Past Competitions

More than 600 startups, scale-ups, and techpreneurs worldwide submitted their solutions in the Innovation World Cup®, the international award and catalyst for future innovations in the Internet of Things, Wearable Technologies and DeepTech. Each submission was evaluated by an international jury board, considering factors such as innovation, technological feasibility, marketing and go-to-market approach, time to market, commercial potential, and sustainability. A panel of judges selected Top 10 wearables startups to pitch at the 50th WT | Wearable Technologies Conference US on September 3rd for the official WT Innovation World Cup® 2024 Pitch & Award ceremony. We are thrilled to announce that the following companies have been honored as the TOP 3 Wearable Techpreneurs of 2024: Healthsign, Reminded & UpLYFT. These TOP 3 Wearable Techpreneurs of 2024 will now join the Innovation World Cup® Hall of Fame and will be promoted by the Innovation World Cup®, WT | Wearable Technologies, and the IWC Series community partners worldwide.

Innovation World Cup® Series and HANNOVER MESSE joined forces to award outstanding techpreneurs in the Industrial, Energy, Mobility, and Robotics categories, the EBV Innovation Hero powerd by EBV Elektronik and the ST Industrial Innovation Challenge powered by STMicroelectronics. The TOP 18 TECHPRENEURS of 2024 showcased their innovative solutions during the grand finals at Hannover Messe 2024 on the Industry 4.0 Conference stage on April 24, 2024. The esteemed panel of judges, comprised of senior figures from industry leaders such as STMicroelectronics, Siemens, Würth Elektronik, EBV Elektronik, HTGF, CSEM, VDMA , Bosch Rexroth and Itonics witnessed the unveiling of the brightest stars in the industrial world. The expert jury announced the winners in each category: Industrial: FaradaIC Sensors GmbH, Energy: Circu Li-ion, Mobility: Miromico, Robotics: HyLight, EBV Innovation Hero: Allye Energy, ST Industrial Innovation Challenge: Viezo. The Innovation World Cup® Series stands as the foremost open innovation platform globally, fostering groundbreaking innovations and facilitating connections between techpreneurs and international corporations.

More than 600 startups, scale-ups, and techpreneurs worldwide submitted their solutions in the Innovation World Cup®, the international award and catalyst for future innovations in the Internet of Things, Wearable Technologies and DeepTech. Each submission was evaluated by an international jury board, considering factors such as innovation, technological feasibility, marketing and go-to-market approach, time to market, commercial potential, and sustainability. A panel of judges selected Top 20 wearables startups to pitch at the 46th WT | Wearable Technologies Conference EUROPE on April 16th and 17th, 2024, for the official WT Innovation World Cup® 2024 Pitch & Award ceremony. We are thrilled to announce that the following companies have been honored as the TOP 3 Wearable Techpreneurs of 2024: advosense, FradaIC Sensors & BioCam. These TOP 3 Wearable Techpreneurs of 2024 will now join the Innovation World Cup® Hall of Fame and will be promoted by the Innovation World Cup®, WT | Wearable Technologies, and the IWC Series community partners worldwide.

Football Docs Innovation World Cup, powered by Fútbol Doctors Network (FDN), brings together distinguished doctors from top football clubs, including AC Milan, AS Monaco, Manchester United FC, and more, and drives a unique initiative aimed at optimizing player performance, well-being, and injury prevention. FDN in partnership with the Innovation World Cup strives to optimize all aspects of player care by providing unrivaled access to the leading minds in the field. The Football Docs Innovation World Cup®, powered by Fútbol Doctors Network (FDN), has concluded with the announcement of its top 3 winners. The official pitch and award ceremony took place at the International Summit on Elite Sports Medicine in Madrid on March 20th-21st. Among the top 11 exceptional innovators who presented their solutions, the top three winners were selected by esteemed doctors from leading football clubs: 1st Place: SKILLCOURT GmbH, 2nd Place: 1080Motion, 3rd Place: ScribePro.

