Nominations Now Open for the 9th Annual Identity Excellence Awards!

May 5, 2025
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Chief Customer Officer

As Ping’s Chief Customer Officer, I’m honored to celebrate our most innovative customers around the world with the 9th annual Identity Excellence Awards (IX awards)! Our customers are often the unsung heroes of their organizations, wielding identity as a competitive advantage in driving growth, reducing fraud and costs, and much more. This is the time of the year where we celebrate the often behind-the-scenes identity champions and we are incredibly excited to see the nominations roll in for this year’s awards.

 

Submit your nomination

 

2025 Identity Excellence Awards Categories

The Identity Excellence Awards is a global celebration of identity innovators who envision and deploy best-in-class solutions that solve today’s numerous and complex business challenges such as delivering exceptional user experiences, protecting their customers, workforce and partners, and driving business forward.


Because our customers are at the top of their game, the competition is often fierce, so get your nominations in as soon as possible. As always, the more detailed the identity story, the better the odds of winning. This year’s 2025 Identity Excellence Award Categories include:

 

Identity Experience Champion

Celebrates customers using Ping Identity to significantly reduce fraud—leveraging adaptive authentication, threat detection, and intelligent access controls to protect users and revenue.

 

Zero Trust Champion

Honors organizations advancing enterprise security by implementing Zero Trust principles—ensuring secure access across workforce, partners, and devices while minimizing risk exposure.

 

Innovation in Identity Champion

Spotlights visionary implementations that go beyond the norm—embracing inventive architectures, next-gen technologies, or complex B2B ecosystems to transform identity.

 

Cloud Modernization Champion

Recognizes customers modernizing their identity infrastructure—especially via cloud adoption—and rapidly realizing business value.

 

Global Enterprise Grade Champion

Acknowledges organizations with identity security demonstrated leadership—deploying comprehensive, scalable, global solutions that protect users at every touchpoint, achieve operational excellence, and set the industry standard for robust identity management.

 

Better Together Champion

Celebrates outstanding collaboration between customers and partners—teams that co-create and execute identity solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Winners Will Be Announced during Global Ping YOUniverse Events:

19 August, Sydney

21 August, Melbourne

26 August, Singapore

27 August, Jakarta

September 17-18, Austin, TX

23 September, London

25 September Amsterdam

 

Ping YOUniverse is our highly anticipated annual conference where current and prospective Ping customers learn identity best practices, trends and more. Ping Identity’s CEO, CPO, customers and partners share with participants how to maximize existing investments and how to use Ping to drive growth, reduce fraud and costs, ease compliance headaches and so much more. 

Submit Your 2025 Identity Excellence Awards Nominations

Join the illustrious group of identity innovators (read about 2024 Ping Identity Excellence award winners) and make your 2025 Identity Excellence award submission today. Good luck and we look forward to seeing you at Ping YOUniverse in the fall!

 

There is no fee to submit an entry, and there is no limit to the number of entries you may submit. You can enter any number of categories and submit the same project for multiple categories if applicable. The more detailed the submission, the higher the odds of winning. Submission are due July 18, 2025 for APJ and August 8, 2025 for AMER and EMEA.

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