Last year’s E&T Innovation Awards were the first to incorporate the great societal challenges, E&T’s Critical Targets, with topics such as climate change, diversity, ethics and healthcare woven into the categories. It created an awards programme that was truly representative of the great objectives being faced and overcome by our most inspiring engineers and technologists, as reflected in the judges’ comments:

“The winner was chosen for their pioneering healthcare technology, specifically for their innovative processing of data from a number of digital sources in order to offer a wide societal impact.”

“A timely innovation with immense potential for positive, sustainable impact.”

“An excellent example of new technology to lever quality, productivity, cost reduction, customer satisfaction and capacity – all that any manufacturing engineer could wish for.”

“[This] technology ensures decisions are transparent and ethical, and therefore a force for...