Entry
Enter the one that is yours.
Pick the category that is honestly yours. Entries open 1 October 2026 and close 30 April to 15 May 2027, by region; until then you can build your entry and it is saved to your account.
You built it. Come and collect.
Entries open 1 October 2026. The first live nights are Melbourne, June 2027.
- 3
- Sizes in every category, so you are up against your peers
- 113
- Categories that take an entry
- 25
- Votes to qualify for the shortlist
- 8
- Countries to enter from
One of four
What the entry asks you.
Your country, your category, and the one number that decides your band: declared annual revenue. Then the story, in your words.
If you can be sacked by someone who is not you, you belong in the Executive Awards.
Step 01
You
Your name, email and country (one of the 8), a photo, and your LinkedIn profile. The LinkedIn profile is required: every entrant has one.
Step 02
Your business
The business name and website, when it started trading, the people in it including you, and last financial year’s revenue in US dollars, which sets your band: Rising Star, under us$1 million; Established, us$1 million to us$5 million; Leading, us$10 million plus. Revenue alone sets the band. Headcount is asked for your entry page and never moves you up or down.
Step 03
Your categories
Your industries at your band, plus the trade, journey and business awards that are honestly yours. As many as fit, each its own entry at US$99. Creator Entrepreneur, Creator of the Year and the Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creator awards also ask for your profile on the platform.
Step 04
Your story
What you built, and what changed because of it. People read it before they vote. Then a one line revenue declaration.
The rules that make the band hold
They exist so that the person who tells the truth about their size is not the one who loses.
- Self-declared on the entry, for your most recent completed financial year, in US dollars at the rate on the day you enter.
- You sign a one line declaration, the same weight as the show entry already on this site.
- The ratchet. You may move up a band in a later year. You may never move back down.
- Revenue alone sets the band. Headcount is asked for your entry page and never moves you up or down.
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What it takes to win.
The Expo Awards are voted by the people who walked the floor, which limits itself and is easy to defend. A founder’s audience is their own customers and their own followers, so the vote is built to reward support, not list size: a threshold to qualify, bands so you only meet businesses your size, and every vote checked before it counts.
The entry fee pays for your page, never for the result. It does not buy a finalist place or a mention. The vote finds the finalists and decides the winner.
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Qualify, on a threshold
Anyone may vote, one vote per verified email per category, counted only when the link in the email is clicked. A paid entrant qualifies at 25 verified votes. That is the whole test. Vote 26 and vote 2,600 are worth exactly the same, and no running total is ever published. Your page says Qualified, or how far off it is, and nothing else.
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Finalists, then the winner
The vote finds three to five finalists in a category, and the finalist with the most counted votes wins. The count is checked and independently certified, then sealed until the night. Totals are never published.
If your category is thin. A category with fewer than five paid entries rolls into its band champion, so a thin category is never quietly dropped and nobody who paid is demoted. Your entry still competes.
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What a win carries.
Every paid entrant gets a kit. Finalists add to it, announced online. A country winner is revealed live on the night, adds the digital trophy and the trophy itself, and is invited to the Expys Global.
The day your entry is paid.
Every paid entrant
Your own page
Your name, business, story and LinkedIn, on a page of your own at expys.org.
Your vote card
Sized for LinkedIn, Instagram Stories and text messages. It links straight to your vote.
Nominee 2027 badge and media kit
The day you go live: the Nominee badge and a LinkedIn banner, and an image for your socials, on your own private media kit page.
Your press release, published on expys.org
Written from your entry and published in The Expys newsroom the day you go live, with a link to your page.
Announced online four weeks before your night, when the vote puts you on the shortlist.
Finalists add
Finalist badge, banner and press release
The Finalist 2027 badge, a banner for the top of your LinkedIn profile, and your finalist press release, the day the finalists are announced.
Finalist window decal
A Finalist 2027 window decal for the shopfront or the front door.
An invitation to the live night
To your country’s night, where the winners are revealed live on stage, in the room or not.
Revealed live on stage at your country’s night, and online the same moment. Countries without a night are revealed at the Virtual Awards Night.
Winners add
Your digital trophy, the moment you win
A file of your trophy, yours the moment you are revealed, for LinkedIn, your website and your email signature. The trophy in your hands follows.
Your trophy, on the night
Handed over on stage at your country’s night, to the winners in the room. Win from anywhere and the virtual award is yours the same night.
Your award, presented on stage
A film of your award being presented on stage in your name, in the room or not. You don’t have to attend to win.
Photographs and film from the night
If you are in the room: photographed and filmed on stage, a green-screen acceptance film, all edited, with vertical cuts for Reels, TikTok and LinkedIn.
