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The Elektra Awards is one of the industry's most prestigious accolades, celebrating excellence and outstanding individuals, teams, and organisations driving change across the electronics sector.

With 19 award categories available, including people, products, and company awards, and the flexibility to submit multiple entries for free, it is the perfect platform to gain industry recognition and showcase your impact in the electronics industry!

Entry Deadline: Wednesday 19 August 2026

*Entries made after the free entry deadline will incur a late fee of £195 per entry.

Why Enter

Entry Process

Entry FAQs


  • To be eligible, all entries must relate to the past year: 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
  • Make sure that you read and fully comply with the criteria
  • Provide as much evidence of your results as possible
  • Be sure that you have the correct permissions needed to reveal any potentially sensitive information
  • Photos and images are useful to our judges
  • You can start your entry online and save it to complete it at any point before the deadline
  • Adding supporting documents - please zip your files into one folder and submit, this allows you to add more than one document or image file
  • And lastly, don’t be modest, this is the time to brag about your biggest achievements!

Automotive / Hi-Rel Product of the Year This award celebrates the achievements of design engineers in developing market specific end-products. It will recognise innovative product design which has had a significant impact in the automotive, military, avionics or space markets. This category is open to semiconductor design teams, manufacturers, component suppliers, cable, connector and LED manufacturers, software developers, embedded systems, power supplies and end-product OEMs.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Entry criteria 

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

  1. What the product is and what it does.
  2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative is the design, the component parts or the technology used in the product?
  3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products? Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements 

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

An opportunity to showcase your workplace and company ethos. Companies may have introduced creative, practical or innovative work practices, incentives or workplace schemes that enhance employees’ work-life balance and enhance employee retention. We are looking for companies that have a culture of making the workplace energy-efficient and/or more conducive to employee productivity or wellbeing.

For your entry to be considered, the judges will want to see evidence of achievements between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Entry criteria

Title of Award submission

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise your company objectives and overall strategy, and how you have gone above and beyond during the past 12 months. Please include:

  • A brief description of your company
  • A description of one or more workplace initiatives that make it a desirable workplace. Remember to include beneficiaries of the initiatives (e.g., employees with families, young engineers, local schools or charities)
  • Evidence of positive outcomes from one or more schemes that have been introduced in the last 3-5 years.

We are looking for companies that respond to workplace and staff challenges and which encourage staff wellbeing, job satisfaction and retention.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

How are you innovating?

We’re looking for companies that demonstrate innovation working practices, employee incentives and workplace schemes and corporate management initiatives. Tell us:

  • What’s new, exciting and innovative about your organisation?
  • How your innovations have helped or supported employees’ needs.

Impact of the organisation

As well as your customers, what do your employees think of your organisation? Are you a great place to work? Please provide summary evidence of:

A) Training programmes

B) Apprenticeship schemes

C) Diversity

D) Equality

E) Any other organisational highlights

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your business?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

This award is for a digital, analogue or mixed signal semiconductor design which effectively meets the needs of a specific consumer product. The semiconductor should contribute significantly to the feature that differentiates the consumer product from others in its field. Extra credit will be given to designs which efficiently manage power consumption, contribute to a reduction in the form factor of the end product or which enables the end product to be redesigned differentiating it from existing, conventional consumer products. This category is open to semiconductor, PCB and sensor manufacturers. The entry must demonstrate how its use enhanced the performance of the consumer product.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Consumer Semiconductor Product of the Year

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2024 – 31 May 2025

Entry criteria

Name of Product If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

  • What the product is and what it does.
  • Evidence of innovation: how innovative is the design, the component parts or the technology used in the product?
  • How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products?

Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible. This statement has a limit of 750words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?
 This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry. Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

This award is open to the design teams at OEMs and design houses involved in product development projects. If you have made contributions to full or part-customisation of a design. It is also open to design teams who have created or modified a design for a specific use case, which demonstrates a team’s problem-solving skills and design expertise to meet form factor, weight or shape criteria.

