Discover the winners of the Luxembourg Cloud Awards 2024

On 16 May 2024, the Luxembourg Cloud Awards celebrated excellence and innovation in cloud services at the Golden-I gala, organised by ITnation at the PwC Luxembourg auditorium. These awards, organised by Cloud Community Europe – Luxembourg, aim to reward cloud service providers, start-ups, consultants and their customers for their creativity, originality and flexibility. The categories cover a range of services such as IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), open to all types of cloud solutions, whether public, private or hybrid.

2024 winners:

Cloud Innovation Project of the Year

The ‘Cloud Innovation Project of the Year’ prize was awarded to POST Luxembourg for their project ‘LuxID – Einfach, seccher, iwwerall’, a pioneering digital identity platform. This project was chosen for its innovative approach that redefines digital identity in Luxembourg with a focus on user privacy and security. According to the jury, LuxID has successfully integrated high standards of regulatory compliance and user empowerment, setting a new standard in the field of digital identity. The project has been recognised for its transformative impact on digital identity management in the region. Gcore was also a finalist in this category with its project ‘Global AI Inference at the Edge Cloud’, which accelerates data processing and reduces the output time of artificial intelligence models.

Cloud Tech Innovator of the Year

In the "Cloud Tech Innovator of the Year" category, FundsDLT won the award for their "Cloud-based Distributed Ledger Platform for Funds Industry". The jury praised their mastery of cloud technologies to revolutionise the distribution of funds using blockchain and decentralised networks. The global success of FundsDLT highlights their technological innovation, particularly in the financial industry, where they have set new standards for secure automation and ecosystem collaboration. The other finalists were Ignisign, with their legal electronic signatures project, and Fundvis, which offers a codeless automation platform for the OFI service.

Jury

The Luxembourg Cloud Awards 2024 jury was made up of professionals from a variety of sectors, including cybersecurity, public research, and digital innovation. The following are some of the members of the selection board:

Céline Schmitt-Arnould, Business Developer, WIDE ANDCO
Ananda Kautz, Head of Innovation, Digital Banking & Payments, ABBL
Patrick Houtsch, Director, CTIE
Philippe Linster, CEO, House of Startups
Gilles Fuchs, DG Industries, Innovation and New Technologies, Ministry of Economy
Gaston Schmit, First Councillor of Government, Ministry of Digitalisation
Yves Le Traon, Director, SnT, Uni.lu
Francesco Ferrero, Director, IT for Innovative Services Department, LIST
Pascal Bouvry, Professor, University of Luxembourg, Board Member, LuxProvide
Nicolas Sanitas, Senior Advisor and Digital Community Coordinator, L-DIH, Luxinnovation
Yves Elomo, Technical Managing Director, Divizend Luxembourg
Sakthivel Sundharam, Programme and Innovation Manager, FNR

The competition highlighted the importance of technological innovation in the Luxembourg ecosystem and the positive impact of cloud services on businesses and the economy of the region. The Luxembourg Cloud Awards continue to play a crucial role in promoting and recognizing significant advances in cloud computing.