The pitch and award ceremony held on November 28th at BIM World MUNICH featured the Top 40 Smart Building/Smart Construction Innovators of 2023, chosen from a pool of more than 150 solutions representing over 50 countries. Following these pitches, a live jury evaluated innovations based on innovation level, go-to-market approach, commercial potential, and sustainability, ultimately announcing the Top 8 Smart Building/Smart Construction companies: COBOD International, ecoworks, Hysopt, GeoVisual Interactive, SE3 Labs ,minimass, Sodex Innovations and BeiT. These Top 8 companies then competed in the Grand Pitch & Award Ceremony at the Congress State at BIM World MUNICH on 29th of November, undergoing the same criteria-based evaluation by a live jury. The winners of the 6th Smart Building/Smart Construction Innovation World Cup were then selected. 1st place: Sodex Innovations from Austria, 2nd place: minimass from UK, 3rd place: ecoworks from Germany.

The pitch and award ceremony of the 12th MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION was hosted at the 10th MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM, the worldwide hub for health innovations, on Tuesday, 14th of November. More than +280 start-ups from across 50 countries submitted their solutions in AI in healthcare, health apps, lab diagnostics, and robotics. Evaluating innovation, go-to-market strategy, commercial potential, and sustainability, the live expert jury board has made its selection for the Top 3 Medical Start-Ups of 2023: 1st place: MeMed Diagnostics, 2nd place: Sidekick Health, 3rd place: ROPCA. These victorious startups of the 12th MEDICA Start-Up COMPETITION have now joined the esteemed MEDICA ecosystem, where they will have the privilege of networking with eminent global health tech experts, investors, and business partners from over 170 countries. Additionally, they will be awarded cash prizes of up to 3,500 EUR, along with a comprehensive package of free marketing and promotional activities through MEDICA, propelling the success of the Top 3 Medical Start-Ups of 2023 even further.

With over 300 submissions from across 50 nations, in the categories smart health devices, medical wearables, digital biomarkers, electroceuticals, intelligent patches, and more, the Top 12 Health Techpreneurs of 2023, selected by international jury experts, showcased their innovative solutions at the final pitch and award ceremony of the 15th Healthcare Innovation World Cup on November 13th, hosted at MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM, the innovation spot at MEDICA. Following live pitches and expert jury evaluation focused on innovation, go-to-market strategy, commercial potential, and sustainability, the Top 3 Health Techpreneurs of 2023: 1st place: DiaMonTech AG, 2nd place: VentriJect & 3rd place: Medituner. As the Top 3 of the 15th Healthcare Innovation World Cup®, these exceptional innovators will now earn a place in the prestigious Innovation World Cup® Hall of Fame. Their journey comes with a wealth of advantages within the world’s foremost health tech ecosystem of MEDICA and the Innovation World Cup® Series. This includes 1-1 introductions to investors and corporate partners, free marketing packages, technical guidance, media exposure, and opportunities to speak at major international tech events.

More than 600 startups, scale-ups, and ground-breaking tech founders and SMEs worldwide submitted their solutions in the Innovation World Cup®, the catalyst of future and sustainable innovations in the Internet of Things and Wearable Technologies. An international panel of judges selected a europe’s Top12 wearables startups gathered at the 43rd WT | Wearable Technologies Conference EUROPE on April 24th, 2023, for the official WT Innovation World Cup® 2023 Pitch & Award ceremony.The winners were selected based on their level of innovation, technology, market approach, and sustainability impact. We are delighted to announce that the following companies were recognized as the TOP3 Wearable Techpreneurs of 2023: machineMD, RoboMed & Noxon. The TOP3 Wearable Techpreneurs 2023 will now officially be part of the prestigious Innovation World Cup® Hall of Fame and will be promoted by the Innovation World Cup®, WT | Wearable Technologies, along with the IWC Series community partners worldwide. What is more, they will receive significant support from global leading tech experts, potential investors and business partners to advance their innovative solutions in the market.

More than two hundred start-ups, scale-ups and ground-breaking SMEs from +40 nations worldwide entered their software and IoT solutions & services in the 4rd Smart Building / Smart Construction Innovation World Cup®. They demonstrated how they are advancing the industry across the Construction, Real Estate, Smart City & Environment sectors, and what the future of the industry´s supply chain, infrastructure, workers´ safety looks like. The jury experts selected the best 48 Smart Building / Smart Construction Innovators 2022 who pitched their solution live on stage at BIM Town, the Innovation hot spot at BIM World Munich 2022. The Top8 had the chance to pitch a second time at the main stage. Congrates to the winner of the 5th Smart Building / Smart Construction Innovation World Cup®: Carbon Limit, a specialized sound simulation and software for designing buildings from Iceland.

