The countdown is on: nominations to the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards 2026 shut at the finish of January.
The awards, now of their ninth 12 months, have a good time excellent achievements from firms, organisations and people throughout all science and know-how sectors.
Due to be held in May at Hinxton Hall Conference Centre on the world-famous Wellcome Genome Campus, the awards will convey collectively a whole lot of enterprise leaders, entrepreneurs, specialists and researchers.
Editor Paul Brackley stated: “It’s great to see some excellent nominations coming in for this year’s awards. Now that new year has arrived, it’s the perfect time to put in your entry.”
Entry is free at cambridgeindependent.co.uk, the place a full description of all the classes, the guidelines and particulars of our sponsors might be discovered, together with earlier winners.
You can enter a number of classes and you possibly can, if you want, alter your nomination to go well with the class by finishing a separate type for every. If there’s info that’s embargoed or confidential that you prefer to the judging panel to contemplate, however which can’t but be made public, then merely make that clear in your nomination.
Two classes can be found for people – CEO of the Year and Researcher of the Year. You can nominate your self, or be nominated by others for these.
The full set of classes accessible for public entry is: Start-up of the Year, STEM Initiative of the Year, The Award for Innovation, Researcher of the Year, The Tech for Good Award, Fintech Company of the Year, Cleantech Company of the Year, Employer of the Year, Biotech Company of the Year, Medtech Company of the Year, AI Company of the Year, CEO of the Year, Software Company of the Year, Technology Company of the Year and Life Science Company of the Year.
Sponsors embrace Appleyard Lees, AstraZeneca, Cambridge Science Park, BDO, the Faculty of Science and Technology at Anglia Ruskin University, Mantle Space, Railpen, St John’s Innovation Centre, Woodfines and Zyme Communications. You can find out more about our sponsors here.
Enter via the form here. Entry closes at 11pm on 31 January. For queries or to become involved, e mail [email protected] .