AI Impact Awards Entry Kit: AI Impact

Artificial Intelligence is the most transformative technology of our era, poised to revolutionize every aspect of human life and industry. From healthcare to finance, AI is redefining possibilities: detecting cancers with unprecedented accuracy and refashioning investment markets. However, this revolution brings challenges. The line between human and AI-created content blurs, raising questions about authenticity. Workplace automation necessitates rethinking education and careers. Ethical concerns surge as AI in facial recognition threatens privacy, and its use in courtrooms prompts debates on bias. We're at a pivotal moment, exploring how AI reshapes not just capabilities but society itself.

The Newsweek AI Impact Awards identify and recognize practitioner’s unique use of AI to solve everyday business challenges.
This Awards Program celebrates not the big ideas, but rather the IMPACT and outcomes of practical use.

Choose a Category (see category list below)

Entry Title: Please assign a name to your project (ex: Newsweek Application for AI Arts & Media)

Objective of Work: Describe the objective of this work and thoroughly outline the intended goal(s) this AI work helped you to achieve.

Strategy and Execution: Describe the plan of action, specific steps you took to bring your AI project to life, any challenges/obstacles you overcame, as well as any distinguishing features to this AI work.

Impact and Outcomes (The Newsweek AI Impact Awards will measure this category most heavily): Please share how you measured results, defined success and shared specific metrics. How has this effort impacted your business? Why do you consider this work successful?

Show Work (not required but encouraged): Please provide any supporting documentation below to help the judging panel visualize and consider your work to determine it's impact.

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Winning entries will be selected via a panel of expert judges led by Marcus Weldon, Newsweek Contributing Editor for AI and President Emeritus of Bell Labs, that cover a variety of industries and are handpicked by the Newsweek editorial team.

The Newsweek AI Impact Awards (the “AI Impact Awards”) will recognize and award entrants that use AI technology to solve critical business problems in different industry segments, or significantly advance capabilities and can show measurable impact on business operations.

AI Arts & Media

Best Outcomes, Audio Media & Arts

AI has uses across sound editing and mixing, creating new sounds, dubbing, and assisting in translations.

Best Outcomes, Digital Media & Arts

AI is being used across industries to improve results across promotion, marketing, entertainment, journalism, from data results to automating writing by providing script and personalized recommendations.

Best Outcomes, Visual Media & Arts

AI goes beyond simply generating images, creating interactive art and exploring issues of bias and can serve as a jumping off point for bigger creations.

Best Outcomes, Written Media & Arts

AI can do more than help in drafting. It can help to give narration to an established idea, adjust writing styles and tones, and help in overcoming writers block with brainstorm generation, as well as simply correcting errors in spelling and grammar.

Best Outcomes, Live Performance Arts

More and more, AI is being used to create immersive theater experiences. AI can analize poses and blocking. AI can also be used to analyze audience reactions from a concertgoer, adjust music, lighting and display to adjust the mood of the event, and can take the theatergoer to new places with projections and sound.

Best Outcomes in Motion Picture Arts

AI can help develop content, predict box office numbers, crunch data from social, dub foreign films, create impactful visuals and beyond.

AI Brand & Retail

Best Outcomes, Customer Experience

AI can assist in the overall customer experience by influencing outcomes in basket size, reducing return rates, and overall retention and margins.

Best Outcomes, eCommerce Transaction

AI can enhance the shopper experience by tailoring product, pricing, support and beyond.

Best Outcomes, Marketing and Creative

AI can offer personalized marketing, A/B tests, web-site navigation, cross-selling/up-selling and enhanced product descriptions.

Best Outcomes, Product Development and Innovation

AI functionality assists in interpreting and summarizing end user feedback to extend the lifecycle of products and/or develop entirely new products.

Best Outcomes, Supply Chain Optimization

AI has uses in both in-store and e-commerce, prediction and forecasting support, shipping and tracking, as well as enhancing efficiency.

AI Cities

Best Outcomes, City Efficiency

AI can be used to examine transportation, energy usage and pollution to minimize overall waste and aid city planners to strive for optimum efficiency.

