The Umbraco Awards

What are the Umbraco Awards?

The Umbraco Awards is the annual recognition and celebration of the best of the best Umbraco solutions and packages being created by agencies and people around the world. 

Ultimately - we want to celebrate the people who use their skills and Umbraco to change their clients' and fellow Umbraco developers' lives for the better. 

 

Umbraco Solution Awards Jury

Bolette Kern
DXP Product Owner, Umbraco

Nadine Clarke
Strategy Partner, Tangent

Peter Gassiraro
Managing Partner, Durable Digital

Amalie Wowern
Team Lead, Knowit Experience

Martin Wulser Larsen
Business Excellence Manager, Umbraco

Umbraco Package Awards Jury

Nora Kuhn
Founder / Web developer (isicore GmbH, Austria)

Büşra Şengül
Developer, true Digital

Andy Neil
Freelance Umbraco Developer

Richard Ockerby
Founder, arjo.dev

Ronald Barendse
Senior Developer, Umbraco

The 2024 Umbraco Award Categories

Umbraco Award for Best Cloud Solution

This is the category to showcase your best Umbraco Cloud solutions. If you've created a remarkable project on Umbraco Cloud, demonstrate it here. The jury is particularly interested in witnessing Cloud-specific features in action, such as the CI/CD flow, baseline setups, or similar.

2023 Winner: Semantic for Gunpowder Immersive and Wildwood so far (via Umbraco Cloud-based LOOP platform)

Umbraco Award for Best Editing Experience

A positive editing experience leads to happier end-users. Demonstrate how you've seamlessly connected the front- and backend, making it elegant and intuitive for the editor. Showcase your backoffice setup and explain why editors love what you've created.

2023 Winner: McCann Manchester for HSL Chairs

Best Umbraco Commerce solution

Showcase how you've transformed an ordinary commerce use case into an extraordinary shopping experience! This award recognizes outstanding implementations of Umbraco Commerce.

Whether it involves creating a perfect synergy between content, products, and commerce, extending Umbraco Commerce to enhance the store owner or customer experience, or any other demonstration illustrating the diverse ways of building unique commerce projects with Umbraco Commerce.

Note: Submissions must use an Umbraco Commerce license to be viable for this award.

Most Innovative Solution

Innovation is not just about new technology, but also about rethinking how technology is applied to create new value and solve different challenges. This category pays tribute to those who make bold choices to drive progress and create change with their solutions. This is the primary focus of the jury when evaluating submissions in this category.

Furthermore, the jury emphasizes market understanding, understanding of user needs, and a plan for a sustainable rollout and growth curve, rather than just the results achieved at the time of assessment. We want to see your innovative solutions, insights, creativity, and courage.

2023 winner (Best Custom Solution): Durable Digital for Lazard

Umbraco Award for Best Designed Site

We're looking for designs that not only captivate us visually but also adhere to web standards and accessibility. Where stunning design seamlessly aligns with clean markup.

2023 Winner: DotControl for De Nationale Bioscoopbon

Umbraco Award for Best Green Solution

In this category, we are seeking solutions that make a positive impact on the climate footprint of the client. For instance, showcase setups that have significantly reduced the client's carbon footprint. Note that the impact should be quantifiable and must be included in your submission.

2023 Winner: Kruso for Herning Kommune

Umbraco Package Award

Nominate your favourite package of all time, and explain to us why it deserves to win this prestigious award. 
Submitted packages must be published on the Umbraco Marketplace and support at least Umbraco 10 or newer.

Jury's Choice

Best Partner Solution

Umbraco Partners represent the most skilled and highly trained Umbraco developers, and we anticipate seeing remarkable achievements from each of them. We will select the best Partner solution of 2024 from among all submissions.

Umbraco Jury's Choice Award

All submissions to the Umbraco Awards are automatically entered into this category; however, the jury reserves the right to choose outside of these entries. The secret jury selects the solution that, in their opinion, best utilizes the full potential of Umbraco and sets an example of just how much value can be extracted from the platform.