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The IDTechEx Awards recognise 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 Wednesday 10 May.

"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."

2016 Winner: Additive Industries b.v.

Best Development in 3D Printing Award

Award Description
"This award will recognize an important innovation in the 3D printing industry. This could be a development of 3D printing equipment, such as an improvement in speed, volume, precision, productivity, quality, reliability, or uniformity. It could also be research into a completely novel technique; progress in developing a new material for 3D printing; or an innovative and useful purpose for 3D printing."

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The independent panel of judges for the 3D Printing Awards include:

Dr Achim Weber - Fraunhofer IGB

Karl Osti - Autodesk

Mr Jonathan Rowley - Digits2Widgets

Mr Aleix Oriol - HP

"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!"

2016 Winner: Shockwave Motors, Inc.

Most Significant Innovation Award

Award Description
This award will be given to the most significant new innovation in hybrid or pure electric vehicles whether by land, water or air. Its focus will be the components and systems within the vehicles whether mechanical, electrical, electronic or combined.

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Winning the Technical Development Materials Award for our supercooled metal particle technology was the highpoint of IDTechEx's exceptional conference which was packed full and a great opportunity for us to get introduced to the printed electronics community!

2016 Winner: SAFI-Tech

Technical Development Manufacturing Award

Award Description
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.

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Technical Development Materials Award

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.

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Best Institute/Academic R&D Award

Award Description
This award will be given to an academic research organisation that has made a significant contribution over the past 24 months to the understanding of the principles and accrued knowledge behind printed electronics.

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Best Product Award

Award Description
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.

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The independent panel of judges for the Printed Electronics Awards include:

Mr Ashutosh Tomar - Jaguar Land Rover Research

Prof Ulrich Moosheimer - Munich University of Applied Sciences

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

2016 Winner: Drayson Technologies

Best Technical Development within Energy Harvesting Award

Award Description
This award will be given to a company that has launched a new product based on Energy Harvesting (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.

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The independent panel of judges for the Energy Harvesting Awards include:

Dr Danick Briand - Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne

Prof Meiling Zhu - University of Exeter

Dr Onoriu Puscasu - Altro Ltd

"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."

2016 Winner: 24M

Best Technical Development within Energy Storage Award

Award Description
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.

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The independent panel of judges for the Energy Storage Awards include:

Jonas Deitschun - Fraunhofer IFAM

Dr Fanny Barde - Toyota Motor Europe

Dr Giuseppe Antonio Elia - TU Berlin

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

2016 Winner: Movidius

Best IoT Technology Development Award

Award Description
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.

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The independent panel of judges for the Internet of Things Awards include:

Mr Uwe Kubach - SAP

"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."

2016 Winner: BrightVolt

Best New Wearable Technology Device Award

Award Description
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).

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Best New Material or Component Development Award

Award Description
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.

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The independent panel of judges for the Wearable Awards include:

Mr Ben Cooper - VF Global Innovation Center

Ms Heidi Dohse - Google

Best Poster

Award Description
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 Award

Award Description
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
The winners will be announced and presented with an Award at our Awards Ceremony on Wednesday 10 May 2017.

For more information contact Chris Clare

Good Luck!


Award submissions are now closed.

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