INDIA TODAY magazine (Sept 19th issue) did a special issue on Young Achievers where they have selected 35 Game Changers below the age of 35 years from various industries and walks of life. Even Ankit Fadia was selected to be a part of this list amongst various young achievers like Freida Pinto, Gautam Gambhir and many others.
Ankit Fadia has received 45 different awards from different organizations, companies and governments organizations.
The most prestigious of them are mentioned below:
Global Cyber Security Ambassador as part of National Telecom Awards 2011
Mentioned in the Top 100 Tech Personalities in India by Exhibit magazine May 2010 issue
MTV Youth Icon Award 2008: Through nationwide SMS and Online voting, Ankit Fadia was chosen as one of the MTV Youth Icon in 2008. The winners of this award were featured in 1 million Pepsi My Cans!
Ankit Fadia also appeared in a music video by BlaaZe, Prince Ali, Raqueeb Alam titled INQUALAB
Young Achiever Award from the Indo-American Society for outstanding achievements at a young age that influence lives
in India and America.
Young Turk. CNBC India has featured Ankit Fadia in their popular TV series called Young Turks.
IT Youth Award 2005 by the Singapore Computer Society and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore for
significant contributions to the IT industry in Singapore. Ankit Fadia is the only non Singaporean in the history
of the awards to have been given this prestigious honor.
Person of the Year India 2002 by the Limca Book of Records for outstanding achievements in the field of computer
security in India.
Gold Medal 2003 by the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, Singapore for significant work in the field of
Cyber terrorism.
Hall of Fame 2003 by The Hindustan Times for outstanding achievements in the field of computer security in India.
Appreciation Award from Business Owners in Bahrain.
Appreciation from the Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation, Multimedia Super Corridor, Cyber Jaya, Malaysia on the occasion of MSC Dialogue.
SIS, SMU Industry Day. March 2004.
Aussie Rules" ball hand signed by delegates of seminar in Melbourne, Australia.
Letter of Appreciation from Ahmad Firdaus Daud - one of the students who received my annual Ankit Fadia Information Security Award in 2007. This award was offered every year to a student doing well in the Information Security field studying at School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
Silicon India Person of the Week 2001 by Silicon India for writing a book at the age of 14 years.
Outstanding Young Achiever Award 2003 by the Rotary Club For work in the field of computer security.
Best Speaker Award (On 5 Occasions)
State Award 2002 Rajasthan, India
Asia Technology Initiative Fellow (2004) Stanford University Summer Fellowship to Singapore.
Student Achiever of the Year 2002-03 Delhi Public School, India
Special Mention (2002-2004) Limca Book of Records
Ankit Fadia has also been felicitated and his work has been appreciated by various industry leaders like Mr. Kiran
Karnik (President, NASSCOM), Dr. A.P.J Kalam (Honourable President of India), Mr. Chandrababu Naidu (Chief Minister
of Andra Pradesh), Mr. Phiroze Vandrewala (Chairman, TCS), Mr. Ganesh Ayyar (Vice President, Hewlett Packard, SE
Asia), Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi (HRD Minister of India) Mr. Jennifer Grannick (Law Professor, Stanford Law School
and America Top E-Lawyer) and many others.