Presents
Top 20 Individual Leaders in Intelligent and Connected Devices
The ‘Top 20 Leaders in Intelligent and Connected Devices’ awards (AKA The Misties) are for contemporary and active inventors, hackers, engineers, product designers, and business leaders who have made the most profound impact when it comes to intelligent and connected devices, and are bringing great technological advances to the world.
2023 General Inquiry
We’re collecting contact information of those who are interested in becoming a judge, nominating someone for an award, and becoming a prize partner for the Misties
(tentatively scheduled for spring 2023).
2022 Winners of the Misties
- Steve Barker
- Ann Torres
- Fadel Adib
- Sampath Satti
- Adam Sobol
- Roman Kozak
- Mark Rabin
- Rosalind Picard
- Jeri Ellsworth
- Steven Macenski
- Erik Norden
- Sidhant Gupta
- Michael Burton
- Jossie Haines
- Azhar Hussein
- Scott Waller
- Antonio Rocha
- John Colombo
- Sergio Delrio Diaz
- Karen Donoghue
2022 Prize Partners
Media Partners
2022 Misties Judges
Our judging panel is made up of industry leaders in hardware development, from engineers and entrepreneurs to producers and founders, to provide the highest quality judging for our awards.
Athena DemosCofounder of Big Rock Creative
Karen YangAutomation Engineer at Medra
Tyler MinceyPartner at Bolt
Michael CorrCEO & Cofounder of Duro Labs
Mike LizunExecutive Vice President at Gregory FCA
Aymerik RenardGeneral Partner at Hardware Club VC
Suchit JainVP of Strategy & Business Dev at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
Allison FonderSenior Producer at Core77
Cyril EbersweilerGeneral Partner at SOSV
Vincent ClercVP of Engineering at Terramera
Doris TangEngineer at X
Sarah MeisterFounder of Artio Consulting
Sherry HussCofounder of Maker Faire
Derek DisanjhDirector of Product Engineering at FORM
Trammell HudsonDirector of Special Projects at Lower Layer Labs
Naomi HamelsGlobal Director at Altium
Janet Liberman-LuCofounder of Dame Products
Dave MeekerAmerica’s Head of Design & Innovation at Dentsu
Meiz MajdoubSenior Engineering Officer at Royal Canadian Navy
Christian BlancSales Director at Carbon Inc
Joanna PopperGlobal Head of VR, Go-to-Market at HP
Tiffany HamiltonEntrepreneur in Residence at UBC
Peter WongCEO of Riot Micro
Adam BenzionCXO at Edge Impulse
Linda MegerdichianDigital Hardware Design Engineer at Extron Electronics
Chris MassotDirector of Co-Innovation at Microsoft
Dr. Courtney D. CogburnAssociate Professor at Columbia University
Elena KodamaSoftware Engineer at Tulip Interfaces
Chuck MartinEditorial Director, AI & IoT at Informa Tech
Santhi AnalytisHead of Engineering at Gradient
Questions?
Contact MistyWest cofounder Leigh Christie at [email protected]
PRIZE PARTNER CRITERIA
- Fortune 500 Companies and Startups
- Consumer electronics (eg. VR headsets, smart headphones, connected toothbrushes)
- Intelligent and connected devices that have near universal appeal (eg. smart watches, smart speakers)
- Home automation IoT devices (eg. smart lightbulbs, smart doorbells, thermostats)
- AI hardware, such as GPUs
- Hacker / maker hardware