Entries should include the description of a project which has taken place during the period 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026.
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Entry Criteria

Team name

Please state the full name and department of the team you are nominating.

Are you (the submitter) a member of this team or are you nominating another team?

Please select: Team member / Another team

Team breakdown

Please supply us with some information about the team:

How many team members are there?

If possible, please state the job titles and names of these members

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your team should be rewarded this year.

Show us the passion and innovation

What makes this team special, outstanding, remarkable?

What has this team done that is so out of the ordinary?

What has this team done that is so innovative?

Innovation here could include working practices and corporate management initiatives, not just technology.

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Summary of contribution

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please outline this team’s:

(a) technical and/or business skills

(b) details of commercial success or leadership

(c) contributions to the community

(d) benefit to the organisation in terms of improve efficiency, RoI investment protection, growth or other measure.

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of how your team has taken steps to limit or influence the organisation’s environmental impact. This could include:

(a) implementing green initiatives such as recycling projects

(b) promoting alternative transport

(c) auditing suppliers used

(d) achieving recognised green accreditations, either as individuals or on behalf of the organisation.

(e) anything else you wish to highlight to others?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Team image

Please provide a group shot of the team. This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this image to promote the team as a finalist on our website, along with their company logo.

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

An award for the hardware and software design tool, application, hardware or software IP that demonstrates technical capabilities which differentiate it from competitor products.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Design Tool and Development Software Product of the Year

An award for the software design tool, application or software IP that demonstrates technical capabilities which differentiate it from competitor products.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2022 – 31 May 2023

Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.

2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative are the novel elements within this product?

3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products? Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (e.g. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

We are looking for young engineers who are already making a difference in the first years of their careers, or those who are still studying but show promise to become the future innovators and leaders in electronics. In addition to outstanding electronics engineering skills, BrightSparks demonstrate an enthusiasm to innovate and share their skills, ideas and enthusiasm for STEM with others in and out of the workplace. 

The nominee must be between 18-30 years of age and working or studying in the UK.

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This year, we are particularly interested to hear from those who have:

  • Applied electronics know-how in the field of sustainability and the environment
  • Started their own business
  • Participated in STEM activities to spread knowledge, information and understanding

The nominee must be between 18-30 years of age and working or studying in the UK.

This award will be presented to a company that demonstrates a commitment to the education of future engineers by providing support to schools, colleges, or universities. Support can be in the form of equipment, mentor programmes or workplace initiatives to encourage an interest in STEM careers, facilitate a route to careers in STEM or support for events which introduce STEM subjects in an engaging way,

Entries should include the description of a project which has taken place during the period 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026.
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Entry criteria

Title of Award submission

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise: 

  • A description of project(s) - In what way the project(s) has achieved academic success
  • Evidence of usefulness and application from project/individual achievement 
  • Demonstrate how these project(s) have contributed to the electronics industry
  • If relevant, please include details on how this project has had any environmental impact, contributed to the organisation’s green credentials or links to your wider sustainability commitments.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image:

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Electronics Weekly is looking for talented young electronics entrepreneurs* (under 35 years of age) who have started a business or spun out a business unit from a company or university. Entrants may be solo or partners must have identified a gap in the market and demonstrate how he or she has met this need with one or more innovative products based on electronics design. In addition to innovative business ideas, we want to hear about entrepreneurial credentials such as bold but sound business practices and a drive to grow the company.

To be eligible for this award, the submission must relate to achievements made in the past 12 months (01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026).

* Business partnerships are eligible as long as one partner is 35 or under.
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Entry Criteria

Name of Entrepreneur

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you/your nominee win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive Summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

  • Describe one or more of the businesses you have created in the electronics sector.
  • What risks or opportunities did you take in establishing a particular business?
  • What activities did you undertake that distinguish you? This can be in terms of fundraising, promoting or growing your business.
  • What activities distinguish you in the broader marketplace and help to grow the business?

Show us the passion

Demonstrate how special, outstanding, remarkable you are/your nominee is.
 What have you/your nominee done that is so out of the ordinary? Tell us about your/your nominee’s aspirations to contribute to the industry or expectations for future success.

