Innovators Under 35 Europe

Atlantic TU Sponsor Reception for the Innovators Under 35 (IU35) Awards Banquet and Medal Presentation.

Dr Orla Flynn, ATU President and other ATU colleagues attended the Innovators Under 35 Europe Festival which took place in Gweedore on May 19-21. The festival honoured this year’s European Innovators. 35 entrepreneurs, inventors, visionaries, pioneers and humanitarians were selected for their outstanding technological achievements.

The festival also featured panel discussions on the north-west as a region of innovation. Topics covered included, leading Irish innovation and future trends, sustainability and green technologies, leveraging technology in healthcare, and how to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to benefit humanity.

The event was a unique opportunity to meet the shapers of our future, transforming our lives through their technological advances. It brought together young European visionaries pursuing the same objective: innovation, ingenuity, and advances toward addressing the world’s most pressing challenges.

Innovators Under 35 is an annual list that recognizes outstanding innovators who are younger than 35. The awards span a wide range of fields, including biotechnology, materials, computer hardware, energy, transportation, communications, and the internet. A committee of judges, made up of experts from leading universities and companies selects the 35 best profiles of candidates. The judges select individuals whose superb technical work promises to shape the coming decades and solve the world’s biggest problems. They reward ingenious and elegant work that matters to the world at large—not just to peers in a particular field or industry.