We are pleased to unveil the winners of the 2025 GIMI Innovation Awards. Selected through a rigorous evaluation process, these organizations and individuals stood out for their ability to translate innovation into tangible impact. Each recipient was chosen by a distinguished jury of global thought leaders, senior executives, and academic experts, recognizing their leadership and excellence across their respective fields.

Being recognized with a GIMI Innovation Awards is one of the highest accolades an organization or individual can receive in the name of innovation. The GIMI Innovation Awards honor innovation, creativity, and impact across the public, private, and social sectors.

ORGANIZATIONAL AWARDS

1. Most Innovative Company

Promigas S.A E.S.P.

At Promigas, innovation is a core part of our strategy and one of the main enablers of our long-term vision. We foster a culture that empowers employees to lead and co-create impactful solutions across all levels of the company. This approach has driven meaningful change and positioned us to lead the energy transition in Latin America.

Bank of the Philippine Islands

Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) embarked on a Customer Delight journey in 2022, aiming to deliver the best-in-class customer delight by cultivating a culture of customer obsession throughout the bank. Through several culture change and innovation programs, BPI was able to remove blockers and unite the company to its renewed vision and mission, reaching #1 Net Promoter Score in 2 years and double-digit growth in revenue and net income.

Bank of Africa Academy

Bank of Africa is a leading pan-African financial group committed to innovation, inclusion, and sustainable impact. BOA Academy is far more than a training center it is a modern, human-centered engine of innovation that inspires, empowers, and includes. It shapes minds, unlocks potential, and transforms living knowledge into scalable impact — placing learning and innovation at the heart of BOA Group’s cultural and strategic transformation.

ROSHN

ROSHN Group, Saudi Arabia’s leading multi-asset real estate and driving innovation through human-centric, sustainable, and smart communities. Innovation lies at the core of its DNA championed by leadership, embedded across departments, and activated through initiatives like ROSHNEXT, STOREASE HUB, Harmony, and Zawiya, and the Visionaries Program.

2. Most Innovative Government Entity

Curitiba’s Development and Innovation Agency

Curitiba Agency for Development and Innovation created the Pinhão Valley, the ecosystem that transformed Curitiba into the most innovative city in Brazil. Working along with the private sector and universities, Curitiba Agency has been using the ultimate technologies and creative projects to foster economic development and to improve quality of life as a smart city.

Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure

The Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure has institutionalized innovation through a clear strategy, cross-sector collaboration, and digital platforms like Ibtikarati and the EARTH Platform. By embedding innovation into governance and public service delivery, MOEI has achieved measurable societal, operational, and environmental impact—redefining how government drives future readiness.

Dubai Police

Dubai Police is recognized globally for its innovation-driven approach to public safety and smart governance. Through advanced technologies like AI, autonomous systems, and real-time data analytics, the organization has transformed traditional policing into a proactive and agile force. With a strong internal innovation ecosystem, Dubai Police not only enhances public sector services but also paves the way for cross-sector applications that can benefit private enterprises and future city systems across Dubai.

3. Most Innovative Project - Private Sector

Auditorium s.r.l.

Auditorium in an Italian Innovative Startup focused in immersive sound software development and content production both for artistic and industrial sectors. Our latest technology, InSoundOut, allows the capturing of complex real world sound scenarios for Unreal Engine, the most powerful real time 3D engine in the world, bringing immersive sound to the next level.

Faculty of Medicine, Brawijaya University

The Faculty of Medicine, Brawijaya University developed the Domy Brush Suction from hands-on surgical challenges, transforming a simple idea into a clinically validated, domestically certified product that supports Indonesia’s local healthcare industry through scalable, cost-effective innovation. Domy Brush Suction is a surgical suction tip with an integrated multi-tube brush system that instantly clears blockages without removal—improving surgical efficiency, reducing infection risk, and lowering debridement costs by up to 15%.

Safeen Green – Abu Dhabi Ports

Safeen Green is the first fully Unmanned Surface Vessel in the Middle East, engineered by Safeen Subsea to deliver offshore geophysical surveys without crew onboard. Its in-house innovations—including a remote Launch and Recovery System and ROC-based operations—enable scalable, safer, and significantly more efficient marine data collection.

Klabin

Klabin and &Co, through the innovation program “Pitch Day”, collaborated to develop sustainable and natural cosmetics, using an innovative natural, renewable and biodegradable biomaterial: the Microfibrillated Cellulose (MFC). The results were a break-through in applying forest-based biomaterials in personal care, resulting in cleansing pads, offering gentle exfoliation, serums for enhanced texture and absorption and an open avenue for new developments.

4. Most Innovative Project - Public Sector

Dubai Police

Dubai Police’s Dronebox project redefines emergency response by deploying autonomous drones from rooftop stations across the city. These drones deliver rapid situational awareness to command units, enhancing operational efficiency and public safety. As a product of Dubai Police’s growing innovation capabilities, Dronebox is designed with long-term scalability in mind, opening the door for future applications across both governmental and private sector use cases, such as smart city monitoring, infrastructure inspection, and emergency logistics.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment

The Smart Housing Experience is a first-of-its-kind digital platform launched by Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment to transform traditional housing services. Through the use of AI, real-time data, and predictive tools, it delivers a faster, smarter, and more inclusive citizen experience.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Politiet/The Norwegian Police

The AI4INTERVIEWS project offers innovative solutions to transform crime scene documentation, streamline case analysis, and free up forensics experts to focus on investigation. With the smart, voice-controlled headset camera – Jodapro, investigators can both dictate observations and live-stream from the scene to receive real-time expert support. AI-powered tools then convert speech into text, structure it into standardized CSI reports, and even built-in quality improvements either by typing or talking, to ensure the quality of reports ready for use.

Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure

Data Bridge is a pioneering initiative by the UAE Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, designed to enable a Unified Government model by establishing centralized, intelligent data repositories. It consolidates real-time datasets across over 15 federal and local entities via APIs, dashboards, and secure web services eliminating the need for citizens to repeatedly submit personal information. In alignment with UAE’s “Zero Bureaucracy” and “Ask Once” policies, it has digitized more than 125 services, impacted over 2 million users, and helped eliminate more than 2.1 million customer visits annually.

5. Most Innovative Project - Social Sector

CEJAM

CEJAM is a transformative public health initiative that uses data intelligence, clinical protocols, and network coordination to address violence and vulnerability in Rio’s most challenging areas. Born from the synergy of science, public service, and innovative management, it demonstrates how low-cost, compassionate, and tech-enabled solutions can reduce suicide attempts, expand access to care, and generate measurable social impact—ultimately turning suffering into hope.

PETRONAS HOLDINGS

Social Enterprise Education Lab (SEEd.Lab) is Malaysia’s first end-to-end social enterprise incubator programme. Our aim is to transform aspiring changemakers into impactful social entrepreneurs through its methodological corporate innovation approach adapted to tackle pressing societal challenges and positively impact the lives of communities. Powered by the strategic partnership between PETRONAS and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), SEEd.Lab has established 14 sustainable social enterprises and positively impacted 28,000 lives.

Center for BrainHealth

Charisma is a browser-based digital health platform that delivers live, strategy-driven social
coaching through immersive avatar-driven roleplay. Uniquely combining real-time social-
emotional coaching, gamified virtual environments and AI-powered behavioral measurement,
Charisma offers an end-to-end digital solution that is scalable, measurable and engaging –
empowering youth to build social-emotional skills across schools, clinics, homes, and university
training programs.

6. Best Startup

Sparring

Sparring is an AI-powered sales training platform that transforms how commercial teams learn and perform. Through realistic role-play simulations with intelligent feedback, we turn traditional, theoretical training into continuous, data-driven practice, scalable, personalized, and proven to boost real sales performance.

Color Pencil Technology Inc

Color Pencil Technology is transforming education with innovative, research-backed learning tools that integrate Vedic Math principles with AI-driven personalized learning. Our solutions support children with learning differences and empower them to succeed academically and beyond

Nello Spettro

Nello Spettro is a deep-tech Italian startup building a B2B and B2C platform that transforms the unmet needs of the autistic community — and the market — into a scalable business ecosystem. At its core is a crowdsourced, AI-powered matching platform featuring an interactive map, supported by blockchain certification, a multilingual AI academy, an LLM-powered virtual assistant, and business dashboards, all setting new standards for systemic, data-driven accessibility.

7. Best Innovation Framework

BIO D

In a highly regulated market, Bio D built a living innovation system to turn waste into opportunity and strategy into impact. Powered by two engines and a Concept Incubator where ideas are tested with real users before scaling, they’re building Latin America’s next bioeconomy—through a model that delivers results with speed, discipline, and purpose.

PETRONAS HOLDINGS

The Enterprise Innovation Ecosystem Framework at PETRONAS is a holistic framework that embeds innovation across the organization by strategically aligning initiatives with enterprise goals and managing them through a robust Enterprise portfolio and disciplined execution. It builds capabilities across the organization to drive transformative impact and achieve strategic ambitions.

The Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs & Port Security (ICP)

Through a forward-thinking innovation framework built on foresight, empowerment,
integration, and sustainability, ICP successfully embedded innovation into its core
systems—resulting in transformative solutions such as the UAE Express Path for
Travelers, which cut processing time by over 90% and achieved exceptional user
satisfaction.

8. Best Innovation Hub/Science Park

Dubai Roads and Transport Authority

ScaleUp Mobility is the first government-led mobility accelerator in the MENA region, launched by Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) to reimagine how innovation enters public systems. Recognizing that 85% of mobility startups lack testbeds and that pilots can take up to 24 months to begin, the program offers a faster way forward by reducing the journey from idea to pilot to just five months—a 72% reduction in cycle time. Startups receive tailored mentorship, access to RTA infrastructure and data, and support from RTA departments and partners.

TechPark CV

TechPark CV is a government-backed, fully integrated innovation ecosystem transforming Cabo Verde into a digital bridge between continents. By combining global partnerships, inclusive training programs, and a scalable model tailored to small-island realities, it’s proving that world-class innovation can thrive beyond traditional tech hubs.

Fundación Bi

Bi Foundation turns innovation into a tool for social transformation by creating a unique ecosystem in Guatemala that integrates access to capital, technological infrastructure and specialized mentoring, enabling entrepreneurs from vulnerable contexts to build sustainable and scalable businesses. This is innovation with purpose, designed to change reality.