Nominating & Voting Rules
General
• Global Excel Awards is organised by Global Excel Summit.
• The nomination and voting process takes place on the Global Excel Summit website only.
• Participation in the nomination and voting process is free of charge.
• Nominations and voting is decided by the public, but the judges panel determines which nominees become finalists.
• A person can nominate and vote only once using a valid email address. All other submissions from this email address will be disqualified. Nominations and votes sent from disposable email addresses will also be rejected.
• The organisers reserve the right to cancel votes they believe to be fraudulent.
• The organisers reserve the right to cancel any nominations/votes that don’t meet the criteria.
Eligibility
Category #1: Rising Star in the Excel Industry
This category is open to individuals who are reasonably deemed to have an emerging presence.
Category #2: Best Microsoft Excel Add-in
This category is open to active free and paid add-ins compatible with Excel for Microsoft 365.
Category #3: Most Innovative Use of Excel
This category is open to any individual as long as their work is publicly viewable on the web.
Category #4: Best LAMBDA
This category is open to any individual as long as their work is publicly viewable on the web.
Category #5: Best Global Excel Summit 2025 In-person Session
This category is only open to individuals who have a scheduled in-person session.
Nominations stage
• Nominations should be supported by a Linkedin profile or website of the person/add-in nominated to be considered.
• Nominations are open to everyone.
• Individuals can submit nominations for themselves or others.
• Nominations can only be submitted via the awards nomination forms.
• Do not submit nominations via email — they will not be acknowledged.
• Nominations must be submitted in English. We cannot consider non-English language nominations.
• You are not obligated to submit a nomination for every category.
• You are forbidden from nominating any of the judges named in the following section.
Judging stage
• The judges panel comprises five esteemed figures from the Excel industry.
• The judges are Leila Gharani, Alan Murray, Danielle Stein Fairhurst, Celia Alves, and Bill Jelen.
• The judges panel serves as a quality control filter to maximise the integrity and legitimacy of the nominations.
• The judges will apply the defined criteria to each category to ensure the nominees pass the required standard.
• The judges will determine the finalists for every category except 'BEST Global Excel Summit 2025 In-Person Session'.
Voting stage
• During the voting process, you are obligated to vote in every category.
• The person/add-in with the highest number of votes in each category will be deemed the winner. In case two or more nominees have the same number of votes, the one with the highest number of nominations during the nomination period will take precedence.
Key dates
• The public nomination period runs from 14 October 2024 until 3 November 2024.
• The judges panel determine the finalists from 11 November 2024 until 1 December 2024.
• The finalists are revealed on 9 December 2024.
• The public decides on four of the category winners from 9 December 2024 until 19 January 2025.
• The winners are announced at the Global Excel Summit in-person event on 5 February 2025.