FAQs - AgTech Breakthrough

Frequently Asked Questions

Eligibility

What are the eligibility requirements for the AgTech Breakthrough Awards?

The AgTech Breakthrough Awards program is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing agricultural and food technology related products, solutions, and services.

Awards are available to any company around the world without geographical limitations.

To be eligible, products or services submitted in an entry must have been produced after February 1, 2020 (2-year window). For platform and product entries, updates and refreshes to legacy solutions are acceptable if those updates have taken place after February 1, 2020.

At the time and date of submitting an entry online, entrants confirm that the information supplied is truthful and accurate. If the information is subsequently found to be inaccurate or incorrect, the entry or entries will be disqualified.

Nominate for Breakthrough

How do I submit my nomination?

The award submission process is simple. Simply visit the nominations page and fill out the required form prior to June 10, 2022.

The award submission process is intentionally streamlined, focused on the simple question of “How Does your Product, Service or Company Break Through the Crowded agriculture and food technology market,” and we ask that nominations are kept to approximately 500 words or less.

Entries will be treated by AgTech Breakthrough as confidential and the content of the nominations will not be publicly published without consent of the nominee.

Note that emailed or hard copy submission forms will not be accepted.

You may submit the same product, solution or company in multiple categories.

Deadline: June 10, 2022

Judging

How are the awards nominations judged?

AgTech Breakthrough judges have earned a reputation for fairness and credibility, and are committed to determining the BREAK THROUGH nominations for each award category.

Judges are senior-level, experienced professionals that have personally worked within the agriculture, farming and technology fields, including journalists, analysts and business executives with experience in a range of technical, sales, marketing and other professional positions and perspectives. From successful technology startups to veteran industry leaders, the panel of judges bring a balanced perspective of evaluation for the award nominations.

The decision of the judges is final. Details of the judging panel deliberations will not be disclosed publicly.

Benefits

What are the benefits of winning an AgTech Breakthrough award?

Earning a coveted AgTech Breakthrough Award provides compelling benefits, including, but not limited to:

BRAGGING RIGHTS
Participation in AgTech Breakthrough marketing promotional activities, including media and analyst outreach, social media promotion, etc.
AgTech Breakthrough Award awards badge available to feature on sales and marketing materials (press release, social media, website, product packaging, tradeshow booth, advertising materials, etc.)
AgTech Breakthrough crystal award plaque to display at industry tradeshows, corporate offices or anywhere else you’d like.
Industry-wide recognition and media attention through an AgTech Breakthrough press release and media campaign announcing the honorees

Honorees Notified: June, 2022

Terms of Use

AgTech Breakthrough Awards recognizes that many of the entries are internal or proprietary in nature, or are done for the government or another company, so unless you grant permission for your entries to be displayed in our winner’s gallery, only the judges will see your work. Company name and logos may be used by AgTech Breakthrough for promotional purposes.

No entrant information is sold, traded, made available to a third party or used for any other purposes.