The 11th MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION received over 240 submissions from over 42 countries. Healthcare start-ups entered their solutions in AI in healthcare, health apps, robotics, lab diagnostics and others. The competition aims to take the connected medical innovations to an advanced level, by easing the work of doctors with mass healthcare data collection, real-time vital signs monitoring, omni-evaluation with in-house and remote patients around the globe. TOP12 Medical Start-Ups were selected by international jury experts for the finals at the MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM, the innovation hotspot at MEDICA 2022. Finally, the TOP3 medical innovators were awarded: 1st Place – Idoven - the platform for ECG analysis Willem (Spain), 2nd place: AlgoDx – NAVOY® Sepsis (Sweden) and 3rd place: Reactive Robotics – Vemotion (Germany). The TOP3 Medical Start-ups 2022 are now officially part of the MEDICA ecosystem of healthcare experts, companies and investors coming from over 170 countries, as well as of the Innovation World Cup Series HALL OF FAME. Additionally, they received cash prizes worth up to 3.500 Euro and a package of free marketing and promotion activities in the MEDICA network. All innovators benefited from the world's no. 1 medical fair and target-oriented dialogues with international potential business partners.

More than 290 submissions from over 54 countries of start-ups, scale-ups and innovative SMEs worldwide submitted their IoMT solutions to the 14th Healthcare Innovation World Cup®, from smart connected devices to wearables, intelligent patches and smart implants. Diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention will be revolutionized by the TOP12 Internet of Medical Things Techpreneuers 2021 selected by international jury experts for the finals in November 2022 at the MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM, the innovation hotspot at MEDICA. After an exciting pitch session, Viewmind with their Digital Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Diseases Management from Luxembourg was named the new Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) superstars! Not only did they imprint their victories on the Innovation World Cup®'s Hall of Fame, but also benefit from the world's most prominent network of medtech experts and corporates to scale up their soltuions more successfully.

More than 400 start-ups, scale-ups and ground-breaking tech founders and SMEs worldwide entered their IoT solutions in the 13th IOT/WT Innovation World Cup®, the catalyst of future and sustainable innovations in the Internet of Things. They demonstrated how they are advancing industrial, city, energy&safety and agriculture industries. An international panel of judges selected the most innovative Internet of Things game changers 2022, who raised above the others for the level of innovation, the technology and the market approach of their disruptive solutions. The TOP15 category innovators as well as the finalists of special prizes ST INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION Challenge by STMicroelectronics and the , EBV INNOVATION HERO by EBV Elektronik pitched their solutions live at the official Pitch and Award Ceremonies on the stage of the industry most prominent tech events: Hannover Messe Digital 2022 . The world´s TOP 6 Internet of Things Innovators 2022 are: ST Industrial Innovation Challenge: Altered Carbon (UK), Industrial: XELA Robotics (Germany), Smart City: Vourity (Sweden), Agriculture: Soil Scout (Finland), Energy&Safety: Serinus Labs (US), EBV IOT HERO, Ladon Energy (Germany) won a 10,000 EUR cash prize).

More than one hundred fifty start-ups, scale-ups and ground-breaking SMEs from +40 nations worldwide entered their software and IoT solutions & services in the 4rd Smart Building / Smart Construction Innovation World Cup®. They demonstrated how they are advancing the industry across the Construction, Real Estate, Smart City & Environment sectors, and what the future of the industry´s supply chain, infrastructure, workers´ safety looks like. The jury experts selected the TOP12 Smart Building / Smart Construction Innovators 2021 who pitched their solution live on stage at BIM World Munich 2021. Congrates to the winner of the 4th Smart Building / Smart Construction Innovation World Cup®: Treble Technologies, a specialized sound simulation and software for designing buildings from Iceland.

The 10th MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION received over 250 submissions from over 45 countries. Healthcare start-ups entered their solutions in AI in healthcare, health apps, robotics, and others. The competition aims to take the connected medical innovations to an advanced level, by easing the work of doctors with mass healthcare data collection, real-time vital signs monitoring, omni-evaluation with in-house and remote patients around the globe. TOP12 Medical Start-Ups were selected by international jury experts for the finals at the MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM, the innovation hotspot at MEDICA 2021. Finally, the TOP3 medical innovators were awarded: 1st place: Phonolyser– Smart heart analyser (Finland), 2nd place: Invirto by Sympatient– App-based psychotherapy, mobile VR & telehealth treatment for anxiety (Germany) and 3rd place: Virtonomy– Data driven clinical trials on virtual patients (Germany). The TOP3 Medical Start-ups 2021 are now officially part of the MEDICA ecosystem of healthcare experts, companies and investors coming from over 170 countries, as well as of the Innovation World Cup Series HALL OF FAME. Additionally, they received cash prizes worth up to 3.500 Euro and a package of free marketing and promotion activities in the MEDICA network. All innovators benefited from the world's no. 1 medical fair and target-oriented dialogues with international potential business partners.

