We're fortunate to have had so many clients this year who were either self-nominated or nominated by their partners.
Great Things Award winners at the 2026 Emergence Conference in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Colin Bryant of ASI announces the Great Things Award winners at the 2026 iMIS Users Group Discovery Conference in Melbourne, Australia.
Great Things Award Winners
ASI Products: OpenWater
With OpenWater, ASNT expanded from a single honors-and-recognition program into four programs spanning awards, foundation scholarships, governance, and leadership development, replacing a process that once required mailing 2.5-inch judging binders to reviewers.
The results: judging cycle time dropped 67% (18 days to 6), nomination review volume rose 200% (9.8 to 29.3 per day), and judge support requests fell 78%, cutting their program manager's daily support time from three hours to one.
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American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) accepts a Great Things Award for Digital Transformation at the 2026 Emergence Conference.
ASI Products: iMIS
CSSANZ replaced a patchwork of outdated, duplicated spreadsheets with iMIS, giving their small team a single source of truth across membership, training, CPD reporting, and sponsor management. Automated CPD reporting now saves an estimated 200 hours of staff time a year, event-management automation saves another 100 hours, and one-click renewals have driven aged debtors down to "next to nothing." A request for historical member data that once took weeks now takes about a day.
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Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) accepts a Great Things Award for Digital Transformation.
ASI Products: iMIS
NJSBA built a full conference app on iMIS® to run their 3,000-person annual conference with almost no manual staff work. Proposal-to-session creation dropped from an estimated several days to about 5 minutes for 113 sessions, and badge-based check-ins let them process over 30,000 CLE credit records without anyone hand-entering data, a job that once required two full-time staff.
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NJSBA accepts a Great Things Award for Digital Transformation at the 2026 Emergence Conference.
ASI Products: Clowder, iMIS
TCJ expanded Clowder® from a conference-only app into a year-round resource hub — moving materials that used to be buried and hard to find into a searchable, tagged library accessible both in-app and on the web. Clowder's targeted news feed also lets staff message specific audiences (e.g., the board vs. court professionals) directly instead of relying on email, cutting down on repetitive phone calls asking for information that's now just a notification away.
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Texas Center for the Judiciary (TCJ) accepts a Great Things Award for Member Engagement at the 2026 Emergence Conference.
ASI Products: iMIS, Clowder
OHAA used iMIS to unify two merged member organizations onto one platform and build out a fully integrated ecosystem of LMS, communities, and a member app (Clowder) all under single sign-on. Membership grew from 1,850 to 3,165 members, and the Clowder app hit nearly 800 users in just four months, driving 4,458 newsfeed interactions in a single month.
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Oral Health Association of Australia Ltd (OHAA) accepts a Great Things Award for Member Engagement at the 2026 iMIS Users Group Discovery Conference.
ASI Products: OpenWater, iMIS, and Clowder
ISSCR replaced a disconnected process with OpenWater for abstract and speaker management, syncing membership and pricing data directly from iMIS via single sign-on. The switch helped ISSCR handle a record 1,700 abstract submissions in a single annual meeting while streamlining reviewer scoring and write-back into iMIS, and attendee registration satisfaction has held at 95 to 98%.
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International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) accepts a Great Things Award for Excellence in Award Program at the 2026 Emergence Conference.
ASI Products: TopClass
FMA moved off a manual e-learning setup where staff had to individually create and revoke user access for every course signup and onto TopClass, enabling instant self-service access to e-learning, certificate courses, webinars, and pre-employment assessments. The switch cut roughly 20–30 hours a week of manual enrollment tracking down to essentially zero, freeing staff to focus on relationship-building instead, while TopClass's chaptered content format let FMA break an 11-hour certificate course into modular segments that are easier to update and complete.
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Sarah Butler of TopClass accepts a Great Things Award for Transformation in Education on behalf of the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association (FMA) at the 2026 Emergence Conference.
Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA)
ASI Products: TopClass, iMIS
PETAA replaced a disconnected setup with TopClass, consolidating dual course versions into one and giving iMIS a complete, centralised record of course completions across its Professional Learning Subscription schools. In its first four months live, TopClass drove about 2,000 active learners and 94% engagement among those subscription schools — with user-experience feedback coming back “excellent” or “good” only.
Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) accepts a Great Things Award for Transformation in Education.
ASI Products: iMIS
PIA replaced a decade-old system with iMIS (via Causeis's Launchpad), automating CPD point tracking, event/webinar access, and renewal invoicing while giving state managers self-service reporting that used to run through one central staffer. The rollout landed ahead of schedule and on budget, cut renewal invoice creation time by about 80%, and enabled rolling auto-pay for membership fees - all with a team of just three staff managing the project.
Read more of their success story.
Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) accepts a Great Things Award for New Implementation at the 2026 iMIS Users Group Discovery Conference.
ASI Products: iMIS
The Aged Care Association replaced a fragmented, spreadsheet-based system with a fully integrated iMIS CRM and CMS — streamlining member sign-up and adding a self-service portal for updating information and resetting passwords. Using iMIS's IQAs to segment members by role, they moved from blanket emails to targeted outreach, driving an 81% increase in website landing views and saving staff several hours a week.
Read more of their success story.
Aged Care Association New Zealand (ACNZ) accepts a Great Things Award for New Implementation.
ASI Products: iMIS, OpenWater
DST integrated iMIS and OpenWater to fully digitize membership intake across 300,000+ members and 1,000+ chapters — replacing a paper-based application and judging process (mailed forms, manual score entry, hand-typed letters) with a seamless, single sign-on flow between the two systems. Intake season dropped from roughly 3 months to 6 weeks, and from September 2025 to April 2026 alone, DST processed over 20,000 applications — saving their team an estimated 20+ hours of administrative work along the way.
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc (DST) accepts a Great Things Award for Membership Growth Initiative at the2026 Emergence Conference.
ASI Products: SpaceMaster
TIA in-sourced advertising and sponsorship sales using SpaceMaster, eliminating the need for outside vendors to manage those functions. Instead of creating a separate product for every media/advertising item, staff now manage inventory through consolidated buckets and generate invoices directly — cutting invoice creation time by approximately 75%, with visibility into which media assets sell best, which companies are interested, and where to follow up.
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Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)
ASI Products: iMIS
RCEM built “GreenED” — a sustainability accreditation platform tracking bronze/silver/gold environmental competency across hospitals — using HTML and structured content within iMIS. The initiative has since expanded internationally to Ireland and Australia and spawned additional microsites (including a quality improvement tracker for elderly care), while their adoption of Power Suite lets staff build their own automations and workflows in-house, reducing reliance on third-party developers for routine changes.
ASI Products: OpenWater
Beem Credit Union took its scholarship program, the Purple Cap Awards, from concept to launch in just eight weeks with OpenWater with help from ASI’s implementation team. OpenWater’s automated scoring rubric let staff efficiently judge Opportunity Award applicants while reducing judging bias, and its built-in email wizard and reporting gave Beem a reliable single source of truth for nearly 2,000 completed applications to their $1M program.
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ASI Products: iMIS
Master Plumbers relaunched their member portal on iMIS just before their annual renewals period, adding Smart Library analytics that gave staff visibility into resource usage for the first time and building out CPD tracking ahead of an expected mandatory compliance requirement for the trade. In under two months, the portal drew 300+ unique users with no reported navigation issues.
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Master Plumbers and Mechanical Services Association of Australia (MPMSAA) accepts a Great Things Award Honorable Mention.
ASI Products: TopClass
Think Brick replaced a fragmented, decade-old LMS with TopClass, using branded partitions to give each association its own look while sharing one login. Two months after going live, logins jumped from a rare one or two a month to over 50, with 15–20 full certifications completed.
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Think Brick Australia accepts a Great Things Award Honorable Mention.