Overall, show us what makes this person stand out from the rest?

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Summary of contribution

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please outline your/your nominee’s:

(a) technical and/or business skills

(b) details of commercial success or leadership

(c) contributions to the community

(d) other professional credentials and achievements This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Headshot

If possible, please provide a headshot of the entrant. This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300.

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Manufacturers, including OEMs, sub-contractors, and EMS (electronics manufacturing service) companies are eligible to enter for this award*. The award will go to the manufacturer that has demonstrated the most impressive level of commercial success, introduced an innovative process and/or executed new business projects in global markets over the past 12 months.

(*provided the company has operations in the UK)

For your entry to be considered, the judges will want to see evidence of achievements between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Entry criteria 

Title of Award submission

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise your company objectives and overall strategy, and how you have gone above and beyond during the past 12 months. Please include:

  • A brief description of your company and its contribution to the electronics industry
  • Examples of your ‘customer’ demographics
  • Evidence of an effective commercial strategy for the future
  • How you provide value to your customers and why they use your services. What are you offering that makes you stand out?
  • What value you bring to your vendor partners

We are looking for companies that are able to adapt and respond to a dynamic and changing market.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

How are you innovating?

We’re looking for companies that demonstrate innovation in developing and bringing to market new concepts, services, products and solutions, and how they stand out from the competition. Innovation could also include working practices and corporate management initiatives, not just technology. Tell us:

  • What’s new, exciting and innovative about your organisation?
  • How your innovations have helped your customers’ needs.

This question has a limit of 500 words.

Impact of the organisation

As well as your customers, what do your employees think of your organisation? Are you a great place to work? Please provide summary evidence of:

A) Training programmes

B) Apprenticeship schemes

C) Diversity

D) Equality

E) Any other organisational highlights

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your business?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements 

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

An award for a passive or electromechanical component demonstrating technical capabilities that elevate it for specific applications or differentiate it from its competitors. NB: Wireless RF connectivity products are not eligible for this category.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.

2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative are the novel elements within this product?

3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products? Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

This award is for the power semiconductor design that contributes to a product’s energy-efficiency, optimises PPA, while managing the demands of voltage, current and thermal management. The design should demonstrate technical capabilities which differentiate it from its competitors.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.

2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative are the novel elements within this product?

3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products? Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Electronics Weekly is looking for a talented electronics engineer or designer who is currently in the first five years of their career in the industry. He or she may have either a graduate or apprentice background and be working in any position and at any level. Companies and universities can enter candidates who demonstrate a high level of practical skills and problem-solving and who have actively contributed to the business.

Entries should demonstrate their ability to problem-solve while working on a project which has taken place during the period 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Please confirm that the entrant has been in the electronics industry for 5 years or less

Title of Award submission

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you/your nominee win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Show us the passion

Demonstrate how special, outstanding, remarkable you are/your nominee is.

What have you/your nominee done that is so out of the ordinary?

Tell us about your/your nominee’s aspirations to contribute to the industry or expectations for future success.

Overall, show us what makes this person stand out from the rest.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Summary of contribution

Be clear and concise. Qualify all claims and assertions’ about the nominee.

(a) technical and/or business skills

(b) details of commercial success or leadership

(c) contributions to the community

(d) other professional credentials and achievements

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Headshot

If possible, please provide a headshot of the entrant. This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300.

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

This award will be presented for a product intended for smart, secure smart buildings or smart cities. The proliferation of edge AI devices and the evolution of IoT nodes, means that more devices are connected for communication across private, commercial and enterprise buildings and even in metropolitan-wide networks for smart, secure surveillance, tracking, monitoring systems. The category applies to wireless communication products, comms systems, sensors, cameras, lighting and security systems.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.

2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative are the novel elements within this product?

3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products? Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image). Promotional summary Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

We are looking for exciting hardware or software design tool companies (NOT app developers or SaaS companies). Entrants will have identified a gap in the market and met this need in an accessible, practical and economical way. Judges will look for evidence that a company is building a business to be competitive in global markets, in electronics design, manufacturing or distribution.