Best Outcomes, Urban Planning

AI can monitor data in traffic areas to improve infostructure, increase safety and assist in making informed decisions within city planning, creating a more sustainable environment.

Best outcomes in Public Transportation

AI can assist in Innovative transportation solutions, contributing to a low carbon future.

Best outcomes in Energy Efficiency

AI is used in optimizing building efficiency, decarbonizing real estate and forecasting various patterns within the energy grid.

AI Customer Service

Best Outcomes, Analyzing Customer Data

AI is transforming business through data analytics, identifying customer patterns through large datasets, predicting behaviors and even laying out customer-centric marketing campaigns, all based on data.

Best Outcomes, Customer Satisfaction

AI can improve customer satisfaction by helping customers in real time, working to answer questions and solve problems as they arise.

Best Outcomes, Predicting Problems

AI can use large pools of data across the customer journey, from support tickets to purchase history to social activity to prevent issues from occurring before they arise.

Best Outcomes, Personalizing Support

AI is being used to study customers' online data to categorize them into groups to help anticipate individual customer needs, provide personalized recommendations/ solutions and give direct support.

AI Education

Best Outcomes, Commercial Learning

AI can tailor training content, track and path employee needs, create virtual ‘coaches’ as well as analyze performance and on the job skill metrics

Best Outcomes, General Learning

Some things AI can provide here are automated training, virtual tutors, learning and content recommendations.

Best Outcomes, K-12 Education

AI can be used to tailor learning to individual needs and assess a student’s strengths and weaknesses, using this data to create the best learning programs.

Best Outcomes, Higher Education

Uses for AI in higher education can range from student teaching, to support systems, admin and admissions to curriculum planning.

AI Finance

Best Outcomes. Financial Services

AI is transforming investment, corporate banking, insurance and investments. This includes process automation, efficiencies, enhanced revenue opportunities, compliance, and data privacy.

Best Outcomes, Mitigating Fraud

AI can aid in detecting and preventing fraud by analyzing transaction patterns and identifying anomalies and potential cyber-attacks.

Best Outcomes, Accounting

This AI category would include invoice processing, document review, forecasting, auditing, tax compliance, overall compliance checks, data analysis and fraud detection.

Best Outcomes, Consumer Banking

Consumer banking can utilize AI in many ways, including risk assessment opportunities, customer authentication, customer service and specifically making banking customer-centric.

Best Outcomes, Capital Markets

This AI capital markets category covers risk assessment opportunities, navigating regulatory changes, product development and other related uses.

AI Healthcare

Bests Outcomes, Care Coordination

AI tools can be used to bolster hospitals' command centers—evaluating wait times and helping with scheduling. They can also respond to patient inquiries and help schedule appointments.

Best Outcomes, Health Equity

AI can analyze large swaths of data and identify disparities in healthcare.

Best Outcomes, Patient Care

AI creations that correlate to patient health, as all roads lead to the patient.

Best Outcomes, Diagnostics

AI tools can be used to guide diagnosis, especially in image-heavy specialties like radiology.

Best Outcomes, Physician Satisfaction

AI in healthcare can automate administrative tasks, taking time-consuming duties off doctors' plates.

AI Humanities & Social Sciences

Best Outcomes, Economics

AI is used to inform decision making through data analysis and better predictions, allowing deeper insights to market behaviors.

Best Outcomes, Fiction or Non-Fiction Literature

AI can aid in research assistance, storyboard outlines, character development, beyond simple spelling and grammar checks.

Best Outcomes, History or Art History

AI has helped historians make sense of ancient text & languages, made predictions in historical blank spots, and aided in climate considerations for preservation of paintings and artifacts.

Best Outcomes, Language, Linguistics or Communications

AI advancements can be used in voice to text/text to voice, uncovering patterns, language learning and assistance in translation barriers.

Best Outcomes, Philosophy or Psychology

AI can be used to simulate scenarios and analyze big data to explore questions and perspectives on human behavior.

Best Outcomes, Sociology or Political Science

AI aids in identifying patterns in social behavior, emotional manipulations and other ethical considerations.

