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
• You are not 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 who had the highest number of nominations 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.