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The program recognizes outstanding new or materially updated products exhibited at the CEDIA Expo 2026. Entries are judges using your online nomination form and by an on-site panel of independent industry professionals during CEDIA. Judges use both the descriptions provided by you via our nomination form as well as their own anonymous inspection at the convention (the on-site review cannot be guaranteed). Our editorial teams will then assess the scores submitted and select winners.
Please contact Beckie Sirs (beckie.sirs@futurenet.com) with any questions.
Any company that exhibits a product or solution on the exhibit floor of the CEDIA Expo 2026. Products need not be shipped but must be shown publicly and anticipated to ship within 12 months.
Thousands of new products are introduced at CEDIA Expo each year, help make yours stand out. Every product nominated, whether chosen for an award or not, will receive a digital award nominee badge.
Winners will receive a suite of marketing assets to promote winning nomination/s, including a fully-licensed winner's badge.
The deadline is currently set for 23:59 ET on August 21, 2026. We reserve the right to consider late applicants as circumstances dictate. Please note that on-site nominations are not accepted.
You may submit a given product to multiple magazines, at $625.00 each. It costs $625 per product nominated, for consideration by your chosen Future magazine.
Just nominate the product for each by checking the appropriate box(es) on the product’s form; so for example, if Jones Smith Manufacturing wishes to nominate a new product for consideration by three magazines, the nomination price is $1,875 ($625 x 3). The entry form will guide you.
There is no limit to the number of products you may nominate. Each requires a nomination form and entry fee(s).
A panel of judges and editors, chosen in advance by the editors of our publications, will review nominations and choose the winners.