AI Marketing

Best Outcomes, Consumer Targeting and Personalization

Leveraging patterns in market/customer data, identifying quality leads and segmenting to boost conversions can all precisely segment audiences through AI.

Best Outcomes, Content Creation

Automating copy writing, design and creative quality can create dynamic content with various user interactions.

Best Outcomes, Enhanced Search

Optimizing search engine marketing and optimization through AI can include results forecasting, improved conversions and overall enhancements in customer experience.

Best Outcomes, Programmatic Marketing

AI trends in programmatic can include personalized ad experiences and predictive analytics to deliver highly personalized marketing at scale.

Best Outcomes, Video Marketing Strategy

Automating video creation and editing are some primary uses for the video marketer.

AI Mobility

Best Outcomes, Automotive/Transportation Manufacturing

AI is being used by parts suppliers and vehicle manufacturers to improve recall rates, end product and refining practices. Measured via lowered recall rates, manufacturing ratings, and initial quality surveys.

Best Outcomes, Automotive/Transportation Product Design

Designers are using AI to derive ideas, design expediently, and test vehicles in augmented and virtual reality environments. Measured outcomes by acknowledging how much quicker product comes to market and detailed applications that explain how AI is used in studios.

Best Outcomes, Automotive/Transportation UX Systems

AI is being used in the background and foreground to make UX systems better and offer more efficient and accurate computing. AI can also provide detailed explanations of expedited and improved processes.

AI Science & Engineering

Best Outcomes, Computer Science

AI is being used to provide high levels of accuracy in data visualizations, processing and mining. This might also lean into robotics, image recognition and program writing.

Best Outcomes, Engineering

Ai impacts engineering in many ways, from analytics, to risk assessment to streamlining and comparing regulations.

Best Outcomes, Materials Science and Chemistry

Chemists have been using AI for some time to identify patterns to perform quick and precise analysis, and also in predicting new compounds with desired, required properties.

Best Outcomes, Physical Science

AI can be used algorithmically to predict and simulate physical phenomena. AI can perform tasks that are more difficult to model with more traditional methods.

AI Sports

Best Outcomes, Sports Broadcasting/Streaming

The use of AI can capture performance highlights, distribute those highlights across multiple platforms and improve the overall viewing experience for the sports fan.

Best Outcomes, Sports Performance

Not only can AI impact overall performance, but it can also be used to predict potential injuries, create training programs and monitor health.

Best Outcomes, Sports Production

AI can automate and improve commentary and broadcasting, assisting in tracking, replays, game data and so on.

AI Sustainability

Best Outcomes, Agriculture & Land Use

AI is being broadly applied across agricultural and land uses, such as precise application of fertilizers, integrating riparian buffers where crops abut waterways, developing smarter feedlots for livestock, and tracking the origin of tropical products.

Best Outcome in Climate Adaptation & Resilience

AI tools are consistently improving the monitoring and response to extreme weather events that are exacerbated by climate change, across fire, flooding and heatwaves.

Best Outcome in Clean Energy

AI tools are assisting with the development of better clean tech, integrating the intermittent power from RE into the grid and a myriad other clean energy developments.

Best Outcome in Energy Infrastructure

AI is assisting with the best siting and permitting of solar and wind power, and overall better development of clean technology.

Best Outcome in Nature Conservation

AI tools are improving satellite monitoring of sensitive and remote ecosystems, helping biologists and park managers track wildlife via sight and sound, and predicting ecosystem change and threats.

AI Workplace

Best Outcomes, Digital Workspaces

AI assists across tracking user time in apps, messages sent, project completion times and collaboration wins.

Best Outcomes in Employee Engagement

AI can be used to gauge employee engagement and interaction in surveys, retention, office attendance and beyond.

Best Outcomes, HR

Payroll, compliance, workforce planning & management and other HR functions have consistently been enhanced with the use of AI.

Best Outcomes, Hybrid Work

AI can be utilized in meeting reduction and/or efficiency, process improvements, enablement of a flexible working model and other hybrid working processes.

Best Outcomes, Learning and Development

Using AI can show improvement in participation, internal mobilities, onboarding of new positions and tasks, and enhance overall employee development.

