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  • The importance of connecting with a global audience effectively and efficiently is so critical in today's market place. The messaging and essence of the communication becomes so important as you grow and expand products and services into new markets and geographies. Your global content, the languages, and a host of items play such an important factor along with local cultural market understandings. These awards are a way of recognizing achievements in some of these areas and to help and promote the awareness of thinking globally for individuals, communities, start-ups, small and medium sized businesses, global brands and large scale international organizations.

    The Think Global Forum Awards recognize the achievements of people, projects, brands and companies around the world. Awards events are held in Europe and the USA to announce the winners.

    In 2018, the competition was across 12 categories including new areas absent in the previous year. The awards cover branding and advertising, thinking globally and awards by industry sectors.

    Think Global Awards Winners

    1. Brand of the Year Award

    Winner: NetApp Globalization

    2. Community Award

    Winner: The Worldly Marketer Podcast

    3. Advertising Award

    Winner: Greenpeace Canada

    4. Language Industry Person of the Year Award

    Winner: Michele Carlson, Survey Monkey

    5. Localization Recognition Award

    Winner: Rotary International

    6. Going Global Award

    Winner: Sage Advice

    7. Start-Up Award

    Winner: Abodoo

    8. Technology Award

    Winner: XTM International

    9. Travel Award

    Winner: Lonely Planet Travel News Daily

    10. Life Sciences Award

    Winner: Acibadem

    11. Retail & eCommerce Award

    Winner: Pitney Bowes

    12. Manufacturing Award

    Winner: Alps Electric

    The judging panel consists of leading experts from a number of global organizations.

    2018's judging panel includes:

    Beatrice Whelan, Global Content Manager, Sage
    Medhat Bassily, Principal Globalization Architect, ADP
    Lucie Newcomb, CEO, The NewComm Global Group
    Bruno Herrmann, Digital, Product, Content and Experience consultant, and Advisory Board Member, Brand2Global
    Sibylle Eibl, Director of Solutions Architecture, Vistatec
    Yuka Ghesquière Nakasone, Chief Strategist, Global Bridge, and Globalization and Localization Director, Beabloo

    Media Contact

    Priscillia Charles
    Communications Director, Think Global Forum
    priscillia@thinkglobalforum.org
    https://www.thinkglobalforum.org

  • Category: globalization
  • Thematic area: Promotion
  • Call topics: Technology and e-economy (e.g. language technology)
  • Major objective: Target steps to improve quiality of life, enhance international cooperation and reaffirm cultural linguistic continuity
  • Area of intervention: Increasing understanding, reconciliation and international cooperation
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