Best AI Implementation
Entries and nominations for the 2026 EcomExpo Awards are closed. For an existing entry, follow your confirmation email or contact [email protected]. The published entry deadline was 3 September 2026, 23:59 EEST.
Best AI Implementation recognises innovative AI in personalisation, automation, search, recommendations or operations.
The Best AI Implementation award is one of 10 categories in the first-ever EcomExpo E-Commerce Awards — the Baltic region’s e-commerce awards, judged by an independent jury and announced live on 1 October 2026 in Vilnius. Here is what it rewards, what a strong entry shows, and how to enter.
What the Best AI Implementation award rewards
It rewards AI that ships and delivers measurable impact — production work, not pilots or demos. This is a flagship category as agentic commerce reshapes the industry.
What a strong entry shows
Every entry is scored on the same 100-point rubric — goals & budget, target audience & strategy, creativity & innovation, execution, and results & impact (weighted highest). For Best AI Implementation, the jury looks for:
- The problem, and why AI was the right tool for it
- What you built or deployed, and how it runs in production
- Impact in numbers — conversion, efficiency, cost, or time saved
- Adoption, and how it changed the day-to-day workflow
- The guardrails you put in place and what you learned
AI that improves an operation
Evidence to look for: Measure task volume, time per task, error rate and total operating cost before and after deployment. Explain the model, human review and fallback process.
What needs context: Separate saved time from cash savings. Record failure cases and the cost of monitoring.
Illustrative example — not an actual entrant: At 1,000 comparable tasks, a drop from 12 to 8 minutes saves about 67 working hours. That is capacity released, not automatically 67 hours of payroll savings.
Editorial guidance, not additional judging rules. Entries are closed. For an existing submission, follow your confirmation email; do not treat this checklist as an invitation to submit new material. See the published rules or contact the awards team.
Who should enter
Teams running real AI in production — personalisation, search, automation, or operations.
How to enter Best AI Implementation
Entries and nominations for the 2026 EcomExpo Awards are closed. For an existing entry, follow your confirmation email or contact [email protected]. The published entry deadline was 3 September 2026, 23:59 EEST.
Entry is €190 + VAT per category, with 20% off for five or more entries and 80% off for businesses based in Ukraine. Entries closed on the published deadline of 3 September 2026.
Questions
Do AI pilots qualify for this award?+
Production work with measurable impact scores best. A pilot can qualify if it shipped and moved a metric; concept demos without results do not.
How do I enter the Best AI Implementation award?+
Entries and nominations for the 2026 EcomExpo Awards are closed. For an existing entry, follow your confirmation email or contact [email protected]. The published entry deadline was 3 September 2026, 23:59 EEST.
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