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Annual Awards

The INCITS Awards Program provides the opportunity for the INCITS community to acknowledge and recognize those INCITS participants that have provided technical expertise and exhibited effective committee management while participating in standards development activities. INCITS wants to recognize the achievements of the technical experts and encourage nominations from those who hammer out the agreements and write the standards. Please forward any nominations/comments/questions to lbarra@itic.org.

Download the nomination form here.

The award recipients and photos are included below and indexed by year.  You can view a simple cumulative list of the award recipients here.

  • Awards are presented in the following categories:


    INCITS Chair's Annual Award

    This is an award presented to one INCITS participant who has provided outstanding service to the INCITS organization through committee work or duties assigned by the INCITS Chair. This individual is selected by the INCITS Chair.

    Criteria for nomination:
    Provided outstanding service to the INCITS organization through committee work or duties assigned by the INCITS Chair; assisted the Chair in progressing the work of INCITS.   


    INCITS Merit Award

    This is an award presented to no more than four participants who have demonstrated continuous support for the work of INCITS, the criteria of which consists of:

    • Long-standing (10+ years) member of an IOE;
    • Made a significant contribution to at least two international SCs or WGs in a technical contributor or leadership role;
    • Demonstrated continuous support for the work of INCITS; and
    • Provided support to the Secretariat in progressing the work of INCITS.

    INCITS Service Award

    This is an award presented to no more than two participants who have provided outstanding service to the INCITS organization through committee work or duties during the past year.


    The INCITS Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management

    This is an award presented to no more than four INCITS members holding an officer position within an IOE. It recognizes individuals who, as officers, have provided outstanding leadership to the IOE in its national and/ or international work, have demonstrated proficiency in achieving consensus in the national and/or international arenas and have followed the approved procedures in an exemplary fashion.


    INCITS Technical Excellence

    This is an award presented to no more than four participants to recognize their visible and significant technical contributions to the work of the TC (nationally or Internationally). This award is presented with the concurrence of the TC officers. A minimum of three years of participation in a TC by each recipient is required.


    INCITS Award for Exceptional International Leadership

    This is an award presented to no more than two participants for their exceptional leadership of an international committee. The criteria for the award are as follows:

    • Minimum four years of continuous leadership of an international working group or subcommittee;
    • Tangible results in the form of published International Standards or Technical Reports;
    • Timely completion of projects that open global markets; and
    • Chairing of meetings in which the views of National Bodies and their experts are given due consideration.

    INCITS Team Award

    This is an award presented to no more than two teams of participants who have provided outstanding service to the INCITS organization for work done on a single specification, standard, or other form of project, within a TC. The criteria for the award are as follows:

    • Outstanding teamwork in rapidly progressing the subgroup's national and/or international activities;
    • Demonstrated skill in developing technically sound standards.

    INCITS Lifetime Achievement Award

    This is an award presented to no more than one INCITS participant annually who has demonstrated a long-time commitment to INCITS and its national and international standardization activities. The criteria for the award are as follows:

    • Long-standing member of INCITS; 
    • Demonstrated continuous and outstandingly effective support for the development of standards; and
    • Meets two or more of the following requirements:
      • Long-standing (10 or more years) participation in INCITS as an officer of an INCITS board, TC, or TG;
      • Long standing participation (10 or more years) in INCITS as a technical editor or key contributor;
      • Recipient of two or more awards;
      • Long-standing participation (10 or more years) in international standards development.
  • INCITS Chair's Award Jennifer Garner

    INCITS Merit Award Jim Melton, Boray Data Technology Co
    John Messina, NIST

    INCITS Service Award Gary Verdun, Dell Inc.
    Paul Anderson, HP Inc.

    INCITS Technical Excellence Award Richard Puk, Intelligraphics Inc.
    Henry Wong, International Technological University

    INCITS Team Award

    Data Management - Expert Group on SQL Extensions (for) Property Graphs

    Frank Celler, ArangoDB Inc.
    Tobias Lindaaker, DataStax Inc.
    Mike Bowers, FairCom USA Corporation
    Bei Li, Google
    Calisto Zuzarte, IBM Corporation
    Roshan Dathathri, Katana Graph
    Stefan Plantikow, Neo4j Inc.
    Petra Selmer, Neo4j Inc.
    Nathalie Charbel, Neoj4 Inc.
    Hannes Voigt, Neo4j Inc.
    Peter Furniss, Neo4j Inc.
    Finbar Good, Neo4j Inc.
    Alastair Green, Neo4j Inc.
    Keith Hare, Neo4j Inc.
    Joshua Meekhof, Optum Technology
    Jan-Eike Michels, Oracle
    Zhen Hua Liu, Oracle
    Fred Zemke, Oracle
    Oskar van Rest, Oracle
    Jeff Lovitz, Redis Labs
    Leonid Libkin, RelationalAI Inc.
    Romans Kasperovics, SAP
    Victor Lee, TigerGraph
    Mingxi Wu, TigerGraph
    Alin Deutsch, TigerGraph


    INCITS Award for Exceptional International Leadership Greg Cannon, Amazon Web Services
    Jay Taylor, Jewell-Taylor Consulting

    INCITS Lifetime Achievement Award David Singer, Apple
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