O SXSW Innovation Awards 2025 reúne 55 finalistas em 11 categorias, e o Brasil marca presença com dois projetos inovadores.
O Grupo Boticário, em parceria com o Cesar, concorre na categoria Interface Design com um batom inteligente que utiliza visão computacional para aplicação autônoma.
Já o Centro Universitário Facens disputa na categoria Urban Experience com o Smart Campus, iniciativa que transforma cidades em espaços inteligentes e sustentáveis.
Os vencedores serão anunciados em 10 de março, e o investidor Mark Cuban será homenageado no Hall da Fama.
Confira a lista completa:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
— Wandercraft’s Self-Balancing Exoskeleton (New York, NY)
— Breakout Learning: AI-Powered Small-Group Discussions (Dallas, TX)
— AI Unlocking Food Allergy Freedom (Long Beach, CA)
— Newton: AI for the Physical World (Palo Alto, CA)
— CMR-M1: The First AI-Powered Movie Camera (Madrid, Spain and San Francisco, CA)
AUDIO EXPERIENCE
— alphabeats – Master your Mind. Master your Performance (Laguna Beach, CA)
— “I SEE MUSIC!” by Synegram.com (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
— Multichannel Sound Over Headphones (Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany)
— Neural DSP: Nano Cortex (Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland)
— Holography Records: “Polytempo Music” Interactive 3D Album (Alameda, CA)
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
— Innovating to Make Abortion Affordable (New York, NY)
— “SolarSPELL digital libraries (Tempe, AZ)
— Share@MealConnect (Chicago, IL)
— TIAA – Paper Right (New York, NY)
— Ruth: Your Digital Guardian (Hillsborough, NJ)
CONNECTION & COMMUNICATION
— Switch-Lit (Portland, OR and Utrecht, Netherlands)
— HeyGen’s Interactive Avatars (Los Angeles, CA)
— Crowd Compass: Stay Connected, Stay Safe (Spokane, WA)
— GRIEF SUCKS by Experience Camps (Westport, CT)
— 855-HOW-TO-QUIT-(OPIOIDS) (Chicago, IL)
HEALTH & BIOTECH
— TRAUMAGEL by Cresilon (Brooklyn, NY)
— Virtual Incision – Pioneering miniRAS (Lincoln, NE)
— PherDal Fertility Kit (Dixon, IL)
— BetterWay: Blood Testing Reimagined (Austin, TX)
— Signia Active Pro IX Hearing Aids (Iselin, NJ)
INTERFACE DESIGN
— XR-Objects Augmented Object Intelligence (Seattle, WA)
— GOES: Outdoor Health and Safety Guide (Redwood City, CA)
— Bedtime AI Storymaker (Madrid, Spain and Los Angeles, CA)
— Engineering the World’s First Smart Lipstick (São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil)
— Posha: Your family’s private robot chef (San Francisco, CA)
PRODUCT DESIGN
— The Daylight Computer (San Francisco, CA)
— Sentante – Teleoperated Surgical Robot for Endovascular Interventions (Kaunas, Lithuania)
— Quantinuum’s H Series Quantum Computer (Broomfield, CO)
— Pioneering Drone Swarms in Agriculture (Richmond, TX)
— Scantinel Single-Chip FMCW LiDAR Module (Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
STUDENT INNOVATION
— Theater of Future Puppetry (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
— GismoPower’s Mobile Solar Carport “MEGA” (Sarasota, FL)
— Flow (Pittsburgh, PA)
— Smell like Home (Irvine, CA)
— SMART Wearable Thermoregulatory Device (Cambridge, MA and Calistoga, CA)
SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS
— Uluu (Perth, Australia)
— Liquidplant™ by von Holzhausen (West Hollywood, CA)
— Low-Light Indoor Bifacial Solar Cel (Scott Valley, CA)
— Dimensional Energy– Creating Fuels and Products From CO₂ (Ithaca, NY)
— Voodin Biodegradable Wind Turbine Blades (Lichtenfels, Hesse, Germany)
URBAN EXPERIENCE
— Sustainable 3D-Printed Homes by Azure (Los Angeles, CA)
— BOLT: democratizing access to e-biking (Brooklyn, NY)
— Animal Alerts (Shefayim, Israel)
— Skyline Match AI: GPS-Free Geolocation (Cambridge, MA)
— From Smart Campus to Real Smart Cities (Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil)
WTF (WHAT THE FUTURE)
— Space Trash Signs (Chicago, IL)
— SWEAR Security (Boise, ID)
— SOLAMENT™︎ (Tokyo, Japan)
— Dynex: Quantum Computing for Anyone, Anywhere (Vaduz, Liechtenstein)
— The Halo – Lucid Dreaming Wearable Device by Prophetic (New York, NY)
