To be eligible to apply for an award category in a particular TSIA research practice, your company must be an active TSIA corporate member in that research practice community.

Entries are $2,900 each. Members may pay by credit card or TSIA will collect via our accounting processes (billing via invoice). Premium members may apply extension credits to enter.

Yes, a single company can win in more than one category in the same year.

STAR Awards are presented one time per year and celebrated all year round. This year, the application opens on May 4, 2021 and closes on June 15, 2021.

Please read the submission criteria for each category and select the one(s) that best match(es) your situation.

1. Read the Award Categories and their submission criteria to decide on the categories for you and your team’s participation.
2. Fill out the STAR Awards interest form to register your intent to apply and the considered categories.
3. Your designated Member Success Manager will contact you directly to confirm your participating categories, payment, and official registration.
4. Receive the STAR Awards application document(s) containing instructions.
5. Submit your completed STAR Awards application(s) to STARawards@tsia.com.

Yes, you will have more time to work on completing your application entry! Upon emailing us your intent to apply and completing your registration, you will receive the application instructions. The sooner you receive the application instructions, the more time you will have to deliberate on and complete your submission(s).

You may apply for multiple categories. There is a flat fee of $2,900 for each category entry. Your odds of winning a STAR Award increase with the more categories you pursue, so we recommend participating in any or all categories where you have accomplishments and a good story to tell.

Typically, we have 3 to 10 applications per category. In categories with a larger number of applicants, judges may elect to award two separate winners: one for the enterprise-sized companies and one for the mid-lower-sized revenue companies. Finalists for each level may also be named. This will be determined on a case-by-case basis and is entirely determined by each judging pool per category.

Once the application deadline has passed and all applications are submitted, the TSIA Research team will review the applications, and the Advisory Board for the corresponding research practice will vote on the applications.

The judges for the STAR Awards are a panel of your peers. TSIA Advisory Board members from each research practice serve as STAR Awards judges.

As a STAR Award finalist and/or winner, you will be able to:

• Receive industry-wide recognition via press releases, social media and blog coverage, and conference announcements
• Influence the TSIA community with your exemplary achievements published on TSIA’s STAR Awards winners & finalists page as STAR case studies
• Display your trophies in office, memorialize your STAR Awards success, and keep your team motivated for sustained excellence and innovation
• Show off your industry thought leadership with STAR Awards Winner or Finalist badges on all of your company publications
• Get the professional recognition you deserve with STAR Awards LinkedIn listing and the social media cover images

A company can enter the TSIA STAR Awards Hall of Fame by winning five individual STAR Awards in different years. The awards do not have to be received in successive years and do not have to be from the same category. A company can become a two-time STAR Awards Hall of Fame winner by winning a 10th STAR Award, a three-time STAR Awards Hall of Fame winner by winning a 15th STAR Award, and so on.

The application document will provide specific guidance on the information needed. Additionally, we have an on-demand webinar that shares more details. We encourage you to include descriptions about the innovation that led to significant improvement and/or differentiated performance in specific business outcomes. Focusing on the key and unique features of your innovation as well as insights learned during development and rollout will also help distinguish winning applications. Finally, you can check out past winners and finalists here.

We publish the winners’ and finalists’ applications as STAR case studies on our website. You can access those examples on the STAR Awards Winners & Finalists page.

Please submit all entries of completed application(s) to STARawards@tsia.com.

Supporting documents are not required, but there will be the opportunity to include links where helpful to support your application.

We require that your whole application does not exceed 2 pages with font size of 10pt or larger. More details about the application can be found in the application document and in the on-demand webinar.

Yes, please include your company logo and web address as prompted by the application instructions.

The application fee is typically non-refundable once your intent to apply has been acknowledged and the STAR Awards application document has been sent to you.