More than 290 submissions from over 60 countries of start-ups, scale-ups and innovative SMEs worldwide submitted their IoMT solutions to the 13th Healthcare Innovation World Cup®, from smart connected devices to wearables, intelligent patches and smart implants. Diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention will be revolutionized by the TOP12 Internet of Medical Things Techpreneuers 2021 selected by international jury experts for the finals in November 2021 at the MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM, the innovation hotspot at MEDICA. After an exciting pitch session, EYEMATE by Implandata Ophthalmic Products – Remote glaucoma care system from Germany was named the new Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) superstars! Not only did they imprint their victories on the Innovation World Cup®'s Hall of Fame, but also benefit from the world's most prominent network of medtech experts and corporates to scale up their soltuions more successfully.

More than six hundred start-ups, scale-ups and ground-breaking tech founders and SMEs worldwide entered their IoT solutions in the 12th IOT/WT Innovation World Cup®, the catalyst of future and sustainable innovations in the Internet of Things. They demonstrated how they are advancing industrial IoT (Industry 4.0), smart cities, transport & logistics, wearable healthcare, sports & lifestyle and agriculture industries. An international panel of judges selected the most innovative Internet of Things game changers 2021, who raised above the others for the level of innovation, the technology and the market approach of their disruptive solutions. The 31 TOP category innovators as well as the finalists of special prizes STWIN Challenge by STMicroelectronics, rapidM2M Challenge by Microtronics, Smart Clothing by AiQ, EBV IOT HERO by EBV Elektronik pitched their solutions live at the official Pitch and Award Ceremonies on the virtual stage of the industry most prominent tech events: Hannover Messe Digital Edition 2021 and 39th WT|Wearable Technologies Conference EUROPE. The world´s TOP 5 Internet of Things Innovators 2021 are: STWIN Challenge: Neuron Soundware (Czech Republic), Industrial: Canaria Technologies (Australia), Smart City & Transport: BeFC (France), Agriculture: 3Bee (Italy), RapidM2M Challenge: Nolta Nova GmbH & Co KG (Germany). The world´s TOP5 Wearable Innovators 2021 and EBV IOT HERO 2021 are: AiQ Smart Clothing Challenge: Articulate Labs (United States), EBV IOT HERO winning a 10,000 EUR cash prize: BeFC (France), Sports & Lifestyle: WearWorks (United States), Healthcare: Janitri (India) and PKVitality (France).

More than one hundred start-ups, scale-ups and ground-breaking SMEs worldwide entered their software and IoT solutions & services in the 3rd Smart Building Smart Construction Innovation World Cup®. They demonstrated how they are advancing the industry across the Construction, Real Estate, Smart City & Environment sectors, and what the future of the industry´s supply chain, infrastructure, workers´ safety looks like. The jury experts selected the TOP10 Smart Building Smart Construction Innovators 2020 who pitched their solution live on the vrtual stage of BIM World Munich Digital 2020. The winner of the 3rd Smart Building SMart Construction Innovation World Cup was announced: PURE Applikationen GmbH & Co.KG (Germany) with their innovative solution MR+MRS HOMES – 3D house configurator. A great applause to the runner-ups aurivus GmbH (Germany), Evercam Ltd (Ireland). Well-done to all the other innovators Capmo GmbH, Flexxter GmbH, KEWAZO GmbH, Recon Dynamics, Ripples IoT Pte Ltd., Serthoro GmbH and Singular AG.

