Impact Award Nomination Form

Award recipients will be scored and selected based on the following judging criteria:

  • Entrepreneurial spirit
  • Value creation
  • Impact 
  • Sustainability

Company email address preferred.


Person you are nominating for the award.

Person you are nominating for the award.

Person you are nominating for the award.

Person you are nominating for the award.

Commitment*

Please select which accurately describes the nominee's time commitment to this company.

Please include why this individual deserves this award and examples of impact they've made in their community.

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Please include LinkedIn URLs for nominee and any other co-founders


Please include the full mailing address for your company.

What stage best describes the company's current status?*

Examples of what to include: What does the business do, what is the business model, any IP, expertise of the leadership team, traction achieved to date (customer discovery completed, accelerators, grant funding, investment raised, strategic partnerships, etc.)?

Examples of what to include: What problem does this company address? How is impact defined? How big is the impact both qualitatively and quantitatively? Alignment to any SDGs?

Examples of what to include: Specify technology development plans, market expansion plans, fundraising, strategic objectives, and market trends that indicate future demand and growth.

Please provide any supporting documentation and/or references that can support the claims made in this nomination form.

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1. The submission deadline is 30 September by midnight ET.

2. Self-nominations are NOT accepted.

3. The nominator and the nominee cannot be a member of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Awards Committee or a member of the IEEE Entrepreneurship Steering Committee.

4. The IEEE Entrepreneurship Impact Award Recipient must be willing to join the IEEE Entrepreneurship Community and provide IEEE with updates on their entrepreneurial journey.

5. Nominations must be made in English.

6. I affirm that the details and documentation provided in this nomination form are accurate and relevant.

7. Submissions with supporting materials and references provided to strengthen the claims made in the nomination form will be given priority in the evaluation process.

8. The focus should be on the a broad impact made on the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Not on professional or technical achievements.

9.Before submitting this nomination form, I have confirmed that the nominee meets the Impact Award criteria outlined on the IEEE Entrepreneurship website.


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