We at SKOCH, strive to maintain the highest levels of integrity and confidence for all nominees and awardees. SKOCH Award Methodology as is follows:
Stage 1 – Nomination & Registration
Nominations are invited for SKOCH FinTech Award for exceptional/innovative products, achievements and corporate contributions to Digital Financial Deepening. Nominations to be made using the online link along with mandatory conference delegate registration (Rs. 40,000 INR + GST@18% for 4 Delegates).
Apply NowStage 2 – Research & Validation
SKOCH Research team will verify the details and correctness of the nomination, do desk research, take telephonic feedback and use SKOCH domain knowledge.
Stage 3 – Interaction with Jury
Face to face interaction of the shortlisted nominees via virtual session with the panel of domain experts. Experts make ratings and these are added to the nominee's score.
Stage 4 – Popular Vote
SKOCH Team will create and publish page for shortlisted nominees for popular voting. Popular vote is to help organisations create a buzz around one’s good work with peers, colleagues and benchmark popularity against the peers from other organisations.
Stage 5 – Merit List
Semi-finalists are announced and Order-of-Merit list is published on the website by SKOCH Team. All Order-of-Merit recipients to be invited for Summit and Award ceremony to receive Order-of-merit certificates and also compete for the coveted SKOCH Award which will be announced on the same day.
Stage 6 – Expert Vote
All finalists are invited to participate in the online digital exhibition and solicit Expert Votes. A Weightage of 10% would be added in the total score from this activity. SKOCH Team will create pages on the exhibition portal along with additional material provided by the nominees.
Stage 7 - Live Voting
This is the last step happens on the day of the conference and award ceremony where delegates attending the conference would vote for the nominees. 10% Weightage of this is added in the score.
Stage 8 – Way to Final
Using SKOCH Award raking system, a cutoff is decided and final awardees are announced and conferred SKOCH Award during the Conference and Award Ceremony.