The 9th MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION (until 2019: MEDICA App COMPETITION) received over a hundred of submissions from 33 nations. Healthcare start-ups entered their solutions in AI in healthcare, diagnostics, health apps and robotics. The competition aims to take the connected medical innovations to an advanced level, by easing the work of doctors with mass healthcare data collection, real-time vital signs monitoring, omni-evaluation with in-house and remote patients around the globe. TOP12 Medical Start-Ups were selected by international jury experts for the finals at the MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM, the innovation hotspot at virtual.MEDICA 2020. Finally, the top3 medical innovators were awarded: 1st place Radiobotics (Denmark), 2nd place: BeFC (France), 3rd place: ETH Zürich/MY LEG. The TOP3 Medical Start-ups 2020 are now officially part of the MEDICA ecosystem of healthcare experts, companies and investors coming from over 170 countries, as well as of the Innovation World Cup Series HALL OF FAME. Additionally, they received cash prizes worth up to 3.500 Euro and a package of free marketing and promotion activities in the MEDICA network. All innovators benefited from the world's no. 1 medical fair and target-oriented dialogues with international potential business partners.

Over 140 start-ups, scale-ups and innovative SMEs worldwide submitted their IoMT solutions to the 12th Healthcare Innovation World Cup®, from smart connected devices to wearables, intelligent patches and smart implants. Diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention will be revolutionized by the TOP12 Internet of Medical Things Techpreneuers 2020 selected by international jury experts for the finals in November at the MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM, the innovation hotspot at virtual.MEDICA. After an exciting pitch session, BeFC (France), PKVitality (France) and IncontAlert (Germany) were named the new Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) superstars! Not only did they imprint their victories on the Innovation World Cup®'s Hall of Fame, but also benefit from the world's most prominent network of medtech experts and corporates to scale up their soltuions more successfully.

The 11th Healthcare Innovation World Cup® in frame of the Innovation World Cup® Series consolidated its leading role in embracing the most excellent IoT healthcare solutions. International innovators from +45 nations joined the competition and only the best 16 were selected by the jury experts for the finals on November 18th at MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM, the melting pot for digital healthcare at MEDICA, Düsseldorf. After an exciting pitch session, Medicsen (Spain), MJN Seras (Spain) and Kamedi (Italy) were named the new Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) superstars! Not only did they imprint their victories on the Innovation World Cup®'s Hall of Fame, but also benefit from the world's most prominent network of medtech experts and corporates to scale up their soltuions more successfully.

The MEDICA App COMPETITION powered by Roche & Bayer G4A is unique of its kind in searching for the best app- and platform-based medical solutions. The 8th edition was a blast, with the official Pitch & Award Ceremony taking place at the 6th MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM, the hotspot for digital healthcare in MEDICA, Düsseldorf on 19th November 2019. 15 finalists from all continents impressed the jury with their presentations and product demonstration live on stage. Finally, the top3 winners were announced: (1) SyNphNe (Singapore) with a connected wearable solution that trains brain and muscle for persons with disability after stroke or injury, or due to aging. (2) DeePathology.ai (Israel) with a customized AI solution for digital pathology. (3) Midge Medical (Germany) with a device and app for simplified blood extraction and testing. The 8th MEDICA App COMPETITION fulfilled its mission to drive the development of innovations, ensured the top solutions enter the daily use of patients, doctors and hospitals. Additionally, the participants benefited from the world's no. 1 medical fair and target-oriented dialogues with international potential business partners.

The TECH START-UP 2019 AWARD powered by Würth Elektronik introduced the top 12 future tech superstars. The pitch and award ceremony took place at StartupCon, for the first time co-hosted with DIGITAL X in Cologne. The jury on board from Würth Elektronik, EBV Elektronik, Microtronics, VARTA Microbattery, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Coparion had a challenging task to select the top 3 winners from industrial, city, healthcare, transport, sports & lifestyle, and agriculture industries. The competition was a blast and the winners benefited greatly from the extended business network and supports from StartupCon, Innovation World Cup® Series and international leading corporate partners.

The Smart Territory Digital Challenges 2019 first edition supported by BIM World Paris was a great playground for start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs who aimed to take the lead in smart construction, smart building and innovative urban planning. The contestants could demonstrate how they were shaping the future of the industry and making our territories smart across four different categories: Construction | Real Estate | Smart City | and Environment. Remarkable start-ups gathered on the stage of the BIM World Paris on April 2nd, 2019 to live pitch their cutting-edge solutions to the board of jurors and exciting audiences. The winner won the race with an exclusive voucher to the upcoming BIM World Munich, the leading event in Europe for the digital transformation of the industry.

