2024 SXSW Innovation Awards Finalists Announced

SXSW always seeks to showcase the most forward-thinking new ideas and today's announcement of the 2024 SXSW Innovation Awards finalists perfectly highlights that goal. This year's group of 50+ finalists provide a glimpse of the future across 11 different categories ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Health & Biotech and Community Empowerment.

"One of the judges told me that he got goosebumps when he reviewed many of the entries for this year's Innovation Awards. I agree with this sentiment,” said Hugh Forrest, SXSW Co-President and Chief Programming Officer. “There is so much here that makes me so excited about the future.”

Category winners, plus additional honors, will be revealed at the 25th annual SXSW Innovation Awards Ceremony on the evening of Monday, March 11, hosted by 3x Grammy nominee SaulPaul. Finalists were chosen by a jury of industry judges from the hundreds of entries received by SXSW in the fall of 2023.

In advance of the ceremony, these 50+ digital projects will be available for SXSW attendees to interact with at the Innovation Awards Finalist Showcase.The Showcase will take place on Saturday, March 9 from 2pm-5pm in Griffin Hall at the JW Marriott Downtown Austin. The Finalist Showcase offers SXSW registrants an up close look at the most exciting and impactful tech developments from a diverse set of companies from around the globe. Attendees also get the chance to place their vote for the People’s Choice Award.

The 2024 SXSW Hall of Fame inductee Margrethe Vesteger and the Community Service Awards recipients will also be honored during the SXSW Innovation Awards Ceremony. A SXSW Badge is required to attend both the Finalist Showcase and Awards Ceremony.

Browse categories and links below to learn more about these 2024 SXSW Innovation Awards finalists.

Artificial Intelligence

• Captions: AI-powered creative studio
  New York, NY

• CESAR + Lenovo: A.I. powered sign language translator
  Recife, Brazil

• Truveta - AI-Enabled Health Research
  Bellevue, WA

• SKOUT® Real-Time AI for Polyp Detection
  Cambridge, MA

• Cephable: Control Tech on Your Terms
  Wilmington, MA

Audio Experience

• “When You Can’t Say It, Play It”
  Seattle, WA

• Maelstrom
  Shanghai, China

• Synaptics Resonate™
  San Jose, CA

• SPOKE- Music&Voice-Led Therapy Audio App
  London, UK

• GAUDIO Just Voice
  Seoul, South Korea

Climate Change

• Carbon Smart Wood™
  Baltimore, MD

• TOM FORD Plastic Innovation Accelerator, powered by Lonely Whale
  New York, NY

• ECM PCB Stator Tech's PrintStator Motor CAD
  Neddham Heights, MA

• WindWings: Decarbonizing Ocean Shipping
  Wayzata, MN

• Agrilose®: Sustainable Pulp for Apparel
  Santa Monica, CA

Community Empowerment

• No Limbits Adaptive Wheelchair Pants
  Richmond, VA

• Aya Contigo App
  Toronto, ON

• World Creativity Project
  Berlin, Germany

• KultureCity: Inclusion for All
  Birmingham, AL

• Dot Pad
  Seoul, South Korea

Interface Design

• Kicks as Currency: A Tradeblock Story
  Austin, TX

• A-dapt Vision Emotion AI
  London, England

• Bakstage - Ultimate Customer Experience for Gen-Z
  Livingston, NJ

• Lune - your music companion
  Littleton, CO

• Project Humanity
  Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Health & Biotech

• Wearable Neurostimulation for Withdrawal
  Dallas, TX

• Autism - Early Diagnosis Breakthrough!
  Atlanta, GA

• SandboxAQ’s AQBioSim Division
  Palo Alto, CA

• FDA Breakthrough Skin Cancer Device
  Miami, FL

• VISIE Intraoperative 3D Computer Vision
  Austin, TX

Product Design

• Unstandardized Desk
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Boomerang Water at ACC
  Midland, NC

• Cognixion® Personal AI Conversational Co-Pilot in Augmented Reality
  Santa Barbara, CA

• Miroka Prototype: A Robot With Character
  Paris, France

• MilkMate: Transforming Workplace Breast Pumping
  New York, NY

Social Media

• Brand Safety Secured with Viral Nation
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Scrolling Therapy
  Global Effort through Dentsu Creative

• Overplay: Make any video into a game
  New York, NY

• MeWe
  Los Angeles, CA

• Drawn Together
  York, Ontario

Student Innovation

• FireBot
  Austin, TX

• Detecting AI Voice Cloning
  Berkeley, CA

• AV-24 World's Fastest Autonomous Racecar
  Indianapolis, IN

• The SmartScope
  Hanover, NH

• Illuminate
  Cambridge, MA

Urban Design

• STEEL+SPARK
  Phoenix, AZ

• Building with OurCarbon
  San Francisco, CA

• The Voltpost EV Charging Platform
  San Francisco, CA & New York, NY

• Zoox Driverless Robotaxi on Public Roads
  Foster City, CA

• Outdoor Music for Everyone Anywhere
  Portland, OR

WTF (What the Future)

• AIZOME ULTRA™
  Munich, Germany

• Blackdot: A New Way to Tattoo™
  Austin, TX

• The Living Knitwork Pavilion
  Cambridge, MA

• UbiGro Cover
  Los Alamos, NM

• WNDR Alpine: Algae In, Petroleum Out
  Salt Lake City, UT

Congrats finalists!

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2023 SXSW Innovation Awards Winners – Kalogon team for Patient Safety Technology – Photo by Andy Wenstrand