Award Announcement

Washington – November 10, 2026 -- The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) recognized 36 units and individuals from seven military branches and components at the 2026 Military Foodservice Awards, and is pairing the honors with a push to move service members into restaurant careers.

Military foodservice teams prepare and serve billions of meals each year at home, on deployment and at sea, according to the Foundation. Winners came from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Military Sealift Command, Air Force, Air National Guard and Coast Guard. Judges rated them on food safety, sanitation, preparation and execution.

Frankfurt – November 06, 2026 -- ING Deutschland has distributed €30,000 in prize money at the 31st Helmut Schmidt Journalism Prize, with Bayerischer Rundfunk taking first place from 261 submissions. A jury selected the winners in economic and financial journalism, and the ceremony was held at the Literaturhaus in Frankfurt.

Bayerischer Rundfunk wins €15,000 first prize for scam documentary

The multi-part documentary series "Kings of Scam – Millionen mit Fake-SMS" from the broadcaster's "team.recherche" unit explains how organized online fraud networks operate. The jury credited its portrayal of victims as relatable individuals rather than naive losers, and its transparent, self-ironic narration.

Frankfurt – November 05, 2026 -- Baden-Württemberg-based medicalvalues GmbH won the federal title at the 29th KfW Award Gründen, taking home a total of €10,000 in prize money after a record 581 companies applied across all sectors.

medicalvalues wins federal title with AI diagnostics platform

Each of Germany's 16 federal states named one state winner, and each received €1,000. The 16 state winners then competed for the federal title, and medicalvalues secured an additional €9,000.

The company built an AI platform for integrated diagnostics. It links lab values, symptoms and pre-existing conditions with medical expertise to support physicians. The solution is approved as a medical device. It is already in use at leading laboratory chains and university hospitals in the DACH region and the Benelux countries.

DUBAI – November 04, 2026 -- United Diesel, a member of Al Rostamani Group, won two honors at the Construction Innovation Awards 2026, organised by Construction Business News Middle East: Renault Trucks was named Construction Truck of the Year, and LOVOL, introduced to the UAE earlier this year, took Emerging Construction Equipment Brand of the Year.

Construction accounted for 13.1% of UAE non-oil GDP in the first half of 2026

The two brands serve different stages of the UAE construction supply chain, from quarrying and earthmoving to concrete production and transportation. United Diesel is the exclusive distributor of Renault Trucks in Dubai and the Northern Emirates and of the Chinese brand LOVOL across the UAE.

Olpe – November 04, 2026 -- SCHELL's app for its digital E2 fittings generation has won the German Design Award 2027, taking the "Winner" title in the "Excellent Communications Design - App" category. It is the second major award for the app in a short period.

The German Design Council has presented the award since 2012. For the 2027 edition, 3,159 projects from 51 countries were submitted. A jury of 43 experts from business, academia, science and industry assessed the nominated entries in a multi-stage selection process. The award ceremony takes place on January 29, 2027, at the Frankfurt am Main exhibition grounds at the start of Ambiente.

App covers commissioning, control, monitoring and documentation of E2 fittings

The SCHELL App serves installers, facility managers and building operators. Factory-integrated Bluetooth® connects the fittings to the app within seconds for setup and configuration.

Villach – November 04, 2026 -- The Leading Spa Award 2026 has gone to 64 wellness hotels across six European countries, with German and Austrian properties taking 50 of the 64 titles, according to organizer Leading Spa Resorts.

Germany leads the 2026 winner table with 27 hotels

Germany accounts for 27 awarded properties and Austria for 23. Italy follows with 10 winners, Switzerland has 2, and Norway and Bulgaria have one each.

The Alpine region and the DACH markets dominate the list. Germany, Austria and Switzerland together hold 52 of the 64 awards.

Guest votes decide the annual award

The Leading Spa Award is presented annually as an audience prize. It rests on ratings and votes from wellness guests, not on a jury verdict. The organizer names quality, personal hospitality and sustainable recuperation as the criteria the award stands for.

Leipzig – October 29, 2026 -- Six ARD broadcasters will cover gross production costs of up to €300,000 for "Die unglaubliche Geschichte des Moorhuhns" (The Incredible Story of the Moorhuhn), the winner of the 15th ARD TopDocs Competition. Leipzig-based Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH, represented by Ariane Riecker and Olaf Jacobs, won the pitch for the 90-minute documentary.

Jury picked the winner from 52 submissions and three finalists

A jury of programme editors from the participating ARD media houses and the ARD Mediathek, chaired by ARD Editor-in-Chief Oliver Köhr, shortlisted three projects out of 52 entries. The finalists presented their concepts at a pitch in Leipzig on October 28, 2026. The call sought stories of people who risked everything for big goals, for release on Das Erste or in the ARD Mediathek.

XIAMEN – October 29, 2026 -- Winners of Yeastar's Yeahs Awards 2026 report measurable gains from the vendor's API-driven UC platforms, including a 91% cut in quality-assurance effort and an eightfold cloud expansion at a French hosting partner.

Hosting partners shorten migrations and automate inquiries

Rezzo Telecom (France) expanded its cloud footprint eightfold after migrating from Vodia to Yeastar. Vela Networks (UK) built tools that cut UC migrations from days to minutes, automating data mapping and configuration transfer across four platforms.

Telex S.r.l. (Italy) combined voice, messaging, workflows and AI in its Konversa product. It uses Gemini and OpenAI models to automate up to 70% of first-level inquiries.

BENGALURU – October 29, 2026 -- Qorus and Infosys Finacle named 37 financial institutions as winners of the 13th Banking Innovation Awards, selected from 538 projects submitted by 206 institutions in 68 countries.

Winners selected across ten categories by peer vote and 81-member jury

The awards span ten categories: Business Model Innovation, Product and Service Innovation, Business Banking Innovation, Predictive, AI-led Value Creation, Operational Transformation and Customer Experience Innovation. They also cover Social, Sustainable & Responsible Banking Innovation, Modern Tech Innovation of the Year, Neobank and Fintech Innovation, and Transformative Innovator of the Year.

Selection combined voting by a community of industry peers with evaluation by a jury of 81 senior global banking executives.

Las Vegas – October 29, 2026 -- Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE) named Beazley, Definity and RCIS winners of its 2026 Innovation Awards at its Connections conference. The wins include Beazley's consolidation of more than 200 marketable products and Definity's first production agentic AI tool for claims intake.

Beazley consolidates 200-plus products on a Guidewire Cloud platform

Lloyd's syndicate and global specialty insurer Beazley implemented Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter with Capgemini. The European solution was delivered in approximately eight months.

The program rationalized more than 200 marketable products into a condensed, streamlined set, which cut complexity and improved speed to market. Capgemini's AI-enabled delivery model and Guidewire's Advanced Product Designer (APD) established a repeatable "Product Factory" approach for rapid development.