The awarding ceremony of the "IDDA Awards" competition, carried out by the Innovation and Digital Development Agency, took place within the framework of the "InMerge Innovation Summit" held in Baku.
The competition was held in 13 nominations in order to introduce the most promising innovators of the ecosystem and to support their activities, to create a competitive environment among the players actively involved in the development of the country's innovation.
At the ceremony held at the Baku Congress Center, the names of the winners in the respective nominations were announced based on the results of the public voting and evaluations by the jury.
"Epoint" in the "Startup of the Year" nomination
Zeynal Karimzade for the "ICT Entrepreneur of the Year" nomination
"Nexus Lab" in the "Discovery of the Year" nomination
Mubariz Shahbazli in the "Locomotive of the Ecosystem" nomination
"SABAH.HUB" in the nomination "Ecosystem Player of the Year"
"Addressable state social assistance" in the nomination "Digital Project of the Year"
"Tech.az" in the "Technology Media of the Year" nomination
"Baku Design Academy" in the "Skill Power of the Year" nomination
Samaya Habibova for the "Woman of the Year in ICT" nomination
Jeyhun Khalilov for the "Technology Inventor of the Year" nomination
"BakuID" in the "Technology Event of the Year" nomination
"FemTech" in the "Technology Community of the Year" nomination
"Simbrella Baku" LLC was among the winners in the "Technopark Resident of the Year" nomination.
Inara Valiyeva, the chairman of the Agency for Innovation and Digital Development, presented prizes and souvenirs to the winners. At the same time, "Azerbaijan Airlines" (AZAL) provided all winners with free air tickets for business trips for a year.
It should be noted that the nominees of the competition, which started on September 12, registered on the idda.awards.az website and submitted their candidacies. 161 candidates who applied participated in public voting and collected more than 31 thousand votes in total. At this stage, the 5 candidates with the highest results qualified for the jury evaluation stage. Elvin Abbasov, Leyla Bagyrzadeh, Vusal Khalilov, Zaur Unsizadeh, Sanya Kumari and Leyla Hajiyeva were among the representatives of the jury of "IDDA Awards".
