For the last four years, Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech awards have celebrated technological breakthroughs that are changing the way we work and live. This year’s awards include 138 honors for innovations impacting everything from transportation and telecommunications to agriculture.
Arriving at that cadre of winners from a pool of 1,400 applicants requires many hours of work sifting through applications, scrutinizing projects, and deciding which achievements rank at the top. Here is a peek into how our small army of editorial staffers make it happen.
Methodology
Our team of editors and writers assessed each application based on factors such as:
- Relevancy: What pressing problem does the technology solve?
- Ingenuity: How novel is the technology?
- Progress and potential: In what ways has the technology already proven itself? Is it positioned for long-term viability and scalability?
- Impact: What kind of impact—from economic to cultural—might the technology have over the next five years?
Each winner is chosen after multiple rounds of evaluation and conversation between judges about its performance on the above criteria, a monthslong process.
“With Next Big Things in Tech, our aim is to honor projects based not only on what they’ve already achieved but where they’re poised to go,” says Fast Company global technology editor Harry McCracken. “Whether honorees are still in the lab or already on the market, they’re driving progress in tangible ways on an array of fronts.”
Meet the team
Judges
Adele Peters, Aimee Rawlins, Alex Pasternack, Connie Lin, David Salazar, Eric Sullivan, Harry McCracken, Jared Newman, Jessica Bursztynsky, Lydia Dishman, Maia McCann, Mark Wilson, Max Ufberg, Morgan Clendaniel, Rob Pegoraro, Ross Rubin, Steven Melendez, Yasmin Gagne
Coordinator
Shealon Calkins
Design/Photo
Alice Alves, Heda Hokschirr, Haewon Kye, Anne Latini, Lila Nathanson, Eric Perry, Daniel Salo, Mike Schnaidt
Development: Bryan Cuellar, Heda Hokschirr, Cayleigh Parrish
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