For your entry to be considered, the judges will want to see evidence of achievements 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Entry criteria

Title of Award submission

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

We are looking for hardware or software design tool start-ups that have identified a gap in the market and delivered a product or service that meets this need. Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise your company objectives and overall strategy, and how you have gone above and beyond during the past 12 months.

Please include:

  • A brief description of your company and its contribution to the electronics industry
  • Examples of your ‘customer’ demographics
  • Evidence of an effective commercial strategy for the future
  • How you provide value to your customers and why they use your services. What are you offering that makes you stand out?
  • What value you bring to your vendor partners?

We are looking for companies that are able to adapt and respond to a dynamic and changing market.

How are you innovating?

We’re looking for companies that demonstrate innovation in developing and bringing to market new concepts, services, products and solutions, and how they stand out from the competition. Innovation could also include working practices and corporate management initiatives, not just technology. Tell us:

  • What’s new, exciting and innovative about your organisation?
  • How your innovations have helped your customers’ needs.

This question has a limit of 500 words.

Impact of the organisation

As well as your customers, what do your employees think of your organisation? Are you a great place to work? Please provide summary evidence of:

A) Training programmes

B) Apprenticeship schemes

C) Diversity

D) Equality

E) Any other organisational highlights

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your business?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Reflecting the changes in our industry, this award is open to design projects and products for use in new and emerging applications e.g., AI, VR/AR, robotics/humanoids, mobility, health, leisure, wearable, printed and flexible electronics. We are particularly interested in the capabilities that a design brings to the end user, for example in enhancing mobility, meeting educational needs or supporting neurodiversity.

*Entries are NOT invited for this award.
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This category recognises robotics and automation systems and their component parts which have accelerated automated operations. Components such as sensors as well as cameras, vision systems, motion systems, motors and processors that enhance operation will be eligible. Judges will be looking for evidence of how the entry contributes to enhanced, energy-efficient operation in intelligent automated or robotic systems.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026
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Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions

Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.
2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative is the design, the component parts or the technology used in the product?
3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products?

Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

  • What specific area of neurodiverse needs does the product address?
  • How does the product help those neurodiverse users?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?
B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?
C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?
D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?
E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners, and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture is worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory, but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist.

Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

*NEW*

An award for a digital, analogue or mixed signal semiconductor, component or sub-assembly that enriches a product’s RF/wireless capabilities. Products can be used in a variety of applications, from comms to medical/wellness and integrated into boards or SoCs. Extra credit will be given for an entry which creates a new product category by virtue of its enhanced RF or wireless performance.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2026 – 31 May 2026.
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Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions

Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.
2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative is the design, the component parts or the technology used in the product?
3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products?

Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?
2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?
This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?
B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?
C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?
D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?
E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners, and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture is worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory, but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist.

Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Manufacturer of the Year

Manufacturers, including OEMs, sub-contractors, and EMS (electronics manufacturing service) companies are eligible to enter for this award*. The award will go to the manufacturer that has demonstrated the most impressive level of commercial success, introduced an innovative process and/or executed new business projects in global markets over the past 12 months.

(*provided the company has operations in the UK)

For your entry to be considered, the judges will want to see evidence of achievements between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Entry criteria 

Title of Award submission

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise your company objectives and overall strategy, and how you have gone above and beyond during the past 12 months. Please include:

  • A brief description of your company and its contribution to the electronics industry
  • Examples of your ‘customer’ demographics
  • Evidence of an effective commercial strategy for the future
  • How you provide value to your customers and why they use your services. What are you offering that makes you stand out?
  • What value you bring to your vendor partners

We are looking for companies that are able to adapt and respond to a dynamic and changing market.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

How are you innovating?

We’re looking for companies that demonstrate innovation in developing and bringing to market new concepts, services, products and solutions, and how they stand out from the competition. Innovation could also include working practices and corporate management initiatives, not just technology. Tell us:

  • What’s new, exciting and innovative about your organisation?
  • How your innovations have helped your customers’ needs.

