Worldwide Water & Ocean Technology Awards

Water underpins every aspect of modern life. Yet growing demand, ageing infrastructure, pollution, climate change, and increasing pressure on marine ecosystems are creating unprecedented challenges for communities, businesses, and governments alike.

The DaVinci Awards® celebrates solutions that improve efficiency, strengthen resilience, enhance environmental stewardship, and unlock new opportunities across freshwater, coastal, and marine environments.

Outstanding innovations may reduce water loss, improve treatment efficiency, strengthen coastal resilience, support marine conservation, enhance navigation, optimize industrial processes, or provide new capabilities for researchers and operators working on or beneath the water.

If your innovation solves meaningful challenges, delivers measurable environmental or operational benefits, and contributes to the long-term protection and responsible management of water resources, enter The DaVinci Awards® today.

The DaVinci Awards recognizes outstanding feats of human ingenuity, and product innovation. Entries are welcomed from individuals, teams, startups, or established enterprises based anywhere in the world. Areas of interest include, but are certainly not limited to:

Outstanding innovations often emerge by rethinking long-standing engineering or environmental challenges. Explain the principles behind your solution, the obstacles overcome during development, and why your technology represents a meaningful advance over existing approaches. Judges will value originality, thoughtful engineering, and evidence that your innovation has been designed to perform reliably in demanding real-world conditions.

Help the judges understand the significance of the challenge your product addresses. Whether improving water quality, increasing operational efficiency, protecting marine ecosystems, reducing resource consumption, or strengthening resilience to climate impacts, demonstrate how your innovation delivers measurable outcomes. Quantifiable improvements, successful deployments, and independent validation all help illustrate the value of your solution.

The most influential innovations extend beyond a single deployment. Describe how your product can be adapted for different environments, industries, or regions, and how it will continue creating value over time. Judges will look for technologies capable of supporting future infrastructure, advancing environmental stewardship, or establishing new standards across the global water and ocean technology sector.

Winners may make full use of The DaVinci Awards® hallmark of excellence, linked to your level of accreditation, on all relevant materials.

All winners also receive a DaVinci Awards® trophy, and substantial press opportunities working in partnership with our editorial team. Find out more.