Collibra Excellence Awards

Honoring customers and partners who strive for Data Confidence™ with Collibra

Since 2018, Collibra has presented the Collibra Excellence Awards to customers and partners who collaborate with Collibra to accelerate every data use case, safely and with well-understood data. Our awards celebrate those who have complex data challenges, but also big ambitions for data and AI. Those who utilize our unified data governance platform to harness trusted, accessible data for driving powerful insights and building data confidence across their organizations.

Nominations are now open for the 2025 awards

Collibra Excellence Awards 2025 - Customer Awards

Benefits to award winners

Receive industry recognition

As a Collibra Excellence Award winner, you join an elite group of customers and partners who go the extra mile to improve data intelligence within their organizations.

Shine a light on your success

Collibra will showcase individual and organizational award winners in social media, content and press promotion.

Share your organization’s story

Award winners and their stories may be showcased by Collibra in an episode of our Data Citizens Dialogues podcast, case study or video.

Award categories and who we celebrate

Honoring data leaders who set the bar high

Collibra Customer Awards

Unlocking the true value of data requires both the application of technology and culture. Our customers bring that to life. The Collibra Excellence Awards celebrate these data citizens who are true innovators. See below for the customer award categories.

Customer awards

  • Acceleration All-Star
  • Adoption Hero
  • Collibra Community Champion of the Year
  • Collibra Ranger of the Year
  • Data Citizen of the Year
  • Data Program of the Year
  • Trendsetter

About Collibra Customer Awards

Acceleration All-Star

This award honors an organization who started with Collibra after January 2024 and achieved notable results since implementation. Achievements could include use case implementation, business impact, value generation or user adoption.

Adoption Hero

The Collibra Adoption Hero award honors an organization leading a data transformation initiative and achieving significant user adoption by leveraging both best practices and creative methods.

Collibra Community Champion of the Year

The Community Champion award honors a Community member who embodies the spirit of collaboration, knowledge sharing and peer support within the Collibra Community. This individual goes above and beyond to contribute valuable insights, foster meaningful discussions and support fellow members on their data journeys.

Collibra Ranger of the Year

The Collibra Ranger of the Year celebrates the Collibra Ranger who has led their team in designing and implementing data and AI programs that drive real business value. Must be a certified Collibra Ranger on or before January 2025.

Data Citizen of the Year

The Data Citizen of the Year award honors a visionary leader who drives their organization toward Data Confidence. Whether working directly with data, leading a digital transformation or fostering a data-driven culture, this individual has propelled their organization—and their industry—forward, driving meaningful change and delivering real business value through data.

Data Program of the Year

The Data Program of the Year celebrates the best of the best when it comes to data transformation programs. This organization has the vision and ambition to drive real business value, all powered by the Collibra Platform.

Trendsetter

The Collibra Trendsetter award honors an organization that leads a unique data initiative or leverages the Collibra Platform in an innovative way. This team thinks outside of the box and looks at solving problems in new, creative ways.

Successful submissions include

  • Descriptions on how the organization or individual is helping to build Data Confidence
  • Descriptions on how the data strategy or individual contributes to the goal of the award
  • Include mentions of any integration or partner involvement
  • Include specific information such as, size of organization, business impact, current user adoption rate and future goals relevant to the award
  • Provide details on how being a Collibra Certified Ranger impacted their current role and career (Ranger of the Year award only)
  • How the organization or individual demonstrated leadership in their industry or amongst their peers. List any activities, data-specific events or webinars that the nominee participated in or attended this year
  • Provide details on the business impact of the program and Collibra specifically, include metrics and ROI where applicable
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Honoring world-class partnerships

Collibra Partner Awards

These awards are just one of many ways that Collibra celebrates the outstanding achievements and leading innovations being made by our partner ecosystem. All partner types are eligible for the awards shown below.

Quantitative awards (global + regional)

  • Global Cloud Partner of the Year
  • Global Systems Integrator of the Year
  • Global Technology Partner of the Year
  • Public Sector Partner of the Year
  • Regional Systems Integrator of the Year
  • Rising Star Partner of the Year

Qualitative awards

  • Customer Impact Partner of the Year
  • Data for Good Partner of the Year
  • Innovation Partner of the Year
  • Partner Champion of the Year

This recognition of our successful metadata management program is a testament to the dedication, hard work, and innovation of our entire team. This award motivates us to continue pushing boundaries, setting new standards. Collibra’s partnership has been instrumental in our success, and we look forward to achieving even greater milestones together.

Carine Botturi, Data Program of the Year winner headshot

Carine Botturi, Data Program of the Year winner

Data Strategy & Enablement, TELUS

Congratulations to our 2024 award winners

Customers

Acceleration All-Star
McDonald's

Adoption Hero
Colruyt Group

Collibra Ranger of the Year
Zhijie 'Bob' Cui, Laurentian Bank of Canada

Data Citizen of the Year
Jordan Galvin, Perkins Coie LLP

Data for Good
Freddie Mac

Data Program of the Year
TELUS

Trendsetter
Definity

Partners

Customer Impact Partner of the Year
Clever Republic (EMEA)
Expleo (N. America)

Data for Good Partner of the Year
PwC

Global Systems Integrator of the Year
Deloitte

Global Technology Partner of the Year
SAP

Innovation Partner of the Year
Infosys

Partner Champion of the Year
Joyce Snelders, Deloitte (Global)
Martin Severijns, Datashift (EMEA)
Sadie Gilronan, Google Cloud (N. America)

Global Cloud Partner of the Year
Google

Public Sector Partner of the Year
AWS

Regional Systems Integrator of the Year
Billigence (EMEA)
Slalom (N. America)

Rising Star Partner of the Year
Capgemini

And to our award winners from previous years, thank you for collaborating with Collibra to make data meaningful

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