A night for the people
moving pharma Forward.
3 September 2026 · Evening · Novotel HICC, Hyderabad
Editorial awards.
Not event awards.
The Honours are a Pharma Now editorial program - modelled on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women and the CIO 100, not on pay-to-play event trophies. Thirteen awards across five streams recognise the leaders, teams and breakthroughs genuinely moving Indian pharma IT forward.
Each award is defended by a weighted rubric, scored by jurors who specialise by category. Zero vendor representatives sit on any jury tier, and a sponsor-eligibility firewall is in place. The winners are sealed before the night.
Five streams.
One standard.
The unit of recognition shifts by stream - from the leader, to the work, to the breakthrough, to the ecosystem.
The thirteen
Honours.
Tap any award to open its full rubric - eligibility, the weighted scoring criteria, evidence requirements and disqualifiers.
How a winner
is chosen.
A weighted, jury-led process with defensible discipline at every tier.
Specialist scoring
Editorial verifies every application’s evidence before scoring begins. Jurors specialise by category and score each rubric dimension 0–10; the weighted average sets the rank.
Grand Jury calibration
The Grand Jury calibrates across categories so no field produces an artificially weak or strong winner - keeping the program rigorous but not stingy, recognising but not generous.
Recusal & confidentiality
Any current/recent employer, vendor, family or mentorship tie triggers automatic recusal. All applications and deliberations are confidential; recusal logs are published in aggregate.
A sponsor-eligibility firewall is in place. These are Pharma Now editorial awards - not pay-to-win event awards. Year 1 winners become natural Year 2 jurors.
The nomination
timeline.
From open nominations to the sealed result, revealed on the gala stage.