The second edition of the awards MIT Technology Review Iinnovators under 35 years old France rewarded the ten young leaders of the technological projects that will shape our future: discovering the young people who are responding to the problems of our society by reinventing technology and offering them worldwide recognition and visibility.
The ten prizewinners presented their projects to the French technological and entrepreneurial community on 9 April at the Innovateurs de moins de 35 ans France event, held at L'Atelier BNP Paribas.
Two of the award winners received honours: Rand Hindi, founder of SnipsThe two other winners were Thomas Samuel who received the Innovative Solidarity Award for the creation of Sunna Design.
The names of the winners of this second edition were published on April 3 by MIT Technology Review. Their projects range from a location system that allows forklift trucks to navigate autonomously and accurately in a warehouse, to an augmented reality system for computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery, to an automatic genetic analysis platform and many others.
The ten winners presented their project in the form of a three-minute pitch to an audience of thirty experts and key players in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Among the ten winners, two received an additional distinction: Rand Hindi was named Innovator of the Year for his prediction system based on the use of Big Data to improve livability in cities. Serial entrepreneur since the age of 14, Rand Hindi founded Snips with the aim of developing new applications capable of extracting the maximum amount of information from the data they have at their disposal. An example of the use of its technology is the prediction of passenger affluence in Paris public transport.
Thomas Samuel
Thomas Samuel, social entrepreneur, creator of Sunna Designwas awarded the prize for Innovative Solidarity. Located in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, its technology, adapted to harsh climatic environments, provides solar LED street lighting solutions to areas with little or no access to electricity.
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A global community of young leaders
With editions in Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, the Under 35 Innovator Awards have become a benchmark in the discovery of emerging talent, creating the world's largest community of leaders in cutting-edge technologies.
The winners of local editions are automatically nominated for the global edition of the Innovators Under 35 Awards, which has been held for more than 10 years in Boston.
Past winners of the global edition include innovators such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sergey Brin, the founders of Paypal, Twitter and Tesla Motors.
David Fattal, Innovator of the Year 2013, is also on the list.
Innovators under 35 years old France
– Rand Hindi | Snips - Innovator of the Year
- Thomas Samuel Sunna Design - Solidarity-based innovator
– Rebecca Abergel | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
– Raul Bravo| Balyo
– Jean Chaoui | Imascap
– Deniz Dalkara | Vision Institute
– Rémi Dangla | Stilla Technologies
– Karim Fahssis| MeteoPole
– Stanislaw Ostoja-Starzewski | NovaNano
– David Vissière | Sysnav
(Source: Atelier BNP Parisbas - 10 April 2014)
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About Awards Innovators under 35 years of age
For more than a decade, the MIT Technology Review has recognized the world's most talented young innovators and entrepreneurs each year through the Innovators Under 35 Awards, held globally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The purpose of the Awards is to recognize innovation, the development of new technologies and the creative application of existing innovations to solve current problems, ingenuity and advances in topics of global concern. The fields of interest rewarded are varied, ranging from biotechnology, semiconductors, transport, energy and research into new materials, among others.
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About theAtelier BNP Paribas
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