The 10th IoT/WT Innovation World Cup® 2018/2019 powered by STMicroelectronics, Gore, EBV Elektronik, Gemalto, Würth Elektronik, AiQ Smart Clothing, VARTA Microbattery, Microtronics, and Cicor Group was an extraordinary edition. The race included the categories: Industrial | Healthcare | Transport | Lifestyle | Retail | Home | City | Agriculture | Sports & Fitness | and Gaming. Additionally, the innovators had the chance to run for five special prizes supported by the competition’s partners. They were: “Trusted Connectivity Award” powered by Gemalto, “EBV IoT Hero” powered by EBV Elektronik, “Smart Clothing Special Prize” powered by AiQ Smart Clothing, “Gore Innovation Center Prize” powered by Gore, and "BIM/Smart Construction Award" powered by BIM World. The pitch and award ceremonies took place at the 33rd WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2019 in Munich on February 5th-6th, 2019, and in Barcelona at the 4YFN/Mobile World Congress 2019 on February 26th, 2019. The finalists pitched their solutions on stage with live evaluation by a board of international tech experts.

The IoT/WT Innovation World Cup® 2017/2018 powered by STMicroelectronics, EBV Elektronik, LoRa Alliance™, Geeny by Telefónica NEXT, Gemalto, AiQ Smart Clothing, VARTA Microbattery, and Cicor Group, received a huge amount of attention from the community of IoT and Wearable Techs. Innovative Wearable Techs and IoT Finalists were celebrated in the Pitch & Award Ceremonies at the BIM World Munich 2018, the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2018 in Munich (January) and at the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona (February) respectively. The contestants from all over the world who took part in the IoT/WT Innovation World Cup® 2017/2018 could present their solutions across the City | Retail | Home | Lifestyle | Healthcare | Industrial | Transport | Sports & Fitness | and Gaming. In addition, the special prizes powered by the competitions’ partners: "AiQ Smart Clothing Challenge" by AiQ Smart Clothing, "EBV IoT Hero" by EBV Elektronik, "Geeny Connected Living Challenge" by Geeny, "LoRaWAN™ Challenge" by LoRa Alliance™, "Gemalto Security Award" by Gemalto were also successfully awarded.

The Tech Start-Up 2018 powered by StartupCon was a celebration for the most outstanding tech start-ups selected by an international jury of experts according to the degree of innovation, market readiness and technological feasibility. The competition took place in Cologne's LANXESS arena at Start-Up innovation summit, the largest start-up conference in Germany on September 18th-19th, 2018. The emerging techpreneurs shocked the sophisticated audience with their exceptional solutions. They took the absolute chance to present promising business concepts to tech experts, investors and join a gigantic network meeting of the leading innovators.

The IoT/M2M Innovation World Cup® 2016/2017 was a blast! The competition covered five categories namely Smart City | Industrial | Automotive | Transport, Logistics & Surveillance | and Healthcare. Beyond that, the special prize "Smart Building & Home Automation" powered by Bosch and the “Security Award” powered by Gemalto were awarded. The Pitch and Award Ceremony was hosted by our official Spanish partner ACCIO – Government of Catalunya inside the Mobile World Congress 2017 – the largest gathering for the mobile industry in Barcelona. Finalists took the stage to pitch their solutions to the mass audience of investors, media, executives and Mobile World Congress attendees. The trophies were presented to the finalists by representatives of the IoT/M2M Innovation World Cup® 2016/17 main partners: Remi De-Fouchier and Manfred Kube of Gemalto, as well as Martin Gebler from Bosch Group.

WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup® 2016/2017 powered by our partners STMicroelectronics, AiQ Smart Clothing, VARTA Microbattery and Cicor is the worldwide leading innovation competition in the area of wearable technologies. With prizes worth over $300,000, the competition was designed to inspire and stimulate excellent next-generation solutions with the potential of becoming real marketable products. This edition celebrated the best solutions in the categories Sports & Fitness | Healthcare & Wellness | Safety & Security | Gaming & Lifestyle, and the special prize "Smart Clothing & Smart Jewelry" powered by AiQ Smart Clothing.

The Digital Marketing Innovation World Cup® 2016/2017 is the worldwide innovation competition connecting digital marketing with the Internet of Things. Contestants from all over the world were invited to submit innovative solutions in the areas of POS & Retail | Digital Signage & Outdoor Media” | Games & Events | Mobility & Transportation | and Smart Home & Tourism. The elevator pitch and official award ceremony took place at dmexco - the largest event for Digital Business, Marketing and Innovation - in Cologne on September 13th, 2017. The event featured on the Hall of Experience, in front of hundreds of international digital marketing influencers, experts, potential investors and members of the press.

