world, our 13,000 colleagues and local networks of accountants and partners support and enable business builder success..
LONELY PLANET
Travel Award
Ever since company founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler stapled together their first guidebook after an epic trip across Asia, Lonely Planet has put travelers at the heart of everything we do, informing and inspiring them with trusted content for print and digital from experts who visit every destination.
ALPS
Manufacturing Award
Our aim is to transform into a sustainable value-creating corporate group that carries on contributing to people's lives through electronics and communication, with a focus on two business segments — electronic components and automotive infotainment.
Think Global aWARDS year one Winners
Netflix
Brand of the Year
At Netflix, we want to entertain the world. Whatever your taste, and no matter where you live, we give you access to best-in-class TV shows, movies and documentaries. Our members control what they want to watch, when they want it, with no ads, in one simple subscription.
get your guide
Company of the Year
We’re on a journey to transform ordinary trips into extraordinary ones. We are your guide, bringing you personal experiences. Wherever your travels take you, we’ll show you the unique and unmissable things to do in your destination.
vmware
Technology Award
VMware offers a breadth of digital solutions that powers apps, services, and experiences which enable organizations to deliver the best customer service and empower employees.
salesforce
Retail & eCommerce Award
In 1999, we pioneered cloud-based CRM software and have helped 150,000+ companies run their companies more effectively. Now, we’re creating an economy that will help millions of people find career satisfaction and enjoy better lives as well.
TRIPADVISOR
Advertising Award
Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel platform, helps 463 million travelers each month make every trip their best trip. Travelers across the globe use the Tripadvisor site and app to browse more than 859 million reviews and opinions of 8.6 million accommodations, restaurants, experiences, airlines,
and cruises.
Anna Schlegel
Language Industry Person of the Year
Global Product Operations and Globalization Strategy executive: My teams envision, architect and successfully deploy enterprise frameworks to manage the company's product life-cycle with all shared services, engineering processes, and GTM teams. We oversee Day 1 readiness for our products around the globe.
Localization Recognition Award
Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
baxter
Medical Devices Award
Our more than 85-year heritage gives us distinct perspective on the needs of patients and caregivers. We lead today by putting those insights to work to deliver new, better healthcare solutions and access to care in the communities where we live and work.
sanctifly
Travel Award
Sanctifly members get access to the thousands of location options, travel wellness content and airport hacks to help improve their travel routine. We gather everything that is good for you within 5 miles of any international airport in our mobile app. Practice travel wellness wherever you are by downloading the app today
GDPR Awareness coalition
Community Award
The GDPR Awareness Coalition was a not-for-profit, fixed-term (Apr 17' - May 18') initiative, established by @Garry Connolly in April 2017, to assist in raising awareness of the data privacy obligations for companies big or small, from the global multinational to single employee traders, as a result of the implementation of GDPR on the near horizon.
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ge healthcare
Life Sciences Award
As a leading global medical technology, diagnostics and digital solutions innovator, GE Healthcare enables clinicians to make faster, more informed decisions through intelligent devices, data analytics, applications and services, supported by its Edison intelligence platform
tesla
Manufacturing Award
Tesla was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who wanted to prove that people didn’t need to compromise to drive electric – that electric vehicles can be better, quicker and more fun to drive than gasoline cars.
bmc remedyforce
Innovative use of Technology Award
From core to cloud to edge, BMC delivers the software and services that enable over 10,000 global customers, including 84% of the Forbes Global 100, to thrive in their ongoing evolution to an Autonomous Digital Enterprise.