Recognizing the Top 20 Individual Leaders in Intelligent and Connected Devices

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Recognizing the Top 20 Individual Leaders in Intelligent and Connected Devices

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ABOUT

The Misties Awards are for inventors, hackers, engineers, product designers, and business leaders who are bringing great technological advances to the world.

THE JUDGES

MistyWest doesn’t vote on the winners – that’s up to our panel of distinguished judges from varying backgrounds in hardware and tech.

PRIZE PARTNERS

Our prize partners award over $10,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to support the development of future projects of our Top 20 winners.

NOMINATIONS

Nominate someone who has launched a commercially successful intelligent and connected device. You can even nominate yourself.

SAVE THE DATE

The 2024 winners will be announced in the virtual awards ceremony on Thurs, July 18 at 4PM PDT

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Nominations have been received since launching the Misties.

>$35K

In cash and prizes have been awarded to select Top 20 winners.

SOME PAST WINNER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Reducing textile production cost and textile waste with 100% real-time inspection for manufacturers.

Commercial application of the subsurface geophysics technique muon tomography.

The first FDA-cleared smartwatch used for detecting and sending alerts of potentially life-threatening seizures.

2024 MISTIES SEMI-FINALISTS

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271

Nominations have been received since launching the Misties.

>$35K

In cash and prizes have been awarded to select Top 20 winners.

July 18

Will be the 2024 Misties Awards virtual ceremony. 

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SOME PAST WINNER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Reducing textile production cost and textile waste with 100% real-time inspection for manufacturers.

Commercial application of the subsurface geophysics technique muon tomography.

The first FDA-cleared smartwatch used for detecting and sending alerts of potentially life-threatening seizures.

VIEW ALL PREVIOUS WINNERS & JUDGES

2023

2022

THE MISTIES EXPERIENCE

The awards are broadcast in a live virtual awards ceremony that features a panel discussion with global embedded intelligence experts.

The ceremony is followed by the exclusive IRL Misties After Party for semi-finalists, judges, sponsors, and past and present winners.

Misties community members gain lifetime access to industry peers at the forefront of technology.

THE JUDGES

NOMINATE A JUDGE

JUDGE CRITERIA

  • Fortune 1000 executive experience or post-Series A startup experience
  • 2+ years of experience working on or with intelligent and connected devices
  • Cannot be currently nominated for a Misties award
  • 6 to 12 hours time commitment to holding adjudicate

If selected to be a judge for the Misties awards, I acknowledge that I will be asked to provide the following assets for use in promotional materials: headshot, brief biography, social media handles, and additional websites or media links.

 

Thanks for your submission!

If selected to be a judge, we will be following up through the email address provided.

Matt Mickelson

Lead Systems Engineer of New Vehicle Platforms at Cruise / GM

Brett Byer

Senior Hardware Engineer
at Hala Systems, Inc.

Ibrahim El-chami

Researcher & Post Doc at the University of British Columbia

Daniel Myers

Founder & CEO of Flair Systems

Nader Elm

Co-Founder at Exyn Technologies

Ian Stadler

Principal Firmware Engineer at Semios

Jordan Ruderman

Senior Staff Test Engineer, Embedded Systems at Cruise / GM

Eric Migicovsky

Founder of Pebble, Co-Founder & CEO at Beeper
Sherry Huss
Co-Founder of Maker Faire, Head of Community at Freeman
Adam Benzion
CXO at Edge Impulse
Meiz Majdoub
Senior Engineering Officer at Royal Canadian Navy
Alex Marley
Partner at Lux Capital

Doris Tang

Strategic Partner Manager at X

Chuck Martin

Editorial Director AI & IoT at Informa Tech

Thomas Soederholm

VP Business Development at Nordic Semiconductor

Chris Massot

Director of Co-Innovation at Microsoft
Jeanette Numbers

Founder & CEO of Nova

Linda Megerdichian

Digital Hardware Design Engineer at Extron Electronics
Naomi Hamels
Global Director at Altium

Avi Rosenthal

Partner at bluesalve partners

Derek Disanjh

Engineering Physicist
Jake Blair
Senior Sales Engineer at Memfault
Oleha Riden
Director of Strategy & Creative Projects at Not an Office

Athena Demos

CEO of Big Rock Creative
Alex Gudilko
CEO at AJProTech Product Development
Terry Arbaugh
Vice President of Sales & Marketing at SEACOMP
Melanie Daniels
Founder of Prairie City Solutions
Luc Martens
Professor at Ghent University, Belgium
Sarah Muzquiz

Alliances Manager at Particle

PRIZE PARTNERS

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GOLD
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NOMINATIONS

April 30

Nomination Deadline

May 11

Nominees will be down-selected and our shortlist notified

May 30

The judges will vote select the Top 20 winners

July 18

Winners will be publicly announced in the Misties Virtual Awards Ceremony

April 30

Nomination Deadline

May 11

Nominees will be down-selected and our shortlist notified

May 30

The judges will vote to select the Top 20 winners

July 18

Winners will be publicly announced in the Misties Virtual Awards Ceremony

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ELIGIBLE CRITERIA

1. Deployed commercial products at scale and made prolific contributions through their work in IoT.

2. Helping advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

3. Inspiring others with really cool and groundbreaking tech that has the potential to shift the technological landscape.

