Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has won the "Best Innovator of the Year" and "Best Engineering Product of the Year" 2026 awards at the Digital Engineering Awards, organised by ISG Group, L&T Technology Services, and CNBC Group.
DEWA received both awards in recognition of its exceptional leadership in innovation and digital engineering, the positive change it is driving to advance digital engineering excellence, and its delivery of qualitative innovations that add significant value to business and achieve important, wide-ranging leaps in the digital engineering sector.
His Excellency Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of DEWA, said: "In line with the wise directives of our visionary leadership to make Dubai a global capital of the digital economy, and the objectives of the Dubai Economic Agenda D33, we continue our concerted efforts to achieve pioneering advances in digital fields.
"We are reinforcing our global leadership in future-focused areas, contributing to building the digital future, and developing a diversified knowledge economy built on knowledge and innovation. We are advancing our digital expertise to elevate innovation processes, support the efficiency, security, and resilience of operations, and set new standards of excellence and competitiveness in performance."
Engineer Walid bin Salman, Executive Vice President for Business Development and Excellence at DEWA, noted that international awards serve as a continuous assessment and clear evidence of DEWA's success in transforming excellence from milestone achievements into an entrenched institutional value — one that helps anticipate challenges, turn them into growth opportunities, and strengthen the confidence and happiness of all stakeholders.
DEWA won the Best Engineering Product of the Year award for the advanced OmniHub Internet of Things device, which was designed and manufactured at DEWA's Research and Development Centre as part of the authority's space programme, Space-D, with the aim of connecting ground sensors to satellites and terrestrial networks. Dr Rahmat Ajang Sujantiyoko, Senior R&D Technician at the Research and Development Centre, was named Best Innovator of the Year in recognition of his pioneering contributions to digital engineering and sustainable technological innovation.