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Middle East Industrial Excellence Awards 2026

Celebrating leaders and innovators redefining the industrial landscape.
Showcasing transformative ideas, technologies, and achievements.

About the Awards

The Middle East Industrial Excellence Awards 2026 honour the region’s most outstanding achievements in Industry 4.0, celebrating organisations and leaders advancing OT security, automation, AI-driven operations, sustainability, and digital transformation across critical industries. Open to manufacturers, technology providers, system integrators, government entities, and individual innovators, these awards spotlight measurable impact, breakthrough solutions, and leadership that is shaping the future of industrial performance in the region.

Why Participate

Regional Leadership

Establish your position as a regional industry leader

Showcase Impact

Highlight impactful projects, technologies, and achievements

Earn Recognition

Earn recognition from top industrial decision-makers and government stakeholders

Elevate Your Brand

Celebrate your team and elevate your brand in the Industry 4.0 ecosystem

Who Can Nominate

  • Industrial enterprises and critical infrastructure operators
  • Government and semi-government organisations
  • Technology vendors, automation specialists, and system integrators
  • Senior leaders driving industrial innovation and transformation

Categories

Middle East Top OT Security & Resilience Award 2026

Recognizes advanced OT security solutions that protect industrial control systems, SCADA, and critical infrastructure through real-time threat detection, AI-driven anomaly monitoring, and automated response to ensure uninterrupted and resilient operations.

Criteria
  • Provide a detailed use case demonstrating effective threat detection & response.
  • Submit TAT, MTTR, downtime reduction, or cyber-resilience metrics.
  • Explain the OT security architecture (segmentation, Zero Trust, asset visibility).
  • List key achievements proving why your company deserves this award.
Honors fully digitalized, intelligent manufacturing systems that integrate automation, AI, real-time visibility, and cyber-physical systems to deliver high throughput, superior quality, and adaptive, self-optimizing operations.
Criteria
  • Provide a use case demonstrating smart manufacturing capabilities implemented.
  • Submit metrics on throughput, OEE improvement, quality gains, or cycle-time reduction.
  • Describe the system architecture: MES–SCADA–ERP integration, IoT connectivity, automation stack.
  • Demonstrate scalability across lines or multiple plants.
  • List major achievements showcasing operational transformation.
Recognizes advanced automation solutions leveraging AI-driven control, autonomous robotics, multi-sensor fusion, and self-optimizing workflows to deliver high efficiency, reduced downtime, and adaptive industrial operations.
Criteria
  • Provide a use case of next-gen automation implemented (robotics, AI control, AMRs, etc.).
  • Submit measurable improvements in workflow automation, cycle time, and efficiency.
  • Describe the automation architecture and integration with OT systems.
  • List achievements and innovations supporting your eligibility
Celebrates advanced predictive analytics solutions that leverage ML, real-time data pipelines, and asset intelligence to forecast failures, optimize performance, and enable data-driven industrial decision-making.
Criteria
  • Provide a use case demonstrating predictive analytics in production or maintenance.
  • Submit model accuracy, false-positive reduction, downtime avoided, or reliability metrics.
  • Describe the data architecture: historians, IoT data, contextualization, edge analytics.
  • List achievements validating the impact of the analytics solution.
Recognizes innovations that significantly reduce carbon emissions through energy optimization, clean-energy integration, process efficiency improvements, and digital sustainability technologies.
Criteria
  • Provide a use case of decarbonization implemented (energy, emissions, process optimization).
  • Describe technologies used: AI optimization, sensors, digital twins, control upgrades.
  • Highlight sustainability reporting and measurement frameworks used.
  • List achievements demonstrating measurable ESG impact.
Honors high-fidelity digital twins that enable real-time simulation, predictive decision-making, operational optimization, and end-to-end digital replication of assets, systems, or full industrial facilities.
Criteria
  • Provide a use case demonstrating digital twin implementation and outcomes.
  • Submit performance metrics: prediction accuracy, reliability gains, simulation ROI.
  • Describe the twin architecture: sensor inputs, modelling approach, system integration.
  • List achievements proving the digital twin’s operational impact.
Recognizes advanced applications of AI that enhance production intelligence, optimize operations, improve safety, and enable autonomous decision-making at scale across industrial environments.
Criteria
  • Provide a use case showcasing AI-driven optimization or automation.
  • Submit measurable KPIs improved through AI (OEE, energy use, downtime, quality).
  • Explain the AI pipeline: data preprocessing, model training, deployment, edge/ cloud.
  • List achievements validating the transformation impact.
  • Industrial Technology Leader of Middle East 2026
Celebrates a visionary leader driving large-scale industrial modernization through technology strategy, AI, automation, data platforms, and operational innovation.
Criteria
  • Provide examples of significant tech programs or transformations led.
  • Submit measurable business or operational outcomes achieved.
  • Highlight leadership in innovation, engineering excellence, or digital strategy.
  • Demonstrate cross-functional influence (operations, engineering, IT, safety).
  • List achievements, recognitions, or proven leadership milestones.
Honors a leader driving enterprise-wide digital transformation, integrating advanced technologies and reshaping processes, culture, and operational models.
Criteria
  • Provide examples of digital transformation initiatives executed.
  • Submit metrics showing productivity, cost, efficiency, or uptime improvements.
  • Describe the digital architecture: cloud, OT/IT integration, AI, automation, data platforms.
  • Highlight organizational change management and workforce enablement efforts.
  • List achievements that demonstrate successful transformational leadership.
Recognizes excellence in achieving seamless OT/IT convergence, unified architectures, data harmonization, and modernization across industrial environments.
Criteria
  • Provide a use case of OT/IT convergence executed.
  • Submit metrics showing improved reliability, visibility, or cross-system efficiency.
  • Describe the unified architecture: data lakes, integration layers, security models.
  • List achievements that highlight transformation at scale.
Recognizes women leaders driving breakthroughs in industrial technology through innovation, engineering, digitalization, and strategic leadership.
Criteria
  • Provide examples of innovative projects or technologies led.
  • Submit measurable results achieved (efficiency, reliability, sustainability, safety, etc.).
  • Highlight technical contributions in AI, automation, cybersecurity, robotics, or systems engineering.
  • List achievements, awards, patents, or contributions proving excellence.

Award Nomination Form