DISQUALIFYING CRITERIA

1. Previous Misties Winners

2. Current Misties Judges

3. People who haven’t commercially launched a product before

What are you waiting for? Nominate yourself or a colleague by filling out the form below.

Misties nominations are now closed.

Check back on May 13 to see our list of semi-finalists.

SECTION 0: YOUR DETAILS

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SECTION 1: NOMINEE DETAILS

If shortlisted for a Misties award, the nominee will be asked to provide the following assets for use in promo materials: headshot, brief bio, social media handles, and additional websites or media links.
 

Thanks for your Misties award nomination.

If selected as a finalist, we will be following up through the email address provided by May 11, 2024 to provide more details.

2023 Misties Winners

Raj Seelam

Raj Seelam is an entrepreneur who has created the world’s only commercially available low-cost air quality monitor with AI/ML capabilities, helping to improve air quality and reduce global air pollution costs.

Lindsey Sunden

Lindsey Sunden led hardware development at Bump, Fitbit, and Google’s Consumer Health Research Team, and has contributed to better global health metrics monitoring for well-being.

Andy Hill

Andy Hill is an entrepreneur who has developed 3 major bioacoustic sensors and commercialized AudioMoth, which has been deployed worldwide to study biodiversity and the climate’s impact on wildlife.

Doug Schouten

Doug Schouten is a driving force behind the commercial application of the subsurface geophysics technique muon tomography, leveraging cosmic rays from space to see beneath the Earth’s surface.

Limor Fried

Limor Fried is the founder of Adafruit, who sells hundreds of products to enable electronics development and exploration, and the first female engineer to grace the cover of Make Magazine.

Nader Elm

Nader Elm has championed the world’s most advanced autonomous aerial scanning system and the world’s most rapid mobile geospatial reality capture system.

Vincent Clerc

Vincent Clerc is a disruptor in the field of robotics, having created the mass-produced humanoid robots Pepper and Nao, with over 150,000 units deployed in real-world applications.

Aurora Andújar

Aurora Andújar is an award-winning innovator who has commercialized her Virtual Antenna technology, revolutionizing the way smart devices are designed and productized.

Daniel Myers

Dan Myers is working towards advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals through intelligent HVAC control solutions and providing an on-ramp to electrification nationwide.

Jordan Ruderman

Jordan Ruderman is an experienced test engineer with a long history of developing world-class products, and is currently leading embedded systems for the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.

Dean Priebe

Dean Priebe is an intralogistics champion who is helping to power the future of commerce with automated solutions for manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution environments.

Gianluca Redolfi

Gianluca Redolfi is breaking ground by merging cellular terrestrial telecom and satellite connectivity, providing cost-effective technology to enable massive IoT in remote areas.

Greg Stewart

Greg Stewart has commercialized data products in various industries, and is dedicated to developing sustainable practices for responsible production.

Ian Stadler

Ian Stadler is an experienced SoC developer who works for the AgTech company Semios, building intelligent and connected devices that help sustainably manage pests and water.

Brian Shumaker

Brian Shumaker is the founder of beadedstream inc., a hardware-enabled software company. Their mission is to enable anyone to collect environmental data anywhere on the planet. They make infrastructure climate-aware.

Ibrahim Elchami

Ibrahim El-chami is a principal at Mostar Ventures, a defence and security operational VC firm in BC, and a researcher at UBC building IoT and AI solutions as a part of the UBC-Rogers 5G campus initiative that has included projects related to installing sensors on trees to study tree health.

Matt Mickelson

Matt Mickelson has played a crucial role in many game-changing products, such as the original Microsoft Surface, and has partnered with M-Kopa Solar in Kenya to help further the goal of affordable and clean energy.

Dean Kawaguchi

Dean Kawaguchi has made groundbreaking contributions to WiFi, RFID, as well as improving food quality, availability and reducing overall food waste.

Dr. Suzanne Gildert

Dr. Suzanne Gildert is a trail-blazer in the field of AI-enabled robotics, having designed and commercially deployed one of the world’s first humanoid general-purpose robots.

Brett Byer

Brett Byer is an experienced IoT engineer who creates robust solutions that bridge the gap between data and actionable insights, empowering users in even the most remote or unreliable areas.

Recognizing the Top 20 Individual Leaders in Intelligent and Connected Devices

Recognizing the Top 20 Individual Leaders in Intelligent and Connected Devices

RSVP FOR THE VIRTUAL AWARDS CEREMONY
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