Innovation Award: The Innovation Award recognizes individuals who have contributed (contributing back to open source) the most innovative solution to the open source EdgeX project over the past year. Once the submission deadline is closed, the EdgeX Technical Steering Committee will review the nominees and select 2 winners.
Contribution Award: The Contribution Award recognizes individuals who have contributed leadership and helped EdgeX Foundry advance and continue momentum in the past year. This includes individuals who have led work groups, special projects, and/or contributed large amounts of code, bug fixes, marketing material, documentation, or otherwise significantly advanced the efforts of EdgeX with their drive and leadership. The TSC will evaluate the nominees and select 2 winners.
| Year | Innovation Award | Contribution Award |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Drasko Draskovic, CEO and Founder of Mainflux Tony Espy, Technical Architect for Devices and IoT for Canonical, Ltd | Andy Foster, Product Director for IOTech Drasko Draskovic |
| 2019 | Trevor Conn, Dell Technologies Cloud Tsai, IoTech | Michael Johanson, Intel Lenny Goodell, Intel |
| 2020 | Michael Estrin, Dell Technologies James Gregg, Intel | Bryon Nevis, Intel Lisa Ranjbar, Intel |
| 2021 | Lenny Goodell, Intel | IOTech Engineering Team (Cloud Tsai, Jack Chen, Lindsey Cheng, Ginny Guan, Wendy Huang, Bruce Huang, Jude Hung, Chris Hung, Felix Ting, and Cherry Wang) Cloud Tsai, IOTech |
| 2022 | Bryon Nevis and Jim Wang, Intel Anthony Casagrande and Marc Fuller, Intel Emilio Reyes, Intel | Iain Anderson, IOTech Siggi Skulason, Canonical |
| 2023 | Lenny Goodell and Elizabeth Lee, Intel Ernesto Ojeda, Intel | Lenny Goodell, Intel Cherry Wang, IOTech |
The EdgeX Awards are given out every spring (with nominations occurring in the spring and announcement of the awards typically occurring in April or May) as a way to honor the contributors and leaders of the project. The EdgeX TSC votes on and determines the award winners based on contributions to the EdgeX Foundry project over the previous the year. Anyone can nominate a contributor to the TSC for an EdgeX award. Award winners cannot be nominated or win the award two years in a row.