This question has a limit of 500 words.

Impact of the organisation

As well as your customers, what do your employees think of your organisation? Are you a great place to work? Please provide summary evidence of:

A) Training programmes

B) Apprenticeship schemes

C) Diversity

D) Equality

E) Any other organisational highlights

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your business?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements 

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Start-up of the Year

We are looking for exciting hardware or software design tool companies (NOT app developers or SaaS companies). Entrants will have identified a gap in the market and met this need in an accessible, practical and economical way. Judges will look for evidence that a company is building a business to be competitive in global markets, in electronics design, manufacturing or distribution.

For your entry to be considered, the judges will want to see evidence of achievements 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Entry criteria

Title of Award submission

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

We are looking for hardware or software design tool start-ups that have identified a gap in the market and delivered a product or service that meets this need. Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise your company objectives and overall strategy, and how you have gone above and beyond during the past 12 months.

Please include:

  • A brief description of your company and its contribution to the electronics industry
  • Examples of your ‘customer’ demographics
  • Evidence of an effective commercial strategy for the future
  • How you provide value to your customers and why they use your services. What are you offering that makes you stand out?
  • What value you bring to your vendor partners?

We are looking for companies that are able to adapt and respond to a dynamic and changing market.

How are you innovating?

We’re looking for companies that demonstrate innovation in developing and bringing to market new concepts, services, products and solutions, and how they stand out from the competition. Innovation could also include working practices and corporate management initiatives, not just technology. Tell us:

  • What’s new, exciting and innovative about your organisation?
  • How your innovations have helped your customers’ needs.

This question has a limit of 500 words.

Impact of the organisation

As well as your customers, what do your employees think of your organisation? Are you a great place to work? Please provide summary evidence of:

A) Training programmes

B) Apprenticeship schemes

C) Diversity

D) Equality

E) Any other organisational highlights

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your business?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Best Electronics Workplace Award

An opportunity to showcase your workplace and company ethos. Companies may have introduced creative, practical or innovative work practices, incentives or workplace schemes that enhance employees’ work-life balance and enhance employee retention. We are looking for companies that have a culture of making the workplace energy-efficient and/or more conducive to employee productivity or wellbeing.

For your entry to be considered, the judges will want to see evidence of achievements between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Entry criteria

Title of Award submission

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise your company objectives and overall strategy, and how you have gone above and beyond during the past 12 months. Please include:

  • A brief description of your company
  • A description of one or more workplace initiatives that make it a desirable workplace. Remember to include beneficiaries of the initiatives (e.g., employees with families, young engineers, local schools or charities)
  • Evidence of positive outcomes from one or more schemes that have been introduced in the last 3-5 years.

We are looking for companies that respond to workplace and staff challenges and which encourage staff wellbeing, job satisfaction and retention.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

How are you innovating?

We’re looking for companies that demonstrate innovation working practices, employee incentives and workplace schemes and corporate management initiatives. Tell us:

  • What’s new, exciting and innovative about your organisation?
  • How your innovations have helped or supported employees’ needs.

Impact of the organisation

As well as your customers, what do your employees think of your organisation? Are you a great place to work? Please provide summary evidence of:

A) Training programmes

B) Apprenticeship schemes

C) Diversity

D) Equality

E) Any other organisational highlights

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your business?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Automotive / Hi-Rel Semiconductor Product of the Year

Automotive / Hi-Rel Product of the Year This award celebrates the achievements of design engineers in developing market specific end-products. It will recognise innovative product design which has had a significant impact in the automotive, military, avionics or space markets. This category is open to semiconductor design teams, manufacturers, component suppliers, cable, connector and LED manufacturers, software developers, embedded systems, power supplies and end-product OEMs.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Entry criteria 

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

  1. What the product is and what it does.
  2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative is the design, the component parts or the technology used in the product?
  3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products? Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements 

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Design Tool and Development Software Product of the Year

An award for the hardware and software design tool, application, hardware or software IP that demonstrates technical capabilities which differentiate it from competitor products.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Design Tool and Development Software Product of the Year

An award for the software design tool, application or software IP that demonstrates technical capabilities which differentiate it from competitor products.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2022 – 31 May 2023

Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.

