Choose One of Three Categories For Nominee
Emerging Innovator Award
Experience: Nominees must have 2 - 10 years of professional experience.
Current Role: Nominees must be actively engaged in an information technology, engineering, or scientific discipline.
Impact: Nominees must have made significant, measurable, and sustained contributions that have advanced their field.
Intellectual Property: Nominees must have developed the creation of noteworthy intellectual property (e.g., patents, proprietary technologies, or significant research outputs).
Professional Innovator Award
Experience: Nominees must have a minimum of 10+ years of professional experience.
Current Role: Nominees must be actively engaged in an information technology, engineering, or scientific discipline.
Impact: Nominees must have made significant, measurable, and sustained contributions that have advanced their field.
Intellectual Property: Nominees must have developed and/or led the creation of significant and noteworthy intellectual property (e.g., patents, proprietary technologies, or significant research outputs).
Leadership & Commitment: Nominees must demonstrate a long-standing commitment to innovation and the continued growth of IT, engineering, or science, serving as a role model for future generations of inventors and innovators.
Career Innovator Award
Experience: Nominees must have a minimum of 20 years of professional experience.
Current Role: Nominees must be actively engaged in an information technology, engineering, or scientific discipline.
Impact: Nominees must have made significant, measurable, and sustained contributions that have positively advanced their field and society.
Intellectual Property: Nominees must have developed and/or led the creation of significant and noteworthy intellectual property (e.g., patents, proprietary technologies, or significant research outputs).
Leadership & Commitment: Nominees must demonstrate a long-standing commitment to innovation and the continued growth of IT, engineering, or science, serving as a role model for future generations of inventors and innovators.