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Digital Innovation Awards 2025

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TO OUR WINNERS!

About the Awards

The BCX Digital Innovation Awards launched for the first time in 2019 with the aim to recognise and celebrate Digital Innovation Excellence in South Africa.

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2025 Winners

Meet the visionaries redefining digital excellence. Explore the award-winning innovations that shaped 2025 here  

Previous Winners

We’ve celebrated digital innovation excellence with an amazing list of visionaries.

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Honouring the visionary thinkers shaping our nation’s technological future through creativity, resilience and purpose-driven innovation. Every year, the BCX Digital Innovation Awards recognises organisations that push the boundaries of what technology can achieve, not only to solve real-world challenges, but to uplift communities, increase accessibility, and accelerate South Africa’s digital progress.

Meet the 2025 winners whose groundbreaking work is redefining the future across both the Public Sector/Corporate and SME categories.

PUBLIC SECTOR / CORPORATE CATEGORY

Winner: Shoprite

Reinventing the Shopping Journey Through Smart Retail Technology
Shoprite wins for its groundbreaking Smart Trolley, a tech-enabled solution that uses sensors, RFID, mobile payments and loyalty data to ease queues, support budgeting and simplify navigation. This innovation sets a new standard for digital retail and elevates the in-store customer experience.

First Runner-up: Standard Bank Insurance (SBI)

Transforming Quality Assurance with AI-Driven Intelligence
SBI earns first runner-up for AQuA, its AI-powered system that automates and improves call quality assurance. The solution boosts accuracy, compliance and efficiency, showing how AI can enhance operations and customer service in the insurance sector.

Second Runner-up: Esayidi TVET College

Empowering Rural Communities Through Digital Skills and Opportunity
Esayidi TVET College is recognised for its Digital Innovation Lab, which equips young people and small businesses in rural KwaZulu-Natal with essential digital skills. The initiative tackles unemployment and digital exclusion, driving real community upliftment.

SME CATEGORY

Winner: Deaftouch

A First-of-its-Kind Call Centre Advancing Digital Inclusion
Deaftouch wins for its Deaf-to-Deaf Call Centre, a platform enabling direct communication between deaf users and deaf agents. This first-of-its-kind solution breaks long-standing accessibility barriers and redefines inclusive digital services.

First Runner-up: GreenBDG Africa

Simplifying ESG Reporting for a More Sustainable Future
GreenBDG Africa is recognised for its Automated ESG Solution, which streamlines ESG tracking and reporting using AI and analytics. The platform helps businesses improve transparency and attract sustainable investment, supporting a greener African economy.

Second Runner-up: Aizatron (Pty) Ltd

Driving Secure, Sovereign AI for South Africa’s Digital Future
Aizatron is recognised for ACE, its locally built, privacy-first AI platform that unifies structured and unstructured data into a single, trusted source of truth. Designed for full data sovereignty and on-prem or hybrid deployment, ACE improves efficiency, accuracy and decision-making across sectors, strengthening South Africa’s journey toward secure, home-grown AI innovation.