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For the Country/Region of the Year Award category, can you confirm if Canada & USA will be treated as separate Country/Region or if they are combined for an "Americas" award?
- AlexaDespenas
Microsoft
Hello, for the 2025 global program country/region awards, we are accepting nominations separately for Canada and USA.
Is it 8000 characters with or without spaces? The Award Guidelines contained a discrepancy on this.
- AlexaDespenas
Hey Ashleigh thank you for flagging this - I found the discrepancy and will update the document accordingly. I can confirm that we are looking for 8,000 characters not including spaces.
- JillArmourMicrosoft
Community Manager
We are answering questions as quickly as possible. AlexaDespenas will respond when she is able. If not during the event you will get a response in the next day or two.
Is Alexa the only team member here able to answer this question? I'm seeing responses from other microsoft team members here and wondering why they can't provide this answer?
JillArmourMicrosoft bumping this up for clarification. In the awards submissions is the 8,000 character limit with or without spaces?
JillArmourMicrosoft many of the POY awards requirements appear to be targeted towards ISV partners. Is there a recommendation from Microsoft for the categories where Global Advisory and Systems Integrator partners are encouraged to participate?
- AlexaDespenas
Hi Robyn, we encourage eligible partners of all types to nominate for an award. Many of the awards include a "must have achieved one of the following" which enable multiple partner types to nominate.
Bumping this up for attn
A summary of the 2025 POTY changes are posted here: https://lnkd.in/eYbYf6x9
- JillArmourMicrosoft
Welcome to the Partner of the Year Awards program and nomination process event AMA!
Let's get started! There will be no video component, just text-based questions and answers. 😀
Post your questions in the comments and be sure to refresh your page to see our responses. We will be answering questions as they come in. Let's gooooo!
So, the event is live Q&A here in text, if I understand correctly?
- JillArmourMicrosoft
Yes, the team is on this event and answering questions in real-time.
Hi Jill, most of us are aware of the release date of the categories but at this stage are you able to confirm some of the standard awards we would expect to see will still be in there - Country, global ISV, etc.. ?
See https://lnkd.in/eYbYf6x9 for changes. Most of the award categories are intact with a few awards dropped related to OSS, Teams, and SMC. Plus, a new award was added for Developer Productivity.
is there a live presentation or just questions
if live can you post the event link
Hello, Can you please provide me the live session link? The one provided in Outlook invitation directs here. Thanks!
hi for me to please
How to.attemd to.this event
Can you please point me in the direction of the link to join? Facing issue
In the same boat as everyone else here - we don't have the link to the actual session.
JillArmourMicrosoft I am also scheduled for the event, but don't see an actual teams meeting link. As others have said, the link on the calendar invite takes me back to this page. Thanks!
- JillArmourMicrosoft
There is no video component to this event, only text-based questions. Feel free to post them in the comments!