2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative are the novel elements within this product?

3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products? Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (e.g. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Smart Buildings Product of the Year

This award will be presented for a product intended for smart, secure smart buildings or smart cities. The proliferation of edge AI devices and the evolution of IoT nodes, means that more devices are connected for communication across private, commercial and enterprise buildings and even in metropolitan-wide networks for smart, secure surveillance, tracking, monitoring systems. The category applies to wireless communication products, comms systems, sensors, cameras, lighting and security systems.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.

2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative are the novel elements within this product?

3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products? Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image). Promotional summary Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Passive/Interconnection/Electromechanical Product of the Year

An award for a passive or electromechanical component demonstrating technical capabilities that elevate it for specific applications or differentiate it from its competitors. NB: Wireless RF connectivity products are not eligible for this category.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.

2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative are the novel elements within this product?

3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products? Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Power Semiconductor Product of the Year

This award is for the power semiconductor design that contributes to a product’s energy-efficiency, optimises PPA, while managing the demands of voltage, current and thermal management. The design should demonstrate technical capabilities which differentiate it from its competitors.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.

2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative are the novel elements within this product?

3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products? Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Electronics Contribution to a Consumer Product

This award is for a digital, analogue or mixed signal semiconductor design which effectively meets the needs of a specific consumer product. The semiconductor should contribute significantly to the feature that differentiates the consumer product from others in its field. Extra credit will be given to designs which efficiently manage power consumption, contribute to a reduction in the form factor of the end product or which enables the end product to be redesigned differentiating it from existing, conventional consumer products. This category is open to semiconductor, PCB and sensor manufacturers. The entry must demonstrate how its use enhanced the performance of the consumer product.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Consumer Semiconductor Product of the Year

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2024 – 31 May 2025

Entry criteria

Name of Product If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

  • What the product is and what it does.
  • Evidence of innovation: how innovative is the design, the component parts or the technology used in the product?
  • How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products?

Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible. This statement has a limit of 750words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?

2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?

B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?

C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?

D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?

E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?
 This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry. Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Design Team of the Year

This award is open to the design teams at OEMs and design houses involved in product development projects. If you have made contributions to full or part-customisation of a design. It is also open to design teams who have created or modified a design for a specific use case, which demonstrates a team’s problem-solving skills and design expertise to meet form factor, weight or shape criteria.

Entries should include the description of a project which has taken place during the period 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026.

Entry Criteria

Team name

Please state the full name and department of the team you are nominating.

Are you (the submitter) a member of this team or are you nominating another team?

Please select: Team member / Another team

Team breakdown

Please supply us with some information about the team:

How many team members are there?

If possible, please state the job titles and names of these members

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your team should be rewarded this year.

Show us the passion and innovation

What makes this team special, outstanding, remarkable?

What has this team done that is so out of the ordinary?

What has this team done that is so innovative?

Innovation here could include working practices and corporate management initiatives, not just technology.

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Summary of contribution

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please outline this team’s:

(a) technical and/or business skills

(b) details of commercial success or leadership

(c) contributions to the community

(d) benefit to the organisation in terms of improve efficiency, RoI investment protection, growth or other measure.

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of how your team has taken steps to limit or influence the organisation’s environmental impact. This could include:

(a) implementing green initiatives such as recycling projects

(b) promoting alternative transport

(c) auditing suppliers used

(d) achieving recognised green accreditations, either as individuals or on behalf of the organisation.

(e) anything else you wish to highlight to others?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Team image

Please provide a group shot of the team. This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this image to promote the team as a finalist on our website, along with their company logo.

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Educational Support Award

This award will be presented to a company that demonstrates a commitment to the education of future engineers by providing support to schools, colleges, or universities. Support can be in the form of equipment, mentor programmes or workplace initiatives to encourage an interest in STEM careers, facilitate a route to careers in STEM or support for events which introduce STEM subjects in an engaging way,

Entries should include the description of a project which has taken place during the period 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026.

