Technology, Applications & Opportunities
November 20 - 21, 2019 Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, USA

Awards

The IDTechEx Awards recognize company development and success. All companies operating within these technologies are welcome to apply. The winners will be announced during the drinks reception which takes place in the Exhibition Hall on November 20.

Best Technical Development within Energy Storage

This award will be given to a company that has launched a new product based on Energy Storage (in the last 24 months) and is in the process of bringing it to market. The category will be assessed on the technical development of the product, its potential market, and benefits it brings over alternatives.

Independent Judges
for Energy Storage Award

Steve Kelley
Engie

Laurie Florence
Principal Engineer, UL LLC

Jarvis Tou
Executive Vice President, Enevate Corporation

Most Significant Advancement In Graphene, CNT, Or 2D Material Commercialization

This award is for a company or research institute that has made a significant advancement (in the last 24 months) for the commercialization of carbon nanotubes, graphene, or other 2D material variants. The recipient can be a material producer, player within the supply chain, or end-user and will be judged on the quality of the technological development and the potential market impact.


Independent Judge
for Graphene Award

Dr Craig Dawson
Applications Manager, University of Manchester

Best IoT Technology Development

Entrants should have made a significant development in improving and enabling IoT, either hardware, software or system based. The judges will look at the merits of all entrants to judge which has the most significant impact on moving forward the application of IoT.


Independent Judges
for Internet of Things Award

Dr Kars-Michiel H Lenssen - Director/Principal Scientist, Signify

Dr Ted Way - Senior Program Manager, AI and Advanced Architectures, Microsoft

Technical Development Manufacturing

This award will be given to the most significant development of a manufacturing device, process or production plant in the industry over the last 24 months. Manufacturing developments optimize the process of lab-scale or mass-scale production by improving productivity, quality, reliability, uniformity, or scale.


Technical Development Materials

This award will be given to the most significant technical development over the last 24 months in the field of material development. A material is defined as any consumable used in the manufacturing of a printed electronic device, for example substrates and fluids/inks.



Best Product

This award will be given to a company who has launched a new integrated product based on printed electronics and is either in the process of bringing it to market or it has already been launched. The category will be assessed on the technical development of the product, its potential market, and benefits it brings over alternatives. For this award, a product is defined as two or more materials integrated through a manufacturing process. Judges will focus on the innovation of the product development.


Independent Judges
for Printed Electronics Awards

Thomas Morel - R&D Custom Solutions Director, JCDecaux

Dr Diego Bagnis - Chief Scientific Officer / R&D Manager, CSEM

Dr Sameh Dardona - Associate Director, Research & Innovation, United Technologies Research Center

Jonas Vandercruys - Global Packaging Development Engineer, AB-inbev

Best Innovative Sensor Technology Award

This award will be offered to a sensor technology with the most significant new innovation, or that can impact our life most significantly.


Independent Judges
for Sensor Award

Dr Muhammad Hussain - KAUST

Dr Marc Scholz - Senior Systems Engineer, Cambridge Mechatronics

Dr Radislav Potyrailo - Principal Scientist-Micro & Optoelectronics, GE Global Research

Best New Wearable Technology Device

This will be awarded to the entrant that the judges decide as having developed the most useful and/or innovative wearable technology device. The device should be relatively new (launched within the last 12 months).


Best New Material or Component Development

This award will recognize the most significant development of a material or component which will have a large effect on enabling wearable technology devices, overcoming prior limitations of wearable technology devices.


Independent Judges
for Wearable Awards

Aleksandr Shtukater - President, RaayonNova

Best Poster

This award will be judged at the show and all organisations displaying a poster in the exhibition will be entered for this award.
This award will be given to the company or academic organisation for the most promising advances in this technology area. The category will be assessed on the technical development of the work, its potential for market entry, and the benefits it brings to the body of work in the given area.

Best in Show

IDTechEx celebrate the brightest, busiest and most innovative booth at the IDTechEx Show!

The Judging process
On the opening day our panel of judges will assess every stand at the exhibition.

What the Judges will be looking out for:

  • An eye catching booth with unusual/creative design
  • The best use of space available - irrespective of booth size
  • Inviting from a visitor perspective
  • Outstanding presence in the hall engaging visitors to the booth

Publicity

Winners of the IDTechEx Show! awards will receive publicity in our weekly journals and post-event articles. Winners will also have the opportunity to present a slide at the award ceremony on Wednesday November 20.

Award submissions are now closed!


List of Previous Winners

Award Winners Feedback

Best New Wearable Technology Device

It's an honor to have our Meta 2 Development Kit recognized as the Best New Wearable Technology Device by the IDTechEx Show,

Meta
Best New Material or Component Development

We are extremely pleased and honored to have received the award for the Best New Material or Component Development... solid-state and customized batteries are going to help revolutionize the next stage for wearables and IoT Technology

BrightVolt
Best Development in 3D Printing

We are delighted our industrial MetalFAB1 system has won the award for the Best Development in 3D Printing. This will greatly support the entry of our industrial 3D printing systems for series production on the US market

Additive Industries b.v.
Most Significant Innovation

The Shockwave Motors Team really appreciates the opportunity provided by IDTechEx and the belief and confidence they have shown in us. This amazing learning experience has been capped off by winning the Most Significant Innovation Award. For us, this has been a life-altering event; one we never forget!

Shockwave Motors, Inc.
Best Technical Development within Energy Harvesting

We are delighted to have won the IDTechEx Award in recognition of our Freevolt technology.

Drayson Technologies
Best Technical Development within Energy Storage

24M is honored to win the award for Best Technical Development within Energy Storage from IDTechEx. We'd like to thank the team at IDTechEx for deeming our work worthy of this great honor.

24M
Best IoT Technology Development

We are thrilled our Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit is being recognized by IDTechEx as the Best IoT Technology Development this year

Movidius