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Congratulations to the winners and finalists for the 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards!
The Social Impact category highlights partners accelerating innovation and technology applications that are making a difference for individuals, customers, and communities around the world. We read so many strong entries of partners embracing the possibilities that AI is creating and taking the lead in applying this latest technology to solve societal challenges, creating more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable models of growth.
Together with the team behind the Partner of the Year Awards Social Impact category, we're thrilled to honor winning partners for the inclusion changemaker, sustainability changemaker and community response awards.
POTYA Community Response winner: Simpson Associates | United Kingdom
The Community Response Partner of the Year Award recognizes a partner organization that is providing innovative and unique services or solutions based on Microsoft technologies, helping solve challenges faced by communities and making a significant social impact during unprecedented times.
Simpson Associates has been a key technical delivery partner for the Tackling Organized Exploitation (TOEX) Program in two ways. First, it implemented an Azure-based TOEX Data Platform, the first data solution to combine force, regional and national data sets from UK law enforcement agencies to create an enhanced intelligence picture of organized exploitation. Second, it delivered enhanced technical capabilities through predictive analytics to strengthen the efficiency and effectiveness of policing.
POTYA Inclusion Changemaker winner: Legal Interact | South Africa
The Inclusion Changemaker Partner of the Year Award recognizes a partner organization that excels at providing innovative and unique services or solutions based on Microsoft technologies that help customers solve challenges of diverse representation, economic access, digital inclusion, and/or accessibility.
Legal Interact’s “My AI Lawyer” bridges justice gaps in South Africa by leveraging Azure Cloud and AI on WhatsApp, offering scalable legal advice and affordable access to law. This innovation marks a significant step towards a more just society by enabling inclusive access to critical legal services.
POTYA Sustainability Changemaker winner: EY | United States
The Sustainability Changemaker Partner of the Year Award recognizes a partner organization that excels at providing innovative and unique services or solutions based on Microsoft technologies that help customers solve challenges of sustainable digital transformation.
Together, EY and Microsoft help customers make better decisions, meet regulatory requirements and generate value at every stage of their environmental, social and governance-based investing (ESG) and sustainability journey. By combining EY’s deep and broad technical expertise with Microsoft’s reputation for cutting-edge technological solutions, EY has helped over 100 clients accelerate their decarbonization journey, creating sustainable value and helping them deliver on their ESG goals.
Congratulations also to our Partner of the Year Award Social Impact category finalists!
POTYA Community Response
POTYA Inclusion Changemaker
POTYA Sustainability Changemaker
Join us at MCAPS Start for Partners and at Microsoft Ignite (November 18-22, 2024) to celebrate the outstanding achievements of these partners. Learn and find winners and finalists across all categories at the Partner of the Year Awards website.