Entry criteria

Title of Award submission

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise: 

  • A description of project(s) - In what way the project(s) has achieved academic success
  • Evidence of usefulness and application from project/individual achievement 
  • Demonstrate how these project(s) have contributed to the electronics industry
  • If relevant, please include details on how this project has had any environmental impact, contributed to the organisation’s green credentials or links to your wider sustainability commitments.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image:

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Rising Star Award

Electronics Weekly is looking for a talented electronics engineer or designer who is currently in the first five years of their career in the industry. He or she may have either a graduate or apprentice background and be working in any position and at any level. Companies and universities can enter candidates who demonstrate a high level of practical skills and problem-solving and who have actively contributed to the business.

Entries should demonstrate their ability to problem-solve while working on a project which has taken place during the period 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Entry Criteria 

Please confirm that the entrant has been in the electronics industry for 5 years or less

Title of Award submission

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you/your nominee win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Show us the passion

Demonstrate how special, outstanding, remarkable you are/your nominee is.

What have you/your nominee done that is so out of the ordinary?

Tell us about your/your nominee’s aspirations to contribute to the industry or expectations for future success.

Overall, show us what makes this person stand out from the rest.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Summary of contribution

Be clear and concise. Qualify all claims and assertions’ about the nominee.

(a) technical and/or business skills

(b) details of commercial success or leadership

(c) contributions to the community

(d) other professional credentials and achievements

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Headshot

If possible, please provide a headshot of the entrant. This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300.

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Entrepreneurial Star (under 35)

Electronics Weekly is looking for talented young electronics entrepreneurs* (under 35 years of age) who have started a business or spun out a business unit from a company or university. Entrants may be solo or partners must have identified a gap in the market and demonstrate how he or she has met this need with one or more innovative products based on electronics design. In addition to innovative business ideas, we want to hear about entrepreneurial credentials such as bold but sound business practices and a drive to grow the company.

To be eligible for this award, the submission must relate to achievements made in the past 12 months (01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026).

* Business partnerships are eligible as long as one partner is 35 or under.

Entry Criteria

Name of Entrepreneur

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you/your nominee win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive Summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please summarise:

  • Describe one or more of the businesses you have created in the electronics sector.
  • What risks or opportunities did you take in establishing a particular business?
  • What activities did you undertake that distinguish you? This can be in terms of fundraising, promoting or growing your business.
  • What activities distinguish you in the broader marketplace and help to grow the business?

Show us the passion

Demonstrate how special, outstanding, remarkable you are/your nominee is.
 What have you/your nominee done that is so out of the ordinary? Tell us about your/your nominee’s aspirations to contribute to the industry or expectations for future success.

Overall, show us what makes this person stand out from the rest?

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Summary of contribution

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions. Please outline your/your nominee’s:

(a) technical and/or business skills

(b) details of commercial success or leadership

(c) contributions to the community

(d) other professional credentials and achievements This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Headshot

If possible, please provide a headshot of the entrant. This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300.

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist. Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

The Futurist Award

Reflecting the changes in our industry, this award is open to design projects and products for use in new and emerging applications e.g., AI, VR/AR, robotics/humanoids, mobility, health, leisure, wearable, printed and flexible electronics. We are particularly interested in the capabilities that a design brings to the end user, for example in enhancing mobility, meeting educational needs or supporting neurodiversity.

*Entries are NOT invited for this award.
This category is now closed

EW BrightSparks 2026

We are looking for young engineers who are already making a difference in the first years of their careers, or those who are still studying but show promise to become the future innovators and leaders in electronics. In addition to outstanding electronics engineering skills, BrightSparks demonstrate an enthusiasm to innovate and share their skills, ideas and enthusiasm for STEM with others in and out of the workplace. 

The nominee must be between 18-30 years of age and working or studying in the UK.

