About Us
We champion those who believe in a better world by recognising their innovation and positive impact and by demonstrating that Life’s Better With Drones.
We exist to create a world in which drones play a vital role in solving real-world, everyday problems and are accepted by the wider public.
We create awareness, build trust, and change perspectives through our awards and storytelling of positive drone use cases.
We independently identify, recognise and champion global positive drone use cases with support from our Judges, Partners and Community.
The sky’s no longer the limit, it's the destination.
Airwards is a panoptic not-for-profit global awards programme dedicated to identifying, recognising and championing the breadth of positive, innovative and responsible drone use cases from around the world making a real-world impact. - Richard | Founder
With over a hundred years’ heritage and an industry predicted to be worth $42.8bn by 2025*, UAVs continue to push boundaries and transform industries for the better. A variety of disciplines will be recognised by Airwards, all of which are positively advancing human capabilities.
*The Drone Market Report 20-25
2020
Founded in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic.
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Countries involved as entrants, judges and partners.
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Categories covering a wide variety of UAS uses.
Life’s Better With Drones
The benefits of drones are endless. From life-affirming conservation work and lifesaving projects to pure innovation and ground-breaking tech, drones are the future and helping industries solve problems and save lives, with benefits of being cheaper, greener, safer and faster all round.
We in the drone industry know this, but how do we get this across to the general public still sceptical but stand to benefit and to commercial entities who are not yet using or aware of the full potential this technology could have on their scalability and bottom line.
Enter, “Life’s Better With Drones”
LIFE
The belief that drones are making life better for all, not just humans but for our planet and wildlife too.
BETTER
That life is enhanced and improved by drone technology - that is, made safer, greener, easier, more enjoyable and sustainable.
DRONES
This ever changing and quickly adapting technology being the tool that makes it all possible.
While we care about the tool, Airwards’ focus is on the incredible stories and drone use cases making life better. As one Airwards judge put it:
“No one gets excited by the hammer, they get excited about what a hammer can build”
And the incredible possibilities with drones are endless!
We believe Life’s Better With Drones, and that’s why Airwards identifies, recognises and champions positive drone use cases from around the world. Airwards exists as the platform to collect and share stories where people are using drones to transform the world for the better. We champion pure innovation and ground breaking tech, but it’s the life-affirming conservation work and life saving projects that we really care about - the moments where drones are helping people solve problems and save lives.
Because ultimately drones don’t save people, people do.
Hold on …
What about the negatives of drone technology?
This strategy is not naïve and does not pretend ‘everything is awesome’.
Tone of voice is honest, authentic, transparent, and self-aware.
Isn’t this just ‘Drones for good’?
#LBWD is so much more, it’s holistic, macro, external facing, bigger and all-encompassing
#LBWD focuses on the stories and positive outcomes, with drone tech. as an innovative means to an end.
#LBWD is telling you about the now and future, asking you to question how drones can improve life.
