Nominations
The Edison Awards honor the ideas shaping what’s next and the companies bringing them to life. Submit your nomination and position your innovation for global recognition, industry validation, and meaningful visibility.
The next nomination season will run from September to December 2026. To qualify for a 2027 Edison Award, a new innovation must be launched and available to end users between January 2025 and January 2027.
Nominees complete an online form with details about their new product or service, including a description of the innovation, a photo, supporting links, and short videos.
You’ll also answer a few questions tied to our three judging criteria, helping our panel evaluate your innovation clearly and fairly.
A nomination fee is required for eligibility. Details about the 2027 season will be released closer to the opening date.
To be considered, nominees complete an online form with details about their new product or service, including a description of the innovation, a photo, supporting links, and short videos.
You’ll also answer a few questions tied to our three judging criteria, helping our panel evaluate your innovation clearly and fairly.
To qualify, the new innovation must be launched and available to end users between January 2024 and January 2026.
A nomination fee is required for eligibility. The deadline to submit nominations has been extended to November 23, 2025.
If you have a new product or service eligible for a nomination, let us know! We’d love to talk to you and keep you informed of important dates.
The guide is a helpful resource to assist in filling out your 2026 Edison Awards nomination.
To be considered, nominees complete an online form with details about their new product or service, including a description of the innovation, a photo, supporting links, and short videos.
You’ll also answer a few questions tied to our three judging criteria, helping our panel evaluate your innovation clearly and fairly.
To qualify, the new innovation must be launched and available to end users between January 2024 and January 2026.
A nomination fee is required for eligibility. The deadline to submit nominations has been extended to November 23, 2025.
The guide is a helpful resource to assist in filling out your 2026 Edison Awards nomination.
John Chambers, Executive Chairman, Cisco Systems, Inc.
2016 Edison Achievement Award Honoree
In alignment with Edison’s work, the Edison Awards takes an interest in the overall method and development of the opportunity’s concept. Use this space to convey how the concept came to life! What factors, collaborations, iteration, prototyping contributed to the conception and development of your innovation as it progressed from genesis to market availability?
This is your elevator pitch—concisely provide evidence for how your new product/service is unique and benefits consumers. Tell the story of how yournew solution is a gamechanger with distinct benefits over competitors, or how your new solution is THE first-of-its-kind solution to exceed market demand or create a new market. Since value was a primary motivation in Edison’s own innovation work, use this section to explain how your new product or service is different than what’s in the market today.
Edison devoutly believed that true innovation not only demonstrated commercial success but also impacted the world in meaningful ways. Describe the immediate impact your innovation has made on the environment or community served, and predict its long-term effect on society as a whole. Winning nominations articulate a vision, establish benefits beyond simply economic, and could be a catalyst for future innovations. How is your new product or service having an impact on the world at large?
Honors products and services that improve everyday life, enhance user experiences, and offer greater accessibility, affordability, and sustainability across consumer goods. Examples include residential lighting, fashion innovations, personal care products, smart home solutions, connected appliances, and consumer electronics which are increasingly enriched by AI to personalize and automate everyday experiences.These solutions continue Edison’s legacy of practical, people-centered innovation.
Honors innovations that sustain the essential systems modern society relies on, including energy grids, telecommunications, emergency response, and urban infrastructure. These solutions help ensure safety, continuity, and resilience in the face of disruption. Inspired by Edison’s work in electrification and large-scale systems, this category recognizes technologies that keep society running.
Any individual, inventor, team, company, or organization involved in product or service innovation may submit a nomination. Most entries are self-nominations, and we encourage you to put forward your own work as it’s the best way to ensure your innovation receives the attention it deserves. Marketing professionals and PR agencies are also welcome to nominate on behalf of their clients.
Past winners have included Fortune 500s, small start-ups, and everything in between. Our program is open to individuals, companies, and organizations of all sizes. If you’ve introduced an innovative product, service, or process that meets the eligibility timeframe, you are welcome to submit.
Absolutely. Many nominees submit multiple entries across different categories. Each entry must be submitted separately with its own nomination form and fee.
To qualify for a 2027 Edison Award, a new product or service must be launched and available to end users between January 2025 and January
2027.
Once nominations are opened, complete the online nomination form and submit it, along with the appropriate entry fee, before the deadline.
Nominees will be asked to provide information about the product or service being nominated, including the company and/or product website address, a photo of the entry, videos, and social media links.
A number of questions about how the entry satisfies the three criteria will help our judging body evaluate the nomination.
Yes, there is a one-time entry fee. Please download our nomination guide during the open season for specific information on pricing and deadlines.
The Edison Awards Steering Committee and a panel of industry Expert Reviewers review all nominations and develop a list of finalists within each category. Our Panel of Judges is composed of more than 3,000 senior business executives, academics, past Edison Award winners, marketing professionals, scientists, and engineers. This panel reviews the finalists and selects the Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners based on three criteria: Concept, Value, and Impact.
The judging process is confidential and impartial, with scores averaged across multiple evaluators to ensure fairness.
Finalists and winners are contacted directly by our team prior to the public announcement. We also share results via press releases, our website, email newsletters, and social media channels.
Winners who register for the Awards Gala before the deadline (and who attend the event in person) receive a prestigious trophy honoring their achievement. All winners have the opportunity to license and showcase the official winner’s seal in their marketing and communications. Every winner is included in press releases, media campaigns, and social media features, and their accomplishments are celebrated both at the ceremony and on our website. Most importantly, winners gain long-term visibility as part of our community of innovators, ensuring their impact continues to be recognized long after the awards are announced.
Winners and finalists are encouraged to license the Edison Awards seal and share their achievement in press releases, on social media, and in marketing initiatives. A press kit is provided to all finalists. Additional promotional opportunities include attending the event to network and demo your product, and collaborating with the Edison Awards team on videos, social media posts, newsletter features, blog posts, and more.
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