The 2017 World Technology Awards Winners and Finalists

Winner

• Lucy McRae - Sci-fi artist, film director, TED Fellow and body architect

Finalists

• Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël - Co-Founders, Felix and Paul Studios

• Kevin Mack - Artist

• Trevor Paglen - Artist

• Jessica Brillhart - Independent filmmaker

• Ethan Shaftel - Film/Immersive Director

Winner

• Clyde Hutchison, Ray-Yuan Chuang, J. Craig Venter - Researchers from Synthetic Genomics and the J. Craig Venter Institute

Finalists

• Nan Hao - Asst. Professor, University of California, San Diego

• Wanhong Zhao - Associate director of hematology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Xi’an Jiaotong University

• Luhan Yang - Chief Scientific Officer, eGenesis

• Christina Agapakis - Creative Director, Ginkgo Bioworks

Winner

• Daniel Mittleman and Guillaume Ducournau - Brown University & Institut d’Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, CNRS/University of Lille

Finalists

• Ebrahim Karimi - Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Ottawa

• Christopher Best and Ted Livingston - Co-Founders, Kik

• Daniel Klaus, Joey Liaw, Sean Parker, and Shawn Fanning - Co-Founders, Airtime Media

• Sid Assawaworrarit, Xiaofang Yu, and Shanhui Fan - Doctoral Candidate; Research Associate; and Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Winner

• Tiffany Beers - Technical Lead, NIKE HyperAdapt 1.0

Finalists

• Ben Fry - Principal, Fathom

• Torbjørn Ludvigsen - Inventor, Hangprinter

• Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Asta Roseway, Christian Holz, Paul Johns, Andres Calvo, and Chris Schmandt - PhD Students, MIT Media Lab; Researchers, Microsoft Research

• Johan Karlsson - Co-Founder & Managing Director, Better Shelter

Winner

• Oana Korda - Co-founder and Product Manager, Woogie

Finalists

• Kelvin Chong, Krishna Vedati, and Srinivas Mandyam - Co-Founders, Tynker

• Anant Agarwal - CEO, EdX

• Bethany Koby and Daniel Hirschmann - Co-Founders, Technology Will Save Us

• Albert Yu-Min Lin - Co-Founder, Planet3 Inc.

• Dori Roberts - Founder and CEO, Engineering for Kids

Winner

• Dhandapani Venkataraman and Seung Pyo Jeong - Materials chemists, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Finalists

• Pieremanuele Canepa and Shou-Hang Bo - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Argonne National Laboratory

• David Bierman, Evelyn Wang, and Marin Soljačić - Doctor Student; Professors, MIT

• Vamsi Talla, Wu Meiling, Sam Crow, Joshua Smith, Bryce Kellogg, and Shyam Gollakota - Researchers, Department of Electrical Engineering & Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

• Fred Beisson - Biosciences and Biotechnologies Institute, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, France

• Carter Haines, Shi Hyeong Kim, Nai Li - University of Texas, Dallas 

• Liangbing Hu - University of Maryland

Winner

• David Oreilly - Game Designer, "Everything"

Finalists

• Mike Chisholm - CEO, Swiftpoint

• Alex Kipman - Developer, Hololens, Microsoft

• Eiji Aonuma - Game designer, Nintendo; Producer, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

• Sid Meier - Game Designer/Creator, Civilization

• Curtis Hickman, James Jensen, and Ken Bretschneider - Co-Founders, The Void

Winner

• Mattias Lepp - Founder and CEO, Click & Grow

Finalists

• Peter Ceglinski and Andrew Turton - Co-Founders, Seabin project

• Eric Nelson - CEO, Nelson Architect

• Dionysios E. Raitsos, Robert J.W. Brewin, Peng Zhan, Denis Dreano,  Yaswant Pradhan, Gerrit B. Nanninga, & Ibrahim Hoteit - Plymouth Marine Laboratory

• Susan Solomon - Professor, Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science, MIT

• Mary Powell - CEO, Green Mountain Power 

• Keiichi Okamoto - President and CEO, Nikken Sekkei

Winner

• Rachelle Hollander - Director, Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society (CEES), National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

Finalists

• James Hughes - Executive Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

• Anders Sandberg - Senior Research Fellow, The Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

• Sheila Jasanoff - Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Kenneedy School of Government, Harvard University

• Mark Coeckelbergh - Professor, Philosophy of Media and Technology, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna

• Peter Asaro - Co-founder, International Committee for Robot Arms Control

Winner

• Brad Feld - Founder/Managing Director, Foundry Group

Finalists

• Arvind Gupta, Bill Liao, Ron Shigeta and Ryan Bethencourt - Co-Founders, IndieBio

• Peter Boyce II - Venture Capitalist, General Catalyst; Co-Founder, Rough Draft Ventures

• Barry Silbert - Founder and CEO, Digital Currency Group

• Eric Chen - Venture Partner, WI Harper

Winner

• Dale Boger - Co-chair, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute

Finalists

• Rebecca Richards-Kortum - Founder/Director, Rice 360° Institute for Global Health

• Sonja Rasmussen - Editor-in-Chief, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Neil Garrett - Postdoctoral Researcher, Daw Lab , Princeton Neuroscience Institute

