Described as the “Oscars of Innovation,” The Economist Annual Innovation Awards celebrate the ideas shaping the world. Modern Media helped create the annual award and accompanying Innovation Summit conference in 2002 and has been involved every year since in managing the judging process and the award ceremony. This year’s exclusive invitation-only black-tie dinner ceremony was held at the Science Museum in London on October 29. Focusing on the interface between innovation and business, winners of this year’s awards include Ray Kurzweil, the inventor of optical character recognition and speech recognition technology; Steve Sasson, who created the first digital camera; Craig Venter, for pioneering genomic research; and Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook. You can see all the award winners here:
