The time has come to showcase your success at the 2025 Cvent Excellence Awards! Alongside other events and hospitality professionals, we are excited to honor your achievements and celebrate your accomplishments!
What are the Cvent Excellence Awards?
The Cvent Excellence Awards are an annual global awards program honoring the best in the meetings, events, and hospitality industries. Cvent users from organizations of all sizes and industries will be celebrated for their innovation and commitment at the 13th annual Excellence Awards. It is our privilege to acknowledge the remarkable achievements, highlight stellar performances, and put stars into the spotlight. Held at Cvent CONNECT in June 2025, the Cvent Excellence Awards are a great opportunity for us to brag about you.
Explore the opportunities we have prepared for you below!
Have you heard of the Excellence Awards before? View all categories and submit here.
What’s new for the 2025 Cvent Excellence Awards?
We are excited to honor the finalists of our newest event category, The Trade Show Trailblazer, in addition to many other categories offered for both event and hospitality professionals.
You know what they say, everything is bigger in Texas and that holds true to our Excellence Awards! Returning to San Antonio, Texas, we will be shining the spotlight onto our outstanding finalists and highlighting their successes this year with VIP experiences, celebrity moments, giveaways, and more!
Unable to attend in person? As much as we would love to see you there, we understand! With our hybrid broadcast straight from San Antonio, the Excellence Awards will be available for those who are not able to celebrate face to face.
What do you receive?
In celebration of all your outstanding hard work and accomplishments, all finalist organizations receive two (2) free Cvent CONNECT registrations. Finalists will be acknowledged as industry leaders with the opportunity to showcase their achievements in front of thousands of peers!
Onsite at Cvent CONNECT, we would also like finalists to enjoy exclusive VIP experiences, plenty of celebratory moments throughout the conference, and a special banquet in honor of their successes- check out the 2024 Excellence Awards here! Additionally, finalists will receive a plaque of recognition and winners receive an engraved trophy. These exclusive experiences are not to be missed!
How can you submit?
Send in your submissions at this website with just a few easy steps!
- Create a login (does not need to be Cvent credentials)
- Select categories you would like to apply to
- Answer a few quick questions
- Upload any desired media
- Submit!
You can save your application and return to it later. Alternatively, a Cvent team member can submit it on your behalf. While attending Cvent CONNECT is not required to submit, we would love to see you there. Visit the Excellence Awards Website to find out more about the categories, criteria, and deadlines!
When's the deadline?
The submission deadline of March 24 is quickly approaching, so don't wait to get your submission in. An executive committee of industry leaders will select the finalists, who will be announced on or before May 1, 2025, via our website and email.
What are the 2025 award categories?
With 17 categories, both new and old, check out all the opportunities below and see which are the best fits for you!
Event Professionals and Marketers
View more information on all event professional categories here!
- Ace of Spaces: This category is for those sourcing and managing safe in-person experiences with Cvent Exchange solutions, such as Cvent Supplier Network or Passkey.
- New! Trade Show Trailblazer: If your marketing and sales team have a knack for leveraging technology, generating engagement, and optimizing lead management using Jifflenow or iCapture, then this is the category for you.
- Marketing Mastermind: This category is for marketing teams who demonstrate exceptional proficiency in event marketing or a channel within their marketing mix.
- Pivotal Partner: Designed for travel, events, and meetings management agencies or Cvent Alliance Partners, this category is for those who carry industry-leading expertise, drive efficiency, and promote attendee experience.
- The Rookie: For those who signed their agreement no earlier than January 1st, 2024, this award is for those who saw quick, positive changes to their meetings and events using Cvent solutions.
- Cvent Superstar: This individual award category highlights the super users of Cvent who strengthen their skills through trainings, certifications, product feedback, and interacting with the Community!
- Power of the Platform: Single Event: This category is for organizations who use three (3) or more Cvent solutions to power a singular, complex event.
- Power of the Platform: Total Event Program: This award is to honor those who use multiple Cvent solutions to promote and optimize their total event program.
- The Impact Icon: This category is for those who are harnessing the power of event tech to deliver powerful experiences that create a positive social change such as more inclusive events or exceeding sustainability goals.
- Hotel & Planner Collaboration Award: This award highlights those who display outstanding problem-solving skills and seamlessly use Cvent solutions such as Cvent Event Diagramming or Passkey in collaboration with event and hospitality professionals.
Hospitality Professionals
View more information on all hospitality professional categories here!
- The Portfolio Powerhouse: This award recognizes a chain, brand, management company, or ownership group who drives brand awareness, support integration, and increase revenue using CSN solutions.
- The Block Buster: This award celebrates the hospitality professionals that use Cvent Passkey to simplify tasks and show strong expertise of room block management.
- The Business Intelligencer: This category recognizes organizations that use analytics processes and systems to boost marketing and sales conversions the CSN Business Intelligence.
- The Group Game Challenger: Organizations that use CSN Advertising to continuously drive results across their sales and marketing programs are perfect candidates for this category.
- The Clever Collaborator: This award celebrates those who use Cvent Event Diagramming to power collaboration between a planner, venue, and vendor.
- The Hometown Hero: This award goes to the DMO that best uses CSN Advertising and/or CSN Business Intelligence to increase awareness of their area and provides critical support to hotels and venues.
- Cvent Superstar: This individual award category highlights the Cvent Supplier or Venue Solution users who strengthen their skills through trainings, certifications, product feedback, and interacting with the Community!
- Hotel & Planner Collaboration Award: This award honors those who display outstanding problem-solving skills and seamlessly use Cvent solutions such as Cvent Event Diagramming or Passkey in collaboration with event and hospitality professionals.
Have questions?
Feel free to email us at: excellenceawards@cvent.com or find out more info on our website at: https://www.cvent.com/excellence-awards
We are excited to celebrate you!
