This year's award-winner combines innovative corporate culture with a clear focus on future technology and social responsibility.

With his vision of a world in which technology supports people both at work and outside of it, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has had a huge impact on modern life. He will receive this year's Axel Springer Award in honor of his impressive achievements. The award ceremony is to take place in person at Axel Springer's new building in Berlin.

Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE: "Satya Nadella is currently the most visionary CEO of a major tech platform. He has not only led Microsoft to extreme economic success, but above all has renewed it culturally and strategically. With the early development of generative artificial intelligence, he has opened another decisive chapter. I admire him as an entrepreneur and as a person."

With the Axel Springer Award, the company honors outstanding personalities who are particularly innovative, create and change markets, leave their mark on culture, and embrace their social responsibility. Satya Nadella is the eighth winner to date.