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Innovators Under 35 Latam

About Innovators Under 35 LATAM

 

A new Latin American edition of the Innovators Under 35 Awards kicks off!

The Innovators Under 35 LATAM 2024 Awards, in its tenth edition, represent an opportunity to meet those young people who are shaping our future and transforming lives through their technological and scientific breakthroughs.

We are looking for people, under the age of 35, whose excellent technical work promises to have an impact on the world in the coming decades. Our goal is to detect new emerging technologies or the creative application of technology and/or science to solve problems facing humanity.

Created in 1999 in honor of MIT Technology Review's centennial, the Innovators Under 35 list now has several regional versions. The awards will bring together young Latin American visionaries pursuing the same goal: innovation, ingenuity and breakthroughs to address the world's most pressing challenges.

Each year, brilliant men and women are recognized for their advances in diverse areas of innovation such as biotechnology and medicine; artificial intelligence and robotics; software; energy and sustainability; internet and web; electronics and hardware; transportation; nanotechnology and materials; and telecommunications.

The candidates' work is evaluated by our high-level International Committee of judges, who select the list of 35 winners, which will be published by MIT Technology Review (both in its English and Spanish editions). We seek to recognize the brightest minds in Latin America in the following competition profiles:

  • Entrepreneurs: see technologies as an opportunity to turn innovations into disruptive businesses.
  • Inventors: create technologies that allow them to reimagine how things are done.
  • Humanitarians: use technology to solve problems caused by poverty, war or disability.
  • Visionaries: see things differently from others and find powerful new uses for technology.
  • Pioneers: expand scientific knowledge and pave the way for future technologies.

Join us in October 2024, in Lima, Peru, where we will present the projects of the Innovators Under 35 LATAM 2024 cohort. The awards ceremony will serve to meet these young people, honor and celebrate their work.

We hope you will be able to join us in person or via streaming at this celebration ceremony and we look forward to seeing you there!

FAQ

  • Established in 1999 as the TR100, the annual list recognizes outstanding innovators who are younger than 35. The awards span a wide range of fields, including biotechnology, materials, computer hardware, energy, transportation, communications, and the Web. We are searching for individuals whose superb technical work promises to shape the coming decades. Our goal is to recognize the development of new technology or the creative application of existing technologies to solve problems. We also reward ingenious and elegant work that matters to the world at large—not just to peers in a particular field or industry.

    MIT Technology Review showcases these global winners in our July/August issue and online at www.technologyreview.com/tr35. We also recognize the winners at the Emtech MIT conference in the fall of each year.

  • We launched regional editions of the Innovators Under 35 list in 2010. Now there are other regional versions, including Latin America, Europe, China, MENA (Middle East/North Africa), and Asia Pacific (which includes Southeast Asia, Australia, and Oceania). The winners of the regional competitions are encouraged to apply for the global listhere. For a full listing of our regional competitions, visit https://www.innovatorsunder35.com/about/nominate-innovators-under-35-apply/.

     

About Opinno.org

At Opinno, we generate impact through innovation and being part of this community certifies our social and environmental commitments, the absence of a wage gap, parity in all our positions and governance policies that maximize our ecosystem's value. In addition, to be a BCorp means joining an active community of people and companies committed to sharing best practices, lessons learned and business and business transformation opportunities. Opinno.orgTo generate and share knowledge. One of the greatest contributions Opinno can make is to share our experience. We develop hundreds of innovation projects in all industry sectors across the world every year. This helps us to identify trends, opportunities, or threats that we like to share openly with our ecosystem. These findings could help an entrepreneur define their next venture, or a government in designing policies and programs that promote development through science, technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Our knowledge exchange and dissemination activity is carried out through the Opinno Research Institute, a non-profit initiative that publishes Insights, a set of research articles, interviews with world leaders and produces reports and studies autonomously and also in collaboration with the world's leading business schools, universities and think tanks. To scout and support disruptive talent. At Opinno we believe that talent is the main tool for progress. Although all human beings are born with a similar intellectual capacity, at Opinno we believe that there are some special people. The technologies and scientific breakthroughs on which the current and future society is based rest on the shoulders of very few innovators and scientists, who discovered the vaccines that cure us, the electronic tools we use every day or the vehicles that transport us. Our mission is to help find that "special talent" and foster its development, so that it has the best possible impact. At Opinno, we channel this line of work through two collaborations; MIT Innovators Under 35 and Fundación Celera. The first is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology award for the most disruptive scientific-entrepreneurial talent, which creates new technologies and launches them to the market, usually helping to solve difficult problems and impacting millions of people. The second is a talent accelerator that annually seeks out and supports 10 young people with very diverse profiles. To help governments and institutions to use innovation as a catalyst for development. We believe that one of the best ways to create a better world for everyone is to help governments and institutions to better understand the challenges and opportunities that science, innovation, and entrepreneurship offer us. Through this approach we help to establish a dialogue between the business, education, scientific and entrepreneurial sectors, and public institutions to help create initiatives, programs and policies that foster scientific production, the creation and use of new technologies and the promotion of entrepreneurial talent. Our main activity in this area is called Genewin, which is a forum for sectorial debate, where the main agents of each industry come together to share and translate into a methodical analysis of their challenges and opportunities. These analyses are shared with the public administration and often serve to define public sector initiatives to support the different sectors of the economy. Opinno is in the process of becoming B Corp certified and has been a member of the 1% Pledge movement since 2018. Opinno Impact ModelAt Opinno we have created and used this model to evaluate our strategic initiatives, but also to measure how our work on each project generates positive impact for all stakeholders involved. The Opinno Impact Model has 8 different legs. To adopt good governance practices: transparency, traceability, security, privacy, diversity, inclusion, compliance, merit and commitment. The ethical use of technology To improve people’s experience in the value chain (suppliers, employees, partners): Flexibility, remote and hybrid work, use of collaboration tools, personal and professional development, balance. Customer care: Digital experiences by default, contactless economy, transmitting impact culture. To create positive impact for investors and creditors Governments and civil society To improve environmental footprint To adopt an impact mindset