The Tech Museum Awards honor innovators and visionaries from around the world who are applying technology to profoundly improve the human condition in the categories of education, equality, environment, health, and economic development. Individuals, for-profit companies, and not-for-profit organizations are eligible.

The Tech Awards showcase their compelling stories and reward their brilliant accomplishments. The purpose of The Tech Awards program is to inspire future scientists, technologists, and dreamers to harness the incredible power and promise of technology to solve the challenges that confront us at the dawn of the 21st Century.

Each year, candidates are nominated and then invited to submit applications. International panels of judges carefully review the applications according to a set of criteria that emanate from the Awards credo - Technology Benefiting Humanity. At the Awards Gala each November, five Laureates in each category are honored, and $250,000 in cash prizes are awarded.