link | Think Global Awards 2018

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
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