Best Outcomes, Leadership and Succession Planning

Leaderships planning can be enhanced by AI initiavies across leadership/manager satisfaction scoring, executive retention and representation in homegrown executives.

Best Outcomes, Recruiting

New hire retention, movement through the recruiting funnel and hiring in more geographies all have tangible and proven AI components.

Best of - Most Innovative AI Technology or Service

Extraordinary Impact in AI innovation

Recognizing an AI methodology, technology or architecture with potential to profoundly impact multiple real world use cases

Extraordinary Impact in Commercial Tool or Service

Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that has enabled significant gains in productivity, customer experience, or new revenue generation across one or more industries.

Extraordinary Impact in General Purpose AI Tool or Service

Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that has demonstrated significant commercial or cultural impact

Extraordinary Impact in AI Human Interactivity or Collaboration

Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that that has demonstrated significant value in enhancing interactive human-to-human or human-to-machine communication and collaboration

Extraordinary Impact in AI Transparency or Responsibility

Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that that has demonstrated significant value in enhancing explainability or responsibility of AI systems

Are you entering the right category?
Be sure to read the category description carefully, to ensure you are setting yourself up for success. Does your initiative align with the category you are applying for?

Tell your story
Give a compelling argument with supporting ideas on why you should be chosen. You may include photos, videos, graphics, testimonials, etc. to better tell your story.

Be mindful of wordcount
Show the judges you are an expert in your field. Be direct and keep the wordcount to a minimum.

How do I submit an entry?
Visit the Newsweek AI Impact Awards website to start your submission (will hyperlink once public).

Can I enter more than one category?
Yes, you can enter your work in as many categories as you feel appropriate, and the entry will be judged separately for each category it is entered.

Which category(ies) should I enter?
Newsweek AI Impact Awards covers several verticals and categories so as to allow applicants to choose the category(ies) that best fits their work. An entry can be entered in several categories. If work is entered in multiple categories, it is eligible to win multiple times. Newsweek reserves the right to move entries to other categories if appropriate.

What if a juror on the judges panel is from my company?
If there is a juror from your company on the panel, we will recuse them from judging the category you submitted for. You can still apply.

How do I know if I won?
Finalists and winners will receive an email from events@newsweek.com notifying them of their status - and also likely be connected with Newsweek editorial staff for coverage.

Do you have to be based in the United States to enter?
No, this is a global program and entries from around the world will be considered.

Does the entry need to be in English?
We encourage you to enter an English version of your materials. All materials will be reviewed by an English-speaking judge, who will use Google Translate if necessary, in their decision making process.

Do you have to pay an entry fee for every submission?
Yes, you will be charged an entry fee for every subcategory submitted. Price will vary based on the date you enter.

What form of payment is accepted?
You can pay via credit card. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover are accepted at checkout.

Eligibility.

Eligible applicants must (a) be at least the age of majority in their country, state, province, or jurisdiction of residence (and at least twenty (20) years old in Taiwan) at the time of submission; (b) not be a resident of any of the following countries; the Balkans, Belarus, Burma, Cote D’ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Syria, or Zimbabwe; (c) not be a person or entity under U.S. export controls or sanctions; and (d) have access to the Internet.

An applicant must be the owner of the work or must be authorized by the owner to submit the work.

Employees, interns, contractors, and official office-holders of Newsweek, their respective parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, advertising and promotion agencies, representatives, and agents (“Search Entities”), and members of the Search Entities and their immediate families (parents, siblings, children, spouses, and life partners of each, regardless of where they live) and members of the households (whether related or not) of such employees, interns, contractors, officers, and directors are ineligible to participate in the AI Impact Awards.

Newsweek may require an applicant to provide additional information and documentation or to execute certain waivers or releases confirming eligibility. Newsweek reserves the right to disqualify from participation any applicant who fails to provide the requested proof of eligibility.

Content of Entries.

Entries must be for original work completed between 1 January 2024 – 1 January 2025, and should clearly show the impact of that work on the applicant’s organization, product, or individual performance through concrete measurements and outcomes. 

