The second annual Airwards 2022 awards are right here, and the nomination interval to discover a winner opens in the present day.

Airwards launched final yr as a worldwide drone awards program, searching for to acknowledge the breadth of drone work being carried out all over the world. In its inaugural yr, Airwards final yr collected almost 200 entries from 23 nations.

Winners are decided in each Folks’s Alternative classes in addition to judged classes. This yr’s judges will embody Dr. Catherine Ball, who’s a enterprise pioneer, advisor, speaker (try her Ted speak) and creator of the World of Drones Congress in Australia. Different judges embody professor Mark Watson of NATS; Tautvydas Juskauskas of UNICEF; Julie Garland, who’s the CEO of Avtrain and one among final yr’s winners; and Ramón Roche, who’s Program Supervisor at Dronecode Basis and can also be one among final yr’s winners.

So far as Folks’s Alternative: that’s in your energy. Airwards mentioned that it noticed greater than 10,000 Folks’s Alternative votes final yr.

Among the many classes up for nomination: Know-how, Providers, Business and Giving Again. New to this yr are some recent Folks’s Alternative classes, together with greatest media shops, high particular person in drones below 30, high pilot, and high govt.

The Airwards award program is placed on by its namesake Airwards, a not-for-profit devoted to recognizing optimistic use circumstances and championing international greatest follow situations.

Whereas there are not any money or tangible prizes on the desk, you do get a elaborate title in your resume and massive bragging rights.

enter Airwards 2022

Entries are free (you’ll wish to register right here), and the submission window opens on Dec. 1, 2021 and runs via Jan. 20, 2022. The entry course of features a quick-fire qualifying spherical and a second spherical to find out a shortlist. Nominations are open to anybody, from small enterprise to main firm. Simply take into account when submitting nominees: be sure to are submitting a drone use case and never an organization profile.

Winners will probably be introduced throughout Airwards’ Winners Week in Could.

See the 2021 Airwards winners right here.

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