Winner badge, credential and banner
The Winner 2027 badge the moment you are revealed, the profile credential, and a banner for the top of your LinkedIn profile.
Your full media kit
One private page with every file, drawn from your entry: your badge at each stage, the LinkedIn banner, the Instagram ring, your link card, the post images and your press release.
A press release, distributed on a global newswire
Written for you and published the moment you are revealed, then distributed on a global newswire that syndicates it to its network of outlets. No coverage is promised.
Written and distributed by Eventpresseventpress.orgNamed in our winners’ announcement
Every winner of the night, named in one release in The Expys newsroom.
The Expys Global
Every winner is invited to the Expys Global in Las Vegas. Win a Global Icon Award there and you are an EXPY Icon. A guest spot on It’s Showtime with JS, the official podcast of The Expys, for the EXPY Icons.
An article
A written piece on expys.org about your business.
An interview
An interview with you about how you built it.
Winner’s window decal
Your award and the year, for the shopfront or the front door.
Add-ons for winners and finalists. Extra trophies for the team, a framed certificate, more decals or plaques. Prices to be announced.
How sharing works
Your card. Your post. Their vote.
These are examples, in each programme’s look. The names are invented and the people in the photographs are not entrants.
Step 01
Your page gets a card
Every paid entrant gets a vote card like these, with your portrait, your name and your award, made for you.
Step 02
You post it
LinkedIn, a text to the people you work with, your Instagram story. The link opens your page with the vote on it.
Step 03
They vote in ten seconds
One vote per person, confirmed by email. Anyone who has seen your work can back you.
Example, The Expo Awards
Mara Ellison
Oceania's Best Event Marketer
Fictional entrant. Photograph from Pexels.
Example, The Executive Awards
Daniel Reyes
Chief Financial Officer of the Year, Mid-market, Australia
Fictional entrant. Photograph from Pexels.
Example, The Entrepreneur Awards
Amara Okafor
Retail & Ecommerce Entrepreneur of the Year, Established, Australia
Fictional entrant. Photograph from Pexels.
What your post looks like
An example, for Amara Okafor. On LinkedIn the link opens as the card; in a text it arrives the same way.
Amara Okafor (example)
Founder of [a retail business]
2h · 🌐
EXAMPLE POST I have entered Retail & Ecommerce Entrepreneur of the Year, Established, Australia in The Entrepreneur Awards 2027. If we have worked together, a vote takes ten seconds.
expys.org/entrepreneur-awards/nominees/amara-okafor
Vote for
Amara Okafor
Vote for Amara Okafor: Retail & Ecommerce Entrepreneur of the Year, Established, Australia
expys.org
Amara (example) ›
Today 6:12 pm
Vote for
Amara Okafor
Vote for Amara Okafor
expys.org
Delivered
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When entries open.
Entries open 1 October 2026. The first live nights are Melbourne, June 2027.
Until 1 October 2026 the entry form can be read but not paid. Ask to be told the day it opens, or walk through it now.
1 October 2026
Entries open
From 1 October 2026
The community vote, online. It shortlists the finalists
30 April to 15 May 2027, by region
Entries and the vote close, Melbourne first
Four weeks before your night
Finalists announced
Before your night
The count is checked and certified, then sealed until the night
June 2027
Winners revealed live on stage at the city nights, June to July 2027, and Dubai and Riyadh in November, and online the same moment. Melbourne first
Register interest
One email, the day entries open.
If you can be sacked by someone who is not you, you belong in the Executive Awards. If you run or supply an expo, a conference or a festival, the Expo Awards is the programme in the house built for you.
Your entry
US$99
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- Your own page at expys.org, live in minutesyour page
- Your Nominee badge and media kit, the day you pay
- Your press release, published on expys.org
- Your vote card for LinkedIn, Instagram and textyour page
- A place in the community vote, from 1 October 2026
- Up against businesses your size
- Named on stage at your country’s night if you win
- Named in our winners’ announcement if you win
Your entry
Your award. Your page. Your badges.
- Your own page at expys.org, live in minutesyour page
- Your Nominee badge and media kit, the day you pay
- Your press release, published on expys.org
- Your vote card for LinkedIn, Instagram and textyour page
- A place in the community vote, from 1 October 2026
- Up against businesses your size
- Named on stage at your country’s night if you win
- Named in our winners’ announcement if you win
US$99 one-time per category
Prices exclude tax. Australian customers pay 10% GST at checkout.
100% refundable if your application isn’t approved.
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Entries open 1 October 2026. The first live nights are Melbourne, June 2027.