This year, we are particularly interested to hear from those who have:

  • Applied electronics know-how in the field of sustainability and the environment
  • Started their own business
  • Participated in STEM activities to spread knowledge, information and understanding

The nominee must be between 18-30 years of age and working or studying in the UK.

RF/Wireless Product of the Year

*NEW*

An award for a digital, analogue or mixed signal semiconductor, component or sub-assembly that enriches a product’s RF/wireless capabilities. Products can be used in a variety of applications, from comms to medical/wellness and integrated into boards or SoCs. Extra credit will be given for an entry which creates a new product category by virtue of its enhanced RF or wireless performance.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2026 – 31 May 2026.

Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions

Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.
2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative is the design, the component parts or the technology used in the product?
3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products?

Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

1. What has the product helped your customers to achieve?
2. What additional applications or markets might this product open-up?
This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?
B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?
C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?
D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?
E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners, and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture is worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory, but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist.

Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.

Automation Product of the Year

*NEW *

This category recognises robotics and automation systems and their component parts which have accelerated automated operations. Components such as sensors as well as cameras, vision systems, motion systems, motors and processors that enhance operation will be eligible. Judges will be looking for evidence of how the entry contributes to enhanced, energy-efficient operation in intelligent automated or robotic systems.

To be eligible for this award, products must have been completed between 01 June 2025 – 31 May 2026

Entry criteria

Name of Product

If your entry is successful, this title will be used to promote your entry.

Why should you win?

In no more than 100 words, please tell our judges why your entry should win this year.

Executive summary

Be clear, concise, and accurate, and qualify all claims and assertions

Please summarise:

1. What the product is and what it does.
2. Evidence of innovation: how innovative is the design, the component parts or the technology used in the product?
3. How does the product address its intended application better than incumbent products?

Please include performance parameters, in number form where possible.

This statement has a limit of 750 words.

Impact of the product

Please state the impact this product has had, be sure to include:

  • What specific area of neurodiverse needs does the product address?
  • How does the product help those neurodiverse users?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Green and sustainability credentials

Please provide summary evidence of your green credentials and sustainability efforts:

A) Recycling: as a business, do you ensure to maximise your recycling efforts, and do you use already recycled materials in your products?
B) Environmental impact: Do you analyse the end-to-end environmental impact of your products?
C) Your suppliers: Do you conduct supplier audits to ensure your suppliers are taking environmental (as well as ethical) measures to reduce CO2 emissions?
D) Accreditation: If applicable, please list any accreditations you have achieved such as being Energy Star compliant, achieving ISO 14001 or IPEAT certification for any of your products. If no, what are your plans for the future?
E) Additional green credentials: Anything else you wish to highlight?

This statement has a limit of 500 words.

Supporting files and statements

Testimonials

You should obtain your testimonials from clients, partners, and industry figures, rather than employees of your organisation. There is no word limit for this information, so please provide multiple, in-depth statements to strengthen your submission.

Supporting materials

Uploading supporting material is optional and at your own discretion. As a minimum, we recommend uploading images and, if appropriate, financial figures to strengthen your submitted statements. Judges are not required to score supporting material but can use supporting material as evidence to support a claim. For this reason, please ensure all important statements are included in the main body of your awards submission - do not rely on the supporting materials section alone to evidence your entry.

Please upload all materials as a single zipped file containing no more than 3 documents.

Video link

If a picture is worth a thousand words, think what a video can do! This is not mandatory, but we strongly recommend providing a video link to show the judges a visual of your entry. Please do not exceed a time limit of 5 minutes.

Company logo

This should be supplied in colour as a vector eps file. We recommend a dpi of at least 300. If your entry is successful, we will use this logo to promote you as a finalist on our website.

Supporting image

Please provide a JPEG or PNG image that best supports your entry (eg. product, building or team image).

Promotional summary

Please provide a short summary, in no more than 50 words, of your entry. This may appear in the printed event guide and in any relevant marketing communications about the awards should you make the shortlist.

Please note that we reserve the right to edit this summary for consistency and publishing reasons.