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Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors the projects companies and concepts that have altered society and the planet for the better. We cannot wait to hear what ideas helped shape the world in 2019 and far beyond.
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  1. Publicity —The winners and finalists will be featured in the May 2019 issue of Fast Company (a monthly readership of 700,000) and online on Fastcompany.com (more than 12 million monthly unique visitors and more than 40 million page views).
  2. Exposure — Every entry is reviewed by Fast Company editors. Finalists will be evaluated by our jury, an impressive list of designers, venture capitalists, thinkers, and social entrepreneurs.
  3. Recognition — We are accepting entries in 25 categories. Each category will be judged separately by an elite group of judges giving you multiple chances to win. If you submit to two or more categories, you will also be eligible for the Company of the Year award.
  4. Simplicity — Just answer a few questions, select your categories, and you’re done!
  5. Subscription — You’ll receive a one year subscription to Fast Company included with your entry.
 
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Categories
 
Campaigns designed to draw attention to social issues and inspire people to act or to promote world-changing products or services.
 
Projects that live primarily in a mobile format, in any discipline.
 
Any creative project —photography, writing, visualization, film—that helps explain and publicize global problems and solutions.
 
For corporate initiatives that use a company's platform and power to help advance change, either internally or for the community.
 
Companies or initiatives that help inspire better and more equitable learning.
 
Concepts, prototypes, and just-launched ideas that may not have clear impact but have the potential to change how we think about an issue.
 
Products and projects that improve either personal or global well-being and longevity, from apps to devices to treatments.
 
Movies, books, videos, and other projects that expose issues or create actionable change.
 
Buildings, landscapes, urban designs, and policies that make cities and living in them cleaner, more efficient, more beautiful, and more equitable for their citizens.
 
Projects in any category, created by undergraduate or graduate students.
 
The best world changing idea overall in the Asia-Pacific region.
 
The best world changing idea overall in North America.
 
The broadest ideas, be they new government policies, new business models, or entire new consumer categories. Anything that has the potential to effect true systems change or solve wicked problems.
 
 
Projects that harness the power of data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence to understand the world and empower change
 
Projects using design as the vehicle to shake up conversations surrounding society's most pressing ideas.
 
Items for your home of office that help you live a more purposeful life, or fundamentally alter outdated business models or supply chains of our current consumer goods.
 
Products designed specifically for the developing world, both ones intended for the bottom of the pyramid and those intended to help create leapfrog innovation.
 
Solar, wind, and any other innovative ideas to create clean power (either for personal use or at a large scale) or new systems for better electricity distribution.
 
Projects changing what we eat, how we eat, and how we get our food.
 
Impact Funds, social impact bonds, and other investments in change making organizations or initiatives that generate societal benefit along with financial return.
 
Innovative campaigns or policy initiatives that challenge the status quo for the benefit of the environment, equity, and society.
 
Projects that help advance the cause of civil rights for marginalized people or groups.
 
Projects that get you places whether on two wheels or four in new, interesting, and fuel-efficient ways.
 
The best world changing idea overall in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
 
The best world changing idea overall in Latin America.
 
Organizations that submit two or more distinct entries to any of the categories above will be automatically considered. Companies will be judged on the quality, breadth, and ambition of their submitted work. Selected by Fast Company editors.
 
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Judges
 
Judges include a cross section of established designers and design-minded executives. See the full list of judges here.
 
Director, National Complete Streets Coalition, Smart Grow America
 
 
 
 
 
 
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