Inavation Awards Technology categories
Entry window: 1st September – 2nd October, 2026
Entry fee: £370 per entry
The Technology Awards recognise products and solutions advancing professional AV. Categories cover the full technology chain, from audio, displays and collaboration to signal distribution, control, software, and events technology.
Choose the category that best reflects your technology’s primary purpose. The same product may be entered into more than one category, but each requires a separate submission and entry fee. If you are unsure of category to enter, please contact inavationawards@imlgroup.co.uk
Why enter?
An Inavation Technology Award puts your product in front of AV professionals worldwide and provides independent recognition of its innovation, performance and real-world value.
A strong entry should clearly explain what the technology does, why it was developed, what makes it different and how it benefits designers, integrators and users. Support your claims with evidence, results and customer feedback wherever possible.
How winners are chosen
An international judging panel reviews the entries and selects the finalists. The winners are then decided through a public vote by Inavate readers.
As part of your entry, you will provide a concise Product Pitch that will be published to help voters understand and assess your technology.
Read the Technology Awards entry guidelines before selecting your category and preparing your submission.
The categories
Accessory
Products that are added to or used alongside other AV technologies, to help them function, make them more useful or fine-tune them.
Some examples: Brackets and mounts, projection screens and specialist furniture
Audio
Loudspeakers and technologies that handle audio capture, storage, distribution or processing.
Some examples: Loudspeakers, microphones, intercom, congress systems, amplifiers, mixing consoles, players, and DSPs
Communication and Collaboration
Technologies that are purely focused on supporting communication and collaboration whether local or remote.
Some examples: VC platforms, beamforming microphones, interactive displays, conferencing peripherals, congress systems, screen sharing products
Digital Signage
Technologies for out-of-home communication of content for POS, advertising, entertainment, information or wayfinding.
Some examples: Displays, players, scheduling and analytics software, mounts and kiosks, interactive technology, content creation tools
Display (end point)
Any display output technology.
Some examples: Projectors, LEDs, LCDs
Events Technology
Technology that can be used for events large or small.
Some examples: LED displays and projection, loudspeakers, microphones, event
control, mixing consoles, image processing, intercom and lighting
Monitoring and control
Technologies that allow users to control spaces as well as software that supports remote control, maintenance and monitoring.
Some examples: Control panels, monitoring and scheduling software, control processors, control apps, analytics platforms
Signal Distribution and Processing
Technologies for getting signals from A to B, as well as those that deliver switching, processing and scaling capabilities.
Some examples: AV-over-IP products, signal extension, matrix switchers, media players, scalers, image processors, KVM products
Software
Software releases or updates focused on management, control or monitoring of AV
equipment as well as those that deal with signal processing, system design and
project management.