The Misties Awards 2024

MistyWest and SOLIDWORKS are pleased to be hosting the 3rd annual Misties Awards, recognizing inventors, hackers, engineers, product designers, and business leaders who are bringing great technological advances to the world.

We received hundreds of nominations for individuals who are commercializing intelligent and connected devices that are helping advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and our judging panel has down-selected them to the Top 20 winners for 2024.

Join us for the Misties virtual awards ceremony, where we’re hosting a 30 minute panel discussion with leading experts in AI and hardware and announcing this year's Top 20 winners. Attendees can join the live chat with our winners and be the first to hear about their upcoming projects.

But that's not all...

Following the virtual awards ceremony broadcast, we'll have a 45 minute virtual happy hour where all attendees are welcome to join us on Zoom for breakout rooms with Misties judges, winners and semi-finalists, allowing more chances for meaningful connections. If you want to attend the happy hour, you gotta register on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link!

Panel Discussion

Check back in June for details on the panel discussion.

Panelists

TBA

Our Sponsors

The Misties Awards prize partners for 2024 include SOLIDWORKS, Hawk Ridge Systems, Nordic Semiconductor, and RBC Wealth Management, who are offering up to $15K in cash and in-kind prizes for the Top 20 winners.

Questions about the Misties?

Email Leigh Christie at leigh@mistywest.com, or send a connection request on LinkedIn (preferred).

Our Judges

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the hardware industry experts, tenured product leaders and designers, startup founders, venture capitalists, and seven previous Misties honourees who provided their invaluable time and expertise to help select the 2024 winners.

Matt Mickelson, Lead Systems Engineer of New Vehicle Platforms at Cruise / GM

Brett Byer, Senior Hardware Engineer at Hala Systems, Inc.

Ibrahim El-chami, Researcher & Post Doc at the University of British Columbia

Daniel Myers, Founder & CEO of Flair Systems

Nader Elm, Co-Founder & CEO at Exyn Technologies

Ian Stadler, Principal Firmware Engineer at Semios

Jordan Ruderman, Senior Staff Test Engineer, Embedded Systems at Cruise / GM

Eric Migicovsky, Founder of Pebble and Co-Founder & CEO at Beeper

Adam Benzion, CXO at Edge Impulse

Sherry Huss, Co-Founder of Maker Faire and Head of Community at Freeman Company

Chuck Martin, Editorial Director of AI & IoT at Informa Tech

Meiz Majdoub, Senior Engineering Officer at Royal Canadian Navy

Avi Rosenthal, Partner at bluesalve partners

Athena Demos, Co-Founder of Big Rock Creative (BRCvr)

Jake Blair, Senior Sales Engineer at Memfault

Alex Marley, Partner at Lux Capital

Derek Disanjh, Engineering Physicist

Linda Megerdichian, Digital Hardware Design Engineer at Extron

Chris Massot, Director of Co-Innovation at Microsoft

Oleha Riden, Co-Founder & Creative Director of Stealth Creative Agency

Naomi Hamels, Global Director at Altium®

Alex Gudilko, CEO at AJProTech - IoT Product Development

Jeanette Numbers, Founder & CEO of Nova

Thomas Soederholm, VP of Business Development at Nordic Semiconductor

Terry Arbaugh, VP of Sales & Marketing at SEACOMP

Sarah Muzquiz of Particle

Melanie Daniels, Founder of Prairie City Solutions

Luc Martens, Professor at Ghent University

Sarah Muzquiz, Alliances Manager at Particle