CATEGORIES
Advertising
Campaigns designed to draw attention to social issues and inspire people to act or to promote world-changing products or services.
Campaigns designed to draw attention to social issues and inspire people to act or to promote world-changing products or services.
AI & Data (New!)
Projects that harness the power of data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence to understand the world and empower change.
Apps
Projects that live primarily in a mobile format, in any discipline.
Projects that live primarily in a mobile format, in any discipline.
Creativity (New!)
Any creative project–photography, writing, visualization, film–that helps explain and publicize global problems and solutions.
Consumer Products
Items for your house or office that help you live a more purposeful life, or fundamentally alter outdated business models or supply chains of our current consumer goods.
Developing World Technology
Products designed specifically for the developing world, both ones intended for the bottom of the pyramid and those intended to help create leapfrog innovation.
Products designed specifically for the developing world, both ones intended for the bottom of the pyramid and those intended to help create leapfrog innovation.
Education (New!)
Companies or initiatives that help inspire better and more equitable learning.
Companies or initiatives that help inspire better and more equitable learning.
Energy
Solar, wind, and any other innovative ideas to create clean power (either for personal use or at a large scale) or new systems for better electricity distribution.
Solar, wind, and any other innovative ideas to create clean power (either for personal use or at a large scale) or new systems for better electricity distribution.
Experimental (New!)
Concepts, prototypes, and just-launched ideas that may not have clear impact but have the potential to change how we think about an issue.
Food
Projects changing what we eat, how we eat, and how we get our food.
Projects changing what we eat, how we eat, and how we get our food.
Health and Wellness
Products and projects that improve either personal or global well-being and longevity, from apps to devices, to new medical equipment.
Products and projects that improve either personal or global well-being and longevity, from apps to devices, to new medical equipment.
Spaces, Places, and Cities (New!)
Buildings, landscapes, urban designs, and policies that make cities and living in them cleaner, more efficient, more beautiful, and more equitable for their citizens.
Social Justice (New!)
Projects that help advance the cause of civil rights for marginalized people or groups.
Students
Projects in any category, created by undergraduate or graduate students.
Projects in any category, created by undergraduate or graduate students.
Transportation
Projects that get you places—whether on two wheels or four—in new, interesting, and fuel-efficient ways.
Projects that get you places—whether on two wheels or four—in new, interesting, and fuel-efficient ways.
General Excellence
The broadest ideas, be they new government policies, new business models, or entire new consumer categories. Anything that has the potential to effect true systems change or solve wicked problems.
World Changing Company Of The Year (New!)
Organizations that submit two or more distinct entries to any of the categories above will be automatically considered. Companies will be judged on the quality, breadth, and ambition of their submitted work. Selected by Fast Company editors.
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