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What is Airwards?
Airwards is the first awards 🥇 programme of its kind to identify, recognise and champion the breadth of positive drone use cases from around the world. 🌐
From life-affirming conservation work and lifesaving projects to pure innovation and ground breaking tech, drones are helping industries solve problems and save lives. The award categories span a number of uses and sectors, including Technology, Operations, Supporting Services, specific Industries/Fields and Giving Back, with a People’s Choice voted for by the public.
Airwards is open to a range of individuals and companies, including drone specialists transforming an industry, start ups using drone technology for creative solutions, and large corporations driving innovation.
The ‘Stenosphere’
A word created by Airwards to define a new category / class of air and tranche of the atmosphere within the Troposphere. It is taken from the Old Greek meaning; narrow, strait, close by. Find out more below about what this means, how it fits in with Life’s Better With Drones and why we’ve coined this term.
The future of the ‘Stenosphere’!
Everyone wants to discuss and find out what the future holds. We focus on the future of this new airspace of which Drones are a growing part of. They are closing the gap between the ground and air traffic, creating a more complex multi-layered airspace above our heads. Airwards anchors stories within this new tranche of airspace, the ‘Stenosphere’, through a futuristic lens. What does this technology and space do for humanity at an everyday level? It will become the most heavily used, it’ll be where activity happens, it’ll be where the pinnacle of innovation occurs and most certainly it’ll become the most talked about. Ultimately these stories create an opportunity to design the future of our planet through drone use!
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Annual Structure
This is the broad quarterly (¼) structure of each year of Airwards. It’s divided into phases as follows:
September - November
During this time we will be preparing for our submissions opening with activity such as announcing judges, partners, articles from our community and the year ahead.
December - February
Submissions Open! That’s all you need to know. We want to reach out to those incredible (potentially undiscovered) use cases and get them identified, recognised and championed.
March - May
Submissions have closed and the judges are deliberating through the rounds. This is where all of our community collides, we announce the shortlist and prepare for Airwards Winners’ Week.
June - August
We think a well deserved bask is in order for being recognised as an innovative and responsible use case having a real world impact, communicating your story to everyone.
Audience
Drone Industry
Drone companies seeking recognition for their work. An award will help raise their profile, allow industry and cross-sector networking, and motivate companies to keep driving the drone industry forward.
Businesses in Wider Industries
Businesses who can benefit from this technology, who are using or wanting to use drones for their operations. We enable them to be part of a community of curated drone and industry experts to help grow their business.
General Public
Ensuring that ‘the every person’ has the chance to discover the stories that come from Airwards by communicating the positive impact and how Life’s Better With Drones. We hope to educate, inspire and wow to invoke a sense of safety and understanding that this technology is a force for good.
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