Top 20 Individual
Leaders in Intelligent
and Connected Devices
The Misties Awards for the ‘Top 20 Individual Leaders in Intelligent and Connected Devices’ are for contemporary inventors, hackers, engineers, product designers, and business leaders who are bringing great technological advances to the world.
Register to attend the virtual awards ceremony on June 15, 2023.
2023 Misties Awards Shortlist
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Muxin Ma is a leader in the automotive industry, successfully spearheading the commercialization of Wireless intelligent sensing to monitor passenger vitals and save countless lives worldwide.
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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.
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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.
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Matthew Anderson is an innovator who has commercialized an autonomous vehicle capable of reducing CO2 emissions and improving health and safety.
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Roberto Bortoletto is an expert in machine learning algorithms for edge intelligent sensing nodes who has commercialized several wearables and IoT multi-sensor devices.
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Ryan LaFrance is an experienced engineer and inventor who has contributed significantly to connected fitness devices, as well as improving the efficiency of residential power meters.
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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.
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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.
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Liam Bates is the CEO of Kaiterra, a company that provides a complete air quality optimization platform to help companies assess and improve their indoor air quality for greater well-being.
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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.
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Michele Ammendola is an entrepreneur who has developed a set of systems for remote cloud management of heating and cooling systems to reduce energy consumption and optimize comfort.
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Nader Elm has championed the world’s most advanced autonomous aerial scanning system and the world’s most rapid mobile geospatial reality capture system.
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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.
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Anne Pauley is a product design engineer who worked on the Quest Pro, and is focused on becoming an industry leader of sustainable manufacturing.
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Aurora Andújar is an award-winning innovator who has commercialized her Virtual Antenna technology, revolutionizing the way smart devices are designed and productized.
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Bryson Gardner is a product manager at Apple who ran the first iPod nano program, and was the director of PMs for the iPhone team, helping to lead Apple’s rise to success.
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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.
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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.
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Marty Evans is a designer who has created products ranging from HP Printers to HTC/Valve VR headsets, and is currently working on AR Systems to push technology forward and bring people closer together.
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Monica Plath is a mom-inventor who has created the LittleBird connected care device, which allows parents to ensure the health and well-being of their children while they return to work.
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Shasha Jumbe, PhD is revolutionizing healthcare with his innovative Vibrome™ platform, aimed at providing comprehensive birth-to-death living soundscapes to enable early disease detection and maximize healthspan.
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Ryan Wartena is an entrepreneur regarded as the “Godfather of Power Systems”, and is actively working to reduce Co2 emissions through intelligent and connected devices.
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Saar Moisa has successfully commercialized the Globe Mapping and Ablation System; a complex medical device used to treat Atrial Fibrillation.
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Angela Liao has successfully commercialized products such as Tesla Model Y 7 Seaters, and has led a study to provide input for Google’s hardware sustainability strategy for achieving net zero by 2030.
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Carlyn Loncaric is an award-winning entrepreneur, whose successfully commercialized AquaEye device has the potential to save lives by using AI to detect bodies in water.
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Daanvir Dhir has helped launch Lomi, an appliance that accelerates the composting process and is on a fast-track to divert over 100 billion kilos of food waste from landfills.
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Dave is a professional engineer and VP of Product Development for Ekona, a company developing a novel methane pyrolysis solution for clean hydrogen production.
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Dean Priebe is an intralogistics champion who is helping to power the future of commerce with automated solutions for manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution environments.
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Gianluca Redolfi is breaking ground by merging cellular terrestrial telecom and satellite connectivity, providing cost-effective technology to enable massive IoT in remote areas.
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Greg Stewart has commercialized data products in various industries, and is dedicated to developing sustainable practices for responsible production.
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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.
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Ihor Lys is a pioneer in the world of connected lighting who has commercialized millions of his inventions around the world to make cities more beautiful and energy-efficient.
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Josselin de la Broise has a number of BLE-related patents, and has been working on Tile since its inception, having led firmware efforts across Life360 and Jiobit.
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Kevin R. Hart is a commercial inventor who founded HAVEN IAQ; an intelligent and connected device that focuses on improving indoor air quality.
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Shreyas Sen is an innovator who has commercialized Wi-R wireless technology, enabling high speed data communication using the human body.
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Kriti Pachhandara has worked on the Oura ring, helping hundreds of thousands of people improve their health and well being, as well as solutions architecture and edge hardware at KONE.
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Brian Shumaker is the founder of Beaded Stream LLC, a company that designs and builds temperature monitoring and satellite communication equipment used to monitor climate change and its impacts.
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Chris Coleman is a founding team member of Memfault, an IoT reliability platform that enables teams to build more robust connected devices at scale and helps customers accelerate go-to-market.
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Ibrahim Elchami is a cofounder of multiple tech companies and an R&D consultant who has won numerous awards for his research and development of IoT, AI, and smart solutions.
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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.
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Sean Daniel is a highly innovative engineer working at Open Ocean Robotics who has successfully commercialized products to help react to flooding or wildfire situations.
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Dean Kawaguchi has made groundbreaking contributions to WiFi, RFID, as well as improving food quality, availability and reducing overall food waste.
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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.
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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.
2023 Misties Judges
Athena DemosCofounder of Big Rock Creative
Karen YangSenior PM, AI at Labelbox
Suchit JainVP of Strategy & Business Development at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
Linda MegerdichianDigital Hardware Design Engineer at Extron Electronics
Sherry HussHead of Community at Freeman
Chuck MartinEditorial Director AI & IoT at Informa Tech
Cyril EbersweilerGeneral Partner at SOSV
Chris MassotDirector of Co-Innovation at Microsoft
Derek DisanjhDirector Product Engineering at FORM
Meiz MajdoubSenior Engineering Officer at Royal Canadian Navy
Doris TangStrategic Partner Manager at X
Janet S Lieberman-LuSenior Mechanical Engineer at Microsoft
Naomi HamelsGlobal Director at Altium
Adam Russek-SobolFounder & CEO CareBand
Steve BarkerFounder & Director of Prospect Control
Jossie HainesCEO & Founder of Jossie Haines Consulting
Erik WalenzaCEO of IoT ONE
Jeanette NumbersFounder and CEO of Nova
Trevor ClarkCTO at Industrio AI
Avi RosenthalPartner at bluesalve partners
Alex GudilkoCEO at AJProTech Product Development
Greg AllenPartner at Chrysalix Venture Capital
Jonathan BeriCEO at Golioth
Bram GreenenCEO at Wevolver
Richard MarksDirector and Technical Project Lead at Google
Thomas SoederholmVP Business Development at Nordic Semiconductor
Nima Mohsen SarrafiSoftware Developer Engineer at Lab126
Gordon DeansFounder & Director of Aurora Solar Technologies
Terry ArbaughVP of Sales & Marketing at SEACOMP
Oleha RidenCo-Founder & Creative Director of Stealth Creative Agency
Jake BlairDirector of BD at Thistle Technologies
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