Awards Ceremony
2026
How do we spark true electronics innovation? Can celebrating R&D and New Product Development (NPD) teams jumpstart the ecosystem? The inaugural EFY Innovators’ Awards set out to answer exactly that.
Most awards celebrate executives, leaving R&D and NPD labs unnoticed. Yet, these innovators hold the power to transform India from a tech consumer into a global creator. We cannot grant tax breaks. Instead, we are shining a spotlight on the visionaries tackling complex hardware challenges at the ground level.
Launched to honour breakthrough innovations, the debut gala took centre stage at India Electronics Week 2026 at KTPO, Whitefield, Bengaluru. Presented below are the highlights, heroes, and winning moments from the ceremony.
Chief Guest
Janardhana Swamy, a technocratstatesman, IISc alumnus, and former Member of Parliament from Chitradurga (2009-2014), who also served on the IIT Council, was the Honourable Chief Guest for the evening.
Having held leadership roles at Sasken, Synopsys, Cadence, Sun Microsystems, Dell, and Cisco, he holds multiple patents in India and the US. He chaired the national committee for Chikballapur’s 10,000-acre Science City, hosting IISc, ISRO, DRDO, and BARC. A long-time EFY contributor since 1988, he is renowned for his technical insights and the creative ‘Electroons’ series.
THE WINNERS OF 2026
(Right to left) Dr Digbijoy Neelim Nath from Agnit Semiconductors receiving the award for developing ‘high-power GaN RF transistors for radars and jammers’ from Makoto Terada, MD of ROHM India and Janardhana Swamy
(Right to left) Chidanand Dalwai, HV Harish, Tejas Balakrishna, and Steven R. Fernandez from Aidin Technologies Pvt Ltd receiving the award for creating ‘Helmholtz Orbital Geomagnetic Simulator (HOMS)’ from Makoto Terada, MD of ROHM India and Janardhana Swamy
(Right to left) Prijith Melvin, Sasi Prasanth Sakhinala, and Arul Kumaradevan from Ancit Consulting Pvt Ltd collecting their award for developing ‘Smartwheels: automotive-grade ECU platform’ from Makoto Terada, MD of ROHM India and Janardhana Swamy
(Right to left) Chinmaya Mahanta and Markand Pathak from Anedya Systems Private Limited receiving the award for their ‘Made in India end-to-end IoT cloud infrastructure’ from Janardhana Swamy
(Right to left) Somashekhar, Vivek Kapadia, and Ashok Mishra from Aritrak Technologies Pvt Ltd receiving their award for developing ‘Make in India semiconductor module for EV and solar inverter applications’ from Janardhana Swamy
(Right to left) Shreeyash Sunil Jejurkar, Vignesh Naidu, and Shalabh Bhatnagar from ArvyaX Technologies Private Limited collecting their award for innovating ‘Pseudo-Reality immersive environment platform’ from Janardhana Swamy and EFY’s Rahul Chopra
(Right to left) Dr Devasia Kurian from astTECS Communications Pvt Ltd receiving the award for developing ‘astPA System IP-Based Public Announcement Platform’ from Janardhana Swamy and EFY’s Rahul Chopra
(Right to left) Linson Joseph and Aharsh MS from Bud Ecosystem Inc. receiving the award for developing ‘Resource Aware Attention: AI model architecture for CPUs’ from Janardhana Swamy and EFY’s Rahul Chopra
(Right to left) Kulpreet Sahni from Chiltier receiving the award for creating ‘ThermoPod: portable thermoelectric system’ from Janardhana Swamy and EFY’s Rahul Chopra
(Right to left) Shiva Sai and Yashwant Dagar from CraftifAI receiving the award for developing ‘CraftifAI Orbit Agentic Workflow Platform’ from EFY’s Poonam Kapoor and Janardhana Swamy
(Right to left) Suraj JR and Shruti H from Enhanced Innovations Pvt Ltd collecting the award for ‘Phloton, the last-mile vaccine delivery system’ from EFY’s Poonam Kapoor and Janardhana Swamy
(Right to left) Souvik Chatterjee and Dr Amartya Mukherjee from IEMA Research & Development Private Limited receiving the award for their ‘AI-driven Asset health monitoring device’ from EFY’s Poonam Kapoor and Janardhana Swamy
(Right to left) Thangathurai Balasubramaniam from IONICKS Industrial Infotech Pvt Ltd receiving the award for creating ‘AirChain485 PRO industrial wireless networking platform’ from EFY’s Poonam Kapoor and Janardhana Swamy
(Right to left) Chintan Mehta from Ionitive Infotronix Pvt Ltd collecting his award for developing ‘UniBIRD: indigenous semiconductor-based SoM platform’ from Janardhana Swamy and EFY’s Poonam Kapoor
(Right to left) Pranit Gaurav from Millimeterchips Pvt Ltd receiving the award for developing ‘High-performance RF and microwave IC solutions’ from Janardhana Swamy and EFY’s Poonam Kapoor
(Right to left) Raghavendra Murthy from Mysoreminds Technologies LLP receiving the award for developing ‘DigiTrail AI-powered traceability platform’ from Janardhana Swamy and EFY’s Poonam Kapoor
(Right to left) Karthik Ramanan from Renesas Electronics Corporation collecting the award for ‘R-Car X5H automotive multi-domain SoC’ from Janardhana Swamy and EFY’s Poonam Kapoor