The IoT/M2M Innovation World Cup® 2015/16 Pitch and Award Ceremony in Barcelona on February 24th, 2016 was a great success. Top companies were selected from a massive amount of submissions as the “IoT Heroes 2016” in the categories Connected Home | Smart City | Mobility | Security | and Healthcare. The trophies were handed over by the representatives of the IoT/ M2M Innovation World Cup® main partners: Gerhard Schedler from Swisscom, Joe Braga from Telit, Marc Naddell from MediaTek Labs, Matthias Dorsch from VARTA Microbattery and Alex Hansmann from Gemalto.

WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup® 2015/16 welcomed on stage the finalists to pitch their innovative products live at the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2016 Europe on January 26th in Munich. Disrupting techpreneurs from around the globe submitted their wearable solutions in the categories: Sports & Fitness | Healthcare & Wellness | Gaming & Lifestyle | Safety & Security | Smart Clothing | and Smart Jewelry of the world-leading competition for wearable tech. The representatives of the WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup® main partners Andrea Onetti (STMicroelectronics), Abbas Sumar (MediaTek Labs), Philipp Miehlich (VARTA Microbattery), Steve Huang (AiQ Smart Clothing), and Beat Marbacher (Cicor) handed the trophies to the top innovators with great honor. It was truly an innovation wild fire.

IOT/M2M Innovation World Cup® 2014/15 powered by partners Swisscom, Ericsson, Telit, Intel, Gemalto, and VARTA Microbattery welcomed ground-breaking solutions around the globe in the categories: Mobility | Industry 4.0 | Energy | Security | Healthcare | and Connected Home. The finalists and winners were awarded at the Mobile World Congress 2015, hosted by title sponsor Ericsson on March 3rd, 2015 in Barcelona. The official award ceremony and announcement of the top innovators took place at SWISSCOM M2M Day in Zurich, on March 12th, 2015.

WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup® 2014/15 was supported by partners STMicroelectronics, Intel, VARTA Microbattery, AiQ Smart Clothing, and C. Schneider. Innovative developers worldwide submitted their solutions in four categories and a special prize, namely: Sports & Fitness | Safety & Security | Healthcare & Wellness | Gaming & Lifestyle | and "Smart Clothing Special Prize" powered by AiQ Smart Clothing. The top “WT Innovator of the Year 14/15”, and the category and special prize winners were awarded at the biggest worldwide wearables conference, the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2015 Europe, on February 2nd, 2015 in Munich.

Cloud Innovation World Cup® 2014/2015 aimed to foster cutting-edge solutions and applications for cloud computing. Supported by EuroCloud, Google, CloudEO successfully found the winners for the award “Cloud Innovators of the Year 2015” in the categories: ICT Business Services | Industry 4.0 | Mobility | Smart Living and the special prize “GEO Award” powered by CloudEO. The award ceremony took place at Google´s Headquarters in New York City on July 8th, 2015 in front of an international audience and press representatives.

Cloud Innovation World Cup® 2013/2014 was powered by Allianz Digital Accelerator, CloudEO, Gemalto, EuroCloud, SIIA, and Cloud World Forum. The race addressed new application areas of cloud-based innovations for all relevant markets and industries, such as Smart Living | ICT Business Services | Mobility | Urban Infrastructure | and Industry 4.0. Additionally, the Cloud Innovation World Cup® partnered with CloudEO, an online collaboration platform to create, interpret, use, and market GEO content and services, for the “GEO Award” to seek solutions that integrated Geo-spatial information and provided additional benefit to the cloud based service offered. Furthermore, partner Allianz Digital Accelerator enriched the Cloud Innovation World Cup® 2013/2014 with the "Evolve Insurance Award". Allianz Digital Accelerator initiated the special prize to foster the development of smart wearable devices and cloud solutions that have an impact on safe living. The Cloud Innovation World Cup® "Innovators of the Year", as well as the winner of the "Evolve Insurance Award" were celebrated in June 2014 in London, during the Cloud World Forum.

M2M Challenge, the leading award in the field of machine-to-machine (M2M) and communications, was initiated in 2012 with partners Swisscom, Ericsson, Telit, VARTA Microbattery and Gemalto. Since the contest was first launched, hundreds of participants submitted their innovative solutions in the M2M field across the categories Mobility, Healthcare, Security and Consumer Electronics & more. The contest became a huge success, gathering the attention of important industry players such as Intel, Gemalto and MediaTek, which became partners of the open innovation platform. Since 2014, the M2M Challenge runs under the name IoT/M2M Innovation World Cup®, which is the leading innovation competition in the IoT/M2M field.

The WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup® 2013 was a great success. The competition brought up excellent wearable solutions in application to Sports & Fitness | Healthcare & Wellness | Security & Prevention | and Gaming & Lifestyle. Additionally, three special prizes namely: "Smart Clothing" powered by AiQ Smart Clothing, "blukii App 2.0" powered by C. Schneider, and "Phone as A Wearable Hub Award" powered by WT | Wearable Technologies Group were announced. The Wearable Technologies "Innovator of the Year 2013” was awarded with 5,000 USD cash prize at the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2014 Europe in Munich. Based on level of innovation, feasible chances for implementation and marketability, a board of international experts managed to call out the "superstars" of the Wearable Technologies. The winners benefited from a prizes worth 200,000 USD. Besides, all participants joined a worldwide network of tech investors, partners and potential customers. The WT | Wearable Innovation World Cup® powered by STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, VARTA Microbattery, AiQ Smart Clothing and C. Schneider, became no doubt the accelerator for numerous star-ups' on the way to lead the wearable technologies market.

The WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup 2011/2012 was powered by Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics and VARTA Microbattery. The competition saw the growth of Wearable Technologies as an enormous business potential and received innovative solutions to wearable devices in a wide range of sectors namely: Sports & Fitness | Healthcare & Wellness | Security & Prevention | and Gaming & Lifestyle. Solutions using wireless data transfer technology such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth®, ZigBee® and cellular were for the first time submitted to the exciting competitions. The WT Innovation World Cup was the tribute payer to the expanding market, as well as the accelerating platform for techpreneurs worldwide, who aimed to take the leads in Wearable Technologies.

The Bluetooth Innovation World Cup® 2011 recognized the third year of consecutive successes. The competition was powered by Texas Instruments (Title Sponsor), Freescale semiconductor, Ellisys (Preferred Technology Partners), Bluegiga, STMicroelectronics, Nordic Semiconductor and VARTA Microbattery (Sponsors). This special edition focused on ideas and prototypes, especially when the presentation of working prototypes would mean an idea was no longer a vision but reality. Bluetooth low energy technology was out there now, in the marketplace! The competition entries opened on May 1st, 2011 and since then, welcomed numerous of contestants around the globe. The submissions indicated the importance of applying Bluetooth low energy technology in Healthcare | Sports & Fitness | Automotive | Consumer Electronics | and Smart Home Markets. Contestants could additionally receive development kits supported by Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor to help further develop prototypes.

The second edition of the Bluetooth Innovation World Cup® 2010 was powered by Anritsu (Preferred Technology Partner), Nordic Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, Suunto and Texas Instruments. An increasing number of submissions to competition in three main areas of interests namely Sport & Fitness | Healthcare | and Home automation was recorded. It was incredible to realize how Bluetooth low energy was integrated into a diversity of innovative applications. More importantly, the Bluetooth Innovation World Cup® 2010, organized by Navispace AG for the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), was where innovators captured the outlook to their ideas and marketable products. The award ceremony successfully took place at ISPO in Munich.

The Bluetooth Innovation World Cup® 2009 was powered by Nokia (main sponsor), Freescale Semiconductor (Preferred Technology Partner), Brunel, Nordic Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments. The Bluetooth Innovation World Cup®, organized by Navispace AG for the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), received submissions from hundreds of forward-looking developers around the world. The ideas made use of the unique characteristics of Bluetooth low energy technology, such as very low power consumption, and the possibility of transforming entire industries with a simple, secure and super-efficient networking technology. The award was presented at ISPO, the world’s largest sporting goods trade show, on February 8th in Munich.

The Galileo Masters / European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) 2004–2010 was supported by partners: Anwendungszentrum Oberpfaffenhofen, Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), European Space Agency (ESA), Navteq, and T-Systems. The ESNC, the world´s largest and most successful innovation competition for satellite navigation, was set up and organized by Navispace AG from 2004-2010. During this period, a whole ecosystem of around 20 international regions and 180 experts were set up. Since its inception, thousands of participants joined the competition. The contest is today the leading global network in the segment of global navigation systems, looking for new products, services and innovative businesses in the satellite navigation sector to encourage the use of satellite navigation in people´s everyday life.