All entries submitted to Newsweek for consideration must be truthful, original to the applicant, and complete. An entry should not contain any material that is offensive, disparaging, violent, pornographic or hateful or that violates the rights of any third-party (including any intellectual property rights or rights to privacy).

Any proprietary or sensitive business information included in or submitted with an entry should be cleared for Newsweek’s use in connection with the AI Impact Awards (which may include publication and distribution of the entry in any media throughout the world, including via Newsweek’s website, social media channels and print magazine). Any personal data (such as an applicant’s name and contact information) shall be collected and shared in compliance with Newsweek’s privacy policy, except that Newsweek may publish, publicly display or distribute the name and/or workplace of a winning or short-listed applicant.

Upon submission, all entries become the property of Newsweek and will not be acknowledged or returned. Newsweek reserves the right to move any entry to another category at Newsweek’s sole discretion and/or disqualify any entry from consideration for failure to meet the eligibility requirements described herein or because Newsweek has reasonably determined that the entry is inappropriate for consideration.

Payment of Entrance Fee.

To be eligible for consideration, each entry must be submitted with an entry fee as outlined on the event web-site. An entry will not be judged unless the fee has been paid in full by the entry deadline. The fee may be paid by using a credit card via the event site. [A work may be submitted to more than one category, but a separate entry fee must be paid for each category entered.]

Newsweek is not responsible for any stolen, misdirected, lost, late, damaged or returned payment.

Entry Review and Selection by Newsweek.

Entries that meet the eligibility requirements, deadlines and payment of the entry fees will be reviewed by our panel of judges and considered for recognition.

The panel shall consist of a panel of expert judges that cover a variety of industries and are hand picked by the Newsweek editorial team. The panel shall select award recipients based on the entrant’s ability to clearly show and communicate how they have used AI technology to solve critical business problems in different industry segments, or significantly advance capabilities and can show measurable impact on business operations.

Finalists and Winners will be announced in May 2025 and will be published on Newsweek.com. Winners will be invited (one complimentary Summit ticket – travel and hotel NOT included) to attend the AI Impact Summit in June 2025 as a guest of Newsweek.

If an entry is selected by our panel of judges to be recognized, the additional medium and details of announcing this recognition will be determined by Newsweek. Applicant acknowledges that such recognition may not be given or broadcast in the same way for every selected applicant.

All Newsweek’s decisions with respect to eligibility and award-selection are final and all entrance fees are non-refundable.

Representations & Warranties.

By submitting an entry, an applicant represents and warrants that (a) the applicant has reached the age of majority in their place of residence and is bound by these terms and conditions, (b) the applicant, the entry submitted and the work it concerns are in compliance with all eligibility criteria described herein and (c) the reproduction, publication, display, and/or other use of the entry by Newsweek in connection with the AI Impact Awards, and their promotion and marketing, in any media, worldwide and in perpetuity, will not infringe on the rights of any third-parties or violate any applicable law.

Release & Indemnity.

Each applicant agrees to release Newsweek, its employees, officers and directors, representatives, affiliates, agents, independent contracts and promotional partners (the “Released Parties”) from any and all claims arising from the promotion and administration of the AI Impact Awards and the administration, collection and use of any award. Each applicant further agrees to defend, indemnify and hold the Released Parties harmless from and against all liability that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from such applicant’s participation in the AI Impact Awards and his or her use or publication of any award received.

Force Majeure.

The failure of Newsweek to comply with any provision of these terms and conditions due to an act of God, hurricane, war, fire, riot, earthquake, terrorism, pandemic or epidemic, act of public enemies, actions of governmental authorities or other “force majeure” event outside of the control of Newsweek will not be considered a breach of these terms and conditions.

Jurisdiction and Dispute Resolution.

Each applicant agrees that any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to the AI Impact Awards, including with respect to the breach, termination, or validity these terms and conditions, shall be finally resolved by arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association in accordance with its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The arbitration shall be conducted in New York, New York, USA in English. The number of arbitrators shall be one (1). The arbitrator shall have the authority to award any relief that would be available in a court of law or equity, and such award (a) shall be final and binding upon the parties and (b) may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

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