• David Van Essen and Matthew Glasser - Researchers, Washington Univerisity in St. Louis

• Robin Carhart-Harris - Director, Psychedelic Research, Imperial College

• Maneesh Sethi - Chairman & CEO, Behavior Technology Groupi

• Michael Ashby - Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol

Winner

• Meron Gribetz - Founder, Meta

Finalists

• Tian Zhong - Postdoctoral Scholar, Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology

• Elon Musk - Creator, Neuralink

• Kevin Kit Parker - Professor, Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

• Cynthia Breazeal - Founder, Jibo

Winner

• Sergey Levine - Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley

Finalists

• David Silver - Scientist, DeepMind

• Robbie Barat - Teenage inventor

• Ben Y. Zhao - Co-Director, SAND Lab (Systems, Algorithms, Networking, and Data), University of Chicago

• Laurence Perreault Levasseur, Yashar Hezaveh, Phil Marshall - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Department of Energy and Stanford University

A. Michael Froomkin - a Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Miami Law School

Finalists

• Margot Kaminski - Associate Professor of Law, Colorado Law School

• Catherine Crump - Assistant professor, Berkeley Law School

• Orin S. Kerr - Director, Cybersecurity Law Initiative, George Washington University

• Bryant Walker Smith - Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law

Winner

• Christine Heenan - Founder, The Clarendon Group

Finalists

• Justin Mauldin - Founder, Salient PR

• Michael Terpin - Founder/CEO, The Transform Group

• Binna Kim - Co-Founder & President, Vested

• Reema Bahnasy - Co-Founder, The Hatch Agency

• Ayelet Noff - Founder, Blonde 2.0 

Winner

• Daniele Sanvitto - CNR NANOTEC Institute of Nanotechnology

Finalists

• Zhenan Bao - Engineer, Stanford University

• Mikhail Lukin and Eugene Demler - Professors of Physics, Harvard University

• Manuel Schaffner, Patrick A. Rühs, Fergla Coulter, Samuel Kilcher, and André R. Studart - Researchers, ETH Zurich University

• Manu Prakash - Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University

• Ji-Gang Ren - University of Science and Technology (Shanghai) 

• Carmel Majidi et al, Carnegie Mellon University researchers

Winner

• JNaomi Klein - Author; Syndicated columnist

Finalists

• Nabiha Syed - Research Fellow, Yale Law School Information Society Project

• Nick Bilton - Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair

• Benjamin Bratton - Author, "The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty"(MIT Press)

• Shelly Palmer - CEO, The Palmer Group

Winner

• Emmanuel Macron - President, France

Finalists

• Tim Berners-Lee - Founder, World Wide Web Foundation

• Thomas Hughes - Executive Director, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 19

• John P. Holdren - Former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (Obama administration)

• Xi Jinping - President, People's Republic of China

Winner

• Carlos Edmar Pereira - CEO, Livox

Finalists

• Mayur Ramgir - Inventor, ZPOD

• Christopher Mikkelsen & David Mikkelsen - Co-Founders, REFUNITE

• Joe Green - Co-Founder/President, Causes

• Bradley Myles - CEO, POLARIS

• Abdulaziz Al-Labadi - Founder, Altibbi.com

• Gangadhar Patil - Founder/CEO, 101Reporters.com

• Keller Rinaudo - Founder, Zipline Rwanda

Winner

• Scott J. Bolton - Principal Investigator, Juno mission to Jupiter, NASA

Finalists

• Will Marshall - Co-Founder and CEO, Planet Labs

• William Pomerantz - Vice President for Special Projects , Virgin Galactic

• Scott Kelly - Astronaut, NASA

• Rainer Weiss - Kip Thorne, Barry Barish, Discovers, gravitational waves

Winner

• Human Cell Atlas

Finalists

• Kite Pharma (A Gilead Sciences subsidiary)

• Genmab

• Nanopareil

• Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

Winner

• Postmates

Finalists

• Mulesoft

• WeChat

• Slack

• Kymeta

• Sonnet Labs

Winner

• Solar City (Tesla)

Finalists

• Solar Roadways

• University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Michigan State University

• EMBATT, the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS

Winner

• Local Roots

Finalists

• Terra-I

• Blizwheel

• Reef Ball Foundation

• Cambridge Consultants

• Soraa

Winner

• Angellist

Finalists

• Techstars

• Baidu Ventures

• First Round Capital

• Gradient Ventures

Winner

• Inselspital/Artorg

Finalists

• Retrosense Therapeutics

• University of California at Berkeley

• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

• QuantuMDx

• Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)

Winner

• Amazon

Finalists

• IBM

• Nintendo

• Boston Dynamics

• Virgin Hyperloop

• California Institute of Technology

Winner

• DeepMind

Finalists

• Waymo

• Orbital Insight

• Konica Minolta Business Solutions

• HireVue

• Iflytek

Winner

• IBM

Finalists

• LG Electronics

• Center for Quantum Computation, University of Melbourne

• Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

• Mesoglue

• Carnegie Mellon University

Winner

• SpaceX

Finalists

• Moon Express

• Rocket Lab

• Made in Space

• China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

• NASA (Juno Mission)