There will be a number of major competitions/events staged at the Congress. Please consider which competition/event to enter and apply through the various websites/links below. Entry dates for the various competitions are summarized here.

International Best Practice Competition http://www.bestpracticecompetition.com/ This award encourages organizations to share their best operational and managerial practices, processes, systems, and initiatives and learn from the experience of others. Sharing best practices in Leadership, HR, social responsibility, process management, customer focus, digitization and much more.
Organisation-wide Innovation Award http://www.bestpracticecompetition.com/organisation-wide-innovation-award/ This award recognises organisations that excel in inculcating an innovation culture throughout all facets of their operation from the leadership to employees and covering all stakeholders leading to innovative processes, products and services.
Global Benchmarking Award http://www.globalbenchmarkingaward.com/ This award encourages organisations to share how benchmarking (comparing and learning from others) is an integral part of their improvement and innovation drive.
ACE Teams Award Competition http://apqo.global/awards.php This award encourages improvement teams (Lean, Improvement, Quality Circle, 6 Sigma, Kaizen, Innovation, Value Creation to name some) to share how they have undertaken their projects and the results they have achieved.
Global Performance Excellence Award http://www.gpea.apqo.global This award encourages organisations that have won their national business excellence award to share their success and become the best of the best.