The 2026 Inavation Awards has marked a standout year for project-led AV excellence, delivering the strongest and most competitive field we’ve ever seen.

 

Entry numbers were high, the spread of sectors broader than ever, and the quality consistently exceptional. The judging process was pushed harder than in any previous year, with extended discussions, close calls revisited, and standards raised across the board.

 

The winners announced this year represent some of the most ambitious, technically accomplished and creatively delivered AV projects anywhere in the world right now. Competition was fierce, and while only one project in each category could take home the award, the overall strength of entries reflected an industry operating at an incredibly high level.

 

This year also reinforced what we hear time and again from integrators, consultants and end users alike: this is the awards platform that matters. The winning projects showcase organisations trusted with complex, high-value AV investments and the teams delivering multi-million-euro technology programmes across EMEA and beyond.

 

Congratulations to all of our 2026 Project Winners, and thank you to every entrant for helping make this a landmark year for the Inavation Awards.

 

Arts & Experience

• Winner: Signal Playground - Signal Space - Echoes of Tomorrow, Czech Republic

• Alec Holdings – teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Ata Tech – Euromast - The Rise of Rotterdam, The Netherlands

• AV Media Systems | GPA - Centrum Hořec, Czech Republic

• AVI-SPL - SeaWorld San Diego ‘Jewels of the Sea: The Jellyfish Experience’, USA

• Kraftwerk Living Technologies - Back in Time Prague, Czech Republic

• Maxin10sity - Stellar Sanctuary, Germany

• ST Engineering Antycip - Sherwood Observatory Planetarium, UK

• Telmaco - SKAI TV Studio, Greece

• Trison - L'Aquàrium Barcelona, Spain
   

Connected Meeting Space

• Winner: Online Instruments - Schneider Electric town hall project, UAE

• AV Media Systems | GPA – NFCtron, Czech Republic

• Cinos – Government Property Agency meeting rooms, UK

• Hewshott - University of Derby – Bioscience Superlab, UK

• MaktabiTech - MOMRAH Ministerial Boardroom, Saudi Arabia

• Office 2000 Solutions - Electronic Arts town hall, India

Corporate

• Winner: Snelling Business Systems - WPP One Southwark Bridge, UK

• AVI-SPL - HSBC Dubai, UAE

• Forté Germany - C1 Berlin, Germany

• Hewshott - Womble Bond Dickinson London HQ, UK

• Innovative Systems and Solutions - HDFC Bank, India

• Office 2000 Solutions - BNY Mellon, India

• Online Instruments – Siemens, India

• Presentation Products + TAD - Lord, Abbett & Co HQ, USA

• Sigma AVIT Technology Solutions - SAP LABS innovation Park, India

• Valeo Technology - Medibank Woolongong, Australia

 

Education

• Winner: Granteq - Gems School of Research and Innovation, UAE

• Cosmos Business Machines - BITS Pilani, Mumbai Campus, India

• Forté Germany - DAI Hybrid Education Center, Germany

• GVAV - University of Cambridge: The Ray Dolby Centre, UK

• Hewshott - Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, University of Oxford, UK

• ICT - Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences VFX Lab, Germany

• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Sustainable Futures Lab, Germany

• Innovative Systems and Solutions - Aranyam - HDFC Bank training centre, India

• Roche AV Pro – MMU, UK

• Snelling Business Systems - Anglia Ruskin University, UK

 

Experience Centre

• Winner: Metahive Design Consulting + BT Convergence Technologies - Wipro, India

• BeWunder - The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Experience Centre, UAE

• Online Instruments - Schneider Electric Innovation Hub, UAE

• Pro FX Tech - Adani Experience Centre, Khavda, India

 

Government & Public Sector

• Winner: Redmouse - The White House Uzbekistan

• A&ITS – Voghera employment centre auditorium, Italy

• AV Media Systems | GPA - Nemocnice Havířov, Czech Republic

• Electrosonic - National Highways North-East regional operation centre, UK

• Fluid AV - Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service, UK

• Polymedia Kazakhstan - Mangystau Region Akimat control centre, Kazakhstan

• SWICA Conference Technology - Tunner conference room, Germany

• TVV Sound Project - Liège-Guillemins railway station, Belgium

 

House of Worship

• Winner: Groupe Novelty - Notre-Dame de Paris, France

• Acousticon - National Mosque of Malaysia, Malaysia

• PAVE System - AI Mawaddah Mosque, Singapore

• Search Music - Sarawak Blessed Church, Malaysia
   

Live Event

• Winner: SRG SSR - Eurovision Song Contest 2025, Switzerland

• Cercle - Cercle Odyssey, Mexico, USA, France

• Clair Global - Starbucks Leadership Experience 2025, USA

• LCI Productions - Windsor Great Park Illuminated, UK

Museums & Heritage

• Winner: Egyptian Engineering Projects Co (Quality) - The Grand Egyptian Museum, Egypt

• A+V Audiovisual Systems - Lotte Wedel (E.Wedel Chocolate Factory Museum), Poland

• Ata Tech - Perot Museum, Dallas – Moody Family Children’s Museum, USA

• BeWunder - KSA Pavilion Expo 2025, Japan

• Diversified - Museum of Art + Light, USA

• Electronics & Engineering - Singapore Odyssea, A Journey Through Time, Singapore

• Electrosonic - National WWI Museum and Memorial Encounters Exhibition, USA

• Imagesound - National Gallery - NG200 Project, UK

• ON - Portugal Pavilion Expo 2025, Japan

• Sarner - Odyssey Malta

 

Retail + Signage

• Winner: Digital Design Team + Heathrow - Heathrow T5 Media Towers, UK

• AV Media Systems | GPA - Lindt & Sprüngli, Czech Republic

• d&b solutions - IKEA, Oxford Street, UK

• First Impression audiovisual - Lindt Flagship Store Piccadilly Circus, UK

• Innovative Systems and Solutions - Nilaya Anthology, India

• nsign Managed Solutions - Krispy Kreme Madrid, Spain

• ON - SESI Digital Gallery on FIESP Façade, Brazil

• Recursive AV + Solotech - Puma Flagship Las Vegas, USA

• Trison Necsum - El Boulevard Shopping Center 3D display, Spain

• Zio Technologies - ADNEC Digital Media, UAE

 

Smart Building

• Winner: Forté Germany - Skypark Business Center, Luxembourg

• Ata Tech - Portlantis - Port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands

• Digital Design Team + Heathrow - Heathrow T5 Media Towers, UK

• Polymedia Kazakhstan - Mangystau Region Akimat control centre, Kazakhstan

• Vega - New Zealand International Convention Centre, New Zealand

• Zio Technologies - ADNEC Digital Media Project, UAE

 

Venues & Events Spaces

• Winner: Stouenborg - Avicii Arena, Sweden

• d&b solutions - MSG Networks, Madison Square Garden, New York, USA

• Edigma - SAW Esports Arena, Portugal

• proAV - Fulham Pier, UK

• Recursive + Media Powerhouse - British Academy, UK

• Redmouse - The VIP Airport Terminal of Tashkent, Uzbekistan

• Smith and Andersen + Applied Electronics - Humber Cultural Hub, Canada

• Vega - Kai Tak Stadium, Hong Kong