IFA Award 2025: Discover the Categories and the Jury
IFA Award 2025: Discover the Categories and the Jury
Honouring the Ideas Shaping 2026
Innovation doesn’t always look like rocket science. Sometimes it’s a quieter kind of brilliance – a product that solves a real problem, rethinks a daily ritual or simply makes you smile the first time you use it.
With the new IFA Innovation Awards, we honour exactly that: the most outstanding design and engineering of the year.
In partnership with EVG Media and powered by Gadgety Awards LLC, the IFA Innovation Awards are launched in 2025 to spotlight visionary products across 17 categories – from Smart Home and Digital Health to the ever-surprising world of Beauty Tech. Whether it’s an electric vehicle or an AI-assisted washing machine, these are the ideas setting the tone for 2026. The jury reviewed more than 100 submissions to select this year’s winners.
Fitness & Digital Health
Smart Home
Benefits for the Winners
- a custom-designed IFA trophy
- official certification from the jury
- international media exposure
- licensing options for marketing use
- a spot in the IFA Innovation Gallery at IFA Next
The 2025 Headline Winners
Every award has its standouts – the entries that set the tone not just for IFA, but for the industry at large. This year, three headline honours crown the very best of the best:
Best Brand
-> Miele
celebrating overall excellence in innovation, impact and design
Best of IFA
-> LG SIGNATURE OLED T
the most outstanding product overall
Best Tech Innovation
-> Samsung The Premier 5
the boldest technological leap
New this year:
The IFA Innovation Gallery at IFA Next
Awarded products are featured in a high-visibility showcase at IFA Next.
Awarded products are featured in a high-visibility showcase at IFA Next.
Meet the Jury
They represent journalism, sustainability, content creation and tech consulting – from the Philippines, the United States, France, Germany and Taiwan. Together, they bring a wide-angle view of what truly matters in 2026: relevance, usability, design and smart engineering
Nora Sophie Griefahn
Co-Founder and Executive Director NGO Cradle to Cradle (Germany)
Isa Rodriguez
Tech journalism content creator
Isa Does Tech (Philippines)
Sascha Pallenberg
German tech blogger and consultant MeTacheles (Taiwan)
Andrea Smith
Technology journalist
CNN Underscored (USA)
Tim Janssen
Co-Founder and Executive Director NGO Cradle to Cradle (Germany)
Eliane Fiolet
Journalist, Co-founder and Editor Ubergizmo (USA & France)
Nick Gray
Editor-in-Chief
Phandroid (USA)